Search Results igf_ap_efc_term_v

Overview

IGF_AP_EFC_TERM_V is a database view owned by the APPS schema within the Oracle E-Business Suite environment. It is catalogued under the IGF product, which corresponds to the Financial Aid module. In ETRM documentation for both release 12.1.1 and 12.2.2, the object is registered with a status of VALID and an object type of VIEW.

The view is intended to expose term-related reference data associated with an Expected Family Contribution (EFC) calculation context. The naming convention reflects this: the "AP" segment relates to the applicant or application processing path, "EFC" denotes the Expected Family Contribution figure used in needs analysis, and "TERM" identifies the academic term dimension to which the record is anchored. The view therefore serves as a lightweight, read-only projection that downstream reporting, extracts, and integration interfaces can query without touching the more complex base structures of the Financial Aid schema.

As a view rather than a table, it holds no data of its own. It exists to present a consistent, denormalised shape to consumers such as concurrent program extracts, OA Framework pages, and external student information systems that consume financial aid data.

Underlying Base Objects

The documented ETRM metadata for this object records no referenced base objects. The published view text is:

• SELECT NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL FROM DUAL

This definition is significant. The view is defined over the DUAL pseudo-table and returns a single row of seven NULL values with no source tables and no join predicates. In the standard Oracle Financial Aid data model, this construction is characteristic of a placeholder or stub object. It is created so that dependent objects — grants, synonyms, forms, or interface definitions — can be compiled and validated against a known signature even where the substantive implementation is either not shipped, deliberately suppressed, or replaced by a customer-specific or patch-level definition.

Because the documented definition selects from DUAL only, there is no formal dependency chain to any IGF base table, and no "referenced base objects" entry is recorded. Administrators should verify the actual deployed source in their instance using USER_VIEWS or ALL_VIEWS, since the live text may differ from the ETRM excerpt if a patch or customisation has been applied.

Key Columns

The view exposes seven columns, all declared with NULL values in the documented definition. The column names nonetheless describe the intended semantic payload of the view:

• BASE_ID — identifier of the base EFC or applicant record to which the term row is linked.
• LD_CAL_TYPE — the calendar type of the academic term, referencing the institution's calendar taxonomy.
• LD_SEQUENCE_NUMBER — the sequence number identifying the specific term instance within the calendar type.
• LD_ALTERNATE_CODE — the alternate or short code used to reference the term in external systems.
• LD_START_DT — the start date of the term.
• LD_END_DT — the end date of the term.
• LD_COA — the chart of accounts associated with the term, relevant where aid is posted to financial accounting.

The "LD_" prefix is the standard Financial Aid convention for term and calendar attributes. Together these columns allow a consumer to resolve which academic term an EFC record belongs to and the accounting context in which it was evaluated.

Common Use Cases and Queries

Typical usage is in reporting and extraction where the term context of an EFC record is required, and in the validation of dependent objects. A representative query is:

• SELECT base_id, ld_cal_type, ld_sequence_number, ld_alternate_code, ld_start_dt, ld_end_dt, ld_coa FROM apps.igf_ap_efc_term_v;
• SELECT base_id, ld_cal_type FROM apps.igf_ap_efc_term_v WHERE ld_start_dt BETWEEN :p_start AND :p_end;

Where the deployed definition returns only NULLs, these queries yield empty result sets, confirming the view is a signature stub rather than a data source. In such cases the substantive term data should be sourced directly from the underlying IGF calendar and EFC tables. Before building production extracts against this view, confirm the live view text in the target instance and treat the ETRM excerpt as the documented baseline rather than a guaranteed runtime definition.