Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook

Adding a flexfield to a page

In this recipe, we are going to show how we can create a descriptive flexfield (DFF) and then display the flexfield on the screen. Again, we need to gather some information about the page and find out if a flexfield is available for a particular region. We will then configure a segment on the DFF and show how we can display it on the screen.

How to do it...

To add a flexfield to a page, perform the following steps:

1. Log in to Oracle with XXUSER and select the XX Test Manager Self-Service responsibility.
2. Navigate to the Absence Management page.
3. Click on the Action icon for an employee record.
4. Click on the Create Absence button and the Enter Absence Details screen will open as shown in the following screenshot:
5. Scroll down to ...