Concurrent Programs Business Events

In R12 for concurrent programs submission and completion has business events associated with them
in the concurrent program definition form there is a business events tab which displays the list of events associated

Here you specify the points at which business events are enabled. The possible points are:
Request Submitted
Request On Hold
Request Resumed
Request Running
Program Completed
Post Processing Started
Post Processing Ended
Request Completed

But make sure you set the profile "Concurrent: Business Intelligence Integration Enable". You will need to Set "Yes" to enable Business Events from Concurrent Processing System

After this you create a susbcription for this and can launch the required custom action either a work flow launch or plsql code exectuion

Special Characters in XML

Recently we are faced a issue with some spanish,french(special charecters) in the data .
we are developing the reports using xmlpublisher and the xml data is generated using plsql.
Because of the special characters the concurrent program is ending in warning state with no output generated. even the xml output is errroing out.

To overcome this scenario we need to add encoding tag to the xml
By default it will be UTF-8 which will support mostly english.for normal spanish characters and others all we need to have is different endcoding like Windows-1252, ISO-8859-1 specified.
The encoding tag should be mentioned as the first tag



once we put the encoding attribute, the xml file should open normally in explorer.

For Chinese and Arabic characters if this doesn't work try out "UTF-16"