Migrating Oracle Frame Work Personalizations

Once Personalization is done in the development environment they can be migrated to another instance without redoing them. For each screen personalized, xml files are created with the Personalization information. These can be migrated using the following steps.

Export Personalization

All the Personalization needs to be exported from the development instance using the following steps.

OA Frame Work Page Structure

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Basics of Page Rendering

For understanding the process of page rendering, it is very important to know the structure of an OAF page.

Structure of an OA Framework Page

An OA Framework page has a collection of web beans or widgets like text boxes, buttons, etc. Every OAF page has containers for maintaining these widgets known as regions. And there always exists a parent region of all the regions known as the page layout region. This page layout region is one for every OAF page and is also the point where the Application Module is linked to the page.

MVC Architecture in OA Framework

The MVC architecture, being the industry standard for networked applications is employed in the Oracle Applications Framework and various components of the OA framework help implement the features of MVC.

Important Profile Options Used In OA Framework

1.1. Personalize Self-Service Defn / FND_CUSTOM_OA_DEFINTION

This is intended for system administrators who wish to personalize regions at the localization, site, verticalization, org and responsibility levels. On enabling this profile option for the administrator, every OA Framework page will contain a global Personalize button. By clicking on this global button, the administrator can personalize the regions available on that page.

Oracle OAF Personalization Training

Introduction

Oracle Applications Framework (OA Framework) provides the capabilities to configure the look and feel of the screens based on the business needs. To better understand these capabilities, distinctions between personalization and extensibility need to be understood. Personalization refers to the ability to declaratively tailor the following to suit a business need or user preference:

·         Look and feel of the user interface (UI)

·         Layout of the UI

·         Visibility of built-in content

Oracle BI publisher training with OA Frame work

You may have known different ways of generating the XML data while using the same RTF layout template. In this example, you will generate a BI Publisher report using OA Framework. In OA Framework, you do not need to use a data template or an Oracle Report to generate a BI Publisher report. Instead, the XML data is sourced from something known as view objects.

In this example, you will develop a very simple page with a button on it. When you click the Show BI Report button, the BI Publisher report will be displayed to the user on the screen. Behind the scenes, the following events will happen when the button is clicked: