2.8 Desktop Applications Integration

By leveraging Oracle's ADF Desktop Integration, OHI Components applications allow users to maintain data collections using desktop applications like Microsoft Excel. This chapter lists the required software that needs to be installed on user's workstations for ADF Desktop Integration to work.
Not that this is not a replacement of the ADF Desktop Integration prerequisite documentation. Please refer to:

• Developer's Guide: Oracle Fusion Middleware Desktop Integration Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7.0)
• Administrator's Guide: Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7.0)

The following is only a summary of the most important installation requirements as taken from the official documentation.

Client setup

Required Microsoft software

See Developer's Guide chapter "Setting Up Your Development Environment".On client machines where Live Spreadsheet is going to be accessed, the following software must be available:

• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Excel, version >= 2007
• Internet Explorer

Microsoft Excel configuration

See Developer's Guide section "Configuring Excel to work with ADF Desktop Integration"Excel changes: Trust access to the VBA project object model.

Oracle Software

Install the ADF Desktop Integration add-on for Excel. For more information see the chapter "Installing and Upgrading the Runtime Edition of ADF Desktop Integration From a Shared File Server and Web Server" from the Administrator's Guide.