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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

Using forms builder for E-Business Suite


We are going to briefly look at forms builder before we start developing a new form. E-Business Suite does not use some features of the forms developer IDE such as alerts or reports. There are also some functions in EBS that replace some of the standard Oracle Forms built-ins. We will look at some of these in the coming chapters. Let's start by looking at the interface and discussing the features that need to be highlighted before we get started. The following screenshot shows us the forms developer once we have opened the TEMPLATE form:

We will discuss the IDE and the features available before we get going:

  1. 1. Module: We need to change its properties from TEMPLATE to the name of our form. The name must be the same as the name of the form. We always need to set the property class (Subclass Information) to MODULE. We also need to set the Console Window and the First Navigable Block properties.

  2. 2. Triggers: The form level Triggers come with some code...