SSHR: DFFs on a Self-Service Page

Q. How do you find the DFFs that are supported on a particular Self-Service ?


I got this frantic call today morning from a friend who wanted to know how to find the DFF's that are supported on a particular web Page in Self-Service and more specifically, wanted to display a few segments from the Additional Job Details DFF on the Self-Service screen. Well, here is what I have learnt:


Let us take the example of ‘Change Job Function’ that is called from Manager Self-Service Responsibility. When the page opens, you can find the 'Flexfield References' section, a list of the flexfields which are supported by this page are listed. These are DFF for which you can Create an Item for.


If a DFF you wish to add to the page is not in this list, then this page cannot have the DFF added to it without customising the code. Offcourse, this would not be supported by Oracle.



You can navigate to the Change Job function > Under Change Job: Assignment Select About This page


You will see the possible DFF the form could support if you attached this DFF on this form:


Remember: Additional Job Details DFF is one of the DFFs that is not supported in Self-Service by Oracle, though no one knows the reason. There are several Enhancement Requests pending and one can only hope that it will find its way into the group sometime post 12.1.1 release.