15 Customizing Payment Applications

Learn how to customize payment details displayed in Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) client applications.

Topics in this document:

• Customizing the Date Format for Payment Center

• Improved Performance of Searches for Payment Events in Payment Center

Customizing the Date Format for Payment Center

You can customize the format of the date displayed in the Payment Search dialog box, the Undo Allocation dialog box, and the Payment Results screen in Payment Center.

To customize the date format for Payment Center:

1. Open the PaymentCenter_home/paymentcenter.properties file in a text editor, where PaymentCenter_home is the directory in which Payment Center is installed.

   Note:

   If the paymentcenter.properties file does not exist, you must create it manually.

2. Add the following entry:

   DefaultDateFormat=format
   

   where format is one of the following:

   • dd/MM/yyyy

   • dd/MMM/yyyy

   • dd.MMMM.yyyy

     where MMMM is the spelled-out name of the month (for example, September).

   • yyyy/dd/MM

   • MMM/dd/yyyy

   • MM/dd/yyyy

   The default is MM/dd/yyyy.

   For example, if you set DefaultDateFormat=dd/MM/yyyy, Payment Center displays June 30, 2012 as 30/06/2012.

3. Save and close the file.

Improved Performance of Searches for Payment Events in Payment Center

By default, Payment Center retrieves five payment events for each step of a search. You can improve Payment Center's performance of payment event searches by configuring the paymentsearch.stepsize entry in the paymentcenter.properties configuration file.

To configure the step search size:

1. Open the Payment_Center_home/paymentcenter.properties file in a text editor, where Payment_Center_home is the directory in which Payment Center is installed.

2. Set the paymentsearch.stepsize entry to a value based on the number of events in your system and your client/server memory configuration. For example:

   paymentsearch.stepsize=100
   

3. Save the file.