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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 body provides the core data manipulation layer for resource assignment records within the Oracle E-Business Suite Project Management module. Its naming prefix, PA_FP, associates it with the Project Foundation and staffing functionality that governs how resources—typically employees, contingent workers, or named candidates—are attached to project roles for a given date range. In Oracle EBS 12.1.1 and 12.2.2, resource assignments represent the intersection of a project, a resource, and a staffing requirement, and they underpin the Assignment and Staffing pages in the Projects workbench as well as downstream planning and costing activities.

The package is classified under ETRM as an OTHER API, indicating it is a supporting programmatic interface rather than a formally published public API such as the PA_*_PUB packages. It manipulates the base table PA_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS along with its intersection view PA_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS_S, which exposes assignment data through a secured organization-based filter. The package body carries a VALID status in the APPS schema and depends on standard Oracle EBS utilities including FND_API, FND_GLOBAL, FND_MSG_PUB, PA_DEBUG, and PA_UTILS, confirming that it participates in the standard concurrency, message handling, and error-logging conventions of the EBS technical stack.

Key Procedures and Functions

The ETRM metadata documents four procedures in this package body. Each maps to a standard transactional operation against the resource assignment record.

• INSERT_ROW — Creates a new resource assignment record in the base table, establishing the association between a resource and the project staffing requirement.
• UPDATE_ROW — Modifies attributes of an existing resource assignment, such as assignment dates, effort, or staffing detail, while preserving referential integrity.
• LOCK_ROW — Acquires a row-level lock on the specified assignment so that concurrent sessions cannot modify the same record during an edit cycle.
• DELETE_ROW — Removes a resource assignment from the table, typically invoked when staffing is cancelled or a resource is unassigned from a project role.

No parameter lists are documented in the ETRM metadata, and none are asserted here. The procedures follow the conventional EBS pattern in which the caller passes primary key identifiers and column values, and the package coordinates validation errors through FND_MSG_PUB.

Tables Accessed

Two documented objects are referenced by this package: PA_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS and PA_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS_S. PA_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS is the primary base table that physically stores each resource assignment row; the INSERT_ROW, UPDATE_ROW, and DELETE_ROW procedures write to it directly. PA_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS_S is the secured synonym or view over that base table, used to read assignment data while honoring the organization security model applied through the Projects security profile. The package reads from these objects to validate existence and status before committing changes, and it relies on the DUAL pseudo-table for trivial value derivation and on STANDARD for the built-in PL/SQL functions.

Usage Notes

This package body is generally invoked indirectly rather than called from ad hoc code. In a standard Oracle EBS 12.1.1 or 12.2.2 environment, resource assignment changes originate from the Project Management responsibility, the resource assignment and staffing forms, or the project planning pages; these UI components delegate the persistence logic to PA_FP_RESOURCE_ASSIGNMENTS_PKG. The package is also referenced by three other APPS packages, indicating that higher-level orchestration routines within the Project Foundation layer call its procedures as part of their own transaction flow. Because it is classified as OTHER and is not a published API, custom extensions should invoke it cautiously, honoring the same FND_API error-handling and FND_GLOBAL initialization conventions observed elsewhere in the EBS stack. The presence of PA_DEBUG confirms that diagnostic tracing can be enabled for troubleshooting assignment failures, and the LOCK_ROW procedure signals that careful concurrency handling is expected whenever assignment records are edited in multi-user scenarios.