Overview of Multiple Organizations Architecture (prior to Release 12)
The primary objective of multiple organizations architecture, introduced in Oracle Applications Release 10.6, is to secure data from unauthorized access by individuals belonging to different operating units in an enterprise.
A new or fresh installation of an Oracle Applications instance does not automatically enable multiple organizations. The system administrator creates operating units using the Define Organizations window in Oracle Human Resources Management System (HRMS), and runs the Convert to Multiple Organization program from AD Administrator to enable the multiple organizations feature. Typically, the system administrator defines "MO: Operating Unit" profile at Responsibility and/or User level. The "organization_id" of the "MO: Operating Unit" profile option value filters the transactional data. The CLIENT_INFO application context space stores the multiple organizations context value.
Multi-Org views use the following WHERE clause to filter application records:'org_id = substrb(userenv(''CLIENT_INFO''),1,10)'
Overview of Multiple Organizations Access Control Architecture (Release 12)
The Access Control feature in Release 12 allows the user to enter or query records in one or more operating units without changing application responsibility. It is the system administrator’s discretion to either implement the feature or use the same multiple organizations profile option setting available before Release 12 by using the single operating unit mode (i.e. one operating unit for a responsibility).
In Release 12, the multiple organizations context value is no longer initialized by the FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE routine thereby reducing unnecessary context setting and resource consumption for applications that do not use operating unit context for data security.
To use the single operating unit mode, you must set the value for the "Initialization SQL Statement – Custom profile" to "mo_global.init('S',null);". This initializes the operating unit context based on the "MO: Operating Unit" profile option and the "MO: Security Profile" profile option must not be set.
Fresh install of Release 12 Application is enabled with multiple organizations, however, the system administrator must create operating units to use multi organizations sensitive application products. The user can create new operating units in the Accounting Setup Manager page in addition to HRMS’s Define Organizations page.
Multiple Organizations Initialization
The profile options MO: Security Profile or MO: Operating Unit populate the multiple organizations global temporary table. The profile option MO: Security Profile takes precedence over MO: Operating Unit. You can combine the following under one application menu:
Products at different levels
Products that are access control enabled
Products that are not access control enabled (i.e. in transition)
In such cases, initializing the multiple organizations depends on the application of the calling module and not the application tied to the responsibility, since the profile Option MO: Security Profile must be ignored for products that are not access control enabled or are in the transition phase.
A new table (FND_MO_PRODUCT_INIT) is introduced which contains a value Y for products that are enabled with the multiple organizations access control feature. The multiple organizations initialization API uses the module owner to initialize the temporary table depending on the value for the product in the FND_MO_PRODUCT_INIT table.
| Application_Short_Name | Status |
|---|
| AR | Y |
| JTF | Y |
| Y or N |
Legend: Y indicates multiple organizations access control is enabled, N indicates otherwise.
Use the shared services API to register products that are enabled with access control. For example to enable or remove access control for Payables (SQLAP), enter the following code:To enable access: FND_MO_PRODUCT_INIT_PKG.register_application('SQLAP', 'SEED','Y'); To delete your application entry: FND_MO_PRODUCT_INIT_PKG.remove_application('SQLAP');
The Payables system administrator must then seed a row in the Multiple Organizations table to indicate that Payables is enabled with access control.
Products must call the MO_GLOBAL.init() API to execute the multiple organizations initialization.
Multiple organizations initialization performs the following:
Initializes the security policy predicate
Populates a global temporary table that is used in the user interfaces and the security policy function.
Attention:
Do not access the global temporary table directly. Instead, use the PL/SQL functions to access data from the temporary table.
The FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE routine does NOT automatically call mo_global.init routine. You must explicitly invoke the mo_global.init routine to initialize the organization context.
