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Overview

HXT_ALL_TASKS_V is a read-only database view owned by the APPS schema in Oracle E-Business Suite, delivered as part of the HXT (Time and Labor) product family. Its purpose is to expose task (project sub-activity) information in a consolidated, reporting-friendly format for Time and Labor functionality — most notably for validating and defaulting task references attached to timecards, expenditure entries, and related time-entry flows. Tasks are the lowest level of the project work breakdown structure below projects, and in a Time and Labor context they allow an employee's reported hours to be charged against a specific unit of project work for costing, billing, and utilization reporting.

The view is defined as a simple projection over PA_TASKS. It does not perform its own joins or aggregations; its value lies in providing a stable, HXT-branded interface so that Oracle's Time and Labor code (and customer extensions built to the HXT schema) can read task data without directly querying the Projects (PA) base table. Because it is a view rather than a synonym or table, Oracle can evolve the underlying task model while preserving the HXT contract. In ETRM 12.2.2 the object is documented as VALID.

Underlying Base Objects

The documented view text selects only from PA_TASKS, referenced in the ETRM metadata through the PA_TASKS synonym. The additional base objects catalogued for this object — PA_ALTERNATE_TASKS, PA_PROJECTS_ALL, and PA_RBS_ELEMENTS — reflect the broader Projects foundation that PA_TASKS itself depends upon rather than direct references in the view's SELECT list. PA_TASKS stores the task's descriptive attributes (name, number, dates), while PA_PROJECTS_ALL supplies the owning project, PA_RBS_ELEMENTS holds the resource breakdown structure elements that make up the task hierarchy, and PA_ALTERNATE_TASKS supports alternates used in project and task entry. All are accessed under the APPS schema through synonyms.

Key Columns

  • TASK_ID — Primary key of the task; the foreign key value stored on time-entry and costing records referencing a task.
  • PROJECT_ID — Identifier of the parent project to which the task belongs; used to constrain task lists to a selected project.
  • TASK_NAME — Descriptive name of the task as displayed in task-selection lists of values.
  • TASK_NUMBER — User-defined number that uniquely identifies the task; often the value entered by end users.
  • START_DATE — Date on which the task becomes effective.
  • COMPLETION_DATE — Date the task is completed; used to determine whether a task remains valid for new time entry.

Common Use Cases and Queries

The view is typically queried to populate a task list of values restricted to a single project, or to validate that a task supplied on a timecard is active for the reported date. A representative query lists all current tasks for a project:

SELECT task_id, project_id, task_name, task_number,
       start_date, completion_date
FROM   apps.hxt_all_tasks_v
WHERE  project_id = :p_project_id
AND    (completion_date IS NULL OR completion_date >= SYSDATE)
ORDER BY task_number;

A second common pattern retrieves the task attributes needed when a time entry references a task by number, joining back to time-entry staging data on task_id to reconcile reported hours against valid, non-completed tasks. Because the view exposes no project name or organization security columns, integrations that require project description, operating unit, or RBS hierarchy context must join to PA_PROJECTS_ALL and PA_RBS_ELEMENTS separately. When using the view in custom reports, apply the standard APPS schema prefix and observe Projects security so that users see only tasks on projects they are authorized to access.