Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Oracle Applications Login

Before you connect to Oracle Applications you must know the URL of the Oracle Applications server you want to connect to. Clicking on the URL would lead you to the Oracle Applications Login Page as shown in figure 1 below.

Oracle Applications Login Page


Choosing Responsibility

To connect to the Oracle Applications, you must have an Oracle Apps login ID created by the System Administrator of the Oracle Applications instance.

Enter the appropriate Login ID and password and click login. If the login is successful it will lead you to the responsibility page as shown in figure 2 below. This page will show all the responsibilities that have been assigned to your Login ID by the System Administrator.

List of Responsibilities

Choosing Function / Opening Form
Once you click on a responsibility, it will show you the menus and functions associated with the responsibility. Click on the Sys Admin, Vision Services (USA) responsibility. The page will look like as shown in the figure 3 below.

Menus and Functions attached to a responsibility

Each function under a menu opens a form when clicked upon. The forms are basically an interface between you and the applications for various functionalities. These forms are run on Oracle Jinitiator. Once you click on a function, the jinitiator is invoked and it then opens the respective form. If you are login for the first time, Oracle Applications automatically downloads and installs the jinitiator for you. It, therefore, takes a longer time to open the form for the first time. Once the jinitiator is installed, it opens an intermediate window (figure 4) before the form is opened. Please do not close this window as it will close the Oracle Applications session. Wait till the form window opens up automatically. The intermediate page would go to the background.

Intermediate Window


Forms in Applet Mode

Keyboard Shortcuts
The same process can be used to query data on any form in Oracle Applications. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts for entering and running the query. For example, F11 key puts the form in the query mode and Ctrl + F11 runs the query. You can get the list of the complete key board shortcuts by clicking on Help->Keyboard Help as shown in the figure 14 below








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