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Overview

CS_SR_PREFERRED_LANG_V is a reporting view owned by the APPS schema in Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 12.1.1 and 12.2.2, delivered as part of the CS (Service) product family. Its documented purpose is straightforward: it returns the preferred language associated with customer service records, resolving the stored language code to a translatable description. The view is a denormalized, read-only projection built over the preferred-language entity and the language translation table, allowing consumers to obtain both the internal identifier and the human-readable language name in a single query.

Because the view is registered with status VALID and conforms to standard Oracle EBS conventions, it is safe to reference from custom reports, concurrent programs, Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher data models, and external integrations. It exposes the full set of Who columns, the OBJECT_VERSION_NUMBER used for optimistic locking semantics in the underlying entity, and the fifteen descriptive flexfield attribute columns plus ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY, meaning the view carries the same DFF context as the base table. In practice, the view serves as the canonical access point whenever a service request or customer record must be reported with its preferred language, and it shields the caller from having to join FND_LANGUAGES_TL directly.

Underlying Base Objects

The ETRM metadata for Release 12.2.2 documents two referenced base objects, both resolved through synonyms in the APPS schema:

• CS_SR_PREFERRED_LANG — the transactional table holding the preferred-language definition, including the language code, active date range, identifier, and descriptive flexfield attributes. The view aliases this table as SR_LANG.
• FND_LANGUAGES_TL — the multilingual translation table for installed languages, aliased as FND_LANG. It supplies the DESCRIPTION column.

The join is an equality on LANGUAGE_CODE between the two sources, with the additional predicate FND_LANG.LANGUAGE = USERENV('LANG'). This restricts the translation row to the session language, so each row returned by the view presents the language description in the language of the current user session rather than all installed translations. The ROWID of the base preferred-language row is surfaced as ROW_ID, which is a characteristic Oracle EBS pattern for views intended to support an "Update" or detail drill-down from an Oracle Forms block or an OAF region. Consequently, the view is effectively a one-to-one projection of CS_SR_PREFERRED_LANG enriched with a single translated description column, and it does not aggregate or filter the base data beyond the session-language constraint. Note that the object named in the user's search, FND_LANGUAGES_TL, is precisely the translation source that gives this view its descriptive value.

Key Columns

The view exposes the following columns, grouped by function:

• ROW_ID — the ROWID of the underlying CS_SR_PREFERRED_LANG row, used to uniquely address the record.
• PREF_LANG_ID — the primary identifier for the preferred-language record.
• LANGUAGE_CODE — the language code stored on the preference record, and the join key to FND_LANGUAGES_TL.
• DESCRIPTION — the translated language name, sourced from FND_LANGUAGES_TL in the session language.
• START_DATE_ACTIVE / END_DATE_ACTIVE — the date range during which the preferred language is active; a null end date denotes an open-ended record.
• OBJECT_VERSION_NUMBER — the version counter supporting concurrent update detection.
• LAST_UPDATE_DATE, LAST_UPDATED_BY, CREATION_DATE, CREATED_BY, LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN — the standard Oracle EBS auditing columns.
• ATTRIBUTE1 through ATTRIBUTE15 and ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY — descriptive flexfield segments and the context that determines which segments are meaningful.

Common Use Cases and Queries

Typical uses include listing active preferred languages for review, joining the view to customer or service request data to render reports in the user's own language, and driving LOV or validation queries in custom forms. The following examples illustrate standard access patterns.

List all active preferred languages:

SELECT PREF_LANG_ID, LANGUAGE_CODE, DESCRIPTION, START_DATE_ACTIVE, END_DATE_ACTIVE
FROM APPS.CS_SR_PREFERRED_LANG_V
WHERE SYSDATE BETWEEN START_DATE_ACTIVE AND NVL(END_DATE_ACTIVE, SYSDATE + 1)
ORDER BY DESCRIPTION;

Resolve a specific record by identifier:

SELECT PREF_LANG_ID, LANGUAGE_CODE, DESCRIPTION
FROM APPS.CS_SR_PREFERRED_LANG_V
WHERE PREF_LANG_ID = :P_PREF_LANG_ID;

Inspect flexfield context and attributes:

SELECT PREF_LANG_ID, DESCRIPTION, ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY, ATTRIBUTE1, ATTRIBUTE2
FROM APPS.CS_SR_PREFERRED_LANG_V
WHERE ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY IS NOT NULL;

Because DESCRIPTION is resolved through USERENV('LANG'), concurrent programs and integrations that must produce output in a fixed language should either set the session language explicitly or read LANGUAGE_CODE and translate downstream. Callers should always qualify the view with the APPS schema and observe the standard EBS rule of using the view rather than its base tables wherever the descriptive language name is required.