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After you have mastered using the standard WebADI layouts, you may find the seeded templates don’t
quite fit your business process. There may be fields you don’t use or fields you wish to add. Oracle does
apply you to customize a template’s layout. Changes that you can make to a template layout are:
1. Adding fields
2. Removing fields
3. Changing a field’s placement (context, header, or line)
4. Re-ordering fields
5. Hiding fields
6. Making a fields display only
7. Making a field required
8. Defaulting a value
Before we get into an example of customizing a layout, let’s talk about the different sections of a template
and how Oracle determines where to place the fields on the spreadsheet.
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After you have selected your fields, you can change the defaults for the fields. A default can be a constant,
an environment variable, a parameter, a value based on a SQL query, or an Excel formula (a value based on
another field in the spreadsheet).
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I think the best way to explain these steps is in an example. For this example, I want to improve the
“Transaction Import” template for the Projects module. I selected this template because it has a security
function that prevents you from opening the template from the Oracle Web ADI responsibility.
My new layout will be a copy of the “Costed Transactions” layout, I will modify fields in the context section,
header section, and line section. I will also re-order and hide some fields. It’s a good idea to create the
spreadsheet you wish to modify so you can have a better visual of the current layout. Here’s my starting
spreadsheet (before my changes).
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Web ADI Select Integrator
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Web ADI Remove Fields
Step 7: Change the field order, display attribute, and number of default rows in Excel.
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Web ADI Create Form Function
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