Introduction
Large Corporations which are heavily reliant on ERP Applications for running their day to day business have multiple ERP environments like Development, UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Pre-Production and Production. Now as all the environments (referred to as POD in context of Fusion Application) have the exactly same look and feel there could be instances where developers would make changes in one environment while hoping the same to be another. While one easy way of notifying the users about the environment could be by changing the look and feel of the application (check this link here for a worked out example) adding a Message ( Banner) on the Application Home Page also serves the purpose.
While am not sure whether in E-Business Suite this was achieved using some page personalization or was available using some profile option ( Read Detail about what is meant by Profile Option here ) but at least for Fusion Application there is a profile option available which makes the task much easier.
Let-us try to see how to use the profile option and how does the Banner Message looks like when implemented.
For this example, we would need to login to the application with an ADMIN user (HCM_IMPL) in this case:
Once we click on the ‘Sign In’ button this would take us to the HomePage:
We must have noticed at this point of time that the HomePage looks like any other Fusion Application Homepage with no explicit banner on the top.
In this article we would try to display a very simple custom message say “This is a Development Environment” to help end-users identify the type of environment (Development / UAT / Pre-Production /Production).
For this we would need to assign the Message to a pre-existing profile option and for that we would need to use the ‘Setup and Maintenance’ link from navigator (as shown below):
And then search for ‘Manage Administrator Profile Option Value’ task:
Once we click on the task name it would take us to the below screen
Next we need to search for ‘FND_BANNER_MESSAGE’ profile
We could notice that current there are no Profile Values configured for this specific Profile Option. We need to click on the (+) icon under FND_BANNER_MESSAGE: Profile Values and add the following details:
FND_BANNER_MESSAGE: Profile Values | |
Attribute Name | Attribute Value |
*Profile Level | Site |
Product Name | |
User Name | |
Profile Value | This is a Development Environment |
Once populated the screen should appear as:
Next we need to click on ‘Save and Close’ button on top right hand side corner of the page which would again take us to ‘Setup and Maintenance’ screen where we have searched for ‘Manage Administrator Profile Values’ task
Once we click on ‘Done’ button the new banner message will appear on the screen
This message would appear on all the pages and this can be confirmed when we move to a different page (say Homepage for now)
