This section describes the configuration options you can use when designing your template. The options are shown in the order that they appear on the People Management Configurator tool.
Displays the internal name for the template. This code in combination with the Legislation uniquely identifies the template. You use this name when adding the window to the user's menu.
Specifies the descriptive name of the template.
A template can be enabled or disabled. You can only choose the Run Template option from the Tools menu for a template that is enabled and linked to a menu. Disable a template when it is no longer in use.
Specifies the legislation of the template. Leave the legislation option blank to create a generic template. The system automatically displays the appropriate legislative version of a template for a user, or the generic version if there is no legislative version that matches the legislation of the user's Business Group.
You can provide a longer description of the template.
You can add your own help target to display a particular help topic. This overrides the default context-sensitive help call of the form.window name.
Note: The target you enter here has the name of the window from which you have called help appended to it to form the complete target. For example, if you have defined a help target called HIREPER for your template and you call help from the Summary window, then the help target generated is HIREPER.SUMMARY_WINDOW.
Online Help Targets for Templates
Use this Further Template Properties flexfield to enter additional configuration information for the template. For example, for the People Management templates this flexfield enables you to specify which window is displayed first and which person types are allowed.
Additional Template Details descriptive flexfield. You can configure this to include additional information.
Specifies the name of the selected window. There are three windows available: Summary, Find, and Maintenance
Specifies the title of the window. This name is displayed at the top left of the window.
Sets the height of the window in inches.
Sets the width of the window in inches.
Sets the position of the window using co-ordinates. X sets the horizontal position and y sets the vertical position. Alternatively, you can use the arrow keys to move the window around.
Further Window Properties Developer Descriptive flexfield.
Specifies the name of the selected canvas. This is the region of the window where fields and other items appear The canvases available depend on the window you are creating:
Background Canvases
The Maintain, Summary, and Find canvases fill in the background of the window. You cannot amend the properties of these canvases.
Tab Canvases
The Maintain Tabs, Summary Tabs, and Find Tabs canvases define the area of the window in which you can define tabs.
Find Results Canvas
The Find Results canvas defines the area of the window in which you can define the Find Results region.
Set this to Yes if you want the canvas to be displayed to the user.
Sets the height of the canvas in inches.
Sets the width of the canvas in inches.
Sets the position of the canvas using co-ordinates. X sets the horizontal position and y sets the vertical position. Alternatively, you can use the arrow keys to move the canvas around.
Developer Descriptive flexfield.
Displays the name of the tab. The tabs available to you depend on the window you are editing:
Find - The find window has six tabs you can set up for any use.
Maintain - The Maintain window has ten tabs available. Three tabs have been set up to be used specifically for Extra Information Types (EIT), Special Information Types (SIT), and the checklist.
Summary - The Summary window has ten tabs available. One tab has been set up to be used specifically for the checklist.
Set this to Yes if you want the tab to be displayed to the user.
The label appears on the tab and describes the content of the tab.
You can define an access key (or keyboard shortcut) by preceding the appropriate letter in the label with an ampersand (&). For example, to use ALT+P (in the Microsoft Windows environment) as the access key for the Personal Details tab, enter the label &Personal Details.
Do not use the letters A, E, F, G, H, Q, S, or W, as they are used on the Oracle Applications menu. There is no validation to prevent the same letter being used more than once in the same window.
Sets the tabbing order for the items in the tab. This can be left to right, or top to bottom.
Developer Descriptive flexfield.
The item name is the name of the data item or field, such as LAST_NAME, you have currently selected in the People Management Configurator Items branch. Items also include buttons, such as the Actions or Notify button, and flexfield popup windows. If you are working with a predefined template, only the fields used in that template are displayed on the People Management Configurator Items branch. You can add other fields to your template from the window.
See: Adding and Removing Fields on a Template.
Displays the window name on which the field is used. You cannot change this property. Each field has an associated window. There are three windows available: Summary, Find, and Maintenance
Displays the name of the tab or tabs in the window on which the field is positioned. You can choose a tab by clicking the button next to this field to see the available tab pages you can use.
Set this to Yes if you want the field to be displayed to the user. If it is set to No, the user cannot see the field but the field and its value are still in use. For example, the Secure check box on the Find window is not visible but the box has been checked. The user cannot see the check box on the window but the security restriction still applies.
Sets the height of the field in inches.
Sets the width of the field in inches.
Sets the position of the field using co-ordinates. X sets the horizontal position and y sets the vertical position. Alternatively, you can use the arrow keys to move the field around.
Specifies whether the user can put their cursor into this field. If it is set to No, the user can see the field but cannot do anything to it.
Set this to Yes if you want to make the field mandatory.
Specifies whether the user can run a query in this field.
Note: This property is ignored in the People Management templates. You can only run queries using the Find window.
Specifies whether the user can insert new data in this field. If this is set to No for a field or button then it appears greyed out in the window.
Note: If you set this option to No for a check box then the check box still appears in white on the window. To grey out a check box you must set the Enabled option to No.
Specifies whether the user can enter information in the field and save it to the database. If this is set to No, the user can enter information but cannot save it.
Note: All fields included on a Summary window are greyed out, irrespective of the settings in the Insert Allowed and Update Allowed fields.
Defines what text is displayed with the field. It also defines the text displayed for a group of check boxes. You enter text labels for individual check boxes using the Label property (see below).
Specifies where a prompt is displayed for multi-row columns. "First Record" displays a prompt next to the first row. "All Records" displays a prompt next to each row. "Hidden" hides all prompts.
Specifies the alignment of the prompt text as Center, Left, Right, End, or Start within the prompt box. Generally has no visible effect.
Specifies which edge of the field the prompt is attached to, either Start, End, Top, or Bottom.
Specifies how the prompt is aligned along the selected field edge, either Start, End or Center.
Specifies the distance between the field and its prompt, measured in inches.
Use this property to adjust the prompt edge alignment. For example, if the Prompt Edge is Top, the Prompt Edge Alignment is Center and the Prompt Alignment Offset is 0.1, the prompt is centered 0.1 inches from the center of the top edge of the field.
This only applies to buttons or check box items. The label describes the button or individual check box.
You can define an access key (or keyboard shortcut) by preceding the appropriate letter in the label with an ampersand (&). For example, to use ALT+P (in the Microsoft Windows environment) as the access key for the Picture window, enter the label &Picture.
Do not use the letters A, E, F, G, H, Q, S, or W, as they are used on the Oracle Applications menu. There is no validation to prevent the same letter being used more than once in the same window.
You can enter text here that displays when the user has the mouse pointer over the field. Use this to provide additional quick help.
Specifies which field is tabbed to next if you tab backwards. This overrides the default tabbing order.
Specifies which field is tabbed to next. This overrides the default tabbing order.
You can set the default value for the field here. Setting defaults can help save time, provide better control, and reduce errors for the user.
You can apply a format style to number and date type fields so that the format is correct for your users.
You can set up additional validation using formulas. For example, if you need to validate that an entry has been entered correctly, you can create a validation formula to check the format. Up to five inputs can be passed to the formula but only one message can be returned.
See: Writing Formulas for Templates
Enter the parameters you want to pass to the formula specified in the Validation Formula field.
You can set up additional information for fields using a formula. For example, on the Job field, the user can right click and choose More Information to see related information such as supervisor. Up to five inputs can be passed to the formula but only three outputs can be returned.
See: Writing Formulas for Templates
Specifies the prompt displayed on the right mouse menu which the user selects to view the information you have defined in the Information Formula.
Enter the parameters you want to pass to the formula specified in the Information Formula field.
Defines the alignment of text within the item (left, center, or right).
Defines what case the text is defaulted to. For example, you can set it to upper case so that all the text entered in the field is upper case.
Specifies the appearance of the field border, either RAISED, LOWERED, INSET, OUTSET, or NONE.
Opens the Further Item Properties developer descriptive flexfield, where you can enter additional configuration options. For example, for the People Management templates, you can select whether DateTrack History is enabled for datetracked fields.