Know the Calender feature in EBS

Posted on August 9th, 2007 by Sanjit Anand | Print This Post | Email This Post

You can enter a value directly to a date field or use the calendar facility in APPS. Calendar lets you the following needs.

• Represent date and time graphically so that you can make a quick selection without typing.
• Select only those dates or date ranges that are suitable for the current field.

How to invoke a calendar in a form

To invoke a calendar in a custom form you need to do the following.

• Create a text item with data type DATE in the form.
• Set the LOV of the text item to ENABLE_LIST_LAMP in the property sheet.
• Set the LOV for Validation property of the text item to FALSE.
• Create an item level trigger KEY-LISTVAL as CALENDAR.SHOW