Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in This Guide

• New and Changed Features for 11g Release 7 (11.1.7)
• Other Significant Changes in this Document for 11g Release 7 (11.1.7)

Part I Introduction to Customizing and Extending Oracle Fusion Applications

1 Customizing and Extending Oracle Fusion Applications

• 1.1 Understanding Customizing and Extending Oracle Fusion Applications
  • 1.1.1 Personalization
  • 1.1.2 Runtime Customizations and Extensions
  • 1.1.3 Design Time Customizations and Extensions
• 1.2 Understanding Customization Layers
• 1.3 Understanding the Tools
  • 1.3.1 Understanding Role-Based Access to Tools
  • 1.3.2 Personalizing and Customizing Pages Using Page Composer
  • 1.3.3 Customizing Pages Using Application Composer
  • 1.3.4 Creating and Customizing Objects
  • 1.3.5 Creating and Customizing Business Process Flows for Custom Objects
  • 1.3.6 Defining Security Policies for Custom Objects
  • 1.3.7 Adding Custom Attributes to Business Components
  • 1.3.8 Customizing Reports and Analytics
  • 1.3.9 Performing Design Time Customizations
  • 1.3.10 Customizing and Extending Oracle BPM Project Templates
  • 1.3.11 Understanding Other Available Customizations
  • 1.3.12 What You Can Customize and Extend and with Which Tool
  • 1.3.13 Installing Customization Tools

2 Understanding the Customization Development Lifecycle

• 2.1 Understanding Typical Customization Workflows
  • 2.1.1 Runtime Customization Workflow
  • 2.1.2 Design Time Customization Workflow
• 2.2 Using the Sandbox Manager
• 2.3 Exporting and Moving Customizations

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
  • 3.1.3 Before You Begin Using JDeveloper to Customize
• 3.2 Customizing Oracle ADF Artifacts with JDeveloper
  • 3.2.1 Creating the Customization Application Workspace
  • 3.2.2 Determining Which Oracle ADF Artifacts You Need to Customize
  • 3.2.3 Customizing the Artifacts
  • 3.2.4 Avoiding Conflicts Among Multiple Customization Developers
  • 3.2.5 Running Customizations Locally
  • 3.2.6 Importing Customizations into Your Application Workspace
  • 3.2.7 Resynchronizing Your Customization Application Workspace Configuration Files
• 3.3 Customizing SOA Composite Applications with JDeveloper
  • 3.3.1 Before You Begin Using JDeveloper to Customize
  • 3.3.2 Setting Up the JDeveloper Application Workspace and SOA Composite Application Project for MDS Repository Customization
  • 3.3.3 Customizing the SOA Composite Application
  • 3.3.4 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 Begin Customizing Oracle ADF Application Artifacts
  • 4.1.2 Customizing at the Role Level
• 4.2 Editing Existing Business Components
• 4.3 Editing Task Flows
• 4.4 Editing Pages
• 4.5 Creating Custom Business Components
• 4.6 Creating Custom Task Flows
• 4.7 Creating Custom Pages
• 4.8 Customizing and Extending the Oracle Fusion Applications Schemas
  • 4.8.1 About Customizing and Extending the Oracle Fusion Applications Schemas
  • 4.8.2 What You Can Do with Schema Modifications
  • 4.8.3 What You Cannot Do with Schema Modifications
  • 4.8.4 Before You Begin Extending the Oracle Fusion Applications Schemas
  • 4.8.5 Extending the Schemas Using a Custom Schema
  • 4.8.6 Extending a Preconfigured Schema
• 4.9 Customizing or Creating a Custom Search Object
• 4.10 Editing the UI Shell Template
• 4.11 Customizing Menus
• 4.12 Customizing or Adding Resource Bundles
• 4.13 Extending Oracle Fusion Applications with a Custom Peer Application
• 4.14 Deploying Oracle ADF Customizations and Extensions

5 Customizing and Extending SOA Components

• 5.1 About Customizing and Extending SOA Components
  • 5.1.1 Before You Begin Customizing SOA Composite Applications
• 5.2 Customizing SOA Composite Applications
• 5.3 Merging Runtime Customizations from a Previously Deployed Revision into a New Revision
• 5.4 Extending or Customizing Custom SOA Composite Applications
• 5.5 Deploying SOA Composite Application Customizations and Extensions
• 5.6 Extending a New Oracle SOA Suite Service

6 Customizing and Extending Oracle BPM Project Templates

• 6.1 About Customizing Project Templates
  • 6.1.1 About the Business Catalog
  • 6.1.2 Before You Begin Using JDeveloper to Customize Project Templates
• 6.2 Customizing or Extending a Project Template
• 6.3 Publishing Project Templates to the Oracle BPM Repository

7 Customizing and Extending Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs

• 7.1 About Customizing and Extending Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs
  • 7.1.1 Main Steps for Extending Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs
  • 7.1.2 Main Steps for Customizing Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs
  • 7.1.3 Before You Begin Extending and Customizing Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs
• 7.2 Extending Custom Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs Using Existing Oracle Fusion Applications
  • 7.2.1 Extending a Custom PL/SQL Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job
  • 7.2.2 Extending a Custom Oracle BI Publisher Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job
  • 7.2.3 Extending a Custom Java Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job
  • 7.2.4 Submitting Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs
• 7.3 Creating a Custom Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Application to Extend Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs
  • 7.3.1 Creating Host and UI Applications Using an Ant Script
  • 7.3.2 Generating an Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Synchronous Java Job Business Logic Template
  • 7.3.3 Creating Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job Metadata Using JDeveloper
    • 7.3.3.1 Creating an Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job Definition in the Host Application
    • 7.3.3.2 Creating a Schedule Request Submission UI to Enable End Users to Fill in Properties
  • 7.3.4 Assembling Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Oracle Fusion Applications
  • 7.3.5 Deploying Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Oracle Fusion Applications
  • 7.3.6 Registering Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Topology Objects
  • 7.3.7 Granting Job Metadata Permissions to Application Roles and Users
• 7.4 Customizing Existing Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Job Properties

8 Customizing Security for Oracle ADF Application Artifacts

• 8.1 About the Oracle Fusion Security Approach
  • 8.1.1 How to Proceed with This Chapter
  • 8.1.2 Related Security Documents
• 8.2 About Extending the Oracle Fusion Applications Security Reference Implementation
• 8.3 About Extending and Securing Oracle Fusion Applications
  • 8.3.1 Oracle Fusion Security Customization Guidelines for New Functionality
  • 8.3.2 Oracle Fusion Security Customization Process Overview
  • 8.3.3 Oracle Fusion Security Customization Scenarios
  • 8.3.4 Scenarios Related to Extending and Securing Data Model Components
  • 8.3.5 Scenarios Related to Extending and Securing User Interface Artifacts
  • 8.3.6 What You Can Customize in the Data Security Policy Store at Design Time
  • 8.3.7 What You Can Customize in the Data Model Project at Design Time
  • 8.3.8 What You Can Customize in the User Interface Project at Design Time
  • 8.3.9 What You Can Customize in the Application Security Policy Store at Design Time
  • 8.3.10 What You Cannot Do with Security Policies at Design Time
  • 8.3.11 Before You Begin Customizing Security
• 8.4 Defining Data Security Policies on Custom Business Objects
• 8.5 Enforcing Data Security in the Data Model Project
• 8.6 Defining Function Security Policies for the User Interface Project

9 Translating Custom Text

• 9.1 About Translating Custom Text
• 9.2 Translating Resource Bundles from an MDS Repository
• 9.3 Translating Page Composer and Application Composer Customizations
• 9.4 Translating Menu Customizations
• 9.5 Translating Flexfield and Value Set Configurations

10 Configuring End-User Personalization

• 10.1 About Configuring End-User Personalization
  • 10.1.1 Before You Begin Allowing Pages or Components to be Personalized
• 10.2 Allowing Pages to Be Personalized by End Users in Page Composer
• 10.3 Configuring End-User Personalization for Components

11 Customizing Help

• 11.1 About Customizing Help
  • 11.1.1 What You Can Do with Help
  • 11.1.2 Before You Begin Customizing Help
• 11.2 Customizing or Extending Oracle Fusion Applications Help
• 11.3 Customizing or Adding Bubble Embedded Help
• 11.4 Customizing or Adding Static Instructions, In-Field Notes, and Terminology Definitions

12 Customizing the Oracle Fusion Applications Skin

• 12.1 Introduction to Skinning Oracle Fusion Applications
  • 12.1.1 Before You Begin Customizing the Oracle Fusion Applications Skin
• 12.2 Creating a Custom Oracle Fusion Applications Skin
• 12.3 Applying a Custom Skin to Your Oracle Fusion Applications

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 Exporting Customizations
  • A.2.2 Backing Up and Restoring Customizations
  • A.2.3 Choosing the Right Customization Layer
  • A.2.4 Determining the Full Path for a Customizations Document
  • A.2.5 Determining Whether a Customization Layer is Active
  • A.2.6 Logging Customizations that Are Applied to a Page
• A.3 Resolving Common Problems
  • 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
• A.4 Using My Oracle Support for Additional Troubleshooting Information

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