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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook

By : Andy Penver
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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook

By: Andy Penver

Overview of this book

Oracle's suite of applications is used by many major businesses and public sector organizations throughout the world. The book will show you how to build different types of extensions with different toolsets with Oracle E-Business Suite R12. It will take you from start to finish with fully working examples. This book will show you how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. You will learn highly desirable skills on how to extend the application and develop your expertise. The book will provide detailed information about why things have to be done in certain ways, and will take you through the process of how to get started, what tools are needed, how to develop working examples, and how to deploy them within the application. Learn how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12. There are detailed examples to work through, such as how various components are configured and how we can extend standard functionality. The book focuses on core development and extension and each chapter will introduce a topic before going through working examples from start to finish. There are plenty of detailed screen shots throughout each chapter giving clear instructions of what we are doing and why. Each recipe will develop a solution that will utilize core components to that topic. The Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook focuses on starting an extension right from the beginning, to deploying it within E-Business Suite. At the end of each chapter the reader will have a good understanding of what they need to do for each area to take away, and start using it in practice. Each chapter will detail how to build an extension in the supported manner and also comes with complete fully tested code, and scripts that can be downloaded.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Controlling menu items


In this recipe, we will show how standard menu items can be controlled. We are going to disable the standard 'New' menu item in the PERMGR_DTLS block as this action cannot be performed in this block. We are also going to create a new menu item and capture the event when the user selects the item from the menu or toolbar. There are specific issues with managing standard menu items as they are controlled by standard events in the triggers. Therefore, you may try to disable a menu item only to find that upon running the form it is enabled:

  • Copying the standard menu from the application server and opening it in forms

  • Disabling an existing menu item

  • Adding a new menu item

  • Adding a trigger to capture new menu item event

  • Compiling the form

Copying the standard menu from the application server and opening it in forms

The first task we are going to perform is to copy over the menu from the application server. This will give us the menu items that we can reference when we are dealing...