Search Results validate_formula_ctr

Overview

The APPS.CS_COUNTERS_EXT_PVT package is a private PL/SQL API within the Oracle E-Business Suite TeleService (CS) module, responsible for validating service counters used in the Service Request management and entitlement infrastructure. Service counters track consumption-based metrics—such as the number of service requests logged, response times consumed, or units used—against a customer's entitled service coverage. The package provides the validation logic that ensures counter definitions, group-of-counter (GRPOP) associations, descriptive flexfield values, and formula-based counter derivations conform to business rules before being persisted or evaluated.

Declared with AUTHID CURRENT_USER, the package executes with the privileges of the invoking schema, a common EBS convention for private APIs that are not exposed directly to end users. The $Header tag identifies the source file as csxvctes.pls, version 120.1, with a shipment date of July 25, 2005, confirming the object's long-standing stability across the 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 releases. As a Private (PVT) classification package, it is intended for internal consumption by other CS packages rather than direct invocation from forms or concurrent programs. The ETRM metadata records nine documented procedures and functions, and the package is referenced by one other package, underscoring its role as a supporting validation utility.

Key Procedures and Functions

The following documented subprograms constitute the package's public interface:

• VALIDATE_FORMULA_CTR — The procedure directly associated with the search term validate_formula_ctr. It validates a counter that is defined or derived through a formula. It accepts the standard EBS API parameters (API version, initialization of the message list, commit flag, and validation level) along with a counter identifier, and returns a status, message count, message data, and a validity flag indicating 'Y' or 'N'. This is the primary entry point for confirming that a formula-based counter definition is structurally and semantically valid.
• VALIDATE_GRPOP_CTR — Validates the association between a counter and a group of counters, ensuring that counter grouping definitions are consistent and permissible.
• CHECK_REQD_PARAM — A utility routine that verifies whether required parameters have been supplied by the caller, supporting the API's defensive validation posture.
• IS_STARTENDDATE_VALID — Validates the effective start and end dates associated with a counter, ensuring temporal ranges are coherent and correctly ordered.
• IS_FLAG_YORNORNULL — A helper function that verifies a supplied flag value is either 'Y', 'N', or null, enforcing the standard EBS lookup convention.
• IS_DESCFLEX_VALID — Validates descriptive flexfield (DFF) input against the counter's DFF definition. The package defines a DFF_Rec_Type record with a context field and fifteen attribute columns, each defaulted to FND_API.G_MISS_CHAR to distinguish "not supplied" from "null."
• VALIDATE_DESC_FLEX — Performs the descriptive flexfield validation procedure that complements the IS_DESCFLEX_VALID function.

Additional documented subprograms complete the nine-entry catalogue, supporting the same validation theme.

Tables Accessed

The package operates against the following base tables, accessed through APPS synonyms:

• CS_COUNTERS — The primary counter definition table, holding counter metadata, flags, dates, and descriptive flexfield context.
• CS_COUNTER_DER_FILTERS — Stores filters governing derived counters, consulted when validating formula-based logic.
• CS_COUNTER_PROPERTIES — Holds configurable properties attached to counters, read during validation of parameter and property completeness.
• CS_CTR_FORMULA_BVARS — Contains formula bind variables, essential to the VALIDATE_FORMULA_CTR logic that checks formula integrity.
• DBMS_SQL — The Oracle-supplied dynamic SQL package, used to parse or execute dynamically constructed formula expressions during validation.

Usage Notes

Because this is a private package, it is not called directly from an Oracle Forms block or a standalone concurrent program. Instead, it is invoked by higher-level public CS APIs—for example, the counter creation and update APIs—when a service counter with formula derivation is submitted for validation. The p_validation_level parameter allows callers to request full or partial validation, giving the parent API control over the degree of checking applied. Developers extending TeleService counters in custom code should invoke the public wrapper APIs rather than this private package, since its interface is subject to change without notice. When troubleshooting formula counters via validate_formula_ctr, the returned x_valid_flag and x_msg_data are the key diagnostic outputs, with messages discoverable through the standard FND_MSG_PUB message stack.