How to populate a field from database through personalization

Question

I need to populate value of a field from database on self service transaction web page. This field is not configured as EIT or SIT, nor available in seeded transaction.I need to know abt creating some item through personalization where i can write a query . This item will execute the query and display the returned value on the page or something on the similar line.
Thanks in advance,
Tanveer

Answer 1

This workaround should be used as a one time approach till you move to 11.5.10 CU3.
Here are the details,
You just need to add the following tags inside the site or function level customization document, remember it should be either site or function only no other levels are supported for adding a new item.
before adding the following tags you need to find out the following details,
1. what is the last item in the advancedTable, column or columnGroup in the base metadata. Do not conside the columns inside the columnGroups for this, just the last item which might be a column or a columngroup. Get the if of that item.
2. You should know what is the view instance and viewattribute you will be attaching
3. Remember you can only add columns through personalization and not columnGroups.
4. Replace the appropriate values for the properties amrked with {...} with your own values. You can change the other properties to reflect any specific requirement you want. Make sure you provide correct values.
<insert after="{the id you got from step 1}">
<oa:column id="{yourid}" adminCustomizable="true" bandingShade="none"
cellNoWrapFormat="false" columnDataFormat="textFormat" displayGrid="true"
rendered="true" scope="." totalValue="false" userCustomizable="false"
xmlns:oa="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oa">
<ui:columnHeader xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui">
<oa:sortableHeader id="{yourid}" adminCustomizable="true"
cellNoWrapFormat="false" initSortSeq="none" prompt="{your prompt}"
rendered="true" required="no" scope="." sortState="no"
userCustomizable="false"/>
</ui:columnHeader>
<ui:contents xmlns:ui="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/ui">
<oa:messageStyledText id="{yourid}" adminCustomizable="true"
cellNoWrapFormat="false" dataType="VARCHAR2" initSortSeq="none" queryable="false" rendered="true" required="no" scope="."
selectiveSearchCriteria="false"
serverUnvalidated="false" sortState="no" tipType="none" totalValue="false"
userCustomizable="false" vAlign="middle" viewAttr="{your view attribute}" viewName="{your view instance name}"
warnAboutChanges="true"/>
</ui:contents>
</oa:column>
</insert>
You can insert these tags at the end of any existing tags within the <modifications>
</modifications> tag in the document.