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AI-generated from documented ETRM metadata — verify critical details on the linked pages.

Overview

The APPS.PA_FP_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS_PKG package is a stored PL/SQL unit within the Oracle E-Business Suite Projects (PA) application, residing in the APPS schema and carrying a VALID status in the ETRM registry for releases 12.1.1 and 12.2.2. Its name and dependency profile indicate that it serves as a low-level data access layer for resource assignment records created and maintained by the Project Financial Planning (FP) functionality. In Oracle Projects, the Financial Planning module allows planners to build resource assignments against a project or financial plan, staffing roles with named resources over a defined date range and at an agreed effort or cost. This package encapsulates the row-level database operations that create, amend, lock, and remove those assignment records, providing a controlled, reusable interface so that higher-level planning logic does not issue direct Data Manipulation Language (DML) against the underlying tables. It is classified in the ETRM metadata as an OTHER API, meaning it is an internal, non-public interface rather than a formally published concurrent-program or open-interface API. It is also self-referential, indicating that internal routines call one another, which is typical of a table-handler (TAPI-style) package.

Key Procedures and Functions

The documented interface exposes four procedures. No parameter lists are published in the ETRM metadata, and the descriptions below therefore address purpose only:

• INSERT_ROW — Creates a new resource assignment record, populating the required columns of the assignment entity and deriving any surrogate or system key values needed to persist the row.
• UPDATE_ROW — Modifies an existing resource assignment row, applying changed attribute values while preserving the identity of the assignment.
• LOCK_ROW — Obtains a row-level lock on a specific assignment prior to modification, protecting the record from concurrent updates during an interactive or batch transaction.
• DELETE_ROW — Removes a resource assignment record from the planning data set, either through physical deletion or through the logical end-dating conventions used by the entity.

Tables Accessed

The package operates against the PA_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS table and its companion interface table PA_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS_S, both accessed through APPS synonyms. PA_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS is the principal transactional store for planning assignments: it holds the link between a plan version, a resource, and a role, together with effort, dates, and planning amounts. PA_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS_S functions as the associated interface or staging table used to move assignment data in bulk between planning and execution contexts. The four procedures map directly onto these structures — insert and delete manipulate rows in the base table, update maintains them over the life of the plan, and lock provides the concurrency control required before any change is committed.

Usage Notes

The dependency metadata records that PA_FP_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS_PKG depends on FND_API and is referenced by the packages PA_FIN_PLAN_VIEW_GLOBAL, PA_FP_ELEMENTS_PUB, and PA_FP_ORG_FCST_GEN_PUB. This placement is significant: the package is invoked indirectly by financial plan view processing, by the public elements API, and by organization forecasting generation, rather than being called directly by end users. Its use of FND_API confirms that it participates in the standard EBS API framework, leveraging the shared error-handling and message-stack utilities so that callers receive consistent return statuses. In practice, the package is executed from Project Financial Planning forms and from the concurrent and batch programs that generate or refresh planning data, including organization-level forecasting runs. Because it is an OTHER-classified internal API and is not published for external integration, custom development should not call these procedures directly; instead, integrators should use the documented public planning APIs and interface tables such as PA_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS_S, letting the supported packages manage the underlying assignment rows.