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Overview

OTA_TEST_SECTIONS_V is a valid, read-only view owned by the APPS schema in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1 and 12.2.2. It belongs to the OTA — Learning Management product family and exposes test-section configuration data associated with online test attempts in Oracle iLearning. The view joins user test questions to their parent test sections and parent tests, returning feedback text, feedback routing flags, mandatory indicators, and descriptive attributes scoped to section-level questions.

The view's defining predicate restricts output to rows where OBJECT_TYPE_FLAG equals 'S', meaning only question records whose owning object is a test section are returned. Questions attached directly to a test rather than to a section fall outside this view's scope. Because the OBJECT_TYPE_FLAG filter is embedded in the view definition, consumers do not need to supply it themselves, and the view presents a clean, section-only projection suitable for reporting and integration.

Underlying Base Objects

The view is defined over three documented base objects, each exposed in the APPS schema through synonyms:

• OTA_UTEST_QUESTIONS — the driving table, aliased UTQ. It stores user test question rows, including USER_TEST_QUESTION_ID, OBJECT_TYPE_FLAG, ATTEMPT_ID, and OBJECT_ID.
• OTA_TEST_SECTIONS — aliased SECTION. It supplies section-level feedback, name, description, mandatory flag, and the section identifier, joined via UTQ.OBJECT_ID = SECTION.TEST_SECTION_ID.
• OTA_TESTS — aliased TEST. It supplies test-level feedback and feedback type, joined via SECTION.TEST_ID = TEST.TEST_ID.

The join path is therefore three-tiered: user test question to section, then section to test. The view inherits the security and validation characteristics of these base tables and is listed as VALID against both 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 ETRM releases.

Key Columns

• USER_TEST_QUESTION_ID — primary identifier of the user's test question row, useful as a unique key for joins to attempt-level data.
• OBJECT_TYPE_FLAG — discriminator column; always 'S' in this view, indicating the question is owned by a test section.
• ATTEMPT_ID — links the question to a specific test attempt, enabling per-attempt analysis.
• SECTION_CORRECT_FEEDBACK, SECTION_WRONG_FEEDBACK — section-level feedback text displayed after correct or incorrect responses.
• TEST_CORRECT_FEEDBACK, TEST_WRONG_FEEDBACK — test-level feedback text, inherited from OTA_TESTS.
• FEEDBACK_TYPE_FLAG — controls whether feedback is delivered at the test or section level.
• SECTION_NAME, SECTION_DESCRIPTION — descriptive attributes of the section.
• MANDATORY_FLAG — indicates whether the section must be completed.
• SECTION_ID — alias for TEST_SECTION_ID, the section identifier.

Common Use Cases and Queries

Typical scenarios include auditing feedback configuration across sections, identifying mandatory sections in active attempts, and reconciling test- versus section-level feedback behaviour before publishing assessments. A representative query retrieving section details for a given attempt is:

SELECT user_test_question_id, attempt_id, section_id, section_name, mandatory_flag, section_correct_feedback, test_correct_feedback, feedback_type_flag FROM ota_test_sections_v WHERE attempt_id = :p_attempt_id;

To list all mandatory sections with their associated feedback:

SELECT section_id, section_name, section_description, feedback_type_flag FROM ota_test_sections_v WHERE mandatory_flag = 'Y';

Because OBJECT_TYPE_FLAG is already constrained to 'S', queries need not filter on it, though some developers include the predicate explicitly for readability. Joins to OTA_UTEST_ATTEMPTS or OTA_UTEST_ANSWERS via ATTEMPT_ID and USER_TEST_QUESTION_ID support detailed result reporting.