OAF Attachment Disable File or Url or Short text attachment

In Oracle EBS OAF Attachments you can disable different attachment types like File, URL, Short text, Long Text using the following code in processRequest of your controller:

OAF attachment - set insert allowed update allowed and delete allowed programatically

In Oracle EBS OAF attachment we can set "Insert Allowed", "Update Allowed" and "Delete Allowed" properties of an entity map programmatically in process request of controller:

Oracle EBS OAF attachment to be updated / deleted by creator only

Have you ever got a requirement in Oracle EBS FND attachments where in multiple users can add an attachment of the same category but only the person who has created it can delete or update it.

 For others delete and update column will be disabled. I achieved it recently in OAF by creating a custom DataBoundValueVIewObject class and associating it with update and delete icons of the attachment table. Since attachment table is a seeded region, I had to extend its controller to associate custom DataBoundValueVIewObject with update and delete icons.

1. Create a custom DataBoundValueViewObject (xxOADataBoundValueViewObject ) class:
   
   
   
   

Oracle Workflow Tips and Tricks - hide default action history and show custom action history, customizing notifications, hiding buttons, recall functionality

I am here by going to discuss on a few of the tricks and scenarios related to Oracle Workflow. If you think we cannot do much with the limitations of the workflow then you are going wrong. There are ways we can play with a workflow notification. 

(1) Hide default Action History and show your custom Action History region

   

 At times you feel like hiding default Action History region and show your own action history from your custom table in OAF region being displayed inside Workflow message. There are two ways you can do that:

(a) In OAF region controller : You can use the below lines to hide Oracle default Action History        region:

Oracle EBS - finding function id ( function_id ) for the current form for the logged in user in pl/sql

We might get a requirement where you want to show same form function twice under a responsibility with different names and showing different data.

Let`s say the data being displayed comes from a View.