How To Migrate OAF Personalizations To Other Instances

Steps To Migrate Personalizations In OAF

Following steps should be  performed in order to migrate Personalizations from one instance to another.

Steps To Be Performed In Source Instance

• Set profile option "FND: Personalization Document Root Path" with the location (path) of the server where personalization should be extracted before exporting personalization.
• Go to Functional Administrator.Click on Personalization tab.
• Under Import/Export click on Personalization Repository.
• Give Document Root Path as "/oracle/apps/pos/supplier/webui" and press Go.Page will display all the Personalizations.
• Select all the listed Personalizations which you want to export and press Export to File System.
  
  
  
  
• • Go to the path in "FND: Personalization Document Root Path" and run "  tar -cvf xxPersonalizations.tar ./*  ".
  • Transfer the xxPersonalizations.tar to destination in Binary mode.
  Steps To Be Performed in destination instance
• Set profile option "FND: Personalization Document Root Path" with the location (path) of the server (from where personalizations will be imported) before importing personalizations.
• Copy .tar file to middle tier directory pointed by "FND: Personalization Document Root Path".
• Run " tar -xvf xxPersonalizations.tar ".
• Go to Functional Administrator.Click on Personalization tab.
• Under Import/Export click on Exported Personalizations.
• Click on Import from File System as shown in the following screenshot

Note: Instead of using Functional Administrator you can also use java oracle.jrad.tools.xml.importer.XMLImporteralso to upload Personalizations.