Forms Personalizations Saturday, 21 April 2007 04:06 Anil Passi E-mail |Print| PDF In this article, I would like to explain different possibilities of Forms Personalizations. Surely before explaining what can be done, first we will touch base upon what exactly it is.

Why was forms personalization introduced by Oracle in 11.5.10?1. CUSTOM.pll is a programmatic methodology for extending Oracle Forms, even for trivial tasks.2. Multiple developers working on same CUSTOM.pll could cause version related headaches

Does Forms Personalization replace CUSTOM.pll?Not really, however it does provide an alternative to most common activities for which earlier one would use CUSTOM.pllForms personalization is driven by the same set of events as that for CUSTOM.pll.Keep in mind that Oracle Forms Libraries first invoke the Forms Personalization, and then the CUSTOM.pll too for the same set of events.

How do I enable Forms Personalizations?Enable the personalizations using the Help/Diagnostics menu.

What are the various components of Forms Personalizations?Different components of Oracle Forms Personalizations are listed below. You begin with recognizing which Triggers/Events that you wish to trap and under what conditions. The condition can be entered using the syntax as defined in the picture below.

What does the Action Tab do?Here you will either change form property, or display messages or enable menu etc.

Can I modify SQL Query behind the LOV using Forms Personalizations?Of course you can. In the below example I am restricting the LOV to less than 3records by introducing where rownum TRansactions Screen).

1. We have a DFF on TRansaction Headers (Transaction Information) where we capture the Company segment of Acct FF for Deposit Class.

2. Now I have to Duplicate the Value in this DFF into the Segment4 of Accounting FF. we have Rec and Rev Accounting for Deposits.

Can this be achived using FP or any other alternative is there?

Appreciate your help.

-kiran report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Mohan , June 27, 2007 Hi Anil,

Thanks a lot for your great explanation.

We have a requirement to create a new LOV based on a Record group, which will display 10 fields. As soon as the user selects a value in the LOV, we should default few other fields.

You explained in the earlier threads that it is not possible through Forms Personalizations. Can we do it using CUSTOM.PLL??

Or is it possible to modify an existing Record group to add couple of additional columns and allow the user to search based on the new columns?

How do we add***s these kind of requirements?

If we open up the form and create a new LOV, the changes will go off if we apply a patch that has newer version of the form.

Thanks in advance, Mohan. report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Anil Passi , June 28, 2007 Hi Mohan

Structure of the Record Group must not change, because you can not define the mappings to LOV columns using FP.

In this case, do the below steps:- 1. Create a Custom form that lets you search on your data and it presents results[10 fields] in Multi Record block 2. using FP in main screen, call that form function via tools menu. Tell users that its going to work via tools menu if they wish to see 10 fields in LOV 3. in the custom form, provide a button to select one of the records. on selection initialize global variables. program this custom form to navigate back to main form after global variables have been set 4. back in main form, assign the values from global variable into main screen, using FP

Thanks Anil report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Vamsi , July 10, 2007 Anil,

My requirement is to call OA page from form with 2 paramters.

As you mentioned above I have created Menu Items and attached function to call OA page......

Can you tell me how to pass parameters ?

I have given paramters like this "InvoiceNumber = :TGW_HEADER.TRX_NUMBER&InvoiceSeqNumber = :TGW_HEADER.ATTRIBUTE4" but when am opening the page it is giving error as "Illegal String passed need to encode it"

Appreciate your help.... report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Marcus , July 12, 2007 Hi Anil,

do you know of a way to create new menu items in the tools menu with PL/SQL?

Thanks Marcus report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Anil Passi , July 12, 2007 Hi Marcus

Have a look at the fndload lct file that creates menu. You will find your pl/sql there.

Thanks Anil report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by veera , August 15, 2007 Hi Anil

I would like to know what queries are used by a perticular form (for ex: PO creation form) when i perform save opertation.

Is there any consolidated help page from oracle where it displays all the operations like search, update etc queries?

Rgds, Veera report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by mv , August 18, 2007 Anil..Really useful site...Good source of contributions from yourself and others...

Question to you now regarding one area of personalization which I am getting confused and not able to get the syntax right... Using the 'Execute Procedure' builtin, I need to read and assign values from form fields. for eg: There is a block 'ADDR_SU' with a field name 'TAX_CODE' I need to write a condition in the procedure that if TAX_CODE is null then set TAX_CODE to be 'Exempt'

I am able to do this using Object_type->Item Target object->ADDR_SU.TAX_CODE Property Name->VALUE Value->nvl(:addr_su.tax_code,'Exempt')

But would like to know how to handle this from within 'execute procedure' builtin. I have been reading the SPEL and the R12 doco but I should admit I am just going bonkers getting the syntax right..

Thanx report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Ashwathy , August 28, 2007 Hi,

This site is really good. I need some help. In the PO form,I need to set the invoice match option to PO when the match approval level is set to 2-way and when it is 3-way i need to set it to receipt.How do i acheive this using forms persnalization?

Thanks ashwathy

report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Sridhar A R S , September 01, 2007 Hi Anil

The articles on your site are simply Awesome .We are implementing Oracle HRMS here in Middle east .My question is can we launcgh a URL with parameters at run time through Form personalisation.for example

An ORACLE user is navigating an ORACLE form that is displaying the annual leave information of an employee dated 12/11/2006, the parameters to be sent to url are: a.Employee Number: 1123 b.Document Type: Leaves c.Document Sub Type: Annual d.Document Date: 12/11/2006

The button should call the custom integration page; The following HTTP Request will summarize the above: http://.........../IntegrationPage.jsp?EmpNo=1123&DocType=Leaves&DocSubType=Annual&DocDate=20061112

Thanks in advance

Rgds Sridhar report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Anil Passi , September 01, 2007 Hi Sridhar,

Of course you can. Register this JSP page as a FUNCTION This jsp page will reside in OA_HTML Next, simply use fnd_function, with the syntax detailed in link http://oracle.anilpassi.com/call-oa-framework-page-from-oracle-forms-passing-parameters-2.html

The jsp page can be registered as

Do let me know if the jsp page in question is hosted outside of eBusiness Suite environment. In which case I can suggest you a separate approach.

Thanks, Anil Passi report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Sridhar A R S , September 03, 2007 Hi Anil

You guessed it right this JSP page is a third party page and resides outside the EBS

Thanks a ton for the above suggestions

Rgds Sridhar report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Sridhar A R S , September 04, 2007 Hi

The JSP resides outside the E Business Suite (a third party page) .Please suggest how to call that web url by passing the parameters at runtime like employee number etc ;

thanks a ton for the help

Rgds Sridhar report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Paw , September 05, 2007 Hi,

I have one issue in sales order form in lines block(other tab).

I added column intmed_ship_to_location.in intmed_ship_to column has lov attached. i'm selecting intmed_ship_to loke(10072DE).on the basis in another field means intmed_ship_to_locationshould be apeear like as name.Now i'm using custom.pll block='line' and event='when-new-item-instance'. when i select value for intmed_ship_to and click on that item.then location name come, intmed _ship_to_location is not store in database.

when i again query the same order what i see the same value is appering in intmed_ship_to_location like intmed_ship_to(10072DE).

Please also let me know can i do this by form personalization. I already enter this queries ib ur portal

Please help me for this issue

Thanks in advance.

Regards Pawan report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Andrew , September 07, 2007 Hi Anil, I follwed the directions you gave in "Can I modify SQL Query behind the LOV using Forms Personalizations?" to overwrite country of birth LOV on the PERWSHRG form with the following SQL:

select v.Description, v.Lookup_Code from Fnd_Lookup_Values v Where lookup_Type = 'PQP_US_COUNTRY_TRANSLATE' And Language = fnd_global.BASE_LANGUAGE And Enabled_Flag = 'Y' Order by 1

When applying and navigation back to the person form. The LOV returns no list of values. When running this SQL outside the application, it returns 238 rows. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong.

Thank You for some great documentation report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Deepak Prabhakar , September 11, 2007 Dear Anil, Can you please suggest how to disable delete button on Oracle standard Toolbar for any oracle form.

Appreciate your any suggestion Thanks Deepak report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Suree , September 17, 2007 Hi Anil.

Thanks a lot of such a great article. I have a question here.

In Action: Building and Builtin Type: Execute a Procedure, I am calling a procedure as below: ='Declare l_chr_retcode Varchar2(1000); l_chr_errbuf Varchar2(1000); l_chr_out_value Varchar2(1000); Begin xxx_pkg.xxx_proc(out_chr_errbuf => l_chr_errbuf, out_chr_retcode => l_chr_retcode, out_chr_out_val => l_chr_out_value); End' Now, in this procedure, I need to assign l_chr_out_value that I got from the procedure call to a form item. There are way of doing it like assigning this to package variable and then assigning the package variable back to the form item. But is there any way that I can direcly assign it to form item?

Warm Regards, Suree report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Mohan1 , September 26, 2007 Hi Anil,

I have a requirement to calculate Collectable Amount (Amount_due_remaining - amount_in_dispute) in Collections Screen (Advanced Collections). It's a weird looking form and its not like other forms.

Can I use FP to calculate the Collectable Amount at run-time and display it on the screen using one of the DFF attributes???

If yes, where should I write my logic?? Which event should i use to reflect this change on each and every record in Transactions Tab of Collections Form?

I'm not able to capute the when-new-record-instance trigger on the "Transactions" Tab. Also, I'm not able to get the values of Amount_due_remaining and Amount_in_dispute fields for a particular Transaction on Transactions Tab.

Please advise.

Thanks, Mohan. report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 IT consultantwritten by anjali , October 04, 2007 hi Anil I want to retrieve a value from a stored procedure during Forms Personalization

In Action: Building and Builtin Type: Execute a Procedure, I am calling a procedure as below:

='begin genPKG.COUNT_ALL(||${item.po_lines.desc_flex.value& #125;||,, ||${global.g_null.value}); END' i dnt know if the code is ok but im getting error from executing this statement in fact i want to call the procedure and retrieve a value from the procedure and use it back in the form how can i do that? ive tried several ways but could not find any report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 When-Validate-Record getting called multiple timeswritten by Harshad Poogalia , October 25, 2007 Hi Anil, I am writing an action on When-Validate-Record on Item Cross References form. But When I click on save button the When-Validate-Record is getting triggered multiple times, thereby casuing the action (Message in this case) to occur multiple times.

Is there any way to specify that the action be performed only once ? report abusevote downvote upVotes: +1 ...written by Anil Passi , October 25, 2007 Indeed there is, that is if you raise an form trigger failure.

That can be done using the action described below.

Thanks, Anil Passi report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Changing the DFF(Attribute16) read only in Sales Order Line using Form Personalizationwritten by Prashanth , October 26, 2007 Is it possible makeing the DFF as read only? How can we do it. report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 2nd Screen Shotwritten by Sachin Ahuja , October 26, 2007 Hi Anil,

As you have shown in 2nd screen shot that we can enter upto 100 personalization. It's basically sequence should be in the range of 1-100 but we can repeat the sequence number and I guess personalization can also by this can be more than 100.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Once again thanks for putting such a wonderfull efforts on documents all are almost near to perfection.

Happy Diwali to you in Advance.

Thanks Again...!!!!

Regards Sachin Ahuja report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Adding LOV in Satndard Formwritten by Mani , October 29, 2007 Hi Anil, I want to add a new lov for an Item in satndard form. How to do that...

Regards, Mani report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Adding LOV in Satndard Formwritten by Sachin Ahuja , October 29, 2007 Hi Mani,

I think Anil has already covered the point under section below on this page only

Can I modify SQL Query behind the LOV using Forms Personalizations?

Check if this is what you are looking for.

Regards Sachin report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Forms Personalization:: Builtin Type = "Create Record Group from Query"written by Vinay , October 31, 2007 Hi Anil,

I have gone thru the examples you have given on forms personalization.I got a request to personalize the form and I want to use the Type = "Builtin" and Builtin Type = "Create Record Group from Query" for that form personalization which you have given as an example in the link "http://oracle.anilpassi.com/forms-personalizations.html".But I could not find Bultin Type = "Create Record Group from Query". I am using 11.5.10.2 version of Oracle Apps.I checked in earlier version 11.5.8 also.But I could not find. May I know by using which version you have given that example and in which versions it is available?

Thanks Vinay report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Anil Passi , October 31, 2007 Hi Vinay

It certainly works on CU4. This feature was added in a later release of 11.5.10, which explains why this option isn't available for CU2

Thanks, Anil Passi report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 CU4 not available to downloadwritten by Vinay , October 31, 2007 Hi Anil,

CU4 is not available to download in metalink. So may I know what is the appropriate patch # to apply. I am planning to personalize the "Reason" field (which is LOV) in the form INVTTMTX.fmb in Inventory module of R11.5.10.2. I will be thankful if you can provide the exact info that we needed.Appreciate your reply.

Thanks Vinay report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Entering Multiple Records( Lines) Through form personalizationwritten by Vivek Jain , November 05, 2007 Hi Anil,

I have been through all your threads on form personalization but couldn't find solution to my problem. I want to enter Lot/Sublot/Qty through FP while receiving goods. The problem is that there can be multiple lot/sublot for the item being received. We normally scan the lot/sublot info from the item barcode and store it in a custom table. Now i want is that when i click on lot entry form it should automatically fill the lot/sublot/qty for that item in the form.

I hope entering multiple records can be done through form personalization.

TIA Vivek report abusevote downvote upVotes: +1 ...written by Anil Passi , November 05, 2007 Hi Vivek

You can loop through the records in the table and create multiple records. See my response to the query raised by Joel on April 25, 2007 [in above thread]

You need to implement something similar to what is described below http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcfd8fsc_62fdfvz9

Basically, the idea behind this approach is to force a recursive loop. You make an exit from the recursive loop when all the cursor records have been looped through

Thanks Anil Passi report abusevote downvote upVotes: +1 Devwritten by Ron , November 09, 2007 I would like to replace a user entered value during a query function. Say the form has a varchar field and the user enters 'ABC' and when the execute query (Ctl/F11), the actual value is 'XYZ'. This hidden value is derived from a standard plsql function. Any idea? report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Vivek Jain , November 12, 2007 Thanks a lot ANIL. Your solution worked. report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Form Personalizationwritten by S.Kumar , November 19, 2007 Hi Anil,

I am a new learner of Form Personalization.Today I tried to practice some of them.I tried to get the field values in Purchasing form and assign it as default value for another field in the form at header level. For example Agent Name in Po Headers as Po Header Description. It worked fine.Now I am trying to put the Promised Date in Line Level as deafult for Need By date.I am facing some Problem.The problem is After entering the value in Promised date the curosr is automatically moving to Need By Date and the default value is not getting populated.If i click back in Promised date then the default value is getting populated.Please suggest.Thanks for the Help. Thanks Skumar report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Assiging Value to fieldwritten by Sachin Ahuja , November 19, 2007 Hi Anil,

I have a doubt in performing FP.

I have entered the Order line. Now I'll be calling some procedure which will either return Y or N.

Based on the return value I want to set one attribute on line to this Y or N.

I want all this to happen before line is saved. So I am using FP and trigger When-Validate-Record with Action = Property Object Type= Item Target Object=LINE.ATTRIBUTE16 Property Name=Value Value = *************

Here I am confused how to return the value and assign it to line so that it gets saved when i save my record.

Thanks in advance for your kind help. report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Add Button in Supplier Item Catalog is Disabled if Called From PO Formwritten by vardhan , December 04, 2007 Anil,

When I open a catalog form from PO form, Add and Remove buttons are grayed out in the order pad. Is there any way to enable these buttons. But these buttons are enabled when I open the catalog window from Requesition form.

Please help me in this regard.

Thanks. report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Calling in-built program unit of the form using Forms Personalization.....written by sayeed , December 04, 2007 Hi Anil,

Is there any way we can call the inbuilt program unit(package.procedure) of a standard oracle form using forms personalization? I tried the below code for FORMS_DDL and "Execute a Sotred Procedure" builtins but went invain. ='declare v_event VARCHAR2(50) := 'WHEN-VALIDATE-ITEM'; begin prof_local.class_profile(v_event); end'

Do you think it could be made to work. Any help is highly appreciated.

Sayeed report abusevote downvote upVotes: +1 Form Personalization - can you change the font color of a field?written by Lucie , December 05, 2007 Anil, I am a big fan of your website. Thank you so much for all of your documentation and examples.

Question... I'm trying to change the visual attribute of a field, the font color using form personalization and have not been successful... Have you tried or know how or is it even possible?

Hope you can help. Thanks report abusevote downvote upVotes: -1 ...written by Krishna reddy81 , December 10, 2007 Not able to see the images of the personalizations. report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Forms Personalization - FRM-40502: ORACLE error: unable to read list of valueswritten by AN , December 14, 2007 Hi Anil,

Your website helped me a lot in creating an LOV using Forms Personalization. I am struck up with a problem and I need your advice on this if I am missing some thing. I am using Forms Personalization to create an LOV using builtin. In the Builtin, I have put the sql query under create record group from query. In the query, when I hardcode a value, in a where condition, the LOV works fine but when I replace the hardcoded value with :block.field value, it gives the error, FRM-40502: ORACLE error: unable to read list of values. Below is the part of the sql query where I am facing this issue. "WHERE related_customer_id = :ORDER.INVOICE_TO_CUSTOMER_ID" Please get back to me if you have faced with this kind of problem.

Thanks all in advance,

Regards, AN report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Boolean expression in Personalization Conditionwritten by Wolfie , December 17, 2007 Hi,

How can i use a procedure, that returns boolean value, in persinalization condition field? Thanks. -- Wolfie report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Form Personalization - Order Bywritten by Gord , December 21, 2007 Hello; I'm trying to order contact names (vendor site form; contact tab) so that inactive contacts are listed at the bottom and active contacts are at the top. Using the Target Object: CONTACTS I used the Property Name: ORDER_BY and Value: INACTIVE_DATE DESC but this didn't work. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Gord report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Defaulting a value in the Confirm Delivery Screen of Shipping Transactionswritten by Aravind Gorthy , December 28, 2007 Hi Anil, I have a requirement in Order Management - Shipping Transactions - in which I need to default the Ship Confirm Rule with a new value based on the responsibility the user gets into. But the Document Set is also attached with this rule and based on this rule the document set should change. When I am trying to do it I dont any errors but dont get even the value populated. I tried using the When new item instance and when new block instance by trying to put forth all the possible conditions in defaulting it to some value. I logged in re-logged in and tried several times but no value is appearing. If I try to restrict it with some particular value for the DLVY_SHIP_CONFIRM_RULE_NAME then I find the app hangs out with some wierd errors. Could you please help me out in putting this straight.

Thanks Aravind report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 validate record based on other recordswritten by Vivek Jain , December 28, 2007 Hi anil,

In purchase order lines, i have a DFF with value set as yes/no. What i want is that if there are n lines(records) then only one of them has DFF value as yes and rest of the lines should have value no. I tried using when-validate-record instance but it validates only for the current record and does not compare t with other records. Is there any way we can do it through form personalization

Regards, Vivek report abusevote downvote upVotes: -1 Disable Save Button / Disallow saving a formwritten by V V Bhargav , January 05, 2008 Hi Anil,

I am trying to do a forms personalization, for AP (Invoice Batches - Distributions)

The personalization is done for the activity when the user enters invoice through invoice batches, and enters distribution info for each invoice line. and now when the user selects a code combination in the account field it is verified from the account code segment (as to whether it is not a liability account). Now i have restricted the user to move ahead or back in the form, and have also shown him an error message through personalization. But ironically if the user just presses the OK button of the message box, he can still save the record. I dont want the users to save the record after entering restricted account codes report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Anil Passi , January 05, 2008 Hi VV Bharghav You need to raise form trigger failure. Please see a comment above posted on October 25, 2007

Thanks Anil Passi report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by V V Bhargav , January 05, 2008 Hi Anil,

I agree for raising the form trigger failure. But the distributions window has many lines. so suppose if didnt have that personalization and the user had entered some few correct lines and some few wrong codes in some lines. how to stop the user from saving.. that is if i put the code in when-validate-record... the trigger will only verify the latest record... will the trigger get fired for all lines in the block.

Please help.

Thanks and regards, report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Anil Passi , January 05, 2008 Hi Bhargav

WHEN-VALIDATE-RECORD will fire for each record that gets modified. Hence when you raise exception, user will not be allowed to proceed to next record

Thanks Anil report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 THankswritten by V V Bhargav , January 05, 2008 Thanks a ton dude.

Thanks once again.. it worked.. i had different ideas about when-validate-record.

And by the way i have the same kind of issue but its a bit varied..

like i have done one more personalization in Order management (Sales Orders) form. When you enter the line items for a sales order.. the requirement was that we need to disable the DFF when the user selects an item of the same company but different organization ID.. so when i disable the DFF for the first line with personalization.. and if the user again selects a valid item in the next line.. then the dff which was disabled in the previous line(s) gets enabled again

how to beat that...!!!

Thanks and regards,

V. V. Bhargav report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 WHEN_VALIDATE_RECORDwritten by Santhosh ND , January 05, 2008 Dear Anil, I have a basic doubt in Form Personalization. Level - Function Trigger Event - WHEN_VALIDATE_RECORD Trigger Object - ASSIGNMENT condition - 1=TRIDENT_UNIQUE_POSITION(:ASSIGNMENT.POSITION_ID) Processing Mode- Not in Enter-Query Mode Level - Site in Action Type - Message Message Type - Error Message - You have entered a Position Flexfield combination which is already assigned to an employee. Please choose an unassigned Position Flexfield combination.

Here TRIDENT_UNIQUE_POSITION is a function CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION TRIDENT_UNIQUE_POSITION(p_pos_id in NUMBER) RETURN NUMBER IS

l_count NUMBER:= 0; BEGIN

SELECT COUNT(*) INTO l_count FROM per_all_assignments_f WHERE position_id = p_pos_id;

IF l_count >0 THEN

RETURN( 1); ELSE RETURN(0); END IF; EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN return (9); END; /

Here the error message is coming always ie. whenever the record is querying from db also. Could u pls suggest one solution to prevent the error message whenever the record is querying.

Thanks Santhosh report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Techwritten by Madhubala , January 13, 2008 Dear Anil, I have 1 requirement in FP.. I have enable a DFF in Purchase Requisition form at header level.Also 1 DFF with the same name in PO at header level.My requirement is when going thru Autocreate , the value entered in the requisition form should come default in the PO form when using Autocreate. How to do this? report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 When-validate-Item trigger is getting fired multiple timeswritten by Maneesha M , January 18, 2008 Hi Anil, It woud be great if you can help me with this. I'm a beginer in Oracle froms.

I've used when-validate-item trigger to validate the item field there by calling a procedure in it. The procedure is validating and when failed raising an exception which is gettign captured as folows. begin if then EXCEPTION WHEN error_location THEN message('Invalid carton for this transaction, please check carton location.'); raise form_trigger_failure; end if; Exception WHEN error_pick_released THEN message('Order is already Pick Released'); raise form_trigger_failure; . . this is the proc which is gettign called in when-validate-item trigger as begin if then

validate_cc; --Proc given above

end if; exception when others then raise form_trigger_failure; end;

in the form when the validation fails I do see the error message 'Order is already Pick Released' thrice. The trigger is getting fired thrice. When the validation fails the control it movign back tot eh same field and it gets fired again i guess..How can I overcome this.

thanks MAnu report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Disable the attachment in Supplier formwritten by Joel , February 05, 2008 Good morning Anil, Would you be able to show me how to disable the attachment icon in the Supplier form using form Personalization?. I need to make unavailable for a group of users.

Best regards, Joel Asselin report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Call procedure with out parameter using forms personalizationswritten by silpa , February 07, 2008 Hi Anil

I need to call a pocedure with out parameter using forms personalization and based on the value of the out parameter need to do some more validations. Can you tell me how this can be done? or do we have to use custom.pll only??

Thanks & Regards Silpa report abusevote downvote upVotes: +1 Adding Sub Menus in Forms Personalizationwritten by Sanjay Bhatia , February 13, 2008 Hi Anil, Is it possible to add Sub Menu's under the Tools Menu using Forms Personalization. For eg under Tools if I have Menu 1, can I have Sub Menu 1, Sub Menu 2 etc under Menu1. Thanks

Sanjay report abusevote downvote upVotes: +1 Requires to fire a triggen when standard menu item is clickedwritten by Ravi Nuka , February 15, 2008 Hi Anil, I want to fire a form block level trigger when the user clicks on one of the menu item which is a standard menu item but not custom menu item. I am able to add a new menu item which is custom menu item and fire the trigger when the new custom menu item is clicked but im unable to fire the trigger when it is for standard menu item ( for me its "Actions" menu item in the form). How can I handle this through personalization. report abusevote downvote upVotes: +1 Flexfield definition updatewritten by kris , February 28, 2008 Hi.

Is it possible to update a key flexfield definition through personalization (like with custom.pll)? I would only need to update the where_clause: FND_KEY_FLEX.UPDATE_DEFINITION( BLOCK => 'BLOCK_NAME', FIELD => 'FIELD_NAME', ENABLED => 'N', WHERE_CLAUSE => '1=1' );

I searched, but found nothing i could use.

Keep the good work. Kind Regards, Kristjan report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 oracle Internet expenseswritten by aaron , March 05, 2008 Hi Anil, one of my requirement is to hide the location field in the oracle internet expenses page(the screen user uses to enter their expenses). Is it possible to achieve it using forms personalization?

i hope you will help me

Thanks for your help.

Regards Jason report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Anil Passi , March 05, 2008 Jason

For Internet Expenses, you need to use OA Framework personalizations. Forms Personalization is not applicable in this case

Thanks Anil report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Premal Mehta , April 14, 2008 hi anil, This Forms Personalization Presentation is really helpful .could you help me how to get the return value of an Stored procedure or Function. and on the basis of return value i want to perfom certain action like prompting a message report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Anil Passi- , April 26, 2008 Hi Premal

I haven't really tried that.

But surely, in that pl/sql procedure/function, you can set a pl/sql package session variable. Next, in FP, you can create another personalization, which has a where clause depending upon that pl/sql package session variable. Needless to say, you will define a function in package that returns the value of package variable.

Forms uses one single session, hence package variable values will be retained between different trigger calls

Cheers Anil report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 inserting data into fieldswritten by Sharmila , May 08, 2008 Hi Anil, I am new to oracle apps and would appreciate any response from you.

I have a customization to do in Oracle Projects and I am not sure if I can go with forms personalization. While creating projects the users are now entering all the attributes of location (like area, district etc), what they want to do is, to enter a location and the information related to location(area, district etc) should be sent to projects instead of them entering the data. The area, district are the fields in the same form. Can I put the condition as location not null and in the action Value 'select district from *** where location=location_value?. Would appreciate your help report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Anil Passi- , May 08, 2008 Hi Sharmila

You can achieve that by altering the query of the record group. THere is example to achieve the same in this article, just seafrch on record group on thihs page

Thanks Anil Passi report abusevote downvote upVotes: +1 default valuewritten by adi , June 02, 2008 Hi, I am new in FP and I have a questions regarding FP. I want to do this: in a Purchase Order, when I enter an item, the default price should be populate with the minimum price that I bought that item or 0. Can i do that using Form Personalization?

Thanks Adi report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 OM Personalizationwritten by Melchor , June 25, 2008 hi i need help, i need make a personalization to Sales order form, I have a sales order but i need validate an item when user press the book-order button,

any suggestion? tkns report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Anil Passi , June 25, 2008 Hi Melchor

I suggest you use WHEN-VALIDATE-RECORD

If that is not suitable, then find out the trigger that fires using show custom event in help diagnostics menu.

Have a look at this article http://apps2fusion.com/apps/apps/21-technical/144-custompll Thanks, Anil Passi report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 OM Personalizationwritten by Melchor , June 25, 2008 Hi Anil Passi, I try WHEN-VALIDATE-RECORD, but the user want save order sales without validate this item, and when press the button validate the item.

sorry i no speak and write english good report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Anil Passi , June 25, 2008 If that trigger is not being passed to FP or CUSTOM.pll, then your options are limited.

I suggest you read this link fully to get insight http://apps2fusion.com/apps/apps/21-technical/144-custompll

Thanks, Anil report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 SQL for item valuewritten by Sharmila , August 11, 2008 Hi Anil,

Can we use SQL to give value to an item, just like using SQL for message text?

Thanks, Sharmila report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 ...written by Anil Passi , August 11, 2008 Hi Sharmila

Sure you can use syntax as shown below, to default value into a field from result of a SQL Statement. The syntax is exactly the same as that of SQL used in displaying message text. = select fnd_global.user_name from dual

Will be great if you post future queries on http://apps2fusion.com/forums/

Thanks, Anil Passi report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 strange behavior tied to custom forms in appswritten by Richard D. Chisnick , October 03, 2008 Hello Anil,

Something strange is happening in apps when I work with a custom form. So far, none of my teammates have had any ideas, so of course I turn to you By the way, this is not directly related to personalizations - I just wasn't sure where else I could post this.

When I have a custom form open, I may want to look at some properties of the form. So I go to Help -> Diagnostics -> Properties -> Item. When the properties window opens, it takes the exact shape of the custom form (i.e., its height and width). This can become a hassle for the user, since parts of the properties form can be cut off by the dimensions of the custom form (for example, items below the Object 1 and Object 2 drop downs may not be visible). Some kind of inheritance is occurring and I'm hoping to stop it from happening.

If you have encountered this issue, could you tell me how I can stop it from happening?

Regards,

Rick report abusevote downvote upVotes: -1 How to retrive Profile values in form personalization.written by Ashish , October 08, 2008 hi Anil Passi, For few days I am experimenting on Forms Personalization. My requirement is in AP, for a particular Responsibility, Invoices Form should only display few invoices, the display criteria is Context (ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY) field which is configured for DFF. If this field contains some specific char, say 'CAPS' then only display those invoices. For this I have setup a Profile option called, 'TEST_CAPS' and attached it to a responsibility. I am trying to compare this in the form personalization. Things I am doing are: In Action tab Object Type: Block Target Object: INV_SUM_FOLDER Property Name: Default_WHERE In Values I want to compare the above mentioned profile ($PROFILES$.TEST_CAPS) to attribute_category. But since I am not aware of SPEL I am finding it difficult to retrieve this profile value. I tried: =${$PROFILES$.TEST_CAPS} but it is giving me an error. For testing I have directly compared VENDOR_NAME to a existing VENDOR and form is displaying only that vendors invoices. But when I am trying to compare it to profile value somehow I am not able to get the profile value to compare. I am not sure on how to extract data from profile in the SPEL (for form personalization) I have confirmed that value is coming in the profile value, as I have used it in defining a VALUE SET, and it is getting reflected in it.

it would be great if you could help me in finding a solution for this issue Many thanks Ashish report abusevote downvote upVotes: -1 ...written by Anil Passi , October 08, 2008 Hi Ashish

You can simply make your personalizations applicable to a specific set of Responsibilities. Hence you do not need a profile option in the first place

Thanks Anil Passi report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 How to retrive Profile values in form personalization.written by Ashish , October 10, 2008 Hi Anil Passi, Thanks for the response. i am sorry that i missed one more point that, those invoices should not be visible for other Responsibilities. For this reason I have used profile and used DECODE statement to verify the profile value. I am new to personalization so I am not sure if this can be done, it will be great help if you could help me on this. More over it will be great if you could tell me how to retrieve Profile value using SPEL in Personalization. It will help me in future!!!!

Thanks for your prompt response. Ashish report abusevote downvote upVotes: +1 Can I use personalization to validate a value?written by Vishal_h , November 12, 2008 Hi Anil,

My requirement is that every time a value is entered in ordered_quantity column in Order lines, it should get validated against MIN_MINMAX_QUANTITY column from mtl_system_items_b table for that item. If the user enters line quantity as 5, whereas the minimum quantity defined in MIN_MINMAX_QUANTITY column for the item is 10, the value should get changed to 10. Please let me know how this is possible. If possible, please mention steps for the same in personalization as I am new to it.

Thanks,

Vishal report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Passing a literal argument to FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUESTwritten by ZIA , December 01, 2008 Dear Anil,

I tried what you suggested in the previous posting like I want to pass user_id to FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST as $PROFILES$.USER_ID.value but it didn't work. Now I am going for a different approach. I have written another procedure an called FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST in it and call that procedure from Form Personalization and hardcoded the user id.

The question is how can I pass a literal argument to my proceudre in form personalization which in turn calls FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST. I am calling the procedure in Form personalization as follows: = 'declare v_field_value NUMBER; begin XX_SUBMIT_JOURNAL_REPORT('''||${item.HEADER.BATCH_NAME.value}||'''); end'

My database procedure XX_SUBMIT_JOURNAL_REPORT calls FND_REQUEST.SUBMIT_REQUEST as follows:

request_id := fnd_request.submit_request(application => 'SQLGL' , program => 'GLGENJRN2' , description => NULL ,start_time => NULL ,sub_request => FALSE , argument1 => 1061 , argument2 => 'L' , argument3 => 'U' , argument4 => 'USD' , argument5 => 1 , argument6 => NULL , argument7 => NULL , argument8 => NULL , argument9 => NULL , argument10 => B_NAME , argument11 => 180 );

How can I achive this objective? report abusevote downvote upVotes: +1 How to reference a local variablewritten by Sren Moss , December 09, 2008 Hi, I have defined a local variable called XXPA_USED_BY_MSG I populate it and later I want to show it in a message. However - I cannot figure out how to reference it. If it was a global variable I could use =:GLOBAL.XXPA_USED_BY_MSG, which works. I tried =:LOCAL.XXPA_USED_BY_MSG as well as =${VAR.XXPA_USED_BY_MSG} and many other combinations, without any luck.

Any ideas?

Best regards, Sren Moss report abusevote downvote upVotes: -1 Pop up DFF field on WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCEwritten by NM , January 04, 2009 Hi, I have a requirement. In the MO form I need to pop up the DFF screen as soon as the MO form in opened. I tried using Go-Item, but it does not work for DFF fields. So how do i achieve this

Thanks in Advance report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 form personalization for iprocurement moduleswritten by lakshminath , February 09, 2009 Hi Anil, I have to do form personalization in iprocure modules. while creating requisition in iprocure modules. if user did not change account from ZZZZ when he is going to approve or save this requisition we need display a pop up message as "please enter account number "

could you please help me to complete this task.

Regards Lakshmi report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 running a report using FPwritten by Manisha , April 22, 2009 hi...cn some1 plz help me....i need to run a custom report thru FP and store its output in document of records....well i cud solve the part of running the report..but m absolutely clueless as to how to store its output automatically in the document of records using FP....plz help..thnx in advance report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Customize LOV thru personalizationwritten by Ellen , May 15, 2009 Hi,

I'm trying to customize a LOV (when searching voor vendors while creating an invoice). I want to add a item in displayed field. I thougt i could modify the sql query behind the LOV. How can i do that??

Thanks. report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Personalizationwritten by Ninan Issac , May 18, 2009 Anil,

Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge with others thru your columns.

Can you please tell me whether we can change the Window Title in APPS Form thru Forms personalization.

Ninan report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Maknig PNTLEASE form read onlywritten by pooja , July 29, 2009 Hi Anil,

I'm need the entire PNTLEASE form as read only except for the notes block. I'm tried creating a new function for the same form with parameter as QUERY_ONLY ="YES". But still some of the blocks in the form is updatabe. Can you please help me resolve this.

Thanks Pooja report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Need to change the keyflexfield segments dynamically in custom form.written by Syed.l , November 10, 2009 Hi,

Its urgent. My custom module is going UAT within 2 days. I have one requirement pending. I need to display and change Keyflexfield Segments value Dynamically. For Example. I have one field on First Form in that we are having the value in Tree Structure. After Saving the Data the value is showing in this field is like "A.B.C". Now if i press Button it should open Second Form and we have one field in the Second form call Category Code if i click on that field LOV it should display only 3 segments call A.B.C. If i have A.B.C.D value in First Form Field it should Display 4 Segments call A.B.C.D in second Form. Please give me some idea to work on this field.

Thanks and Regards, report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 To add a new column to an existing formwritten by PhaniReddy chittiolu , November 11, 2009 hi, Hope every thing is good at ur end. Can you please guide me how we can add a new column to the existing form and want to show DFF attrubute in that column.

Appreciate your early response.

thanks, Phani Reddy report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 forms personalisation to change default requisition group to 'Requisition' in Autocreate formwritten by Fiona Gallagher , November 27, 2009 Hi

this is a superb site, thank you. Do you know if its possible to use personalisation to set the LOV for grouping in autocreate form to 'Requisition' instead of Default. I know there is a profie option but it won't be working until release 12 and we're on 11.5.10.2. I need a solution to get grouping to automatically be requisition. thanks Fiona report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Need Clarification about Concurrent requestwritten by wasim , December 15, 2009 Hi

I want to submit a concurrent request in my personalization form and it has to view or print directly from there.

I need a solution

Thanks Wasim report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 To make the Destination subinventory field on PO form Distribution block a required fieldwritten by CGS , January 19, 2011 Hi Anil,

To make the Destination subinventory field on PO form Distribution block a required field

I want to make the Destination subinventory field (PO_DISTRIBUTIONS.DESTINATION_SUBINVENTORY) mandatory on PO form Distribution block (PO_DISTRIBUTIONS). I tried on the following things. 1. Property : Item-->PO_DISTRIBUTIONS.DESTINATION_SUBINVENTORY-->REQUIRED 2. Property : Item-->PO_DISTRIBUTIONS.DESTINATION_SUBINVENTORY-->REQUIRED (APPLICATIONS COVER)

The fields seems to be made mandatory(colour turned YELLOW). But, system allow me to save and Approve the PO without providing a value to this field. If I click on the Destination subinventory field at PO form Distribution and then try to save the PO without providing a value, system is displaying a message that the field is mandatory. Could you please help me to make me fix this so that the system will not allow the user to save and Approve the PO without providing a value to this field?

Thank you very much in advance.

Thanks Shankar report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Sales Order Character Restrictionwritten by Ericqo , March 15, 2011 I am working on restricting the number of characters on the sales order form and placed the condition below but I am getting the error "invalid relational operator". I am quite new to forms personalization so any assistance is greatly appreciated.

if length (rder.cust_po_number ) > 5 then raise_application_error (20101, 'Exceeded length of column') end if; report abusevote downvote upVotes: +0 Help in Restricting LOV in sales order lines DFFwritten by Manisha , April 07, 2011 Hi Anil,

I want to know if there is any way where we can restrict the values seen in the LOV of additional lines DFF based on order status. For example what I am trying to acheive is:

In DFF we have a column Event Name. This comes from a value set based on table and where condition as event status = ACTIVE. We will end date ( status = CLOSED) for the events whose order status = closed

So the issue is when we try to query the closed orders, we have this error pop up "Flexfield Event doesnt exit in the value set.." This is so becaue we are pulling in the ACTIVE events only.

Now I need to get rid of this error. But I do not want to show up closed events when a new SO is entered. Can I have a way to hide these closed events in LOV or can i personalise the form to be able to show only ACTIVE for new record entry and all events for closed orders..

Please suggest on this.