OA Framework includes the OA Personalization Framework which allows you to personalize an Oracle E-Business Suite application page without modifying any underlying code. Personalizing the appearance of or the data displayed in an OA Framework-based page is easy and straightforward.
Attention: To personalize your OA Framework-based applications,we recommend and support only the use of OA Personalization Framework.
Dynamically created pages without OA Extension metadata behind them are not personalizable with the OA Personalization Framework.
Caution: A page may contain logic that depends on the regions or items that you personalize. To avoid unintended consequences, you should always familiarize yourself with the page's logic and thoroughly test your personalization before deploying it to a production environment.
All personalizations you make through the OA Personalization Framework are added on top of the base product meta data at runtime. These personalizations never overwrite the existing base product UI and are therefore preserved during upgrades and patches, and can also be translated. This means you can create your personalizations on a test system first, extract your personalizations to a flat file , then load your finalized personalizations to your production system with little interruption.
With OA Personalization Framework, your personalizations are reflected immediately on the page.
To begin personalizing your pages and portlets, refer to the instructions in these chapters: