APP_SPECIAL.INSTANTIATE

Example 1

    
      APP_SPECIAL.INSTANTIATE('SPECIAL3','&Book Order', 'POBKORD', TRUE, 'LINE');

    
    
      
        APP_POPUP.INSTANTIATE('POPUP1','First Entry'); 
APP_POPUP.INSTANTIATE('POPUP2','Second Entry', TRUE,'LINE'); 
APP_POPUP.INSTANTIATE('POPUP3','Third Entry', FALSE);
      
    
    

  

Example 2

    
      app_special.instantiate('SPECIAL12_CHECKBOX',
                        'Specia&l 12 Check Box with Line',
                         separator=>'LINE'); 
app_special.set_checkbox('SPECIAL12_CHECKBOX','TRUE');  
    
  

results in a menu entry that looks like the following:

    
      -----------------------------------
[x] Specia
      
        l
      
      l 12 Check Box with Line

    
  

Example3

DECLARE
l_menu_label VARCHAR2(80);
BEGIN
fnd_message.set_name('PO', 'PO_SPECIAL_ALL_VIEW_MSG_HSTRY');
fnd_message.get(l_menu_label);
app_special.instantiate('SPECIAL9', l_menu_label, NULL,FALSE,NULL);
END;

Reference: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18727_01/doc.121/e12897/T302934T457083.htm#I_ax2Dtoolbar

APP_SPECIAL.ENABLE

    
      APP_SPECIAL.ENABLE('SPECIAL3',PROPERTY_ON);
app_special.enable('SPECIAL6', PROPERTY_ON); 
app_special.enable('SPECIAL6', PROPERTY_OFF); 

    
  

Set_Menu_Item_Property

Declare
mi_id MenuItem ;
BEGIN
If your_conditionThen
mi_id := Find_Menu_Item('menu.item');
If not id_null ( mi_id ) Then
Set_Menu_Item_Property( 'menu.item', ENABLED, PROPERTY_TRUE ) ;
Set_Menu_Item_Property( 'menu.item', ENABLED, PROPERTY_FALSE ) ;
End if ;
End if ;
END;

VISIBLE
set_menu_item_property ('menu1.TRANS',visible,PROPERTY_TRUE);
set_menu_item_property ('menu1.TRANS',visible,PROPERTY_FALSE);

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Difference between menu & special in personalization

source: https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=10513442

MENU1 through MENU15 menu entries, available in the Tools pulldown menu. These are guaranteed not to be used by Oracle and are exclusively for customer use, therefore we strongly encourage you to use these entries as opposed to the SPECIAL menu entries in order to avoid collisions of code. When the user selects the entry, it will fire the corresponding MENU# trigger. You must also create another rule that traps this Trigger Event and performs the desired functionality.

Forms Personalization:
SPECIALn
Populate tools menu (SPECIAL 1-15)
Populate reports menu (SPECIAL 16-30)
Populate actions menu (SPECIAL 31-45)
MENUn
Populate tools menu (MENU1-15)
Use these before SPECIALn

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Tools Menu

source: http://oracle.anilpassi.com/forms-personalization-best-practices-4.html

To create new Tool Menus, always use MENU1-MENU15, as Oracle guarantees never to use these during development.
Same is not true for SPECIAL Menus, as Oracle development may release a patch utilising the same SPECIALx as you may have personalized.
MENU1..15 is available starting from 11.5.10 CU2 onwards

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Oracle EBS還允許客制化Form的菜單欄
zz: http://ryanlunar.blog.163.com/blog/static/183577092201283101830760/

用戶最多可以定義 45 個 form-level 的 trigger ，名稱必須為 SPECIALn ，其中 SPECIAL1 to SPECIAL15 屬于 Tools 菜單項， SPECIAL16 to SPECIAL30 屬于 Reports 菜單項 , SPECIAL31 to SPECIAL45 屬于 Actions 菜單項 , 其中 Reports 、 Actions 的名稱可以被修改。

SPECIAL1—SPECIAL15 在“工具”主菜單下。

SPECIAL16—SPECIAL30 在“報表”主菜單下。

SPECIAL31—SPECIAL45 在“活動”主菜單下。

SPECIAL菜單：

觸發器When-New-Form-Instance

Form級app_special.instantiate('SPECIAL1','<Prompt>');

觸發器Pre_Block

app_special.enable('SPECIAL1',property_on);

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客制化Form的菜單欄和右鍵菜單