In this article, I will explain in steps :- How to create special information types in Oracle HRMS.
Once you have learnt the fundamentals of SIT, you can then also reference the article on migrating special information types into Oracle.
Before we dive into the special information type creation example, let’s first do some questions and answers.
Question: What is so special about special information types?
Answer : Nothing is special about SIT !!, it happens to be a Key FlexField, effectively a combination of segment/field values get attached to a person/hr record. In plain English, SIT is a mechanism by which you can create new fields, to capture additional information against an HRMS record.
Question : Why use an SIT when we can enable descriptive flexfields against the person record.
Answer : Various reasons, as listed below:-
A. Data in Descriptive Flexfield against an employee record will be visible to all the users that have access to the Employee creation/query screen.
On the contrary, using HR Workflow security, we can make SIT to become visible for the responsibility that we desire.
B. There is limited number of descriptive flex field columns available.
C. SIT let you logically group similar information together. For example, you may wish to capture "Medical illness history/details" and also Citizenship/Country Residency History" of your employees. In this case, you will create two different SIT.
Question : So, can we create multiple Special Information Types?
Answer: Indeed, you can define as many contexts as you desire for special information type key Flexfield in Oracle Apps.
Question : What are the steps in brief for setting up an SIT
Answer:
Analysis of sit requirement, which includes
A. Find additional fields that are required for your HRMS screen, and can be logically grouped to be enterable from one window.
B. The validations that will be required against each of the SIT fields. Note: some people prefer to call them segments instead of fields. Anyway, for these validations you will need to create value sets, or will have to find an existing value set that can be reused.
Implementation: of special information type
A. Configure the key Flexfield
B. Add segments to the key flex field
C. Assign value sets to segments. Skip this step if you want your key flexfled segment to be free text. Value sets are attached to each such segment that requires validation.
D. In HRMS Superuser responsibility , enable the key flexfield context in screen "Define special information type"
Question : Give me the example of the SIT, to which we will migrate values.
Answer : For this training exercise, we will assume following SIT exists in Oracle Apps.
Sit name : "XX Medical History Of Person"
Sit Fields:
Medical Condition
Year of illness
Cured Flag (Yes/No)
First, go to Key Flexfield register screen and query to find the title of KFF. No changes are done in this screen,
Go to application developer responsibility, and click on menu key flexfield segment.
Query on the title in key flexfields segment screen.
Add a new context/structure to this flexfield.
The name of this context is "XX Medical History Of Person" in our example.
Create a record for the new SIT structure to capture Medical History of a Person.
Next click on Button labelled "Segment", not seen on this screenshot
Click on segments, to add segments/fields for this special information type.
Add the three segments as below
No Name Window Prompt Column Value Set
10 Medical Condition Medical Condition SEGMENT1
20 Medical Condition Medical Condition SEGMENT2
30 Medical Condition Medical Condition SEGMENT3 HR_AU_YES_NO
Freeze the structure (structure ,means combination of these 3 segments)
Also, ensure the Dynamic Inserts are Checked(Turned On)
In HRMS responsibility , go to define special information types and create an entry for the context.
Now go to person record, by finding for the person that we migrated in earlier article.
Click on button labeled special Info
See the SIT in action here, finally
Comments
Pleas e explain your question a little.
Do you wish to make a career in Oracle Payroll?
Tha nks,
Anil Passi
Pleas e explain your question a little.
Do you wish to make a career in Oracle Payroll?
Tha nks,
Anil Passi
You rs is a very commonly asked question. Hence I have now written a dedicated article to answer your question. Please see link http://www.google.com/search?q=site:apps2fusion.com+differences-between-eit-and-sit-in-hrms
Thanks,
An il Passi
can u say steps to do compensation and benifits....
Can u please say what is proration and retroactive? And the steps to do that?
regards
um a
First of all I would like to thank you for making things clear 2 me regarding Apps.
Anil I m working on Oracle Apps HRMS module and would be very thankful if you can introduce some documents related to Accrulas and their processing in HRMS. As i m not clear about the same.
Thanks in Advance
Sanjay Singh
Thanks for a really good article. Can you explain how using HR Workflow security, we can make SIT to become visible for the responsibility that we desire ?? This is one of the requirement that I need to address. Thanks in advance
Rega rds
Niraj
Thanks for the article.
My requirement is to show SIT in Manager Self Service, so that Manager can update it for their direct reportee.
Ca n you please explain how can I acheive this.
Cheers
Shah
Th anks,
Anil
How do we map SIT to Responsibilitie s. Suppose I have a SIT called TEST_SIT and responsibilty TEST_RESP, now I want to do the setup so that TEST_SIT is visible to TEST_RESP only.
Thanks
Rah ul
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:apps2fusion.com+differences-between-eit-and-sit-in-hrms
Do let me know.
Thanks ,
Anil
i need some help on HRMS, regarding the PAY_COST_ALLOCA TION_API, to Insert the data based on the dates and by changing the proportion based in the department change with in the organization.
This should keep track of the Employee Details with in the organization.
waiting for ur reply
Regard s
Baji Sk
Great website and very good articles.
I have a specific question on KFF. You have written that Oracle will store a ID(key) for the KFF instead of individual values of segments. I understand that peice, But I do not understand When and How ID's are generated. Is it done dynamically on the fly, or at the time of creation of KFF.
Also, Say a KFF has 3 segments with 1st segment having a valueset of say 2 distinct values, 2nd with 3 distinct values, and 3rd with 2 distinct values. In that case, would oracle generate 2x3x2=12 combinations with ID's. What if one of the segment has a valueset of 100 values, or even say if it is free-text..
Would Oracle create all combinations and ID's, at the time of KFF creation and store in some place, Or would it create them dynamically when the actual value is stored in the table.
Obviously 2nd approach is a preferred one, but just want to confirm the same from you.
Thanks,
G owri
Hi Gowri
The unique ID is generated from a sequence.
When you register a Key Flex Field in Application developer responsibility, at that time ayou specify the UNIQUE ID COLUMN for the KFF.
The most common example is accounting flexfield, which uses a sequence named gl_code_combina tions_s.nextval to generate the code_combinatio n_id
Thanks,
A nil Passi
I will like to know how to configure OAB and CWB from start to finish especially when the start of implementations .
Thanks in advance
We had created some SITs under 'Personal Analysis Flex field' and also created a Menu for Showing all these information in SSHR, But the problem is we want only selected SITs should be displayed in Self Service no all and all Should be displayed in HR Superuser responsibility. ....Pls tell me how to do that
Thanks & Regards,
We have created SIT for Return From Annual Leave which has two segments one for annual leave and the other one is for the return date.
Requirem ent is to restrict the list of values for the annual leave segment like once an absence is selected it should not be visible for the second time entry.
When I tried to restrict through table value set getting error in both professional interface and also in self-service.Co uldn't find an alternate solution.Please help me out.
Thanks in advance
Karthik
thanks for info can you help me to get the fast formula training
rega rds
kalpana
I am in the process of creating a SIT, where segments 1 and 2 will enable users to enter a numeric value.
I would like to create a segment 3 that will automatically total segments 1 and 2 i.e. segment 1 + segment 2 = segment 3
I am not sure what I should be using to do this, whether it be the validation type or the default type for the field etc.
Can anyone provide any guidance on this?
Many thanks,
Chey
I have created 2 SITS's and I need to add the same function to 2 different prompts as explained below:
under sysadmin->menu- >manager self service resp-> added a function special information types with prompt as test SIT and function as 'Special Information types Mgr'
and I want to add another prompt (test sit2) with same function (but in personalize page under key flex SIT, I will be adding different SITS). But its throwing me an error like 'submenu/functi on pair must be unique per menu.'
Can you please let me know how canI resolve this issue.or is there any other function other than the above one to display SIT's?
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have a question , I have 2 SIT , E.g DEPT and another EMP.
by default both the SIT are appearing when I click special Information prompt.
Here I want to create one custom resp and I want to display one SIT say DEPT.
Can you please suggest how to display only sepecific SIT in one responsibility, instaed of showing all SIT?
Thank You.
Regards,
Guru
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