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Overview

APPS.CAC_NOTES_PVT is a private (PVT classification) PL/SQL package body in Oracle E-Business Suite that provides the internal application programming interface for the Notes and Notes Context functionality within the Customer Care / CRM schema. Its role is to centralize the low-level validation, message handling, and data manipulation logic used when notes are attached to objects such as parties, users, and other CRM entities. Because it is classified as a private package, it is not intended to be called directly by external integrations; instead it is consumed by a public wrapper package and a small number of dependent modules. The package encapsulates the business rules governing note creation, modification, deletion, and the association of notes with contexts, while also handling multilingual note text and audit attribution.

Key Procedures and Functions

The documented procedures divide into note-level operations, context-level operations, and a supporting lookup function.

• CREATE_NOTE — Creates a new note record, populating the base note row and any associated translated text.
• UPDATE_NOTE — Modifies an existing note, including its text content and descriptive attributes.
• DELETE_NOTE — Removes a note and its dependent records.
• CREATE_NOTE_CONTEXT — Establishes the link between a note and the business object or entity to which it relates.
• UPDATE_NOTE_CONTEXT — Amends an existing note-to-object association.
• DELETE_NOTE_CONTEXT — Removes a context association.
• GET_ENTERED_BY_NAME — Resolves and returns the display name of the user who entered a note, supporting audit and reporting needs.

In addition to these documented procedures, the package body contains internal helper procedures such as Add_Invalid_Argument_Msg and Add_Null_Parameter_Msg that standardize error messaging through the FND message stack, and Validate_note_type, which validates a supplied note type against the FND_LOOKUP_VALUES lookup and sets the API return status accordingly. This validation routine is the element most commonly referenced when developers search for note type checking logic.

Tables Accessed

The package reads and writes the core Notes tables JTF_NOTES_B, JTF_NOTES_S, and JTF_NOTES_TL, which hold the base, secondary, and translated note records respectively. Context associations are stored in JTF_NOTE_CONTEXTS, while JTF_OBJECT_USAGES supports object-type resolution. Validation and lookup data come from FND_LANGUAGES and FND_LOOKUP_VALUES, and user attribution is derived from FND_USER and PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F. Party-related note contexts reference HZ_PARTIES. DUAL is used for simple existence checks, such as confirming that a note type appears in the lookup.

Usage Notes

CAC_NOTES_PVT is invoked primarily through the public Notes API layer and from CRM forms and concurrent programs that manage customer notes. Because it is a private package, custom code should call the corresponding public wrapper rather than this package directly. When extending note functionality, developers must respect the package's reliance on the FND message stack for error reporting and its use of standard API return status values. Any customization that calls Validate_note_type or the message helper routines should be aware that validation depends on active lookup values in FND_LOOKUP_VALUES.