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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

Discovering information about a page


The About this Page link is used to find key information about the objects and the structure of the page. It is essential when we want to create personalizations and also if we need to extend a page.

How to do it...

To look at the information available on the About this Page link, perform the following steps:

  1. Log in to Oracle with the XXUSER and select the Functional Administrator responsibility.

  2. Navigate to Core Services | Profiles.

  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and select the About this Page link.

    If we look at the page, we can identify some key information as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Click on the Expand All link and scroll down the page.

We can see the objects that are displayed on the page such as items and buttons. We can also see the view object used for the table, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now if we click on the FndProfileSearchVO link, we can see the following query behind the view object, as shown in the following screenshot:

How it works...

We used the About this Page link to discover information about a self-service page. This will be a very common feature that will be used when we personalize pages.