asset swapping in Oracle's eBusiness Suite's Asset Management web interface

• Go to the "Assets" tab.
• Search for an asset and find it.
• Click the link in the "Asset Number" column to open it.
• Change the "View" menu at the upper right to "Configuration History" and then click the "Go" button by it.

Here one may throw away a child asset (example: the engine within a tractor) that does not yet have an end date, by clicking on the pencil icon in the "Update" column and then checking the checkbox for "Return to Inventory" at the following screen (followed by clicking "Apply"). Using the "Associate Child" button at the list of child assets one may add a new child asset. Clicking "About this Page" here (a link that adorns the lower left of most pages where one may update inventory in Asset Management) one gets the "Page Definition" for this functionality which shows how the various controls work.

This touches on an interface-based API for this stuff while this touches on the INV_GENEALOGY_PUB public API which is going to be PL/SQL based. I don't understand either yet.