New Whitepaper: Upgrading EBS 11i Forms + OA Framework Personalizations to EBS 12
- by Sara Woodhull
Personalizations are -- and have always been -- one of the safest and
most upgradable ways to "customize" your Oracle E-Business Suite
screens, both for Oracle Forms-based screens and for Oracle
Application Framework-based pages. However, the upgrade from Release
11i to Release 12.1 spans many years of EBS evolution, during which
time Oracle has actively been building many new features and modules.
A lot has changed in Oracle E-Business Suite that may affect
upgrading your personalizations from 11i to 12.1. We have published a new note on My Oracle Support that discusses ways to evaluate your existing personalizations:Upgrading Form Personalizations and OA Framework Personalizations from Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i to 12.1 (Note 1292611.1)Two distinct types of personalizations
There are two distinct types of personalizations: Form
Personalization OA Framework Personalization. Both types of
personalization are completely metadata-based. The personalizations
are stored as data in database tables. However, because the
underlying technologies (Oracle Forms and OA Framework) are very
different, Forms personalizations and OA Framework personalizations are
not equivalent and cannot be converted or migrated from one to
the other.
