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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

Adding a function


We are now going to go back to our workflow and create a function to call a database procedure. The procedure will store the XML in a table, validate the structure of the XML, and store the XML values in attributes in the workflow. The first thing we need to do is create the attributes in the workflow that will store the XML attributes. We will then add the function to the workflow that will parse the XML and store the attributes.

The following are the tasks required to add a function to the workflow:

  • Updating an employee record for testing

  • Adding attributes

  • Adding a function

  • Testing the workflow

Updating an employee record for testing

Before we get going we need to create a test employee record. I used an existing employee in the vision environment and updated the details.

How to do it...

We need an employee record that we are going to use throughout the testing of the workflows. We will be using the UK HRMS Manager responsibility. This is important as it will determine the business...