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If any body please explain why Profile options are used and what are the setup steps.

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Mazahir Abbas[:)]

Profile options gives you the flexibility to configure the application as per the business requirement.

Different rules applicable to different countries, different rules to different companies within a country, different rules to different divisions within a company and so on...

Assume that there are no profile options. Then the profile option values should have been hard coded in the coding. If you want to change the value, then we need to modify the code to suit the business requirements which will be costly and not recommended.

Cheers,
Saravanan

and if you have development background then you must have used Global variables which you define normally in the main file to be used by the whole application. So basically profiles are Global Variables and oracle has used its predefined profiles while coding. So if you will change values it will impact where it is used.
In order to create new profile is when you are going to customize or going to change the code then you may need to define profiles.

Just go to Application Developer responsibility and explore the existing definitions then you will have better idea.

Let us know if still more info required.

Thanks