How to Integrate Applications Release R12 with Custom Applications

This is our requirement.



SCHEMA NAME : XXCUST
TOP NAME : XXCUST_TOP
Application : XXCUST Custom Application
Data Group : Standard
Request Group : XXCUST Request Group
Menu : XXCUST_CUSTOM_MENU
Responsibility : XXCUST Custom



Assumptions:
APPL_TOP: /d01/oracle/VIS/apps/apps_st/appl
Instance Name: VIS
Server OS: linux

There are 14 simple steps to achieve this.

1) Make the directory structure for your custom application files.

cd $APPL_TOP

mkdir XXCUST

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0/admin

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0/admin/sql

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0/admin/odf

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0/sql

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0/bin

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0/reports

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0/reports/US

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0/forms

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0/forms/US

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0/lib

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0/out

mkdir XXCUST/12.0.0/log

2) Add the custom module into the environment

cd $APPL_TOP

echo "XXCUST_TOP=/d01/oracle/VIS/apps/apps_st/appl/XXCUST/12.0.0" >customVIS_linux.env

echo "export XXCUST_TOP " >> customVIS_linux.env

Source the environment file (/d01/oracle/VIS/apps/apps_st/appl/APPSVIS_linux.env )

Make entry to the application context file

vi $INST_TOP/appl/admin/VIS_linux.xml

/d01/oracle/VIS/apps/apps_st/appl/XXCUST/12.0.0

cd $INST_TOP/admin/install

sh adgentopfile.sh

3) create tablespace XXCUST datafile '/d01/oracle/VIS/db/apps_st/data/XXCUST01.dbf'

size 500M

4) create user XXCUST identified by XXCUST

default tablespace XXCUST

temporary tablespace temp

quota unlimited on XXCUST;

grant connect, resource to XXCUST;

5) Register your Oracle Schema.

Login to Applications with System Administrator responsibility

Navigate to Application-->Register

Application = XXCUST Custom Application

Short Name = XXCUST

Basepath = XXCUST_TOP

Description = XXCUST Custom Application

6) Register Oracle User

Naviate to Security-->Oracle-->Register

Database User Name = XXCUST

Password = XXCUST

Privilege = Enabled

Install Group = 0

Description = XXCUST Custom Application User

7) Add Application to a Data Group

Navigate to Security-->Oracle-->DataGroup

8) Create custom request group

This will act as a placeholder for any custom reports we wish to make available for the Custom Responsibility (which is defined at a later stage)

Navigate to Security-->responsibility-->Request

Group = XXCUST Request Group

Application = XXCUST Custom

Code = XXCUST

Description = XXCUST Custom Requests

At this statge, We are not going to define any requests, but you can add request in the later point of time if its required.

9) Create custom menu

This will act as a placeholder for any menu items we wish to make available for the Custom Responsibility (which is defined at a later stage).

Navigate to Application-->Menu

Menu = XXCUST_CUSTOM_MENU

User Menu Name = XXCUST Custom Application Menu

Menu Type =

Description = XXCUST Custom Application Menu

Seq = 100

Prompt = View Requests

Submenu =

Function = View All Concurrent Requests

Description = View Requests

Seq = 110

Prompt = Run Requests

Submenu =

Function = Requests: Submit

Description = Submit Requests

10) Create new responsibility. Navigate to Security-->Responsibility-->Define

Responsibility Name = XXCUST Custom

Application = XXCUST Custom

Responsibility Key = XXCUSTRESP

Description = XXCUST Custom Responsibility

Available From = Oracle Applications

Data Group Name = Standard

Data Group Application = XXCUST Custom Application

Menu = XXCUST Custom Application Menu

Request Group Name = XXCUST Request Group

11) Add responsibility to user

Navigate to Security-->User-->Define

Add XXCUST Custom responsibility to users as required.

12) Other considerations

You are now ready to create your database Objects, custom Reports, Forms, Packages, etc

Create the source code files in the XXCUST_TOP directory appropriate for the type of object. For example forms would be located in $XXCUST_TOP/forms/US or

package source code in $XXCUST_TOP/admin/sql for example.

Database Objects, such as tables, indexes and sequences should be created in the XXCUST schema, and then you need to

   a) Grant all privilege from each custom data object to the APPS schema.

      For example : logged in as XXCUST user

      grant all privileges on XX_TABLE to apps;

   b) Create a synonym in APPS for each custom data object

      For example : logged in as APPS user

      create synonym XX_TABLE for XXCUST.XX_TABLE;

13) Login to sysadmin, Application Developer Responsibility

In the backend compile your form

su - applmgr

cd $AU_TOP/forms/US

cp TEMPLATE.fmb XXSAMPLE.fmb

frmcmp_batch Userid=apps/apps module=XXSAMPLE.fmb output_file=/d01/oracle/VIS/apps/apps_st/appl/XXCUST/12.0.0/forms/US/XXSAMPLE.fmx compile_all=special  batch=yes

Application > Form (Register the form)

Application > Menu (Attach the function to a menu)

Open new session, source environment file, and stop middle tier services, run autoconfig

Open new session, source environment file, check for custom top in topfile.txt in $APPL_TOP/admin, start the middle tier services.

   cd $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME

   sh adstpall.sh apps/apps

   sh adautocfg.sh

   sh adstrtal.sh apps/apps

   cat $APPL_TOP/admin/topfile.txt

   You can find the entry as lke this, XXCUST /d01/oracle/VIS/apps/apps_st/appl

14) Menu that is added to a particular responsibility is given to specific user

Security > User >

Attach our custom responsibility to the user.

Common Errors and Solution:

1. Function not available to this responsibility. Change responsibility or contact your system administrator.

Solution

Restart the forms server

cd $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME

sh adstpall.sh apps/apps

sh adstrtal.sh apps/apps

Thanks & Regards,

Anto Joe Natesh I