Tips & Tricks for Navigating Oracle Applications

Function Icon Shortcut Menu Bar (Alt-) Description

New Record Ctrl- File > New Insert a new record on the screen.
Bring up a find screen, to enter selection criteria
Find View > Find
to find existing records.
Return to the navigator (main menu). You can
Navigator F4 View < Show Navigator also click on the navigator window (it is always
available), or close other forms.
Save Ctrl-S File > Save Save your work.
Switch
File > Switch Change the responsibility (menu) that you are
Responsibilit
Responsibility signed on to.
y
Print Ctrl-P File > Print Print hardcopy of the current screen info.
Close Form File > Close Form Closes the current screen.
Clears the current field from the screen, without
Clear Field F5 Edit > Clear > Field
making any changes to the database.
Clear Clears the current record from the screen,
F6 Edit > Clear > Record
Record without making any changes to the database.
Clears the current block from the screen, without
Clear Block F7 Edit > Clear > Block
making any changes to the database.
Clears the current form from the screen, without
Clear Form F8 Edit > Clear > Form
making any changes to the database.
Delete Deletes the current record from the database,
Ctrl- Edit > Delete
Record when you save.
Opens an edit window, where you can see the
Edit Field Ctrl-E Edit > Edit Field entire contents of a field when the contents are
larger than fit in the space on the form.
Tools > Enter Quality Indicates the existence of a quality collection plan
Quality
Results that must be completed.
Add, modify, or view attachments to the current
Attachment record. The empty paperclip indicates the ability
View > Attachments
s to add attachments; the full paperclip indicates
the existence of one or more attachments.
Start Tools > Start
Start and end the Interaction History log for this
Interaction/ Interaction
customer touch point.
Wrap-Up Tools > Wrap Up
Brings out the Folders toolbar for tailoring your
Folder Tools Folder > Folder Tools
screen layout. Refer to the Folder Form Tools.
Pops up the launch pad Quick Menu to zoom you
Quick Menu from the current record to related information in
the system.
Help Ctrl-H Help > Window Help Brings up context sensitive help documentation.
Put the screen into Query by Example mode,
View > Query By where you can enter search criteria. Use % as
Enter Query F11
Example > Enter the multi-character wildcard; _ is the single-
character wildcard.
Re-Enter
Press function key F11 twice to re-enter the same
the same F11 + F11
query.
query
View > Query By
Run Query Ctrl-F11 Executes a query.
Example > Run
Cancel View > Query By
F4 Exits from Query mode.
Query Example > Cancel
View > Query by
Count Displays the count of records, the query is going
F12 example > Count
Query to fetch ( on the message bar)
Matching Records
Duplicate Edit > Duplicate > Field
Shift-F5 Duplicates the field value from the row above.
Field Above Above.

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Duplicate
Edit > Duplicate >
Record Shift-F6 Duplicates the entire row above.
Record Above.
Above
Pops up a list of lookup values in fields requiring
LOV Ctrl-L
a validated entry
Show Keys Ctrl-K Help > Keyboard Help List of keystrokes equivalents.
View Alt+V, R,
To view the concurrent program
Concurrent Enter
Alt + V, R,
New
Alt + N, To run a new concurrent
Concurrent
Enter
Go to next
Shift +
block up in It navigates to the previous block
page up
form
Go to next
Shift +
block down It navigates to the next block
page down
in form
Collapse All Atl + T, O Collapse the navigator
Copy from
To copy an item or template into the current
an item or Alt + T, C
master or org items form.
template
Assign Assign an item to org(s) when you are on master
Alt + T, O
items to Org item form.
Org creation
SOO To open the org find form
form
Sub
SOS To go to function Sub Inventories
Inventories
OHQ O Enter Open the query material work bench form
Generate
Serial OG Open the forms for generation of Serial Numbers.
Numbers
Open
Inventory
AC I Opens the Inventory Accounting Periods form
Accounting
Periods
Master
I Enter To open master items
Items
Org Items IO Open the find form of Org item
Misc. Enter M
Open the Misc. Transaction form
Transactions Enter
Org SOP
To open Org parameters
parameters Enter
Locations SOL Opens the Location creation form
SOC
Calendar Opens the org parameters form
Enter

Help : Keyboard Help or <ctrl k> Lists Hot Keys

Tools : Close Other Forms check box to auto close forms when a new form is opened
Query Tips and Tricks
<F11> to enter query by example
<F11> <F11> to recall the last query parameters
<Ctrl F11> to Execute Query
<F12> Query : Count Matching Records (after putting in the query parameters)
<F4> Exit Query

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 Tips & Tricks for Navigating Oracle Applications
Query Wild Card Characters
% one or more characters
_ exactly one character

Query Operators
#between <low> and <high>
#is null, #is not null
> Greater Than
>= Greater Than or Equal
< Less Than
<= Less Than or Equal
= Equal
!= Not Equal

View : Record : First Record or Last Record shows first or last record returned by query

What SQL Statement did the Oracle Applications run to fill the form?
Help : Diagnostics : Examine (requires apps password)
Block = SYSTEM
Field = last_query

Other ways to determine the underlying table structure:

1) Help : Record History
2) Trace the form (requires apps password)

XML Publisher
The XML Publisher concurrent program joins the XML concurrent report data with the
registered templates to generate PDF output. The following template types are supported:
Portable Document Format (PDF), Rich Text Format (RTF) and XSL-FO.
- www.norcaloaug.org, Training Day 2004, Paper by Brent Mosher,
Oracle Tech update part 1: XML Publisher/Oracle Applications Framework
- Metalink Note:269605.1, About Oracle XML Publisher Release 4.5
- Metalink Note:276691.1, XML Publisher and Concurrent Manager Integration
- Metalink Note:258332.1, About Oracle XML Publisher Minipack XDO.H
- Metalink B13817-01, Oracle XML Publisher Users Guide Release 11i

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