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Overview

PA_CE_AR_NOTIFY_WF is an Oracle Application Object Library package owned by the APPS schema that supports Oracle Projects' integration with Oracle Cash Management and Oracle Receivables during the notification phase of workflow-driven business events. The package name reflects its three functional anchors: PA (Oracle Projects), CE (Cash Management), and AR (Receivables), with the WF suffix indicating its role in Oracle Workflow notification processing. Its primary responsibility is to identify the appropriate project manager and route workflow notifications to that individual when cross-product events occur — for example, when project-related transactions flow between Oracle Projects and Oracle Receivables or when Cash Management reconciliation activities require project-side communication.

Because the APPS schema owns the package, it is callable from any Oracle EBS module with EXECUTE grants to APPS, making it a shared utility for cross-module notification logic. The package status is VALID in the documented release, confirming it compiles cleanly against the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 data model.

Key Procedures and Functions

• SELECT_PROJECT_MANAGER — The sole documented program unit. This procedure is responsible for determining and returning the project manager associated with a given project so that workflow notifications can be addressed to the correct recipient. It encapsulates the lookup logic that maps a project to its manager (whether sourced directly from the project definition or from an assigned project role), shielding calling packages from the underlying query detail. Its name indicates a selection/retrieval routine rather than a data-modifying operation, so it is expected to be invoked for read-only resolution of the notification addressee before a workflow message is generated.

No parameter lists are documented in the ETRM metadata; the procedure is described here by purpose only.

Tables Accessed

The ETRM metadata does not enumerate specific tables referenced by PA_CE_AR_NOTIFY_WF, and no via-synonym table list is provided. Based on the package's function of resolving a project manager for notification, the procedure logically consults Oracle Projects project and project-role assignment data, together with standard APPS foundation lookups. Consult the deployed package body in the target instance for the authoritative table list, since ETRM does not record it for this object.

Usage Notes

This package is a supporting component of the Oracle Projects notification infrastructure rather than a user-facing API. It is invoked internally by other APPS packages — the metadata records that PA_CE_AR_NOTIFY_WF is referenced by two dependent packages: PA_DCTN_APRV_NOTIFICATION and PA_PWP_NOTIFICATION. These callers represent the project contingency approval notification flow and the project workflow (PWP) notification flow respectively, indicating that SELECT_PROJECT_MANAGER is consumed during workflow message construction to populate the notification recipient.

Typical invocation occurs inside Oracle Workflow notification activities triggered by project or cross-product business events. There is no documented concurrent program or form that calls this package directly. Because it is not classified as a public API, custom code should generally avoid calling it and should instead use supported Oracle Projects public APIs; direct invocation would create a dependency on an internal implementation that Oracle may change across patches or releases. Administrators troubleshooting routing failures in project approval or project workflow notifications can inspect this package as part of diagnosing why a notification was sent to an incorrect or empty recipient.