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Generating Departments and Resources in Oracle Applications
Oracle Applications does not support generating departments and resources from the back end of external interfaces (like public API). In order to create operations in Oracle Applications, the department must already exist. To assign resources to operations the resources must also already exist and be assigned to a particular department.