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Overview

IGS_OR_ORG_NOTES is a table in the IGS (Student System) product schema of Oracle E-Business Suite, available in releases 12.1.1 and 12.2.2. The entity stores free-text notes attached to institutions, organizational units, or locations within the Oraganization (OR) subsystem of the Student System. Each row captures a single note, identified by a composite business key and linked to an organizational structure record through the ORG_STRUCTURE_ID column.

From a dimensional modeling perspective, the mined Data Vault classification for this object is link. This heuristic suggests that IGS_OR_ORG_NOTES acts primarily as an associative structure that connects organizational entities (institutions, units, locations) with note type classifications, rather than as a standalone hub of business entities or a pure descriptive satellite. The presence of a START_DATE and END_DATE pair alongside descriptive text (NOTE_TEXT) gives it a partial satellite character, but its dominant role is relational linkage between organizational structures and note types.

Key Information Stored

The table's primary key, IGS_OR_ORG_NOTES_PK, is defined over four columns: ORG_STRUCTURE_ID, ORG_STRUCTURE_TYPE, ORG_NOTE_SEQUENCE, and ORG_NOTE_TYPE. A unique index, IGS_OR_ORG_NOTES_U1, covers the same four columns, confirming they form the business-key candidate and prevent duplicate note sequence entries for the same structure and note type. The most significant columns are:

  • ORG_STRUCTURE_ID — Identifies the institution, organizational unit, or location the note applies to; participates in foreign keys to IGS_AD_LOCATION_ALL.
  • ORG_STRUCTURE_TYPE — Distinguishes the kind of organizational structure referenced, enabling the same ID space to serve multiple structure categories.
  • ORG_NOTE_SEQUENCE — Orders multiple notes belonging to the same structure and note type.
  • ORG_NOTE_TYPE — Classifies the note; foreign key to IGS_OR_ORG_NOTE_TYPE.
  • NOTE_TEXT — Holds the actual note content, the primary descriptive payload of the row.
  • START_DATE and END_DATE — Define the effective date range during which the note is considered active.
  • CREATED_BY, CREATION_DATE, LAST_UPDATED_BY, LAST_UPDATE_DATE, LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN — Standard Oracle EBS WHO-column audit attributes recording creation and last modification context.

The documented schema exposes twelve columns in total. The audit columns and effective dating support both traceability and temporal querying, which is essential for regulatory and institutional record-keeping in a student system.

Common Use Cases and Queries

Typical reporting scenarios include retrieving all active notes for a given organizational unit, filtering by note type, or producing historical note listings based on effective dates. A representative query joining to the note type lookup might read:

  • SELECT n.ORG_STRUCTURE_ID, n.ORG_NOTE_SEQUENCE, t.ORG_NOTE_TYPE, n.NOTE_TEXT FROM IGS_OR_ORG_NOTES n, IGS_OR_ORG_NOTE_TYPE t WHERE n.ORG_NOTE_TYPE = t.ORG_NOTE_TYPE AND n.ORG_STRUCTURE_ID = :structure_id AND TRUNC(SYSDATE) BETWEEN n.START_DATE AND NVL(n.END_DATE, TRUNC(SYSDATE));
  • Notes for a specific date range: constrain START_DATE and END_DATE to view notes valid at a point in time.
  • Audit reporting: group by LAST_UPDATED_BY and LAST_UPDATE_DATE to identify recently modified organizational notes.
  • Discrepancy checks: identify notes whose END_DATE has passed but which remain the most recent sequence for a structure.

Because effective dating is present, time-sliced extracts and student-record correspondence reports commonly rely on this table to surface institutional commentary alongside organizational hierarchy data.

Related Objects

The foreign key relationships documented for this table define its most significant dependencies:

  • IGS_OR_ORG_NOTE_TYPE — Referenced by ORG_NOTE_TYPE; supplies the classification of each note.
  • IGS_AD_LOCATION_ALL — Referenced by ORG_STRUCTURE_ID; provides the location/organizational structure context against which notes are registered.

Related organizational objects in the IGS_OR schema, such as organizational structure definitions and institution/unit master tables, are typical join partners in reporting even where not explicitly captured in the FK excerpt. Downstream student-system components that render organizational information frequently depend on IGS_OR_ORG_NOTES to display contextual commentary, and any extract or integration that publishes organizational metadata should account for its effective-dated note records.