tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21150753296632716442012-01-18T09:18:43.241-08:00A collection of practical Oracle Applications topics, hacked to perfection.Oracle Hackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941513817993332840noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2115075329663271644.post-1866887815305493532011-07-05T20:22:00.000-07:002011-07-05T22:41:23.534-07:00

Oracle Applications created XML Publisher (also known as BI Publisher) to allow more flexibility and aesthetics whilst creating new reports or changing the layout of existing reports. In order to create an "XML Publisher Report" originally, one was required to use Reports Builder. If you've ever dreamed of creating a professional looking report for your user(s) but the thought of opening Report

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Today's exercise will focus on one and only one property available to you in JDeveloper. This property is called the "setDefaultDisclosed" property and it controls whether a HideShowHeader region is expanded or collapsed. When you setup a pageLayout and associated regions this is set declaratively. That is, you set a property which controls how it is displayed on the page and you never worry

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Today's topic will cover how to create a custom Page and Region using JDevloper and then deploy it to Oracle Applications. This exercise will allow you to create a page any way you would like and have it available inside Oracle Applications. As a practical requirement, lettuce design a page that Oracle doesn't provide out-of-the-box and add it to our Self Service Human Resources (SSHR)

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View Object extensions in R12 are possible but inherently buggy. I've performed several but was not able to post a "bug-free" entry until now. This thread will show how to get through all the wizards and successfully deploy a VO extension in R12. Some of the steps are redundant and designed to avoid errors that the JDev IDE might throw. Hence, the product is not free of bugs but it can be

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Our example today takes us to the HR Effective Date page inside Self Service. The goal is to default a field on a page. While this is old news using a standard CO extension, achieving it using JavaScript is a lesser known alternative. To ensure the application isn't hacked to pieces while testing this, a custom repsonsibility, menu and function have been created to limit collateral damage:(N)

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Defaulting the value of a Descriptive Flexfield's Context or Segment values on an OA Framework page comes up frequently. It is possible to achieve this functionality using a Controller Class (CO) extension in JDeveloper R12. This example will focus on the code necessary to default the values using a CO extension. Note that setting a DFF segment to required in the Controller is different from

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Today's topic will cover how to perform a Controller class extension in the buggy, unstable product known as JDeveloper 10g, for use with Oracle Applications Release 12. The delay in posts is due partially to the fact that the documentation for JDeveloper 10g is actually for the 9i product. That's right, Oracle shipped documentation for Jdeveloper 10g that includes screen prints and

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In a break from tradition, today's topic is from the Manager Self Service module of Oracle Applications. Today we will demonstrate how one can invoke the following features of an HGrid bean in OA Framework:Rendering the ability to Expand All | Collapse AllAuto-expanding the entire HGridAn HGrid is what Oracle calls a tree structure with more complex features than a standard hierarchy tree. What

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A Controller .class (CO) file is the Java code that controls the user interface on a Self-Service/OA Framework page within Oracle Applications. Events such as button clicks and other user activities are handled via the CO.To demonstrate how to perform a simple Controller .class extension, we will show a Create Vacancy transaction from iRecruitment. It just so happens most of the JDeveloper

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View Objects are the queries that provide the data seen on a Self Service web page. Oracle offers many attributes in each View Object, but often an additional attribute is needed. Oracle allows developers to extend the delivered View Objects to meet this need. The following iRecruitment Vacancy Search Page will be used for demonstration, but any page developed using the OAF architecture is a

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Many Self Service Web applications now use API calls to validate data prior to completing transactions. Back-in-the-day, some of the Oracle Forms used direct DML statements which would make it impossible to apply additional data validation without doing a customization to the form (or in the case of Self Service, the page). If the same API is used in the PUI and in Self Service, one User Hook

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