Submitting a concurrent program via selfservice can be quite cumbersome for users. It’s possible to make their day a bit better by shortening the submission procedure…..
When you submit a concurrent program from Oracle Applications Self Service module there are a lot of screens to navigate through.
- Select the program that has to be started and optionally specify an identifying name
- Fill in the nescessarry parameters
- Choose a schedule
- (Optional) choose the layout for XML publisher
- Choose who to notify upon completion
- Set Print options
- Review all settings and submit
Walking though these screens can be quite cumbersome for users. So it’s no surprise I got the question from a customer if it was possible to shorten the submission screen a bit. While looking into a solution to submit the concurrent program via a custom built OA-Framework page I discovered it’s possible to provide the seeded OA-Framework page with parameters.
These parameters control whether all or some steps are shown. In other words: it’s possible to hide a few steps, exactly the thing the customer requested. 😀
Turns out there are quite a few parameters you can specify:
- requestURL=<url>
Controls where the user will be sent after the request is either submitted or when the cancel button is pressed - programApplName=<name>
Controls which predefined program will be called, quite handy if you want the user to submit just one specific concurrent program - programDesc=<desc>
The description under which the request becomes visible in the concurrent requests window - programRegion=Hide
Hide the Region where the user can select a concurrent program.
When you specify this option you need to specify the concurrent program via the programApplName parameter, else you get a nice error message. - parameterRegion=Hide
Hides the concurrent programs parameters - scheduleRegion=Hide
Hides the schedule step - notifyRegion=Hide
Hides the who to notify upon completion step - printRegion=Hide
Hides the print output step - pageTitle=<title>
Sets a custom title for the page.
So it’s easy to change
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