Search Results section_sequence

Overview

OTA_LP_SECTIONS_VL is a language-enabled (VL) view owned by the APPS schema in Oracle E-Business Suite, belonging to the OTA Learning Management product family. It exposes the definition of learning path sections — the ordered groupings into which courses are organized within a learning path. A learning path may contain one or more sections, and each section carries a display name, description, sequence position, completion rules, and a configurable set of descriptive flexfield attributes. The view is documented as VALID in both 12.1.1 and 12.2.2, and its column signature is identical across those releases, with the object version number column reflecting the row-level locking and concurrency support introduced through the 11i10/12.x AD framework.

Because the view joins the base table to its translation table and filters on the session language, it presents all base columns plus the language-dependent NAME and DESCRIPTION for a single language at a time. This makes it the standard access point for forms, concurrent programs, OAF pages, and custom reports that must display section information to an end user, rather than the underlying tables directly.

Underlying Base Objects

The view is defined over two synonyms that resolve to the following base objects:

• OTA_LP_SECTIONS — the base (non-translated) table holding the section identifier, the owning learning path, sequence, completion type, mandatory course count, business group, WHO/audit columns, object version number, and the 20 ATTRIBUTEn descriptive flexfield columns.
• OTA_LP_SECTIONS_TL — the translation table holding section NAME and DESCRIPTION per installed language.

The join is an inner equijoin on LEARNING_PATH_SECTION_ID between the base table (aliased TLS) and the translation table (aliased TSL), restricted by TSL.LANGUAGE = USERENV('LANG'). The ROWID returned is that of the base table row, so the view remains updatable through the standard translation-table form pattern: name and description are written to OTA_LP_SECTIONS_TL, while all other attributes are written to OTA_LP_SECTIONS.

Key Columns

• LEARNING_PATH_SECTION_ID — surrogate primary key of the section; the join key to the translation table and the foreign key referenced by enrollment and content-assignment records.
• LEARNING_PATH_ID — the parent learning path to which the section belongs.
• SECTION_SEQUENCE — the ordinal position of the section within its parent learning path. This is the column most directly relevant to the search term "section_sequence"; it governs the order in which sections are presented and, where the completion type is sequential, the order in which they must be completed.
• COMPLETION_TYPE_CODE — controls how the section is satisfied (for example, whether all courses, or only the mandatory courses, must be completed).
• NO_OF_MANDATORY_COURSES — the count of mandatory courses required for section completion.
• NAME / DESCRIPTION — language-dependent text drawn from the translation table for the current USERENV('LANG') language.
• BUSINESS_GROUP_ID — the HR business group that owns the row, used for multi-org security filtering in OTA.
• OBJECT_VERSION_NUMBER — optimistic locking token maintained by the framework.
• ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY through ATTRIBUTE20 — descriptive flexfield segments, available for customer-defined extensions including the sequence-relevant display attributes.
• CREATED_BY, CREATION_DATE, LAST_UPDATE_DATE, LAST_UPDATED_BY, LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN — standard WHO audit columns.
• ROW_ID — the base table ROWID, used by the framework for positioning and update targeting.

Common Use Cases and Queries

Typical reporting scenarios include listing the sections of a learning path in the intended delivery order, reconciling the number of mandatory courses per section, and joining to course membership tables to produce catalog-style output. The most frequent requirement driven by the "section_sequence" search is ordering sections within a path, as in the following example:

SELECT s.LEARNING_PATH_SECTION_ID, s.NAME, s.SECTION_SEQUENCE, s.COMPLETION_TYPE_CODE, s.NO_OF_MANDATORY_COURSES FROM APPS.OTA_LP_SECTIONS_VL s WHERE s.LEARNING_PATH_ID = :p_learning_path_id AND s.BUSINESS_GROUP_ID = :p_business_group_id ORDER BY s.SECTION_SEQUENCE, s.LEARNING_PATH_SECTION_ID;

A second common pattern returns all sections for paths owned by a business group, ordered by path and then sequence, and includes the flexfield category so downstream logic can interpret customer-defined attributes:

SELECT s.LEARNING_PATH_ID, s.SECTION_SEQUENCE, s.NAME, s.DESCRIPTION, s.ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY FROM APPS.OTA_LP_SECTIONS_VL s WHERE s.BUSINESS_GROUP_ID = :p_business_group_id ORDER BY s.LEARNING_PATH_ID, s.SECTION_SEQUENCE;

Because the view filters on the session language, any report intended to run in a specific language should set the ICX or client language environment accordingly, or query OTA_LP_SECTIONS_TL directly with an explicit LANGUAGE predicate. Callers should also remember that SECTION_SEQUENCE values are not guaranteed to be contiguous — gaps are permissible and only the relative ordering is meaningful.