Administrative-level (admin-level) personalizations are performed by Oracle E-Business Suite administrators who are often department-level functional consultants or administrators who understand, design and tailor the functional business flows of their organization. As an Oracle E-Business Suite Administrator, you can use OA Personalization Framework to personalize the pages of OA Framework-based applications at various personalization levels without modifying any code. Refer to the Customization Primer and the discussions of Personalization Levels and OA Personalization Framework Features for an overview of what you can accomplish.
Note: The term "Administrator" used throughout this document refers to the Oracle E-Business Suite Administrator described above and not to the System Administrator who configures and maintains the application system.
Note: If you use Netscape 4.7 or earlier or if you turn Partial Page Rendering (PPR) off by setting the FND: Disable Partial Page Rendering profile value to Yes, you may see additional Go buttons rendered throughout the OA Personalization Framework user interface. These Go buttons allow you to refresh parts of the page with changes that PPR would have otherwise taken care of.
Before you can personalize a region at a personalization level, you must set the Personalize Self-service Defn (FND_CUSTOM_OA_DEFINTION) profile option to Yes for the user you are signing in as. Every OA Framework-based application page contains a global Personalize Page link. This profile option enables the global Personalize Page link on every page so that you can personalize any page or region. The Personalize Page link first navigates to the Choose Personalization Context page, then to the Page Hierarchy Personalization page or to the Page Layout Personalization page, where you can drill down to the region you wish to personalize.
Additionally, you may set the FND: Personalization Region Link Enabled (FND_PERSONALIZATION_REGION_LINK_ENABLED) profile option to Yes or Minimal, to enable Personalize Region links for each region in a page. When this profile is enabled, Personalize Region links appear above each region, unless the region is a table, hierarchy grid, or table layout region, in which case the link appears below that region. Rather than use the global Personalize Page link on every page, you can use any of the Personalize Region links to first navigate to the Choose Personalization Context page, then to the Page Hierarchy Personalization page with immediate focus on the region from which you selected the Personalize Region link.
Note: Enabling the "Personalize Region" links allows users to also personalize regions that are dynamically added to the page from custom code in the controller.
For more information about the FND: Personalization Region Link Enabled profile option, refer to the Personalization section in the OA Framework Profile Options appendix of the Oracle Application Framework Developer's Guide.
Suggestion: You may also want to set the FND: Diagnostics (FND_DIAGNOSTICS) profile option to Yes to render the "About this page" link at the bottom of each OA Framework-based page. The About this page link takes you to the "About" page which displays information about the current page, the page's context, and the environment. The Personalization subtab on the "About" page also identifies personalizations that are in effect on the current page for the current personalization context and provides a Manage Personalization Level button that lets you navigate to the Manage Personalization Levels page directly to recover from errors that result from a personalization.
For more information about the FND: Diagnostics profile option, refer to the Logging / Diagnostics section in the OA Framework Profile Options appendix of the Oracle Application Framework Developer's Guide.
For more information about the "About" Page, refer to the Discovering Page, Technology Stack and Session Information section in the Testing and Debugging chapter of the Oracle Application Framework Developer's Guide.