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Overview

AR_LOCVS_LOV_V is a read-only database view owned by the APPS schema in Oracle E-Business Suite. It belongs to the Oracle Receivables (AR) product family and is flagged in the ETRM repository as VALID. The documented description carries the qualifier "(Release 10SC Only)," indicating that the object originated in an early Receivables release and has been retained in the data dictionary for backward compatibility rather than as an actively enhanced feature of Release 12.1.1 or 12.2.2.

The view exists to support list-of-values (LOV) presentation of Receivables location flexfield segment values. Its name — AR_LOCVS_LOV_V, where "LOCVS" denotes location values — signals its purpose: provide a flattened, self-joined result set in which each location segment row is returned together with the user value and description of its parent segment. This structure is typical of key flexfield LOV queries, where a values list must show both the segment being selected and its hierarchical context. Because it is a view, it stores no data of its own; all content is derived at runtime from its underlying base object and is therefore always consistent with the current state of the location key flexfield.

Underlying Base Objects

According to the documented view text, AR_LOCVS_LOV_V is defined over a single referenced base object: AR_LOCATION_VALUES, which is itself a view owned by APPS. The definition performs a self-join on this object, aliasing it twice: once as LOC (the child segment row) and once as LOC_PARENT (the parent segment row). The join condition links the two instances as follows:

• LOC.PARENT_SEGMENT_ID equals LOC_PARENT.LOCATION_SEGMENT_ID.

The result is a one-row-per-segment projection in which each row carries the identity and descriptive attributes of its own segment plus the user value and description of the segment immediately above it in the location flexfield hierarchy. Because both sides of the join resolve to AR_LOCATION_VALUES, the view inherits whatever filtering, security, and flexfield compilation logic that underlying view applies. No base tables other than AR_LOCATION_VALUES are documented as directly referenced. It should be noted that AR_LOCATION_VALUES is a flexfield-backed view, so its own contents are populated from the compiled location flexfield structures rather than from a conventional static table.

Key Columns

The view exposes eight columns, listed below with their functional meaning:

• LOCATION_STRUCTURE_ID — Identifier of the key flexfield structure (location structure) to which the segment belongs. This is the discriminator used to scope values to a specific flexfield configuration.
• LOCATION_SEGMENT_QUALIFIER — Qualifier identifying the segment within the structure (for example, the segment that represents a city, state, or region), used to align rows with the corresponding flexfield segment definition.
• LOCATION_SEGMENT_ID — The unique identifier of the segment value row itself. It is the primary target of the join, since it appears as PARENT_SEGMENT_ID on child rows.
• LOCATION_SEGMENT_VALUE — The stored (internal) value of the segment.
• LOCATION_SEGMENT_USER_VALUE — The user-facing value displayed in forms and LOVs; typically the value a user recognizes and selects.
• LOCATION_SEGMENT_DESCRIPTION — The descriptive text associated with the segment value.
• PARENT — The parent's user value, sourced from LOC_PARENT.LOCATION_SEGMENT_USER_VALUE. This supports hierarchical display in an LOV.
• PARENT_DESC — The parent's description, sourced from LOC_PARENT.LOCATION_SEGMENT_DESCRIPTION.

Common Use Cases and Queries

The principal use case is populating an LOV or report parameter list that requires location segment values together with their parent context. Typical applications include custom Receivables reports, concurrent program parameters that accept a location segment, and diagnostic queries that verify parent-child relationships in the location flexfield.

A basic query retrieving all rows for a given structure is:

• SELECT location_segment_user_value, location_segment_description, parent, parent_desc FROM ar_locvs_lov_v WHERE location_structure_id = :structure_id ORDER BY parent, location_segment_user_value;

To display only top-level segments (those whose parent is null), a query can filter on the PARENT column:

• SELECT location_segment_id, location_segment_user_value, location_segment_description FROM ar_locvs_lov_v WHERE parent IS NULL;

For validation or troubleshooting of flexfield hierarchies, a self-consistent check identifies orphaned children whose PARENT resolves to null despite a non-null parent segment identifier. Because the view is a thin self-join over AR_LOCATION_VALUES, it performs reliably for LOV-scale result sets; however, large unfiltered queries against the underlying flexfield view should be avoided, and predicates on LOCATION_STRUCTURE_ID and LOCATION_SEGMENT_QUALIFIER should be supplied wherever possible to constrain the result set.