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Overview

APPS.OTV_SESSIONS is a reporting view in the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 releases that exposes training session records maintained by Oracle Training Administration (OTA), a module within Oracle Human Resources (HRMS). The view filters the OTA_EVENTS entity to only those rows whose EVENT_TYPE equals 'SESSION', presenting session-level scheduling data — titles, start and end times, parent event relationships, owning business group, and training centre information — in a single denormalised result set. Because it is owned by APPS and built over public synonyms and PL/SQL packages, it is intended primarily for reporting, ad-hoc queries, and downstream integration rather than for transactional data entry. The decoded training centre value, derived from the TRAINING_CENTRE lookup type, makes the view particularly convenient for operational reporting where the raw lookup code would otherwise require a separate join to HR_LOOKUP_VALUES or FND_LOOKUP_VALUES.

Underlying Base Objects

The view is defined over two synonyms and two PL/SQL packages, all resolved in the APPS schema:

  • OTA_EVENTS (SYNONYM) — the core OTA event table storing both parent offerings and their child sessions. The alias EVT supplies nearly every column in the view.
  • HR_ALL_ORGANIZATION_UNITS (SYNONYM) — the HR organisation definition table, aliased BGR, joined on BUSINESS_GROUP_ID = ORGANIZATION_ID to resolve the business group name.
  • HR_GENERAL (PACKAGE) — supplies the DECODE_LOOKUP function used to translate the TRAINING_CENTRE lookup code into its user-facing meaning.
  • OTA_GENERAL (PACKAGE) — supplies GET_BUSINESS_GROUP_ID, used in the NVL predicate to restrict rows to the caller's current business group when that context is available.

The two join predicates are mandatory inner joins, so sessions lacking a valid business group organisation row are excluded. The NVL on the business group filter means the view is effectively multi-tenant aware: users operating within a specific business group see only their own sessions, while sessions with no business group context remain visible.

Key Columns

  • TITLE — the session title, inherited from the event record.
  • COURSE_START_DATE, COURSE_START_TIME, COURSE_END_TIME — scheduling attributes for the session.
  • DECODE_LOOKUP('TRAINING_CENTRE', EVT.CENTRE) — the decoded training centre description, reflecting the user's search term.
  • PARENT_EVENT_ID — identifies the parent offering under which the session was created.
  • EVENT_ID — the unique session identifier within OTA_EVENTS.
  • BUSINESS_GROUP_ID and BGR.NAME — the owning business group identifier and its organisation name.
  • TRAINING_CENTER_ID, LOCATION_ID — foreign keys to the training centre and location definitions used for delivery.

Common Use Cases and Queries

Typical uses include session calendars, centre utilisation reporting, and integration extracts feeding learning management or data warehouse systems. A representative query filtering by the training centre keyword is:

  • SELECT event_id, title, course_start_date, course_start_time, course_end_time, business_group_id FROM apps.otv_sessions WHERE 1=1;
  • SELECT s.event_id, s.title, s.course_start_date FROM apps.otv_sessions s WHERE s.title LIKE '%training%' ORDER BY s.course_start_date;
  • SELECT business_group_id, COUNT(*) FROM apps.otv_sessions GROUP BY business_group_id;

Because the view is read-only and APPS-owned, consumers should query it directly rather than attempting DML, and should expect the business group filter to be applied implicitly through OTA_GENERAL.GET_BUSINESS_GROUP_ID when a session context exists.