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What Are Those Oracle Toolbar Icons For?

August 3, 2006 on 8:04 pm | by Marian Crkon | In How To Guides | 4 Comments |  Print |  Email

Here is a thing that should be intuitive and easy to understand but is not always so. It’s one of those “I wish I had a dollar for every time I had to explain”… I wish the Oracle Toolbar icons were as well documented in online help as they are in the Oracle Applications User Guide, (page 2-3, OTN login is required). That would help new users to see the descriptions and learn the funcions when they need to. Hope an overview below will help you with understanding what the toolbar icons there are and the actions they perform:

1. The New icon opens a new record.

2. The Find icon invokes the Find window.

3. The Show Navigator icon invokes the Navigator window, i.e. brings you back to the main menu.

4. The Save icon saves your data.

5. The Next Step icon advances you to the next step of a process.

6. The Switch Responsibilities icon invokes the list of your responsibilities for you to choose another.

7. The Print icon prints the current screen.

8. The Close Form icon closes all windows of the current form.

9. The Cut icon cuts the current selection to the clipboard.

10. The Copy icon copies the current selection to the clipboard.

11. The Paste icon pastes from the clipboard into the current field.

12. The Clear Record icon erases the current record from the form.

13. The Delete icon deletes the current record from the database.

14. The Edit Field icon displays the Editor window for the current field.

15. The Zoom icon invokes customer-defined drill-down behavior.

16. The Translations icon invokes the Translations window.

17. The Attachments icon invokes the Attachments window. If attachments, the paperclip is holding a paper.

18. The Folder Tools icon invokes the Folder Tools palette window.

19. The Window Help icon invokes online help for the current window.

See the Oracle Applications Guide for more on navigation, data entry and other useful tips.