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Overview

APPS.CAC_SR_UTIL_PVT is a private (PVT) utility package body within the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1 / 12.2.2 codebase. The "$Header" comment referencing cacsrutilvb.pls 120.2 dated 2005 indicates the package originated in the early 11i development stream and has been carried forward into later releases essentially unchanged. Its name follows the CAC module prefix convention (a component of the CRM Foundation / Interaction Center stack) and the _PVT suffix that Oracle reserves for internal helper packages not intended for direct customer invocation.

The package encapsulates a single, narrowly scoped capability: the dynamic resolution of a human-readable object name given a generic object type code and an object identifier. This "display name lookup" pattern is common in Oracle CRM applications, where a flexible reference model (such as JTF_OBJECTS_B) maps abstract interaction context objects—leads, opportunities, service requests, tasks, notes—to their physical source tables and key columns. Rather than hard-coding table and column names for every object type, the package reads the mapping metadata and builds the query at runtime.

Key Procedures and Functions

• GET_OBJECT_NAME — The sole documented program unit. It accepts an object type code and an object identifier and returns the display name of the referenced entity as a VARCHAR2. Internally it opens a cursor over the mapping table filtered by object type, retrieves the id column, name column, source table, and optional where clause, then assembles and executes a dynamic SQL statement. An optional rownum = 1 predicate guarantees at most one row is returned. The function returns NULL when no mapping exists, when the dynamic query finds no data (NO_DATA_FOUND), or on any other exception, making it fail-safe rather than raising errors to the caller. This defensive design means the caller must handle NULL as a legitimate "name unavailable" outcome rather than treating it as an error condition.

Tables Accessed

• JTF_OBJECTS_B — Accessed through the APPS synonym. The package reads four columns: select_id (the key column of the target entity), select_name (the display-name column), from_table (the source table), and where_clause (an optional filter fragment). The lookup is driven by object_code. A notable code comment states that a reference to JTF_OBJECTS_VL was removed and replaced with a direct reference to JTF_OBJECTS_B, a common 11i-to-R12 remediation for language-view synonym issues.

Because the source table and columns are themselves data-driven, the package may at runtime read from virtually any registered CRM entity table, depending on the object type passed in.

Usage Notes

GET_OBJECT_NAME is a utility called by other CAC packages and, potentially, by OAF-based Interaction Center pages that need to render a link or label for a referenced object when the underlying entity table is unknown to the UI layer. It is not exposed as a concurrent program and carries the PVT classification, so it should not be invoked directly from customer extensions without accepting the risk that Oracle may change its signature. Because the package builds SQL by string concatenation from metadata values, the from_table and where_clause columns in JTF_OBJECTS_B must be treated as trusted configuration data; malformed mappings can cause runtime failures that the WHEN OTHERS handler silently swallows, returning NULL. SQL trace remains the most reliable diagnostic when name lookups unexpectedly return empty.