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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

Defining a template


A BI Publisher Template is a container of data that allows us to represent our chosen data in a meaningful way, depending on requirements. We create a Template definition in Oracle EBS in order to specify which data source (that is, Data Definition) is associated with a specific template file.

Similar to our Data Definition, we create a Template Definition in a few simple steps:

  • Log on to Oracle Applications

  • Select the XML Publisher Administrator responsibility

  • Select the Templates menu option

How to do it...

To create a template, perform the following:

  1. Log in to Oracle with the XML Publisher Administrator responsibility.

  2. Click on the Templates link as shown in the next screenshot (if you are already in the XML Publisher Administrator screen, just click on the Templates tab).

  3. Click on the Create Template button.

  4. Define the template as follows:

    Item name

    Item value

    Name

    XXHR Duty Roster

    Code

    XXHR_BIP_ROSTER

    Application

    XXHR Custom Application

    Data Definition...