ORACLE EBS 11I, VERSION 11.5.

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« FORM PERSONALIZATION »

Auteur : Joël Asselin

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20 October 2006 Joël Asselin 1.0 Initial definition of the document

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Contents

Document Control....................................................................................................................2
Reviewers...........................................................................................................................2
Change Record..................................................................................................................2
Defining a Zoom from the USERS form to the RESPONSIBILITY form.........................4

Defining a Zoom from the PO form to the SUPPLIER form............................................12

Default user value in Users form when in query mode...................................................17

Display a personalized form value in the FORMS_MDI_WINDOW.............................18

Warn Users Entering Sales Orders on Sunday..................................................................19

Hide the Person, Customer and Fax field in the Users form...........................................20

Ask user to see if they want to go into Query Mode when entering a Window..........24

Changing to the Responsibilities form title........................................................................26

Zooming to the AR Receipt form from the AR Transactions form and defaulting the
corresponding Receipt number............................................................................................28

Make Item Type required when Attribute5 = “George” on the Item Master...............36

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Defining a Zoom from the USERS form to the RESPONSIBILITY form
This Form Personalization will enable you to create a Zoom in a form.

First the rules in the User Form:

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Then the rules in the Responsibility Form:

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Defining a Zoom from the PO form to the SUPPLIER form
Navigate to the Purchase Orders window using the Purchasing SuperUser responsibility.

Enter the Form Personalization form. (M) Help > Diagnostics > Custom Code > Personalize.

Rule Seq: 10

Description: Create Menu Item

Trigger Event: WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE

Context: User and set the value to your user name (don't forget to do this for every Rule you define)

Select the Actions tab

Actions Seq: 10

Type: Menu

Menu Entry: SPECIAL31

Menu Label: Zoom to Supplier Form

Rule Seq: 20

Description: Check for Null

Trigger Event: SPECIAL31

Condition: :PO_HEADERS.VENDOR_NAME IS NULL

Context: User and set the value to your user name

Actions Seq: 10

Type: Message

Message Type: Error

Message Text: Supplier Name cannot be Null. Please enter or query a value.
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Rule Seq: 30

Description: Open the Supplier Form

Trigger Event: SPECIAL31

Context: User and set the value to your user name

Actions Seq: 10

Type: Property

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 Object Type: Global Variable

Target Object: XX_VENDOR (or name it wathever you want)

Property Name: VALUE

Value: =:PO_HEADERS.VENDOR_ID (using Object's identifier ID's as the Global Variable's value makes for a
more robust custom)

Actions Seq: 20

Type: Builtin

Builtin Type: Launch a Function

Function Code: AP_APXVDMVD

Function Name: Suppliers

Save your work and exit all the forms.

At this point, you should test what you have done so far. From the Navigator, reopen the Purchase Orders form.
From the menu bar, select Actions > Zoom to Supplier form (the menu item you defined earlier). Because you
do not yet have a Supplier entered on your new PO and you're trying to Zoom to the Supplier form, you should
see the error message that you defined in the Rule Seq 20. If this works, then continue with following:

Navigate to the Suppliers window using the Purchasing SuperUser responsibility.

Enter the Form Personalization form. (M) Help > Diagnostics > Custom Code > Personalize.

Rule Seq: 10

Description: Set initial value of Global Variable

Trigger Event: WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE

Context: User and set the value to your user name

Select the Actions tab

Actions Seq: 10

Type: Property

Object Type: Global Variable

Target Object: XX_VENDOR (The Global Variable you defined earlier)

Property Name: INITIAL VALUE

Value: =NULL
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Rule Seq: 20

Description: Go to Block VNDR and enter Query mode

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 Trigger Event: WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE

Condition: :GLOBAL.XX_VENDOR IS NOT NULL

Context: User and set the value to your user name

Actions Seq: 10

Type: Builtin

Builtin Type: GO_BLOCK

Argument: VNDR

Actions Seq: 20

Type: Builtin

Builtin Type: DO_KEY

Argument: ENTER_QUERY
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Rule Seq: 30

Description: Execute query, go to Block SITE and reset Global Variable value to NULL

Trigger Event: WHEN-NEW-RECORD-INSTANCE

Trigger Object: VNDR

Condition: :GLOBAL.XX_VENDOR IS NOT NULL

Processing Mode: Both

Context: User and set the value to your user name

Actions Seq: 10

Type: Property

Object Type: Item

Target Object: VNDR.VENDOR_ID

Property Name: VALUE

Value: =:GLOBAL.XX_VENDOR

Actions Seq: 20

Type: Builtin

Builtin Type: DO_KEY

Argument: EXECUTE_QUERY

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 Actions Seq: 30

Type: Property

Object Type: Global Variable

Target Object: XX_VENDOR

Property Name: VALUE

Value: =NULL

Now go ahead and test your custom. Open the Purchase Orders form and start defining a new standard PO,
enter a supplier in the Supplier field (in my example, I used "ABC Corp"). Click on (M) Actions > Zoom to
Supplier Form

Bingo!, you are automatically taken to the Supplier form for "ABC Corp".

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Default user value in Users form when in query mode
This Form Personalization will default the current user value in the user form when in query mode.

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Display a personalized form value in the FORMS_MDI_WINDOW
This Forms Personalization will change the default display of the FORMS_MDI_WINDOW for a window (what is displayed
in your opened windows at the bottom of your screen). It does not matter in which from it is defined. It will apply anyway.
Logging in and out is required to see the change.

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Warn Users Entering Sales Orders on Sunday

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Hide the Person, Customer and Fax field in the Users form
Responsibility: System Administrator

1 - Ensure to set system profile 'Hide Diagnostics menu entry' to 'No' and 'Utilities:Diagnostics' to 'Yes' at the
user level.
2 - Open the Users form. (N) Security > User > Define.
3 - This is the basic Users form as shown here:

4 - From the menu, select (M) Help > Diagnostics > Custom Code > Personalize.
5 - If some Rules are already defined in the Users form, you will see them this window (as in this example).
6 - Add a new Rule by selecting (M) File > New.
7 - This is the Form Personalisation form and it's Rules already defined. We will be adding seq. 40.

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A - Rules Seq.: 40
B - Description: Hide Person, Customer and Fax fields
C - Trigger Event: WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE
D - Context or Scope: Set at User level and enter your user in the Value field
E - Select the Actions tab. This is the Actions tab of Rule seq. 40

F - Action Seq.: 1
G - Type: Property
H - Object Type: Item
I - Select the Select By Text button

J - Select the Person (Users) item from the LOV

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O - Repeat Steps F to L for the Customer and Fax items. Save all of your work. It should now look like this:

P - Close the Form Personalization form, close the User form and reopen it. Your User form should now look like
this: Notice that the User, Customer and Fax fields are no longer displayed.

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Ask user to see if they want to go into Query Mode when entering a Window
Navigate to the Master Items window using the Inventory Super User Responsibility.

Enter the Form Personalization form. (M) Help > Diagnostics > Custom Code > Personalize.

Rules Sequence: 10

Description: Query Mode

Level: Form

Enabled: Yes

Trigger Event: WHEN-NEW-ITEM-INSTANCE

Trigger Object: MTL_SYSTEM_ITEMS.INVENTORY_ITEM_MIR

Context: User level and set value to your user name.

Save your work.

Select the Actions tab.

Actions Sequence: 10

Type: Message

Message Type: Warn

Message Text: Do you want to enter Query Mode?

Actions Sequence: 20

Type: Builtin

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 Builtin Type: DO_KEY

Argument: ENTER_QUERY

Save your work.

Close the Form Personalization window and the Master Item window.
Reopen the Master Item window and voilà!

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Changing to the Responsibilities form title
The following Form Personalization intermediate example demonstrates a change to the Responsibilities form
title. When the Responsibilities form has a query record, the form's title will be "Responsibilities ('RECORD
QUERIED')" with 'RECORD QUERIED' being the Responsibility Name of the actual record being queried. When
there is no record, the title will be "Responsibilities ('NEW')".

Navigate to the Responsibilities window using the System Administrator responsibility.

Enter the Form Personalization form. (M) Help > Diagnostics > Custom Code > Personalize.

Rules Sequence: 10

Description: Set title change

Trigger Event: WHEN-NEW-RECORD-INSTANCE

Trigger Object: RESPONSIBILITY

Context: User and set value to your user

Select the Actions tab

Action sequence: 10

Type: Property

Object Type: Window

Target Object: RESPONSIBILITY_WINDOW

Property name: TITLE

Value: ='Responsibilities ('||NVL(:RESPONSIBILITY.RESPONSIBILITY_NAME,'NEW')||')'

Save your work and close the Form Personalizations and the Responsibilities forms.

Reopen the Responsibilities form. When you have a new responsibilities, it should look like this:

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When you have a queried record, it should look like this:

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Zooming to the AR Receipt form from the AR Transactions form and
defaulting the corresponding Receipt number.
AR Transactions Form

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AR Receipts Form

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Make Item Type required when Attribute5 = “George” on the Item Master
Item Master form

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