The Oracle Applications Framework is a 100% Java and XML based middle-tier application framework and services for rapidly developing and deploying HTML-based Oracle E-Business Suite applications. It allows for personalizing the user interface through adding, removing, or reordering columns and fields, adding tips or messages, changing style sheets, and removing personalizations. The Oracle JDeveloper integrated development environment includes resources for developing with the Oracle Applications Framework.

2. Oracle
Applications
Framework

3. Jason Reedy
Sales Consultant
jason.reedy@oracle.com
Oracle Corporation

4. Oracle Applications Framework
‡ The development and deployment platform for
HTML-based Oracle E-Business Suite
Applications
‡ 100% Java & XML J2EE based, middle-tier
application framework and services for the rapid
development & deployment of HTML based
applications

5. OA Framework-Based Page:
The View

6. The View ± Regions and Items

7. Personalization vs. Extensibility
‡ Personalization
‡ Declaratively tailoring UI look-and-feel, layout
or visibility of built-in content to suit a
business need or a user preference
‡ Use the Personalization Framework
‡ Extensibility
‡ Extending the functionality of an application:
‡ Adding new content or business logic
‡ Extending/overriding existing business logic
‡ Use JDeveloper

8. Integrated Development
Environment
‡ Oracle JDeveloper OA Extension comes
with a number of resources including:
‡ A Developer¶s Guide
‡ Development Standards
‡ A set of Tutorials
‡ Javadoc
‡ A Samples Library
‡ Online Help

10. OAF Personalization
30 Minute Quick Start

11. Quick Start Agenda
1. Environment Setup
2. Add/Remove Columns
3. Rename Fields
4. Reorder a Displayed Table
5. Add a Tip or Message
6. Change Style Sheet
7. Remove OAF Personalizations

12. Environment Setup

13. Environment Setup
‡ Personalize Self-Service Defn ± Grant the permission to
personalize the interface. Users will see the ³Personalize´ link
‡ Disable Self-Service Personal ± Will override the above profile
option, hiding the ³Personalize´ link. The ³Personalize´ link will
be removed from the page
‡ FND: Personalization Region Link ± Allows users to quickly jump
to a particular region for personalization.

14. Add/Remove Columns

15. Choose Personalization Context
‡ Choose a region
of the view to
Personalize
‡ Identification is
easier with the
³FND Personalize
Region Links´
option set to
³Yes´

16. Choose Personalization Context
‡ Alternately, click
the ³Personalize
Page´ link
‡ Select the
Scope, Function,
Location,
Organization,
and
Responsibility
and click ³Apply´

17. Locate the Column
‡ Expand the
selected region¶s
table
‡ Identify the column
to add or remove
‡ Click the
³Personalize´ icon
‡ The ³Shown´
column identifies
which columns are
visible or hidden

18. Update Properties
‡ The field value
³Rendered´
identifies whether a
column is show or
hidden
‡ Change the value
to ³True´ at the
desired level (e.g.
User,
Responsibility, etc.)

19. Rename Fields

20. Locate the Column
‡ Expand the
selected region¶s
table
‡ Identify the column
to add or remove
‡ Click the
³Personalize´ icon
‡ The ³Shown´
column identifies
which columns are
visible or hidden

21. Update Properties
‡ The field value
³Prompt´
identifies the text
displayed for the
column field
‡ Replace the text
³Inherit´ with
your desired text

22. Reorder a Displayed Table

23. Choose Personalization Context
‡ Identify the table
for which
columns you
want to re-order
‡ Click the
³Reorder´ icon

24. Reorder Columns
‡ Select a Hierarchy
level (e.g. User,
Responsibility, etc.)
‡ Re-arrange the
order of columns by
selecting a column
and using the arrow
keys to reorder
‡ Click ³Apply´

25. Add a Tip or Message

26. Choose Personalization Context
‡ Identify the page
for which you
would like to add
a Tip or
Message
‡ Click the ³Create
Item´ icon

27. Create the Tip or Message
‡ Set the ³Item Style´
to ³Tip´
‡ Create a unique ID
for your Tip or
Message (e.g.
³iExpMonthTip´)
‡ Enter the text of the
Tip or Message into
the ³Text´ field
‡ Click ³Apply´

28. Change Style Sheet

29. Custom Style Sheets
‡ OA Personalization Framework
uses custom style sheets (.xss
files) to specify and manage the
visual characteristics of Oracle
Self±Service Web Applications
‡ The custom style sheets employ
the XML Style Sheets (XSS)
language
‡ The BLAF (Browser Look and
Feel) style sheet (blaf.xss)
defines Oracle¶s corporate look
and feel for HTML applications.

30. OA Framework Style Sheets
‡ In OA Framework, style definitions for the look and feel of the
Oracle Self±Service Web Applications are defined by the
blaf.xss style sheet
‡ Specific Oracle Self±Service Web Applications products may
modify or extend those default styles. These product±specific
styles are defined in the oa.xss style sheet document, which
includes blaf.xss
‡ As a customer, you may also want to modify existing styles in
blaf.xss or oa.xss, or add new styles to suit your needs. Rather
than directly modify blaf.xss or oa.xss, you should place all your
style sheet customizations in a style sheet document called
custom.xss, located in OA_HTML/cabo/styles

31. Preserve Existing Styles
‡ As of version 5.5.2 and higher, OA Framework always calls
custom.xss as its main style sheet
‡ The document custom.xss uses the <import> element to
include all the styles defined in oa.xss, as llustrated above
‡ The document oa.xss, in turn, uses the <import> element
to include all the styles defined in blaf.xss
‡ You can define your own style without altering the default
application styles
‡ Any changes made by Oracle
to the oa.xss or blaf.xss do
not impact your style
personalizations

32. Example: Customizing Colors
4 3
‡ The Oracle Browser Look
and Feel standards make
use of four colors that you
may potentially want to
change:
1. Text foreground
2. Text background
color 1
3. Core background 2
color
4. Accent background
color

33. Example: Customizing Colors
‡ If you wish to change the colors
in the user interface, you need
only override the following four
named styles: TextForeground,
TextBackground,
DarkBackground,
DarkAccentBackground
‡ The ´DarkBackground´ and
´DarkAccentBackground´ styles
define the primary colors in the
core and accent background
color ramps respectively

34. Remove Personalizations

35. Restore Default Value
‡ You may remove a
Personalization for
any single Property
‡ Open the
³Personalization
Properties´ for the
desire item
‡ Click the ³Restore
Default´ icon
‡ Click ³Apply´

36. Manage Levels
‡ Choose the
Personalization
context
‡ Click the ³Manage
Levels´ button
‡ Select the
³Personalization
Level´ (i.e. User,
Responsibility, etc.)
‡ Click the ³Delete
Personalizations´
button

37. For Additional Information
‡ Oracle University Training and Enrolment:
± http://education.oracle.com/web_prod-plq-
dad/plsql/show_desc.redirect?redir_type=3
‡ Oracle Product Information:
± Oracle.com - http://oracle.com/
± AppsNet - http://oracle.com/appsnet/content.html
± MetaLink - http://metalink.oracle.com
‡ Oracle Product Documentation:
± AppsNet - http://www.oracle.com/appsnet/products
/documentation/content.html
± Oracle Applications Framework Documentation
Roadmap ± Note 275880

38. Questions & Answers
QUESTIONS
ANSWERS

39. Jason Reedy
Sales Consultant
jason.reedy@oracle.com
Oracle Corporation