Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook

Chapter 4. Forms Personalization

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• Opening the personalization screen
• Installing the database objects
• Changing properties
• Adding a menu item to a form
• Performing a simple validation and displaying a message
• Launching a form
• Adding a toolbar icon to a form
• Performing complex validation
• Altering an LOV's record group

Introduction

Forms personalization was first introduced in the release 11.5.10 as a way of changing the way forms behave without having to modify the underlying form. Previously, the CUSTOM library was the only way to extend a form without customizing it. Generally, the CUSTOM library is still used to perform more complex logic, but forms personalization replaces much of the need to use the CUSTOM library. ...