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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

Introduction


In the previous chapter, we created a form which has a master and detail blocks. We created objects and became familiar with the user interface and how it is used within e-Business Suite. In this chapter, we are going to add to the form we have already created and also look at extending an Oracle standard form.

In this chapter, we will continue from the recipes we developed in Chapter 2, Oracle Forms. We will be adding some more advanced features to the form. We will learn how to add messages to our forms from the message dictionary.

We will also add a tabbed region to our form. We can use tabs to show related data to the header block, which is common among professional forms. We will look at how we can control menus, both the pop up and the toolbar menus. We will add custom menu items and can capture the event when the menu item is selected.

A common feature in Oracle is the use of flexfields, so we will also add a flexfield and go through the process of registering the database...