OA Personalization Migration

Steps to be performed at the Source Instance :

1. Set the 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 and have proper read/write access.


2.Navigate to Functional Administrator Responsibility --> Personalization --> Import/Export.


3.Search the desired personalizations for the application name.

4.Extract the personalilzations.

5.Login to linux/unix mid-tier and cd to directory specified in profile option.

6.Do tar –cvf XXXOAPersonalizations.tar ./*

Steps to be performed at the Destination Instance :

1. 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 and have proper read/write access.

2. FTP the XXXOAPersonalizations.tar to the directory specific in above profile option.


3.Cd to that directory

4.tar –xvf XXXOAPersonalizations.tar *****

5.Navigate to Functional Administrator Responsibility --> Personalization --> Import/Export

6. Select and Import the personalizations that have been imported.