Action Link

Experts,
I am using an Action Link for navigating from Analytics to Siebel record.
I dont know why the link for drilling down is not appearing.Static value is appearing.How to get the link so that I can drilldown to Siebel record.
thx,
parag

Hi Stefan,
I guess R12 are the Forms and the OAF are the HTML-screens within Oracle eBS.
I am afraid that it is a little bit more complicated then you are stating. As far as I know there is no documentation on how Oracle constructs the URL back to Oracle eBS. If you have a standard Oracle Repository you can see how they built the URL's.
They are using the fnd_url_functions package in the APPS schema. They use this functionality in the Physical Layer. They add an extra column to their tabel of type 'Select'.
I was able to built an URL, but it was Trial and Error.
Hope this gives a little bit of info.
Good Luck,
Daan Bakboord

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