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Overview

APPS.AMS_DCF_TITLE is an Oracle E-Business Suite package owned by the APPS schema and classified under the OTHER API category. Its declared purpose, as reflected in the specification header, is the generation of display and report titles for Oracle Marketing (AMS) and related Business Intelligence reporting components. The package is defined with AUTHID CURRENT_USER, meaning its SQL statements execute under the privileges of the invoking user rather than the defining user, which is standard practice for packages that must respect the caller's data security context when querying marketing reporting views and synonyms.

The package operates as a presentation-layer utility rather than a transactional API. Every documented function returns a VARCHAR2 value representing a formatted title string, and each accepts a single optional parameter named p_parameters. This parameter allows callers to pass contextual or override information that shapes the returned title text. Because the parameter is declared with DEFAULT NULL, the functions may be invoked without arguments and will still return a valid title, falling back to internally resolved defaults derived from the database views the package queries.

Key Procedures and Functions

The specification exposes fourteen functions, all of which return VARCHAR2. The title-generation functions fall into several functional groups:

KPI titles: PRINT_KPI_BIN_TITLE and PRINT_KPI_REPORT_TITLE produce titles for key performance indicator bins and KPI report headers.
Regional bin titles: PRINT_REG_BIN_TITLE_KPI, PRINT_REG_BIN_TITLE_MB, PRINT_REG_BIN_TITLE_CE, and PRINT_REG_BIN_TITLE_EE return bin titles for regional reporting segmented by business dimension, with the suffixes indicating distinct reporting variants.
Regional report titles: PRINT_REG_REPORT_TITLE, PRINT_REG_REPORT_NC_TITLE, and PRINT_REG_INCREMENTAL_TITLE generate standard, non-consolidated, and incremental regional report headers respectively.
Homogeneous report titles: PRINT_HOM_REPORT_TITLE and PRINT_HOM_REPORT_NC_TITLE serve the equivalent report-header purpose for the homogeneous reporting track.
Marketing activity title: PRINT_MKTG_ACTIVITIES_TITLE labels the marketing activities report.
Currency utilities: GET_CURRENCY and PRINT_CURRENCY resolve and format currency information, supporting titles that must display monetary context.

No parameters beyond p_parameters are documented for any function, and no return type other than VARCHAR2 is used. Each function is self-contained from the caller's perspective, accepting optional context and returning display-ready text.

Tables Accessed

The package reads from seven documented objects accessed through APPS synonyms:

BIM_R_CAMP_ACT_BIN_MV, BIM_R_CAMP_DIM_SUM_MV, BIM_R_EVEN_DIM_SUM_MV, and BIM_R_FD_DIM_SUM_MV: materialized views supplying campaign activity bin data and dimension summary data for campaign, event, and fundraiser reporting, used to resolve the values embedded in the generated titles.
BIM_R_PERIODS: provides period definitions so that titles can reflect the correct reporting timeframe.
FND_LOOKUP_VALUES: the standard Oracle Application Object Library lookup repository, used to translate codes into user-facing display text and possibly to support currency or language-related label resolution.
DUAL: the standard single-row utility table, used for simple value derivation and default handling.

All documented table interactions are read operations; no inserts, updates, or deletes are associated with this package.

Usage Notes

AMS_DCF_TITLE is a reporting and display utility. It is typically invoked from Oracle Marketing report definitions, Business Intelligence Publisher (BI Publisher) data templates, Oracle Reports layouts, or custom PL/SQL code that assembles marketing dashboards. The functions are not referenced by any other documented package, indicating that they are leaf-level presentation helpers called directly by report technology or bespoke code.

Because every function accepts p_parameters and returns VARCHAR2, integration is straightforward: a report template or form can call the appropriate function and embed the result in a page header or title region. Callers should pass a non-null p_parameters value when context-specific titles are required, and may omit it to obtain default titles. As the package executes with AUTHID CURRENT_USER, invoking sessions must hold the necessary privileges on the underlying BIM materialized views and FND_LOOKUP_VALUES synonym to avoid runtime errors.