Recommended Desktop Settings for Oracle eBS Applications - SDSU

Recommended Desktop Settings for Oracle eBS Applications 

Introduction 

Oracle eBS applications and Oracle WebCenter imaging are certified to run on desktops with the XP or 

Windows 7 operating system and using browsers Internet Explorer or Firefox. The following are step-bystep 

procedures to optimize your desktop settings for use with Oracle eBusiness Suite (financial) 

applications. 

Section I: Java settings 

Section II: Browser settings 

Section III: Microsoft Excel settings 

Section IV: Oracle WebCenter Imaging settings 

Section I: Configuring Java for use with Oracle Applications 

1. Oracle Applications requires installation of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.6.0_xx 

(the most current and certified version for use with Oracle eBS financials can be downloaded from 

LEAP). 

To install the Sun Java JRE, you will need administrator rights on the desktop. 

Once installed, navigate to Control Panel > Programs > Java. Click on the Advanced Tab > Security 

> Mixed Code (sandboxed vs. trusted) security verification. Make sure 2 nd radio button is selected. 

See figure below: 

Section II: Configuring Internet Explorer (versions 8 or 9) for Use with Oracle Applications 

Note: These settings are for Internet Explorer, but can be used as a guideline for Firefox users as well. On 

Figures II.3 and II.4 of this document are screenshots addressing tabbed browsing specific to Firefox 

users. 

Launch Internet Explorer 8 or 9 and navigate as follows: 

1. Tools > Compatibility View Settings. Uncheck all settings to turn off compatibility view. If you see 

“sdsu.edu” has been added, remove it. See figure below: 

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2. Tools > Internet Options > General (tab) > Browsing History (mid-region) > Settings (button). 

On this page, make sure radio button “Every time I visit the webpage” is selected. See figure below: 

3. Tools > Internet Options > General (tab) > Tabs (region) > Settings (button). 

On this page, make sure radio buttons “Always open pop-ups in a new window” and “A new tab in the 

current window” are selected. See figure below: 



If using Firefox, the option for Tabbed browsing is found under Tools > Tabs > “Open new windows in a 

new tab instead”. 

4. Tools > Internet Options > Security (tab) > Internet (highlighted) > Default Level (button). 

On this page, make sure you have selected “Default Level”. Do this also for the Local intranet. When we 

get to Trusted Sites, we’ll change our settings. See figures below: 

5. With Trusted Sites Sites selected, the Sites button just below should become enabled – click on 

that to open up this region and we will add the following as trusted sites; see figures below: 

https://fiji.sdsu.edu 

https://tahiti.sdsu.edu 

https://bali.sdsu.edu 

https://crete.sdsu.edu 

https://cmsweb.cms.sdsu.edu (if your user uses HCM PeopleSoft apps) 

https://cmsreports.cms.sdsu.edu (if your user uses HCM PeopleSoft apps) 



6. With Trusted Sites still highlighted, select Custom Level and update the following settings. These 

will only apply to those “Trusted Sites” you just added in #4 above. 

Settings > ActiveX controls and plug-ins > 

Download signed ActiveX controls (check ‘Enable’ radio button) 

Download unsigned ActiveX controls (check ‘Enable’ radio button) 

Initialize and Script ActiveX controls not marked as safe for scripting (check ‘Enable’ radio button) 

See figures below: 

7. In the same region, now find the section for “Downloads”. This will enable Exports from Oracle. 

Settings > Downloads > 

Automatic prompting for file downloads (check ‘Enable’ radio button) 

File Download (check ‘Enable’ radio button) 

Font Download (check ‘Enable’ radio button) 




8. In this same region of Settings, under “Miscellaneous”, disable pop-up blocker. 

Settings > Miscellaneous > 

Use Pop-up Blocker (check ‘Disable’ radio button), and click OK. We’re finished with this region. 


9. Click on the Privacy (tab) and check the “Turn on Pop-up Blocker” option. See figure below: 

Please note: Browser plug-in toolbars such as Google or Yahoo may install pop-up blockers with the 

toolbar. BIS discourages use of any third party toolbars, as it may impede proper Oracle applications 

functionality. If you do use third party toolbars, be sure you disable any pop-ups that may have been 

installed. 

10. Click on “Advanced” tab, and scroll to the “Browsing” and “Security” regions as noted below. 

Advanced > Browsing > 

uncheck “Reuse windows for launching shortcuts (when tabbed browsing is off)” 

Advanced > Security > 

Check “Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed” 

Uncheck “Do not saved encrypted pages to disk” 




Section III: Configuring Microsoft Excel 2010 for use with Oracle Applications 

11. Set Microsoft Excel settings and File Types for performing File Exports (downloads) from Oracle 

applications to Excel. 

Open MS Excel 2010 and select File (tab) > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings (button) > 

Under Macro Settings heading, enable radio button “Disable all macros with notification” 

Under Developer Macro Settings heading, check “Trust access to the VBA project object model” 




12. Define a new File Type (.tsv) for performing Exports out of Oracle Apps to Microsoft Excel. 

For Windows XP Users: navigate to My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > File Types > New (button). 

Create New Extension: File Extension = TSV. Then click on Advanced (button). 

For Associated File type choose “Microsoft Excel Worksheet” from the drop-down of choices. Click OK. 

This brings you back to a window that shows the new File Type of .tsv and that it’s been associated to 

Microsoft Excel. Click the Advanced button from here, and check “Confirm open after download”. 

For Windows7: there is no delivered mechanism any longer to create a new file type. So the way to 

accomplish this is to run a query in Oracle and when the results are returned, choose File > Export. When 

the file is finished downloading from Oracle, you should be prompted to either Find or Save the file. Save 

it locally to the desktop. 

Now navigate to the desktop to find the new file. Double click on it to try and open it. You should be 

presented with a dialog box that says Windows can’t open this file type (because it doesn’t recognize the 

file type), and it will offer a choice to either use a web service to open the program or choose a program 

on the desktop. Choose select “Select a program from a list of installed programs”. 

Click on the Browse button and find whichever version of Microsoft Excel the user has installed on their 

desktop and choose the Microsoft Excel executable: 

Microsoft Excel 2010 typically installs under this path: 

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Excel.exe 

Microsoft Excel 2007 typically installs under this path: 

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Excel.exe 

With that first window still open and Microsoft Excel now selected, be sure to check the box that says 

“Always use the selected program to open this kind of file” so that subsequent exports from Oracle will 

allow the user to open the file immediately into Excel without having to tell the computer what program to 

use for that file type! 

If you have performed the above correctly, all subsequent queries that are exported out of Oracle should 

open up the results directly in Microsoft Excel. 

Section IV: Configuring Oracle WebCenter Imaging 

13. You can set your own preference to use the Advanced Viewer as the default when viewing images 

in Oracle WebCenter Imaging or you can select either the Advanced or Basic viewer while viewing 

an image. 

To change the viewer when viewing an image, see the figure below: 



or you can set your viewer using preferences, see figure below: 

Preferences > Viewer Settings > Use Advanced Viewer by Default – Set to True, see figure below: 

If you need assistance or clarification of anything in this document, please contact the Business 

Information Systems HelpDesk (x40899) during standard University business hours (M-F 8:00 – 4:30 

p.m.). 

Date Author Version Change Reference 

12/06/2006 Donna Roelofsz 1.00 Created 

06/01/2008 Dennis Espineli 1.01 Document Updates 

03/12/2009 Dennis Espineli 2.00 Document Updates/Version Control 

08/26/2009 Donna Roelofsz 3.00 Document Updates/Version Control 





08/03/2012 Cyndie Winrow 8.00 Document Updates/Version Control 

07/10/2013 Donna Roelofsz 9.00 

Document Updates/Version Control – Removed 

IE 7, page 1. Added compatibility info, page 1. 

Modified trusted sites, page 3 

8/8/2013 Donna Roelofsz 10.00 

Document Updates/Version Control/Add Oracle 

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