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Enable Web Access By External Supplier Users to Oracle iSupplier Portal and Oracle Sourcing



Required Patches for Oracle iSupplier Portal
Customers who are on Procurement Family Pack I or Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.9 should apply the follow patches:
  • 3824408 Enable the framework based login page for iSupplier Portal
Customers who are on Procurement Family Pack J or Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10 or later releases do not require additional patches.
Required Setup for Oracle iSupplier Portal
To ensure that newly registered external users can register, login, and receive system notifications, perform the following configuration:
  1. Using the System Administrator responsibility, open the System Profile Values window
  2. Search for the profile option POS: External URL
  3. Set the profile option to:
    http or https://<external web server machine>:<port>/
  4. Search for the profile option POS: Internal URL
  5. Set the internal profile option to:
    http or https://<internal web server machine>:<port>/
  6. After setting the above profile options please run the following script using user APPS through sqlplus:
    $POS_TOP/patch/115/sql/pos_upg_usr.sql
The above script updates the user level values of profile option Applications Framework Agent and Application Servlet Agent for all supplier users using the new values in the profile option POS: External URL.
Every time the value of profile option POS: External URL is changed, it is necessary to run this script.
REFERENCE ER Bug 7298636 - ER - ELIMINATE POS: EXTERNAL URL AND POS_UPG_USER.SQL IN ISUPPLIER - for a possible change to this functionality in a future release of the application. In the current release The POS URL profiles and pos_upg_usr.sql script are still required.

The following setup is needed if customers want to use Invite Supplier User feature in Supplier User Management. Customers can create supplier user accounts directly without going through the Invite – Respond – Approve flow by using Register Supplier User feature.
  1. Using the System Administrator responsibility, open the Responsibilities window.
  2. Search for the responsibility POS Supplier Guest User . Make sure that the end date of the responsibility is NULL. If not, set it to NULL and save.
  3. Open the User window.
  4. Search for the user GUEST . Make sure that the end date of the user is NULL. If not set it to NULL and save.
  5. Make sure that the user is actively assigned the responsibility POS Supplier Guest User . If not, do so and save.
Optional Setup for iSupplier Portal
Restrict Responsibilities Accessed through the Apps Web Server in the DMZ
Oracle E-Business Suite 11i has the capability to restrict access to a set of responsibilities based on the Web server from which the user logs in. This capability is provided by tagging web servers with a server trust level. If the server level value of the profile option Node Trust Level for the external server is set to External , customers should set the responsibility level values for profile option Responsibility Trust Level to External for the list of responsibilities used by supplier users. After setting these values, the middle tier servers must be restarted for the setting to take effect. Here is the list of iSupplier Portal seeded responsibilities for supplier users:
  • iSupplier Portal Full Access
  • POS Supplier Guest User
  • Plan to Pay Supplier View
  • Plan, Source, Pay Supplier View
  • Source to Pay Supplier View
  • Supplier Profile Manager
  • Procure to Pay Supplier View
For more details, please refer to Section 6.2 Update Node Trust Level and Section 6.4 Update List of Responsibilities in Metalink Note 287176.1
 
Required Patches for Oracle Sourcing
Customers who are on Procurement Family Pack I or Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.9 should apply the follow patches:
  • 3439889 - ADDITIONAL EXTERNAL NOTIFICATION FIXES
Customers who are on Procurement Family Pack J or Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10 or later releases do not require additional patches.
Required Setup for Oracle Sourcing
Customers who are on Procurement Family Pack I or Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.9 should do the following:
  1. Using the System Administrator responsibility, open the System Profile Values window.
  2. Search for the profile option PON: External Applications Framework Agent
  3. Set the site level value for this profile option to:
    http or https://<external web server machine>:<port>
  4. Search for the profile option PON: External login URL
  5. The site level value of this profile should be set to the application login URL that is published to external supplier users.
For customers that have taken FND.G (patch 2655277) or Oracle E-Business Suite Release 115.9 (patch 2669606), this profile is typically set to:
http or https://<external web server machine>:<port>/OA_HTML/AppsLocalLogin.jsp
Customers who are on Procurement Family Pack J or Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10
  1. Using the System Administrator responsibility, open the System Profile Values window.
  2. Search for the profile option PON: External Applications Framework Agent.
  3. Set the site level value for this profile option to:
    http or https://<external web server machine>:<port>
Optional Setup for Oracle Sourcing
Restrict Responsibilities Accessed through the Apps Web Server in the DMZ
Oracle E-Business Suite 11i has the capability to restrict access to a set of responsibilities based on the Web server from which the user logs in. This capability is provided by tagging web servers with a server trust level. If the server level value of the profile option Node Trust Level for the external server is set to External , customers should set the responsibility level values for profile option Responsibility Trust Level to External for the list of responsibilities used by supplier users. After setting these values, the middle tier servers must be restarted for the setting to take effect. Here is the list of Sourcing seeded responsibilities for supplier users:
  • Sourcing Supplier
For more details, please refer to Section 5.2 Update Node Trust Level and Section 5.3 Update List of Responsibilities in Metalink Note 287176.1

ReferencesNOTE:782247.1 - Forgot Password Email URL for Supplier Wrongly Pointing to Internal ServerNOTE:445315.1 - Incorrect iSupplier Portal User Registration Url For External Users After Single SignOn (SSO)NOTE:988001.1 - Supplier User Encounters Blank Screen When Log In to iSupplier Portal From External URL

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