OA Framework Personalizations- Creating a New Field

I am not OA consultant but I had to handle few personalization for an iSupplier implementation.I had a very basic knowledge on personalization, and explored few more stuff during this assignment.

I have used the below approach to create a new field in the OA Page.

Get the VO :
In any OA page, if you click on the 'About this Page' you will get clear idea on the underlying VO. Get the name of the VO and the column names. For the exact column name you have look in to the attributes table.

Create a new Item:
Click on the Personalize page link in the Page where you want to create a new field.

Select the respective region and click on Create new item icon.
Enter unique value in the ID, Prompt and some basic properties like read only, rendered, mandatory. The Item style as 'Message Text Input'.

The important part is View Attribute and View Instance.
In the view Attribute, enter the column name you want to store the value.
The column name is nothing but the attribute name you have picked by viewing 'About this Page'.

In the View Instance, enter the VO value. If the entered VO is not mapped in to the OA page, it will throw error message.

So make ensure that view instance and view attribute are appropriate for the page.

I have used the above approaches to create two new fields in the iSupplier Registration pages.

iSupplier - New Supplier Registration

I am totally new to the iSupplier module and have been asked to explore on the new supplier Self service registration process. [11i]

Here are the Steps that I have identified and being used to generate the iSupplier registration link for Self Service Registration process.

You can leave your comments if you feel anything is wrong in this.

Purchasing Super User--> Setup : Profile Management Configuration --> Organization Encryption

Click on the respective Operating Unit and Click on encrypt.

Once the Encryption string is generated, please append the encryption string in the below link in the place of '=(encryption string)'

http(s)://(server):(port)/OA_HTML/jsp/pos/suppreg/SupplierRegister.jsp?ouid=(encryption string)

Then the generated link can be used to register supplier for the selected operating unit.

Please make ensure that the responsibility 'POS Supplier Guest User' has been assigned to the GUEST user and GUEST user is active.