Contents
Part I Introduction to Customizing and Extending Oracle Fusion Applications
1 Customizing and Extending Oracle Fusion Applications
- 1.1 About Customizing and Extending Oracle Fusion Applications
- 1.1.1 About Personalization
- 1.1.2 About Runtime Customizations and Extensions
- 1.1.3 About Design Time Customizations and Extensions
- 1.3.1 About Role-Based Access to Tools
- 1.3.2 About Personalizing and Customizing Pages Using Page Composer
- 1.3.3 About Customizing Pages Using Application Composer
- 1.3.4 About Creating and Customizing Objects
- 1.3.5 About Creating and Customizing Business Process Flows for Custom Objects
- 1.3.6 About Defining Security Policies for Custom Objects
- 1.3.7 About Adding Custom Attributes to Business Components
- 1.3.8 About Customizing Reports and Analytics
- 1.3.9 About Performing Design Time Customizations
- 1.3.10 About Modifying Oracle Business Intelligence Repository for Customized Analytics
- 1.3.11 Understanding Other Available Customizations
- 1.3.12 What You Can Customize and Extend and with Which Tool
- 1.3.13 About Installing Customization Tools
2 Understanding the Customization Development Life Cycle
- 2.1 Understanding Typical Customization Workflows
- 2.1.1 About the Runtime Customization Workflow
- 2.1.2 About the Design Time Customization Workflow
Part II Design Time Customizations and Extensions
3 Using Oracle JDeveloper for Customizations
- 3.1 About Using JDeveloper for Customization
- 3.1.1 About Customizing Oracle ADF Artifacts
- 3.1.2 About Using JDeveloper to Customize SOA Composite Applications
- 3.2.1 Creating the Customization Application Workspace
- 3.2.2 Configure the Application
- 3.2.3 Import Artifacts to be Customized
- 3.2.4 Configure the View Project
- 3.2.5 Import Pre-Seeded Customizations
- 3.2.6 Test the New Application
- 3.2.7 Determining Which Oracle ADF Artifacts You Need to Customize
- 3.2.8 Customizing the Artifacts
- 3.2.9 Guidelines for Avoiding Conflicts Among Multiple Customization Developers
- 3.2.10 About Running Customizations Locally
- 3.2.11 About Importing Customizations into Your Application Workspace
- 3.2.12 About Resynchronizing Your Customization Application Workspace Configuration Files
- 3.2.12.1 Resynchronizing Your Customization Application Workspace Configuration Files
- 3.3.1 Before You Start Using JDeveloper to Customize SOA Composite Applications
- 3.3.2 Setting Up the SOA Shared Repository in JDeveloper
- 3.3.3 Configuring the SOA Application Workspace in JDeveloper
- 3.3.4 Configuring the Composite Project in JDeveloper
- 3.3.5 Customizing the SOA Composite Application
- 3.3.6 About Customizing SOA Resource Bundles
4 Customizing and Extending Oracle ADF Application Artifacts
- 4.1 About Customizing Oracle ADF Application Artifacts
- 4.1.1 Before You Start Customizing Oracle ADF Application Artifacts
- 4.1.2 About Customizing at the Role Level
- 4.1.2.1 Conditionally Rendering a Button Based on a Role
- 4.2.1 About Editing Attributes
- 4.2.2 About Adding Attributes
- 4.2.3 About Editing Entity Objects
- 4.2.4 About Editing View Objects
- 4.2.5 About Editing Validation
- 4.2.6 Customizing Business Logic Using Groovy Triggers
- 4.2.7 About Editing Application Modules
- 4.2.8 About Adding Customizations to Existing Reports
- 4.5.1 Creating Custom Entity Objects
- 4.5.2 Creating Custom View Objects
- 4.5.3 Creating Custom Application Modules
- 4.5.4 Creating a Web Service Interface for a Custom Application Module
- 4.5.5 Adding Validation
- 4.5.6 About Enforcing Data Security for a Custom Business Object
- 4.5.7 About Adding a Business Object to an Existing Report
- 4.6.1 Creating a Custom Task Flow
- 4.7.1 Creating a Custom Page
- 4.8.1 What You Can Do with Schema Modifications
- 4.8.2 What You Cannot Do with Schema Modifications
- 4.8.3 About Extending the Schemas Using a Custom Schema
- 4.8.3.1 About Creating a Custom Schema
- 4.8.3.2 About Creating Custom Database Tables, Columns, Indexes, and Sequences
- 4.8.3.3 About Creating Custom PL/SQL Packages, Procedures, Functions, and Abstract Data Types
- 4.8.4.1 About Editing Database Tables
- 4.8.4.2 About Creating Custom Database Tables, Columns, Indexes, and Sequences
- 4.8.4.3 About Creating Custom PL/SQL Packages, Procedures, Functions, and Abstract Data Types
- 4.12.1 About Adding Help Strings to a Resource Bundle
- 4.12.2 About Associating the Component with the Help Strings
- 4.15.1 About Deploying the Customizations
- 4.15.2 About Packaging New Artifacts into an ADF Library
5 Customizing and Extending SOA Components
- 5.1 About Customizing and Extending SOA Components
- 5.1.1 Before You Start Customizing SOA Composite Applications
- 5.2.1 About Starting the Runtime Customization Tool
- 5.2.2 Selecting the Data to Customize
- 5.2.3 About Customizing Business Rules
- 5.2.4 About Customizing Domain Value Maps
- 5.2.5 About Customizing SOA Composite Application Endpoint Properties
- 5.2.6 Synchronizing Customized Flexfields in the MDS Repository for SOA
- 5.2.7 About Customizing Task Flows in Oracle BPM Worklist
- 5.2.8 Viewing the Tabs of the Human Task Editor in Oracle BPM Worklist
- 5.2.9 Viewing Stage and Participant Properties
- 5.4.1 Customizing a Base SOA Composite Application in JDeveloper
- 5.4.2 About Extending or Customizing Custom Business Rules
- 5.4.3 About Extending or Customizing Custom BPEL Processes
- 5.4.4 About Extending or Customizing Custom Human Tasks
- 5.4.5 About Extending Business Events
- 5.4.6 About Extending or Customizing Custom Oracle Mediators
- 5.4.7 About Customizing SOA Composite Application Components
- 5.4.8 About Extending or Customizing Transformations (in a Transform Activity)
- 5.4.9 Extending XSD or WSDL Files
- 5.4.10 About Extending JCA Adapters
- 5.6.1 About Setting Up a Development Environment
- 5.6.2 About Using JDeveloper to Create Applications, Projects, and Services
- 5.6.3 Understanding Common Service Use Cases and Design Patterns
- 5.6.4 About Using Oracle SOA Suite with MDS Repository
- 5.6.5 About Using Oracle Enterprise Repository to Discover Oracle Fusion Applications Services
- 5.6.6 About Securing Oracle Fusion Applications and Services
- 5.6.7 About Deploying SOA Composite Applications and Services
- 5.6.8 Understanding Fusion Applications Deployment Topology
6 Extending and Customizing Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs
- 6.1 About Extending and Customizing Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs
- 6.1.1 Before You Start Extending and Customizing Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs
- 6.2.1 About Extending a Custom PL/SQL Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job
- 6.2.1.1 Implementing the Logic for the PL/SQL Job
- 6.2.1.2 Creating a Job Definition Metadata File for the PL/SQL Job
- 6.2.2.1 Implementing the Logic for the Java Job
- 6.2.2.2 Deploying the Java Business Logic
- 6.2.2.3 Creating a Job Definition Metadata File for the Java Job
- 6.3.1 Creating Host and UI Applications Using an Ant Script
- 6.3.2 Generating an Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Synchronous Java Job Business Logic Template
- 6.3.3 About Creating Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job Metadata Using JDeveloper
- 6.3.3.1 Creating an Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job Definition in the Host Application
- 6.3.3.2 Creating a Schedule Request Submission UI to Enable End Users to Fill in Properties
- 6.3.3.2.1 Creating an Oracle ADF Model Project
- 6.3.3.2.2 Creating an ADF Business Components View Object for Oracle Enterprise Scheduler
- 6.3.4.1 Assembling an Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Shared Library
- 6.3.4.2 Assembling the Host Application
- 6.3.4.3 Assembling the Oracle ADF Producer Application
- 6.3.5.1 Deploying the Shared Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Library Using JDeveloper
- 6.3.5.2 Deploying the Shared Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Library Using an Ant Script
- 6.3.5.3 Deploying the Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Host Application Using JDeveloper
- 6.3.5.4 Deploying the Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Host Application Using an Ant Script
- 6.3.5.5 Deploying the Oracle ADF Producer Application Using JDeveloper
- 6.3.5.6 Deploying the Oracle ADF Producer Application Using an Ant Script
- 6.3.6.1 Creating Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Topology Objects
- 6.3.6.2 Registering Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Topology Objects
- 6.3.7.1 Creating a Resource
- 6.3.7.2 Defining a Policy
- 6.3.7.3 Testing Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job Submissions from the Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Central UI
7 Customizing Security for Oracle ADF Application Artifacts
- 7.1 About the Oracle Fusion Security Approach
- 7.1.1 What You Need to Know Before Proceeding with This Chapter
- 7.1.2 Learning More About Technologies Used to Secure Oracle Fusion Applications
- 7.3.1 Oracle Fusion Security Customization Guidelines for New Functionality
- 7.3.2 Oracle Fusion Security Customization Process Overview
- 7.3.2.1 Se curing a New Business Object in the Extended Oracle Fusion Application
- 7.4.1 Process Overview for Defining Data Security Policies
- 7.4.1.1 Defining a Data Security Policy in Oracle Authorization Policy Manager
- 7.4.2.1 Registering the Business Object as a Database Resource
- 7.4.2.1.1 Specifying the Primary Key Columns of the Policy's Database Resource
- 7.4.2.1.2 Filtering Columns of the Policy's Database Resource
- 7.4.2.2.1 Defining a New Database Resource Condition
- 7.4.2.4.1 Performing Prerequisite Tasks
- 7.4.2.4.2 Creating a New Data Security Policy
- 7.5.1 Process Overview for Defining Data Security Policies
- 7.5.1.1 Creating or Revising a Data Role Template
- 7.5.2.1 Creating a Template
- 7.5.2.2 Running a Template
- 7.5.2.2.1 About Running Templates Programmatically
- 7.6.1 Enforcing Row Security for the Standard Operations of a Business Object
- 7.6.2 Enforcing Row Security for a Custom Operation of a Business Object
- 7.6.3 Enforcing Security for Attributes of a Business Object (as an Alternative to Column-level Security)
- 7.7.1 Process Overview for Function Security
- 7.7.1.1 Defining Function Security Policies
- 7.7.2.1 Creating Entitlement Grants for a Specific Application Role
- 7.7.2.2 Creating Resource Grants for the Authorized User Role
- 7.7.2.3 Displaying or Hiding User Interface Components in a Web Page
- 7.7.2.4 About Creating a Custom Oracle Platform Security Services Permission and Using it in a Grant
8 Modifying the Oracle Business Intelligence Repository for Customized Analytics
- 8.1 About Oracle BI Server and Oracle BI Repository Architecture
- 8.1.1 About the Oracle BI Repository
- 8.1.2 About Oracle BI Server Architecture
- 8.1.3 About Layers in the Oracle BI Repository
- 8.2.1 Overview of Modifying the Oracle BI Repository
- 8.2.2 About Modifying the Oracle BI Repository In Online or Offline Mode
- 8.2.3 Product Patching and the Oracle BI Repository
- 8.3.1 About Creating ADF View Objects and Using Them as Data Sources in the Oracle BI Repository
- 8.3.2 About the Oracle BI EE Plus Client Installer
- 8.3.3 Determining the Fusion Applications BI Server Port for the Oracle BI Administration Tool ODBC System DSN
- 8.4.1 About Using the Catalog Manager to Manage Fusion Application BI Objects
- 8.4.2 About the Oracle BI EE Presentation Catalog's Directory Structure and Contents
- 8.4.3 About Modifying the Presentation Catalog in Online or Offline Mode
- 8.4.4 Opening the Catalog Manager to Manage Fusion Applications BI Objects
- 8.5.1 About Using the Administration Tool to Modify the Oracle Fusion Applications Oracle BI Repository
- 8.5.2 Opening the Administration Tool
- 8.5.3 Understanding the Administration Tool's Main Window
- 8.5.4 Locating and Copying the Oracle Fusion Applications' Oracle BI Repository to Work in Offline Mode
- 8.5.5 Managing Connection Pools
- 8.6.1 Creating BI View Objects for Custom Fact and Dimension Tables
- 8.6.2 Modifying Existing Fact or Dimension Tables
- 8.6.3 Adding New Fact or Dimension Tables
- 8.6.4 Changing How Metadata Is Displayed in Answers Reports
- 8.6.5 Reorganizing Presentation Layer Metadata
- 8.7.1 Debugging Oracle BI Repository Errors
- 8.7.2 Testing the Oracle BI Repository Before Moving to Production
- 8.7.3 Programmatically Moving Oracle BI repository Changes to Production Systems
- 8.9.1 Passing a Prompt-Filter Value to a BI ADF Region Dynamically
9 Translating Custom Text
- 9.1 About Translating Custom Text
- 9.2 About Translating Resource Bundles from an Oracle Metadata Services Repository
- 9.2.1 Defining Translations for the Custom Text in an MDS Repository
10 Configuring End-User Personalization
- 10.1 About Configuring End-User Personalization
- 10.2 About Allowing Pages to Be Personalized by End Users in Page Composer
- 10.2.1 About Enabling or Disabling Personalization on Existing Standard Pages
- 10.2.2 Enabling Page Composer Personalization on Custom Pages
- 10.3.1 About Persisting Attribute Values on JSPX Pages
11 Customizing the Oracle Fusion Applications Skin
Part III Appendixes
A Troubleshooting Customizations
- A.1 Introduction to Troubleshooting Customizations
- A.2 Getting Started with Troubleshooting and Logging Basics for Customizations
- A.2.1 About Exporting Customizations
- A.2.2 About Backing Up and Restoring Customizations
- A.2.3 About Choosing the Right Customization Layer
- A.2.4 Determining the Full Path for a Customizations Document
- A.2.5 About Determining Whether a Customization Layer is Active
- A.2.6 About Logging Customizations that Are Applied to a Page
- A.3.1 User Interface is not Displaying the Active Sandbox Customizations
- A.3.2 Customizations Context Table Is Empty in Oracle JDeveloper
- A.3.3 Application Is Not Displayed Correctly After Applying a Customized Skin
- A.3.4 Finding the EAR File for an Application
