OAF Personalizations Deployment Steps

Extracing From Source Instance

• Set profile option “FND: Personalization Document Root Path”. The value of this profile option will be the directory name on mid-tier
• Ensure that this directory exists on mid-tier machine of the destination environment
• Login to Functional Administrator Responsibility
• Navigate to tab “Personalization”
• Click on Import/Export
• Search the desired personalizations for the application name
• Extract the personalilzations
• Login to linux/unix mid-tier and cd to directory specified in profile option
• Run following command
• tar –cvf xxPersonalizations.tar ./*

Uploading to another instance

• Set profile option “FND: Personalization Document Root Path”. The value of this profile option will be the directory name on mid-tierEnsure that this directory exists on mid-tier machine of the destination environment
• FTP the xxPersonalizations.tar to the directory specific in above profile option
• Cd to that directory and run command tar –xvf xxPersonalizations.tar
• Login to Functional Administrator Responsibility
• Navigate to tab “Personalization”
• Click on Import/ExportSelect and Import the personalizations that have been imported