To view the properties of the Generate Default Accounts process, select the process in the navigator tree, then choose Properties from the Edit menu. The Generate Default Accounts process has a result type of Flexfield Result, indicating that when the process completes, it has a result of Failure or Success. These results correspond to the lookup codes in the Flexfield Result lookup type in the Standard Flexfield Workflow item type.

This process activity is also runnable, indicating that it can be initiated as a top level process to run by making calls to the Workflow Engine CreateProcess and StartProcess APIs.

The Details property page of the process activity indicates that the Generate Default Accounts process has an error process called DEFAULT_ERROR associated with it, which gets initiated only when an error is encountered in the process. This error would initiate DEFAULT_ERROR, which is associated with the System:Error item type. Currently the process simply executes the standard Default Error Notification activity to provide information associated with the error. You can customize the process further to suit your needs. See: Oracle Workflow GuideDefault Error Process.

For more information on when the Account Generator process is initiated, see the subsection Account Build Timing and Logistics in: What the Account Generator Does in Oracle Purchasing.

Generate Default Accounts is the default workflow process in Purchasing that builds the accounts.

Node 2 checks if a charge account has already been manually entered on the document. (For example, you can override or specify the charge account for uncommitted Expense distributions.) If a charge account already exists, this process skips the charge account generation process at node 3 and proceeds to node 7, which determines whether a budget account is needed.

Nodes 3, 8, 11, and 13 build the charge, budget (if node 7 finds that budgetary control is used), accrual, and variance accounts. These nodes end in failure at nodes 4, 9, or 14, if the account could not be created-for example because not all account segments were provided, or a disabled segment was used. (In these cases, you receive an error in the document window.)

Nodes 5 and 12 suspend execution of the workflow until the previous account has completed generating the account segment values. Node 5 allows a failure option in case the charge account fails to generate a code combination identifier (CCID). In this case only, the workflow ends at node 6.