Getting started with Fusion Applications Design Time ADF Customizations

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FA Design Time ADF Customizations
– Getting Started
August, 2014
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2. Introduction
I have a scenario where we need to send actionable emails to non-portal suppliers for Purchase
Order acknowledgment. In order to find out how the supplier contacts are being created in IAM I
needed to dig a little deeper into the UI to find out how this was being done in the standard
Supplier Maintenance UI.
These steps are the same steps you would follow if you were to make any design time
customization to the standard UI which could not be achieved by the composer.
As a side note in R12 we had “About This Page” which provided us with some detailed
information on the pages you were viewing. In Fusion Applications some information is available
from the customization manager but not all of it and it is not presented in the same manner as in
R12. If you would like to have the “about this page” functionality in Fusion Applications then be
sure to add your request to the ER logged Bug 9781647 : SPTBLTY: UI EXPOSURE OF VERSION
AND DIAGNOSTIC INFO (ABOUT THIS PAGE/APPSCHECK)
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3. FA Design Time ADF Customizations – Getting Started
First step is to login to the Application and navigate to your page
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4. FA Design Time ADF Customizations – Getting Started
Now I’ll customize this page using Administration => Customize Page Name
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Now I’ll select the page fragment
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6. FA Design Time ADF Customizations – Getting Started
In the customization manager you will be able to see the name of the page fragment
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7. FA Design Time ADF Customizations – Getting Started
Now I need the procurement ear file, I can find the exact path from the Procurement domain
console under Deployments
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8. FA Design Time ADF Customizations – Getting Started
Now I use an ftp client or command line to copy the ear to my local drive
cd /u01/app/oracle/fa1dev/products/fusionapps/applications/prc/deploy
get EarProcurement.ear
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9. FA Design Time ADF Customizations – Getting Started
Now I launch Jdeveloper and I start with the Fusion Applications Developer Role
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10. FA Design Time ADF Customizations – Getting Started
Create a new application of type Fusion Applications Customization Application
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11. FA Design Time ADF Customizations – Getting Started
Give our new application a naming prefix and select our local copy of the ear
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12. FA Design Time ADF Customizations – Getting Started
Now we switch roles to the Fusion Applications Customization Administrator tools => preferences
=> roles
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13. FA Design Time ADF Customizations – Getting Started
Once Jdeveloper has restarted you will see the customization context configuration settings
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14. FA Design Time ADF Customizations – Getting Started
Expand the Application Resources and right click on the Customizable Archive to search for your
page fragment using the filter
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15. FA Design Time ADF Customizations – Getting Started
Once the search has been completed you can expand the node and we should see our page
fragment. If you right click on the page fragment then you can select customize.
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