Personalization in OAF To Export Data Into Excel Spreadsheet

Written by Anil PassiMonday, 19 January 2009 00:00

In this article you will see a step by step instruction to export data into excel spreadsheet, froman OA Framework page. This can be achieved via very simple personalization to OAFramework page. The first step will be to find out the ViewObject Instance name from whichdata will be exported. This can be found from "About This Page"  functionality. For this demo,Oracle iProcurement home page is used. We will be doing personalization to this page to addan "Export Button". When user clicks on this button, data from OA Framework View Object willbe exported into excel spreadsheet. For this example, all the currently open notifications for thecurrent user will be exported to excel spreadsheet. The name of the ViewObject used forexporting data from OA Framework Page is "OpenWorklistVO" in this case, and this can befound from "About This Page".

First find out the name of the ViewObject using "About This Page"

 

 

This is our About this Page Information. We can see the View Object from which data will beextracted to Excel

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Personalization in OAF To Export Data Into Excel Spreadsheet

Written by Anil PassiMonday, 19 January 2009 00:00

  Now that we know the View Object Name, we can click on Personalize  

   Let us Create a New Item for Export Button

  Select Export Button

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Personalization in OAF To Export Data Into Excel Spreadsheet

Written by Anil PassiMonday, 19 January 2009 00:00

  Attach the View Object to the Export Button being created, and give this button a label

 Now let us return to the main iProcurement page

 We can now see the button created

   Click on the button

 Excel Spreadsheet will be opened

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Personalization in OAF To Export Data Into Excel Spreadsheet

Written by Anil PassiMonday, 19 January 2009 00:00

  

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