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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook

By : Andy Penver
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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework 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. Oracle E-Business Suite is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that enable organizations to make better decisions, reduce costs, and increase performance. The book will show you how to build different types of extensions with different toolsets. It will take you from start to finish with fully working examples.This book will show readers a wide variety of step-by-step examples of how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 in a number of areas. The book focuses on OA Framework personalization and development, WebADI, and BI Publisher. It will take readers through the process of how to get started and what tools are needed. It will explain how to develop working examples and how to deploy them within Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12. Learn how to extend Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12, using detailed examples to work through how various components are configured and how we can extend standard functionality. The book focuses on OA Framework personalization and development, desktop integration (formerly WebADI), and BI Publisher and each chapter will introduce the topic before going through working examples from start to finish. There are plenty of detailed illustrations throughout each chapter giving clear instructions of what we are doing and why. Each topic will develop a solution that will utilize common core components of a subject area. It 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 (15 chapters)
Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making a field required


We can also change the Required property of an item to make users enter data. At this stage, you should be getting the idea about changing properties of items and getting a feel for what can be achieved. To gain a better understanding, it would be a good idea to investigate what properties can be changed and what effect it has on the item. Next, we will make a field required.

How to do it...

To make a field required on a page, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to Oracle with XXUSER and select the XX Test Manager Self-Service responsibility.

  2. Navigate to Home | Personal Information.

  3. Click on the Action icon.

  4. In the Basic Details region, click on the Update button.

  5. Select the Correct or complete the current details radio box and click on Next.

  6. Click on the Personalize "Basic Details" link.

  7. Click on the Complete View radio button.

  8. Click on the Expand All link.

  9. Press Ctrl + F to bring up the search facility on the browser.

  10. Type in First and scroll down to Message Text Input: First Name (which will be highlighted from the find).

  11. Click on the Personalize icon for the First Name field.

  12. Click on the Choose Levels Displayed button.

  13. Shift all levels other than the Site and Responsibility levels to the left-hand side.

  14. Click on the Apply button.

  15. Set the Required property at the Responsibility level to true as shown in the following screenshot:

  16. Click on Apply.

  17. Click on the Return to Application link.

How it works...

In this recipe, we have set the Required property of an item so that it has become mandatory for the user to enter data. We can now see that the First Name field is now required as it has * next to the prompt: