Excel for E-Business Suite

Decided to gather all Excel settings in one place for my own sake really. It might be redundant with some existing posts here but I like it to be easily accessible. The settings below should work with the latest versions of Excel – so far 2007; 2010 and 2012. Pictures below are from Excel 2010. […]

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Internet Explorer for E-Business Suite

Decided to gather all IE settings in one place for my own sake really. It might be redundant with some existing posts here but I like it to be easily accessible. The settings below should work with the latest versions of IE – so far IE8; IE9 and IE10. Version specific settings are at the […]

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Internet Explorer 8

First Install Java JRE 1.5.0.13 as usual as the download from the Apps server to IE8 would not work – and just install the version required by default so you might need a different version Then add your Apps server to IE8 security settings: Lower the security setting to medium-low for Trusted Sites: Allow pop-ups […]

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R12 – Upgrade Overview

This is a my personal log of changes from 11i to R12. It is my intent to go through core financials in R12 as an internal project in order to make a structured approach to new features and changes in the new release. So the notes below only applies to core Financials modules in scope. […]

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R12 – Virtualbox Connection

So you got R12 up and running and want to connect to it from a Vbox machine? I’m running R12.0.4 on OEL5.3 with Virtualbox 2.2.2 having a Windows 7 machine. R12 R12 is installed on OEL with the hostname: localhost.localdomain Firefox works locally against R12 so the EBS stack in working at this point. Start […]

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Windows 7

This post is written in Windows 7 RC running in Virtualbox inside Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5.3 – good fun! OEL is in reality a Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is a bit amputated in term of applications and drivers. The reason for this constellation is OEL 5.3 Supports eBusiness Suite R12 and RDBMS 10g. […]

R12 – Firefox and Java

I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. Firefox Firefox 3 does not work with R12. I could get forms to work however framework pages had problems with buttons. So install Firefox 2 instead. Java Plug-in For R12.0.4 on OEL desktop you want to use JRE 1.5.0.13 otherwise you […]

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R12 – Managing

This article applies to: EBS 12.0.4 on OEL5.3 EBS 12.1.1 on OEL5.4 RDBMS 10g on OEL5.3 RDBMS 11g on OEL5.3 and OEL5.4 I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. Login This is my own login script which you can see here. Login to OEL as Oracle and run […]

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R12 – Hardware and Software

This is the hardware and software I use for the R12 Laptop. I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. Laptop My laptop is a Dell XPS M1530 with the following specs: CPU Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 cache) Memory […]

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R12 – Installation

This article applies to version 12.0.4. I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. Download Oracle E-Business Suite – EBS from http://edelivery.oracle.com/ Rapid Install patch 6919017 from http://metalink.oracle.com Transfer Files Boot into Ubuntu and transfer files to the /oracle partition for example /oracle/install Unzip Boot into OEL and login […]

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