A frequent requirement in most Oracle
Applications implementations is to be able to conditionally disable one of the
components of a Descriptive Flexfield (DFF). DFFs follow the “all or none law”
for a given DFF context. If a DFF is displayed, it is enabled and can be
changed. The only exception to this rule is when the entire record is
read-only. However, if your DFF is using five attributes, there is no mechanism
to disable one attribute out of the five attributes. Also, since the DFF window
is a user exit call, you cannot disable any attribute field by using set_item_property.
We’ll show you how to protect DFF using CUSTOM.pll.
