Recommended Desktop Settings for Oracle eBS Applications - SDSU

Recommended Desktop Settings for Oracle eBS Applications
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:
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