Attachments Table (AkAttachUploadPageCO.class)

Question

We have used the Oracle provided Attachment facility to customise the page MAAnswerQuestPG, where we have created an attachment table using personalisations. You get to this page using ManagerSelf-Service-> Appraisals-> when you try and update an appraisal of an employee by clicking Manager Ratings button. This will take you to MAAnswerQuestPG.xml page. This is where we have added the attachment table using personalisations.
You may have to do this yourself on one of your environments, it does not have to be this page. You can add the attachment table to any page -oracle docs provide full explanation on how to do this. Once the table appears you will see an Add button (to add attachment) click on it and this will open up the page that you see in the screen shot. You will notice that you can attach three types of attachments, file, url or just text. We are using file and for this we want to Hide the attachment summary information region which has the mandatory 'Description' field which we do not wish to use.
When users wish to attach a document/file they are prompted to enter a file Description which is mandatory under the region 'Attachment Summary Information' (please see screen shot). We want to hide this entire region i.e. 'Attachment Summary Information' and just have the 'Define Attachment' region on the page.
When we go to personalise this page under /oracle/apps/fnd/framework/attachments/webui/FND_ATTACH_UPLOAD_PAGE, we find this region and its fields are non-personalisable i.e these cannot be personalised to turn rendering off. We cannot even personalise the Page Layout (Add Attachment section) which is calling AkAttachUploadPageCO.class to call an customised extended class to hide this region. Seems like this has been done deliberately by Oracle development team.
Please advise on how we can render this region off or make the Description field non-mandatory
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Answer 1

Hi all any inputs on this?