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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

Creating a lookup


We are going to create a lookup which we will use to determine the outcome of the subprocess. There are a number of standard lookups but we can create our own when required. We are going to create a lookup type called Success/Fail which will have two values:

  • Success

  • Fail

To create a lookup we will perform the following tasks:

  • Creating a Success/Fail lookup

  • Adding an error message attribute

Creating a Success/Fail lookup

We will add a new lookup by selecting New from the menu when we right-click on Lookup Types in the navigator.

How to do it...

To create a workflow lookup, we will perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Navigate to XXHRIABS | Lookup Types.

  2. 2. Right-click Lookup Types and select New from the pop-up menu.

    Internal Name

    SUCCESS_FAIL

    Display Name

    Success/Fail

    Description

    Success/Fail

  3. 3. Click on OK to accept the changes.

  4. 4. Right-click the SUCCESS_FAIL lookup type and select New Lookup Code and complete the following properties:

    Lookup Type

    Success/Fail...