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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

Calling an API


We are now going to complete the workflow by adding a call to an API if the Absence Approval Notification is approved.

To add this function to the diagram, perform the following tasks:

  • Creating a function to call database package

  • Adding a function to a process

  • Testing the workflow

Creating a function to call the database package

We can add a new function to the workflow by selecting the New Function button in the Process Diagram toolbar. We are going to call an Oracle API to create an absence record for the employee.

How to do it...

To create a function to call an API, we will perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Open the XXHRIABS workflow in the workflow builder.

  2. 2. Navigate to XXHRIABS | XXHR Inbound Absence Process | Processes.

  3. 3. Double-click the XXHR Inbound Absences process and the Process Diagram window will open.

  4. 4. Click the New Function icon on the toolbar in the XXHR Inbound Absences window.

  5. 5. Click the mouse on the process diagram when the mouse changes to a crosshair and the...