Custom Code or Utilities used with Preview Mode When developing custom events, custom code or custom utilities you may have a piece of code that looks back at the original VT Interface (i.e. cp_gl_interface). Before you can successfully develop code yo...

Q: When I press the Generate button on the Custom Events form I get an error message, but it does not tell me what is wrong. A: The quickest way to find out what is wrong is to use the Generation Errors form and select the XXCP_CUSTOM_EVENTS package. ...

Q: When I preview a transaction it works, but the results don't change when I run the Engine. A: Preview mode can operate in a couple of modes at depending which one you use the results may change. Mode: 1) As New = Y In the Tools drop do...

In VT 2.4 we introduced the ability for VT to email people when a concurrent engine job completed. This sends output similar to the Transaction Status header form in an html format to the recipient in the Source Assignments form.  This can be useful if y...

"MSG-00100: ...... Engine Already running.." Each time Virtual Trader's concurrent Engines run they make an entry into a locking table so that the same job can not be run simulatiously and duplicate record processing. At the end of the engine r...

Did you know that in VT2.4 you can change the general error message that people see in the Transaction Status and Inquiry forms and this can be language specific?In VT2.4 there is a form in the System Installation menu called Messages. This gives a full l...

Formula Sets When VT272 was released in January 2010, we introduced some new features that simplify the configuration of Virtual Trader and add more power to the business. One of those features is Formula Sets and we would recommend that you read up on th...

Virtual Trader Interface Editor Did you know that you can change the value of the VT_STATUS column in our Interface from the Transaction Status form. If you have a record in the interface that you don't want to process you can change the value of the VT_S...

Journal SummarizationWhilst running the Journal Summarization concurrent job in Virtual Trader it could error with the following message.ERROR at line 1:OAR-00001: unique constraint (XXCP.CP_PROCESS_SUMMARY_PK) violated ORA-06512: at "APPS.XXCP_SUMMA...

Preview Mode and VT_STATUS = 'NEW' If you are previewing a transaction that has a vt_status of 'NEW' the vt_parent_trx_id will not have been populated. This column is only populated when the full engine selects the transaction to work with. At that poi...

Q: What is Preview Locking A: A new feature was introduced in VT2.4 - 266 which stops uses previewing the same transactions as they have already done in a different session of the Transaction Status form. This prevents people locking themselves. ...

Real Time EngineIn VT 270 the RealTime Engine has had performance improvements. The engine no longer deletes old records from the cp_errors table each time it is called. Instead the delete process has been moved to the Alert Queue email schedule. Along w...

Snapshot (Configuration Migration)One of the new features that we have added to Virtual Trader (2.5) is the ability to move configurations from instance to another instance without the need for technical help. A Super User can take a snapshot of the confi...

The Soft Assignment Engine has been added to VT in release VT270. This is a new type of Real Time engine that works out the IC/Transfer Price in real time and has the option of not writing an audit log. This can be used as a function call or wrapped up in...

If you have an application that needs to hold lots of reporting data then we may have just added a new feature that will work for you. As well as writing Transaction Header and Attributes records in the Assignment phase, VT can now (optionally) wri...