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Overview

IGS_PS_FAC_OVR_WL_V is a reporting and integration view within the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Student System (IGS) module. Its documented function is to store and present the assigned task for faculty members, specifically the records associated with faculty workload overrides and their supporting reason descriptions. The view is classified as obsolete within the ETRM documentation, meaning it is retained for backward compatibility and historical reference rather than for active functional use in current 12.1.1 or 12.2.2 implementations.

The view presents a joined, denormalized result set that combines faculty override workload records with the descriptive text of the corresponding override reason. This structure allows reporting tools, concurrent programs, or integration interfaces to retrieve a faculty assignment's override details alongside a human-readable reason description in a single query, without requiring the caller to independently join the override and reason tables. Users searching on the term "reason_description" will find that this view exposes a column of that name, derived from the underlying reason table, which makes it a convenient single source for reason text associated with faculty workload overrides.

Underlying Base Objects

Per the documented view text, IGS_PS_FAC_OVR_WL_V is defined over two base tables joined on the OVERRIDE_REASON column:

• IGS_PS_FAC_OVR_WL — the primary faculty override workload table, aliased FOW. It supplies identifiers, date ranges, the new expected workload value, and audit columns.
• IGS_PS_WL_OVER_RESN — the workload override reason table, aliased WOR. It supplies the DESCRIPTION column, which the view surfaces as REASON_DESCRIPTION.

The join condition is FOW.OVERRIDE_REASON = WOR.OVERRIDE_REASON, an inner join that matches each override record to its reason definition. The view also selects FOW.ROWID, aliased as ROW_ID, providing the physical row address of the underlying faculty override workload record. ETRM notes that no base objects are separately documented for this view and that it is not implemented in the reference database, so the view text above is the authoritative definition of its structure.

Key Columns

• ROW_ID — the ROWID of the underlying IGS_PS_FAC_OVR_WL row, useful for direct row referencing.
• FAC_OVR_WL_ID — the primary identifier of the faculty override workload record.
• FAC_WL_ID — the identifier of the associated faculty workload record, linking the override to its parent workload entry.
• START_DATE / END_DATE — the effective date range during which the override applies.
• NEW_EXP_WL — the new expected workload value applied by the override.
• OVERRIDE_REASON — the reason code that drives the join to the reason table.
• REASON_DESCRIPTION — the descriptive text of the override reason, sourced from IGS_PS_WL_OVER_RESN.DESCRIPTION. This is the column of primary interest to users searching "reason_description".
• CREATED_BY, CREATION_DATE, LAST_UPDATED_BY, LAST_UPDATE_DATE, LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN — standard EBS audit columns tracking record creation and modification.

Common Use Cases and Queries

Because the view consolidates faculty override workloads with reason text, it is typically used in reporting on faculty assignments, workload exception analysis, and integration extracts. A representative query retrieving override details with their reasons is:

• SELECT FAC_OVR_WL_ID, FAC_WL_ID, START_DATE, END_DATE, NEW_EXP_WL, OVERRIDE_REASON, REASON_DESCRIPTION FROM IGS_PS_FAC_OVR_WL_V WHERE REASON_DESCRIPTION IS NOT NULL;
• SELECT FAC_WL_ID, REASON_DESCRIPTION, NEW_EXP_WL FROM IGS_PS_FAC_OVR_WL_V WHERE START_DATE >= :p_from_date AND END_DATE <= :p_to_date ORDER BY FAC_WL_ID;

Typical scenarios include identifying all active overrides within a term, grouping overrides by reason description to assess policy exceptions, and extracting faculty workload adjustments for downstream reporting. Given the object's obsolete status, integrations should confirm availability against the target instance before relying on it.