Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Steps to Setup Basic Bonus Plan

Steps to Setup Basic ICD Plan for Bonus

a) Create a plan type of type Individual Compensation Distribution (Total Compensation => Programs and Plans => Plan Types)
b) Create a Plan using the above plan type and following information (Total Compensation => Programs and Plans => Plans)

Usage: May not be in program
Go to Not in Program Tab and enter details Enrollment Rate/ Frequency as per pay period and activity Reference Period as Annually

Go to the Details button and attach plan year period (plan will be available only in those time periods)

c) Define Plan Enrollment Requirements (Total Compensation => Programs and Plans => Plan Enrollment Requirements)

Enrollment Tab
Enrollment Type: Explicit
Allow Unrestricted => Checked
Enroll in Plan and Option => Checked
Enrollment Code => Current, Can Keep or Choose; New, Can Choose

Coverage Tab
Coverage Start Date=> Event
Coverage End Date => Event

Rates Tab
Rate Start Date=> Event
Rate End Date => Event

d) Define a Standard Rate for the Plan (Total Compensation => Rate/ Coverage Definitions => Standard Rates)

General Tab
Level: Plan
Compensation Object:
Activity Type: See from the list you require (for Bonus: Employer Payroll Contribution)
Tax Type: Any
Element Name and Element Input Value (Check Element and input value required if you attach the element here)

Calculation Tab
Enter Value at enrollment: Checked
Calculate for Enrollment: Checked
Give min, max values

Processing Information
Assign on Enrollment: Checked
Display on Enrollment: Checked
Compensation Category: Bonus
Value passed to Payroll: Defined Amount


That is all for setup.

Go to self-service and go to Individual Compensation Distribution and then go as application says . .. you can see this bonus. If you have attached element entry in standard rate, you can see the same in the bonus history also.

What happens internally
it process the unrestricted life event (Advanced Benefits) on the person and create enrollment and rates (and elements if defined).

njoy
Gaurav Sehgal

Thursday, April 10, 2008

IE Crash while Opening Forms

Hi All
Issue: While opening forms from IE, IE crashes.
I have faced this issue many times. First after upgrading to IE7 .. then upgrading to Vista .. recently installed a proprietry software using JRE ..

Also Oracle Applications Forms client is not supported on vista unless you apply some recommended paches. You can refer
metalink note: 285218.1 for all the details on all patchset levels.

So whats the easiest way
Copy the jvm.dll file from you JRE - bin - client to Jinitiator jvm.dll
i.e.
C:\Program Files\Java\ \bin\client\jvm.dll file to C:\Program Files\Oracle\\bin\hotspot\jvm.dll

It solved the problem for me in all above cases on lot of machines.

Another easy way is use firefox when you need to open the forms. Some times when you are using IE for long your forms will not get opened from Firefox. It will install jinitiator again and again when you open the forms.
Go to Control panell and remove all the versions of Jinitiator you have there. Now open firefox. Open the form you want to open. It will install Jinitiator and you can open the forms.

But you cant go to every user and ask them to install and use firefox for using Oracle Apps .. so i prefer the first workaround.

Hope this will help you as well.


njoy
Gaurav Sehgal