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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook

You're reading from   Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook Building extensions in Oracle E-Business Suite is greatly simplified when you follow the step-by-step instructions in this book. Whether novice or pro, this is a great tutorial with over 60 recipes and stacks of screenshots.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849684842
Length 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andy Penver Andy Penver
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Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Creating Concurrent Programs 2. Oracle Forms FREE CHAPTER 3. Advanced Oracle Forms 4. Forms Personalization 5. Workflow 6. Utilities

Adding a function


We are now going to go back to our workflow and create a function to call a database procedure. The procedure will store the XML in a table, validate the structure of the XML, and store the XML values in attributes in the workflow. The first thing we need to do is create the attributes in the workflow that will store the XML attributes. We will then add the function to the workflow that will parse the XML and store the attributes.

The following are the tasks required to add a function to the workflow:

  • Updating an employee record for testing

  • Adding attributes

  • Adding a function

  • Testing the workflow

Updating an employee record for testing

Before we get going we need to create a test employee record. I used an existing employee in the vision environment and updated the details.

How to do it...

We need an employee record that we are going to use throughout the testing of the workflows. We will be using the UK HRMS Manager responsibility. This is important as it will determine the business...

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