How To Open A Worksheet Directly From Oracle Applications Menu ?
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How To Open A Worksheet Directly From Oracle Applications Menu ?
If a workbook has 4 worksheets how to default to a particular worksheet. This article will help you to pass the worksheet identifier and parameter directly while opening a workbook. The worksheet identifier and the worksheet parameters for the workbook has to be specified in the form function with below mentioned guidlines.
| Form Function Definition | |
| Function Name | Internal Function Name |
| Function User Name | Function name (as shown on the menu) |
| Type | WWW |
| Description | Function description |
| Parameters | workbook=workbookname &PARAMETERS=sheetid~worksheet id*param_parameter name One~Parameter One Value*param_parameter name Two~Parameter Two Value* |
| HTML Call | OracleOasis.RunDiscoverer |
Parameters in the parameter list are delimited by the characters
“param_” at the beginning of each parameter and
“~” as delimiter between parameter name and value and
“*” at the end of each parameter
ICX interprets the PARAMETER list and passes the parameters to Discoverer in the required URL format.
Example 1
If the workbook id is CAHRMS_ABSENCE_CALENDAR_REPORT and worksheet id is 1 then parameter will be as follows
workbook=CAHRMS_ABSENCE_CALENDAR_REPORT&PARAMETERS=sheetid~1*
Example 2
If the workbook id is CAHRMS_ABSENCE_CALENDAR_REPORT , worksheet id is 1 and the value for worksheet parameter “deptname” to be passed is 10 then parameter will be as follows
workbook=CAHRMS_ABSENCE_CALENDAR_REPORT&PARAMETERS=sheetid~1*param_deptname~10*
Example 3
If a workbook has two parameters “Company” and “City” you would specify in the Parameter list of the Form funtion:
param_Company~Oracle Corp.*param_City~Redwood Shores*
