How to: Screen changes and possibilities (Part 1)
Posted January 16th, 2008 at 16:09 by bob_romijn
I got an invitation to write somethign to a blog. Never did this before, but hey, why not. I found a subject where I got some question to, so let;s use that for a beginning.
As perhaps a lot of you are dealing with this, I get a lot of questions of customers to change a particular screen or to display data on it that is not currently.
OTM works with XML and XSL-style sheets (Most likely everybody knows this but I wanted to be complete). If you know how to work with XSL and XML you can do a lot of modification to the screens.
Before I proceed a warning is here on the right spot. If you change a style sheet you leave the path of standard application! Support from Oracle will be impossible. I only want to do these things when VPD and all other functionality doesn’t provide you the right tools to achieve your goal. BARE THIS ALWAYS IN MIND! A lot of “migration-headaches” were started here…..
But if you made up your mind and decided to head this way, go on and read the story.
Let’s go for the track & trace screen of a shipment. I will work with version 5.0
The requirement: The customer wants to see on the track and trace screen on stop/Ship unit ID level the “Ship Unit Count”. You would have already thought it should be there because the header is there….. Oops, a Oracle bug! That isn’t too nice. 5.0 is not supported anymore so we have to fix the bug ourselves! Off we go:
I like to make it in two parts. First part is how to find out which xsl-style sheet needs to be modified. If you don’t know which style sheet it is you will have a hard time.
From the shipment query result screen: select “Always open in new window” to get the track & trace screen in a new window. Do the smart link of a shipment “Track and Trace”.
When this screen is complete on your screen and you have the “address”-bar of the explorer, you will see the complete URL. Go to the end of that URL and add to that “&debug=Y” (of course without the quotes
). Hit the enter button atfter that so the page will reload.
Now you will get a page with the XML message as it is processed. On line 2 you see already which style sheet is used for parsing this XML. In this case “TrackAndTraceResults.xsl” in directory “giiv”. That wasn’t too hard.
I always copy the complete XML to a local file, because I need this file later on to determine where the data is or if the data is available to display.
On your web-server you will find this style sheet. Download it so you are able to work with it.
Next time I will tell a bit more how to change it etc. What a cliff hanger.....
Bob Romijn
As perhaps a lot of you are dealing with this, I get a lot of questions of customers to change a particular screen or to display data on it that is not currently.
OTM works with XML and XSL-style sheets (Most likely everybody knows this but I wanted to be complete). If you know how to work with XSL and XML you can do a lot of modification to the screens.
Before I proceed a warning is here on the right spot. If you change a style sheet you leave the path of standard application! Support from Oracle will be impossible. I only want to do these things when VPD and all other functionality doesn’t provide you the right tools to achieve your goal. BARE THIS ALWAYS IN MIND! A lot of “migration-headaches” were started here…..
But if you made up your mind and decided to head this way, go on and read the story.
Let’s go for the track & trace screen of a shipment. I will work with version 5.0
The requirement: The customer wants to see on the track and trace screen on stop/Ship unit ID level the “Ship Unit Count”. You would have already thought it should be there because the header is there….. Oops, a Oracle bug! That isn’t too nice. 5.0 is not supported anymore so we have to fix the bug ourselves! Off we go:
I like to make it in two parts. First part is how to find out which xsl-style sheet needs to be modified. If you don’t know which style sheet it is you will have a hard time.
From the shipment query result screen: select “Always open in new window” to get the track & trace screen in a new window. Do the smart link of a shipment “Track and Trace”.
When this screen is complete on your screen and you have the “address”-bar of the explorer, you will see the complete URL. Go to the end of that URL and add to that “&debug=Y” (of course without the quotes
). Hit the enter button atfter that so the page will reload.Now you will get a page with the XML message as it is processed. On line 2 you see already which style sheet is used for parsing this XML. In this case “TrackAndTraceResults.xsl” in directory “giiv”. That wasn’t too hard.
I always copy the complete XML to a local file, because I need this file later on to determine where the data is or if the data is available to display.
On your web-server you will find this style sheet. Download it so you are able to work with it.
Next time I will tell a bit more how to change it etc. What a cliff hanger.....
Bob Romijn
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