Welcome to Release 12.2 of the Oracle Trading Community Architecture Administration Guide.
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This section lists the reports and processes, including relevant request sets, that are seeded in Standard Request Submission for the Trading Community Manager responsibility.
You can choose from many sources of information, including online documentation, training, and support services, to increase your knowledge and understanding of Oracle Trading Community Architecture.
Related Guides
Oracle Trading Community Architecture shares business and setup information with other Oracle Applications products. Therefore, you may want to refer to other guides when you set up and use Oracle Trading Community Architecture. You can read the guides online in the Oracle Help Center. Navigate to https://docs.oracle.com. Select On-Premises Applications, then E-Business.
Guides Related to All Products
Oracle E-Business Suite User's Guide
This guide explains how to navigate, enter and query data, and run concurrent requests using the user interface (UI) of Oracle E-Business Suite. It includes information on setting preferences and customizing the UI. In addition, this guide describes accessibility features and keyboard shortcuts for Oracle E-Business Suite.
Oracle Alert User's Guide
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Oracle E-Business Suite Concepts
This book is intended for all those planning to deploy Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2, or contemplating significant changes to a configuration. After describing the Oracle E-Business Suite architecture and technology stack, it focuses on strategic topics, giving a broad outline of the actions needed to achieve a particular goal, plus the installation and configuration choices that may be available.
Oracle E-Business Suite Developer's Guide
This guide contains the coding standards followed by the Oracle E-Business Suite development staff. It describes the Oracle Application Object Library components needed to implement the Oracle E-Business Suite user interface described in the Oracle E-Business Suite User Interface Standards for Forms-Based Products. It also provides information to help you build your custom Oracle Forms Developer forms so that they integrate with Oracle E-Business Suite. In addition, this guide has information for customizations in features such as concurrent programs, flexfields, messages, and logging.
Oracle E-Business Suite Maintenance Guide
This guide contains information about the strategies, tasks, and troubleshooting activities that can be used to help ensure an Oracle E-Business Suite system keeps running smoothly, together with a comprehensive description of the relevant tools and utilities. It also describes how to patch a system, with recommendations for optimizing typical patching operations and reducing downtime.
Oracle E-Business Suite Security Guide
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Oracle E-Business Suite Setup Guide
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Oracle E-Business Suite Flexfields Guide
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Oracle Application Framework Personalization Guide
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Oracle E-Business Suite Installation Guide: Using Rapid Install
This book is intended for use by anyone who is responsible for installing or upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite. It provides instructions for running Rapid Install either to carry out a fresh installation of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2, or as part of an upgrade to Release 12.2.
Oracle Application Server Adapter for Oracle Applications User's Guide
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Oracle e-Commerce Gateway User's Guide
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Oracle e-Commerce Gateway Implementation Guide
This guide describes implementation details, highlights additional setups for trading partner, code conversion, and Oracle Applications as well as provides the architecture guidelines for transaction interface files. This guide also contains troubleshooting information and how to customize EDI transactions.
Oracle Report Manager User's Guide
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Oracle iSetup User Guide
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Oracle XML Gateway User's Guide
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Oracle XML Publisher Report Designer's Guide
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Oracle XML Publisher Administration and Developer's Guide
Oracle XML Publisher is a template-based reporting solution that merges XML data with templates in RTF or PDF format to produce a variety of outputs to meet a variety of business needs. Outputs include: PDF, HTML, Excel, RTF, and eText (for EDI and EFT transactions). Oracle XML Publisher can be used to generate reports based on existing E-Business Suite report data, or you can use Oracle XML Publisher's data extraction engine to build your own queries. Oracle XML Publisher also provides a robust set of APIs to manage delivery of your reports via e-mail, fax, secure FTP, printer, WebDav, and more. This guide describes how to set up and administer Oracle XML Publisher as well as how to use the Application Programming Interface to build custom solutions.
Oracle interMedia User's Guide and Reference
This user guide and reference provides information about Oracle interMedia. This product enables Oracle9i to store, manage, and retrieve geographic location information, images, audio, video, or other heterogeneous media data in an integrated fashion with other enterprise information. Oracle Trading Community Architecture Data Quality Management uses interMedia indexes to facilitate search and matching.
Oracle Self–Service Web Applications Implementation Guide
This manual contains detailed information about the overview and architecture and setup of Oracle Self–Service Web Applications. It also contains an overview of and procedures for using the Web Applications Dictionary.
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Oracle Customer Data Librarian User Guide
Oracle Customer Data Librarian enables you to import customer information from external systems into the Oracle Trading Community Architecture Registry and manage the quality of this information. Quality includes data consolidation and completeness and the removal or merge of duplicate and unnecessary information. In addition, Oracle Customer Data Librarian contains all of the features in Oracle Customers Online, including purchasing information from D&B to enrich your customer data and mapping customer records to their source systems.
Oracle Customers Online Implementation Guide
This guide describes how to set up customer accounts, set up additional display attributes, set up data quality management, define the source systems for customer data and map customers to the source system. Before you can use Oracle Customers Online, you must implement Oracle Common Application Calendar, Oracle Customer Interaction History, and Oracle Trading Community Architecture. Oracle Customers Online features and data come from the marketing and sales applications and the additional applications of Oracle Order Management, Oracle Credit Management, and Oracle Receivables.
Oracle Customers Online User Guide
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Oracle Financials Implementation Guide
This guide describes how to implement the Oracle Financials E-Business Suite. It takes you through the steps of setting up your organizations, including legal entities, and their accounting, using the Accounting Setup Manager. You can find information on intercompany accounting and sequencing of accounting entries with relevant examples.
Oracle General Ledger User's Guidee
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Oracle Product Hub Implementation Guide
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Oracle Product Hub User's Guide
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Oracle HRMS Documentation Set
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Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide
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Oracle HRMS Workforce Sourcing, Deployment, and Talent Management Guide
Use this guide to find out about setting up employees and managing your people resources.
Oracle Inventory User's Guide
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Oracle Order Management User's Guide
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Oracle Purchasing User's Guide
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Oracle Receivables Implementation Guide
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Oracle Receivables Reference Guide
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Oracle Receivables User Guide
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Oracle Trading Community Architecture Reference Guide
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Oracle Trading Community Architecture Technical Implementation Guide
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Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide
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Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
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Oracle Workflow User's Guide
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Oracle Workflow API Reference
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Oracle E-Business Suite CRM System Administrator's Guide
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Oracle Approvals Management Implementation Guide
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Oracle Diagnostics Framework User's Guide
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Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway Implementation Guide
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Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway User's Guide
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Oracle E-Business Suite Multiple Organizations Implementation Guide
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Oracle eTechnical Reference Manuals
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The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. It provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces. The tool lets users easily discover and deploy the appropriate business service interface for integration with any system, application, or business partner.
The Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the Oracle E-Business Suite. As your instance is patched, the repository is automatically updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.
Oracle STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you never use SQL*Plus, Oracle Data Browser, database triggers, or any other tool to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data unless otherwise instructed.
Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create, store, change, retrieve, and maintain information in an Oracle database. But if you use Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data, you risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to audit changes to your data.
Because Oracle E-Business Suite tables are interrelated, any change you make using an Oracle E-Business Suite form can update many tables at once. But when you modify Oracle E-Business Suite data using anything other than Oracle E-Business Suite, you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle E-Business Suite.
When you use Oracle E-Business Suite to modify your data, Oracle E-Business Suite automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle E-Business Suite also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using database tools, you may store invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes.