To enable the trace for a particular user without entering the apps password: 1. Navigate to - Profile - System 2.

On the "Find System Profile Values" form, make sure the checkboxes for "User" and "Profiles with no Values" are checked 3. Beside the "User" checkbox, use the LOV to select the user who's activity you need to trace 4. In the "Profile" field, enter the following profile and click the <Find> butt on: 'Initialization SQL Statement - Custom' 5. In the "System Profile Values" form, enter the following in the User Field: (This is one line and all single quotes) begin fnd_ctl.fnd_sess_ctl('','','TRUE','TRUE','LOG','ALTER SESSION SET EVENTS= ''10046 TRACE NAME CONTEXT FOREVER, LEVEL 12'' tracefile_identifier=''OracleSupp ort'''); end; 6. DO NOT SAVE THE PROFILE YET 7. In another browser window, login as the user you are going to trace and prep are to reproduce the problem 8. Once you are ready to reproduce the problem, go back to the Applications For ms and Save the profile change 9. Reproduce the problem 10. Back in the Applications form, set profile to null so it does not trace any more and Save the change 11. The trace will be located in the user_dump_dest. To find location run the f ollowing in SQL*Plus: select value from v$parameter where name = 'user_dump_dest ';

12. The trace file will have current date/time and can be identified with the w ord OracleSupport in it.