Register New Forms in Oracle Apps 11i In this tutorial you will learn how to Register New Forms

in Oracle Apps 11i , registering form functions, creating menu of functions and creating responsibilities. Document Summary This document describes the process of registering new forms in oracle applications. Registering a Form Na igation ! Application "e eloper #$ Application#$Form

%lic& on Form and you will see following screen.

Fields Form : 'nter the file name of your form (the name of the .fm) file* without e)tension. +our form filename must be all uppercase, and its .fm) file must be located in your application directory structure. Application : 'nter the name of the application which will own this form. User Form Name : This is the form name you see when selecting a form using the Functions window. Description : 'nter a suitable description for your form. Register Form Functions Na igation ! Application "e eloper #$ Application#$Function

%lic& on Function and you will see following screen

%lic& on the form tab and you will see following screen

Fields Function : 'nter a uni,ue function name for your function. This function name can be used while calling this program programmatically. This name is not isible to the user through other forms. Form : -elect the form name which you ha e registered. Application : -elect the application name for your form. Parameters : 'nter the parameters that you want to pass to your form function. '.g. .uery/only. Creating Menu o Functions:

Na igation ! Application "e eloper #$ Application#$0enu

%lic& on 0enu and you will see following screen

Fields Menu : 'nter the descripti e name for the menu. This name is not isible to the user. User Menu Name : The user menu name is used when a responsibility calls a menu. Menu !ype : The options in menu type include1 -tandard # for menus that would be used in the Na igator form Tab # for menus used in self#ser ice applications tabs -ecurity # for menus that are used to aggregate functions for data security or specific function security purposes, but would not be used in the Na igator form Se" : 'nter a se,uence number. Prompt : 'nter the prompt that the users will see for the menu. Su#menu : If you want another menu to be called from this menu, then enter this menu name in this field. Function : 'nter the form function name in this field. Description : 'nter a suitable description for the menu.

$rant :The 2rant chec& bo) should usually be chec&ed. %hec&ing this bo) indicates that this function is automatically enabled for the user. If this is not chec&ed then the function must be enabled using additional data security rules. %iew !ree :%lic& on 3iew Tree 4utton and you will see following screen with the full hierarchy of the menu.

Creating Responsi#ilities Na igation ! -ystem Administrator #$ -ecurity#$Responsibility#$"efine

%lic& on "efine button and you will see following screen in front of you.

Fields Responsi#ility Name : 'nter the responsibility name for the new responsibility. Application : 'nter the application name you want to associate the new responsibility to. Responsi#ility &ey : The responsibility &ey is a uni,ue identification for the responsibility. This is used in the loader programs for internal purposes. Description : 'nter a suitable description for the new responsibility. ' ecti(e Dates : 'nter the date range in which the responsibility will be acti e in the From and To fields. A(aila#le From : In the a ailable from field bo), select whether you want this responsibility to be a ailable from Oracle applications or from Oracle -elf -er ice 5eb Applications or from Oracle mobile Applications. Data $roup : The data group defines the database user name that oracle applications use to connect to the database when you connect to applications using this responsibility.

Menu Name : 'nter the menu name that you want to associate with this responsibility. )e# *ost Name : If your 5eb -er er resides on a different machine from your database, you must designate the host name (6R7* here. Otherwise, the 5eb 8ost Name defaults to the current database host ser er. )e# Agent Name : 'nter the 97:-.7 Agent Name for the database used by this responsibility. If you do not specify an Agent Name, the responsibility defaults to the agent name current at log#on. Re"uest $roup : The re,uest group would define which re,uests the users with this responsibility can run. If no re,uest group is assigned to this responsibility then the users with this responsibility will not be able to run re,uests for which he is not the owner. 'nter the ;Re,uest group< name and ;Application< name for the re,uest group that you want to assign to this responsibility.