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Overview

CAC_VIEW_UTIL_PUB is a public utility package body owned by the APPS schema that supports the Calendar view feature within Oracle E-Business Suite, primarily associated with the Oracle CRM/TeleSales calendaring and task management functionality. The package is classified as a PUB API, meaning it is intended for external invocation by other EBS components rather than being restricted to internal package use. Its source header (cacputlb.pls) indicates it was created in May 2004 by Chan-Ik Jang and carries the "noship" designation, which denotes an internal-only build marker used during development rather than a shipping artifact. The package acts as a thin public wrapper or façade layer: the documented routines delegate calls to a private implementation package, CAC_VIEW_ACC_DAILY_VIEW_PVT, and return concatenated string results through simple VARCHAR2 functions. This separation allows external callers—such as OA Framework pages, Forms, or other PL/SQL APIs—to retrieve formatted display data for the calendar view without directly binding to the private implementation. The package is referenced by two other PL/SQL packages, confirming its role as a shared utility within the calendaring subsystem.

Key Procedures and Functions

• GET_ATTENDEES — Returns the list of attendees associated with a given task. The attendee names are concatenated into a single delimited string and returned as a VARCHAR2 value. This function supports the calendar view's display of participants for a task. Note that in the visible source excerpt, the function delegates to itself, which suggests the documented body relies on an underlying private implementation for the actual retrieval logic in later revisions.
• GET_RELATED_ITEMS — Returns concatenated information about items related to a specified task id, returned as a VARCHAR2 string. This is the routine most frequently associated with the search term "get_related_items." The implementation calls CAC_VIEW_ACC_DAILY_VIEW_PVT.get_related_items, passing the task id through, and wraps the call in an exception handler that returns NULL on any error. This defensive pattern ensures that a failure in the private dependency does not propagate an exception to the calling calendar view, allowing the UI to render gracefully without related-item data.
• GET_LOCATIONS — Returns location information used by the calendar view, exposed through the same public utility interface. As with the other routines, its purpose is to supply formatted display data to the calendaring UI, and it follows the same VARCHAR2 return convention.

Tables Accessed

The ETRM documentation for this package does not enumerate any directly referenced tables or APPS synonyms. This is consistent with the package body's role as a delegation layer: all data access is performed by the private implementation package CAC_VIEW_ACC_DAILY_VIEW_PVT, which in turn reads the underlying task, resource, and calendar tables such as the JTF task and resource tables. Consequently, CAC_VIEW_UTIL_PUB performs no direct SQL against base tables; any database access is confined to the private package it invokes. Direct dependency analysis should therefore be performed against CAC_VIEW_ACC_DAILY_VIEW_PVT rather than this public wrapper.

Usage Notes

CAC_VIEW_UTIL_PUB is typically invoked from the Calendar view UI layer—OA Framework pages or Oracle Forms—and from custom PL/SQL code that needs formatted attendee, related-item, or location strings for display. Because the functions return VARCHAR2 with no OUT parameters, they are convenient for direct inline calls in SQL or PL/SQL expressions. Callers should be aware that GET_RELATED_ITEMS silently returns NULL on exception, so it should not be used to validate task existence or data integrity. The package is referenced by two other packages, indicating it may also be called from higher-level calendaring APIs. When troubleshooting "get_related_items" behavior, developers should instrument or inspect CAC_VIEW_ACC_DAILY_VIEW_PVT, since the public wrapper adds only delegation and error suppression logic. The package remains compatible with EBS 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 as part of the standard APPS schema file system.