Sunday, 5 March 2017

How to Customize Forms in Oracle Apps?

A) Identify the form in Oracle Apps that needs to be customized.
B) Go to the specific directory on one of the mid-tiers to get that forms executable. Say from $AU_TOP/forms/US/YOURFORM.fmb.
C) FTP that form and all its dependable form objects & pll files to your PC.
D) Open the form using for builder, ensuring that you do not receive any errors pertaining to missing library or missing form object.
E) Perform a save-as to rename this form on your pc, using your company's naming conventions.
F) Make the desired modifications to the form.
G) Generate the form on PC using Control-T keystrokes. This will ensure that nothing critical has been missed out. Surely you will need to connect to apps schema before generating the form.
H)  FTP the form file to $XXPO_TOP/forms/US. Surely, this XX will be replaced by the naming convention at your client/company.
I)  cd to  $XXPO_TOP/forms/US. And f60gen on YOURFORM.fmb, This will create a file executable as YOURFORM.fmx
J) Go to Application Developer responsibility
Menu /applicaton/form
Register the form
K) Register the Forms Function. This forms function must be registered against application "XX Purchasing".
L) Now add a menu item so that this forms function becomes available to specific responsibility.

Now you can use the new form.

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