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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

Building a workflow


We are going to start off by creating a simple workflow and then we will save it to the database. We need to do this before we create the business event subscription as we must select the workflow when we configure the business event subscription later in the chapter. To begin with, the workflow will have just a start and end function which all workflows must have. We will create some attributes which we will use later in the chapter to store the values passed in an XML payload.

To achieve this, we will need to complete a number of mini recipes as follows:

  • Creating a new workflow

  • Creating a new item type

  • Creating a new process

  • Creating a start function

  • Creating an end function

  • Creating attributes to store the event details

  • Assigning the start event details

  • Saving a workflow to the database

Creating a new workflow

We will start by creating a new workflow using a workflow template.

Getting ready

It is assumed that you have installed Workflow Builder locally on your PC.

How to do it...