Administrator Guide - Noetix Technical Support

Customize NoetixViewsThe customizations, extensions, and bug fixes to NoetixViews can all be accomplishedusing a common methodology. There are a number of files in the NOETIX_SYS userdirectory that can be replaced with carefully designed files, called hook scripts, toimplement the required changes. A hook script may be developed by NoetixEngineering, Noetix Technical Support or other individuals who have successfullycompleted the NoetixViews Customization Certification (NVCC) course. These hookscripts affect generation of Noetix views. Hook scripts provide advanced flexibility tothe software by altering the values populated in the Noetix template or non-templatetables to change the resulting CREATE VIEW statements.Some types of customizations that can be implemented in the views include:• Adding a column.• Dropping a column.• Altering a column or view description.• Joining a new table to an existing view to generate a completely new view.• Generating selective views on the basis of specific directives.Let us consider an example to illustrate a view customization. You want to generateseveral copies of the AP_Invoices view based on the combination of your ledger andoperating unit. If you need a column added to this view to meet your reportingrequirements, use a hook script to update the NoetixViews metadata repository withthe new column information. All subsequent regenerations would result in theAP_Invoices view, the Noetix Help File, and possibly your Discoverer End User Layer(EUL) with the new column included.In the same example, if there is a ledger that is no longer used in your organization andyou would prefer not to expose the AP_Invoices view for that ledger, you can suppressthe view generation for that ledger using a suppression hook script. More informationabout suppressing your views generation is available in the next section.238 NoetixViews for Oracle E-Business Suite Administrator Guide