Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook

Creating a master block and container objects

In this recipe, we are going to start on the basics of a master detail form. There are several tasks that we will need to do:

• Creating a block using the block wizard
• Setting the block properties
• Setting the item properties
• Setting the canvas properties
• Setting the window properties
• Setting the module properties
• Creating a dummy item
• Removing unwanted objects
• Renaming prompts
• Resizing the viewport

We have already created two views to base our form on at the beginning of this chapter. The views are called XXHR_PERMGR_DETAILS_V and XXHR_PERSON_DETAILS_V. It is always better to base the block on a view, especially for more complex blocks that use multiple tables. There are several reasons for this; for example, it ...