Here is a small script to delete all the segments in a Descriptive FlexField.
This is useful in some cases because FNDLOAD does not perform a delete of segments.
Hence such a script can be used for cleanup of the DFF.
Simply replace the contents in "bold" text below to make this work on your environment
set serveroutput on size 100000 ;
--Script to clean up DFF Segments
DECLARE
l_flexfield_type fnd_flex_key_api.flexfield_type;
l_structure_type fnd_flex_key_api.structure_type;
l_segment_type fnd_flex_key_api.segment_type;
l_flex_num VARCHAR2(1000);
BEGIN
FOR p_rec IN (SELECT end_user_column_name,
descriptive_flexfield_name,
descriptive_flex_context_code
FROM fnd_descr_flex_col_usage_vl
WHERE (application_id = 800)
AND (descriptive_flexfield_name = 'Extra Person Info DDF')
AND (descriptive_flex_context_code LIKE
'XX_DFF_CONTEXT_HERE')) LOOP
fnd_flex_dsc_api.delete_segment(appl_short_name => 'PER',
flexfield_name => p_rec.descriptive_flexfield_name,
CONTEXT => p_rec.descriptive_flex_context_code,
SEGMENT => p_rec.end_user_column_name);
dbms_output.put_line('Segment ' || p_rec.end_user_column_name ||
' deleted ');
END LOOP;
END;
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Comments
Inside a loop, you can delete all segments and disable all contexts, hence making the DFF ineffective.
Quote:
We have a requirement where in we want some of the segments of a DFF read only for certain set of users. For e.g. if there are 6 DFFs, a XYZ inquiry user should update attribute 1, 2 and 3 but attributes 4,5 and 6 should be read only. However, XYZ Super User should be able to update all the 6 attributes.
I have browsed through all of your articles and tried everything from context sensitive flexfields, forms personalization s, security enabled DFFs except for custom.pll.
Thanks,
Ajay
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