As System Administrator, you can use the Define Profile Values window to set profile options for your user community. If you change a user profile option value, your change takes effect as soon as your users log on again or changes responsibilities.
You can also view how site-level profile options are set using Oracle Applications Manager (Site Map > Monitoring tab).
When you set a user profile, you provide Oracle E-Business Suite with standard information (such as printer) that describes a user, responsibility, application, or site. You can set values for user profile options at each profile level.
For the Security, Organization, and Server hierarchy types, the following describes how option settings are used:
| Level | Option Settings |
| Site | All users at an installation site. |
| Application | All users of any responsibility associated with the application. |
| Responsibility | All users currently signed on under the responsibility. |
| User | An individual user, identified by their application username. |
| Server | An individual server. |
| Organization | A particular organization. |
The values you set at each level provide runtime values for each user's profile options. An option's runtime value is the highest-level setting for that option.
When a profile option is set at more than one level, Site has the lowest priority, superseded by Application, then Responsibility, with User having the highest priority. A value entered at the Site level may be overridden by values entered at any other level. A value entered at the User level has the highest priority and overrides values entered at any other level.
Example
For example, assume the Printer option is set only at the Site and Responsibility levels. When the user logs on, the Printer option assumes the value set at the Responsibility level, since it is the highest-level setting for the option.
For the Server+Responsibility hierarchy type, option settings pertain to specific combinations of server and responsibility. The system first looks for a specific match for both server and responsibility values. If no such match is found, the system next looks for a profile option value matching responsibility, and with a default value for the server. If no such match is found, the system then looks for a profile option value matching the server, with default value for the responsibility. If no such match is found, the system will continue up the hierarchy to the Site level profile option value.
Suggestion: As System Administrator, you should set site-level option values before specifying values at the other three levels after the installation of Oracle E-Business Suite. The option values specified at the site-level work as defaults until option values are specified at the other levels.
Oracle E-Business Suite users may use the Personal Profile Values window to set their own personal profile options at the user level. Not all profile options are visible to users, and some profile options, while visible, may not be updated by end users.
Additional Information: The display of NULL values has changed from that in previous releases. In the Personal Profiles window, the default value column no longer displays a NULL value if a NULL value exists in the database. In the Examine window, NULL database values are not shown; the value set at a lower level is shown instead. If there are no non-NULL values set at a particular level, then a message appears stating that no values exist.