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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

Altering an LOV's record group


In the next scenario, we are going to modify a query for a list of values through personalization. The Person screen has a field called Country of Birth. This has a list of values called COUNTRY_OF_BIRTH_LOV. We want to change the record group the LOV uses so that we can modify the meaning the user sees in the list. We are going to concatenate the country code to the meaning and then assign the new record group to the list of values. The following tasks will be performed:

  • Creating a new record group

  • Assigning a new record group to an LOV

  • Testing whether a radio group has changed

Creating a new record group

We are going to create a new record group that we want the LOV to use.

How to do it...

To create the record group through personalization, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Log in to Oracle with the UK HRMS Manager responsibility.

  2. 2. Navigate to People | Enter and Maintain.

  3. 3. Query back an employee record.

  4. 4. Select Help | Diagnostics | Custom Code | Personalize...