Follow these steps to convert your ADE styles to Web ADI integrators.

   To convert ADE styles to Web ADI integrators:

1. Check that your HR: Data Exchange Directory profile option is set to point to a directory accessible from your Oracle applications database.

2. Using the Global Super HRMS Manager responsibility, navigate to the Submit Request window, and select the Upgrade from ADE to Web ADI concurrent process.

3. In the Parameters dialog box, enter the name of your ADE.INI file in the ADE ini file name field. This file must be located in the directory referred to in the HR: Data Exchange Directory profile option.

4. Submit the request.

   Note: The request may complete with warning messages, because information that is required by Web ADI is not available in ADE. This is as expected, and can be corrected in Step 8.

5. Locate the output file from the concurrent process, which is placed in the same directory as the ADE.INI file. The output file has the name UPGDDMMYYHHMISS.CSV (where DDMMYYHHMISS represents the date and time the file was created).

6. Copy the output file to a local directory or shared network drive that you can access from your desktop.

   You can now create integrators using this file as the content.

7. Use the Create Document menu to create an integrator spreadsheet containing all required columns (see: Creating Integrators), but when selecting the content for the spreadsheet, select Text File. In the Mapping page, select the UPGDDMMYYHHMISS.CSV file, and enter 1 in the Start Importing at Line Number field.

   The process creates a spreadsheet containing the columns required to create an integrator, and transfers each ADE style from the text file into a separate row in the spreadsheet.

8. Missing information is shown in angle brackets in the appropriate column, for example, <<VIEWNAME>>. You must supply all missing values before you can upload the integrators.

   The following columns may have information missing:

   • VIEW_NAME. This information may be missing because some styles in ADE were defined without views, whereas Web ADI requires a view. Enter the name of the view to use to download the data.

   • APPLICATION SHORT NAME. Web ADI requires the short name of your custom application. Enter the application short name in each row.

9. When you have inserted all the missing information for each row, you can upload the spreadsheet, selecting All Rows in the Parameters page. See: Uploading Data using Web ADI. Each ADE style is converted to an integrator with the same name as the style.

10. Set up a layout for each style. See: Defining Layouts. For letter generation integrators, ensure that the layout name you use is the same as that of the letter name in the HRMS application.

   Additional Steps for Letter Generation Integrators:

1. Upload your existing template letters to the Oracle applications database. See: Managing Template Letters

2. Link the layout to a template document. See: Creating Links between Template Letters and Layouts