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Overview

IGS_AD_PRCS_CAT_AC_V is a reporting and integration view within the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Student System (also referred to as Oracle Student System or the Admissions module), owned by the APPS schema. It is part of the IGS (Institution of Higher/Graduate Studies) table family, which supports admissions, recruitment, and applicant processing. The view presents a denormalized, human-readable representation of admission process categories, enriching the underlying configuration table IGS_AD_PRCS_CAT with descriptive text drawn from lookup values and admission category definitions.

Its principal role is to expose configuration data used by the admissions processing engine — specifically, the mapping between an admission category, its associated admission process type, and the timing offset that governs offer response deadlines. Because the view resolves raw lookup codes and category identifiers into meaningful descriptions and meanings, it is well suited for reporting, concurrent program queries, OAF/Forms personalizations, and downstream integrations that must interpret admissions configuration without implementing their own joins to the lookup infrastructure.

Underlying Base Objects

The view is defined over three sources, joined through simple equality predicates:

All joins are inner joins, so a row is only returned when a matching admission process type lookup and a matching admission category both exist. The documented metadata lists no additional base objects, and the view performs no aggregation or filtering beyond the lookup-type restriction and the equi-joins described above.

Key Columns

  • ROW_ID — unique identifier of the underlying IGS_AD_PRCS_CAT record.
  • ADMISSION_CAT — the admission category code, the primary business key linking the process category configuration to an admission category.
  • DESCRIPTION — the descriptive name of the admission category, sourced from IGS_AD_CAT.
  • S_ADMISSION_PROCESS_TYPE — the system code identifying the admission process type (for example, a specific application or offer workflow stage).
  • MEANING — the translated, user-facing meaning of the admission process type lookup code.
  • OFFER_RESPONSE_OFFSET — the offset value that determines the response window applied to offers generated under this category and process type. This is the column most relevant to searches for "offer_response_offset," and it is central to offers management and deadline calculation logic.
  • CREATED_BY, CREATION_DATE, LAST_UPDATED_BY, LAST_UPDATE_DATE, LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN — standard EBS WHO audit columns recording the creating and last-updating user, timestamp, and login session for each configuration row.

Common Use Cases and Queries

Typical uses include validating offer response configuration, reporting on admissions setup, and deriving deadline behaviour for offer management. A representative query to inspect the offer response offset by category and process type:

  • SELECT admission_cat, description, meaning, offer_response_offset FROM apps.igs_ad_prcs_cat_ac_v ORDER BY admission_cat, meaning;
  • SELECT admission_cat, meaning, offer_response_offset FROM apps.igs_ad_prcs_cat_ac_v WHERE offer_response_offset IS NOT NULL AND s_admission_process_type = :process_type;

Because the view joins to IGS_LOOKUPS_VIEW, it inherits the lookup translation mechanism, making it appropriate for user-facing reports where codes must be rendered as meanings. For bulk configuration or integration extracts, the view removes the need to replicate the three-way join, providing a stable, read-only interface to admission process category configuration across EBS 12.1.1 and 12.2.2.