Yemi Onigbode
e-consulting limited
http://www.e-consultant.com
April 2008
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Introduction
When I first heard of UPK, I thought oh no! Not another acronym – In discussions, I even started calling it
UKP “UK Product”. What is it? And what does it do? UPK basically helps us to document our business
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Conference Room Pilot (CRP), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Training stages of an implementation.
• Test scripts
• Training Guides and
• Instructor Guides
Let’s start!
In this section we will look at creating the “Topic” for the scripts and the guides for iProcurement.
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Or
Click Start > Program Files > User Productivity Kit 3.1 > UPK Developer.
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4. Enter <Name of the Module> in the Name field. For example iProcurement
5. Click OK.
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4. Press Enter.
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4. Press Enter.
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Recording a Topic
Record the topic using the steps below. Remember to press [PrintScreen] after every action.
Activate the application window before you begin recording!
1. Click the Record Topic button . The recorder window will open and ‘float’ on top of the other open
windows.
2. Activate the Oracle EBS application window by clicking on the title bar.
3. Press [PrintScreen].
Enter the username and password
4. Click the Click login button. Wait for the new screen to refresh fully before going on to the next step.
5. Press [PrintScreen].
6. Click the Responsibility link.
7. Press [PrintScreen].
After each mouse press or keyboard entry press [PrintScreen].
8. Complete the steps for creating you Requisition
9. Click Finish in the UPK Recorder window once your actions are completed.
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Start the UPK Developer and select the module you were working on from the last section.
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1. Open the Non Catalog Requisition topic in the Topic Editor by double-clicking it.
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Action Area
Actions determines what you intend to do in the current frame. Three basic action types:
• A keyboard action - press a key on the keyboard to accomplish a task.
• A string input action - enter text into a document, field, dialog box, and so on.
• A mouse action - clicking, double-clicking, pointing, rolling the wheel, and dragging.
The actions are determined automatically during the recording
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1. Open the Non Catalog Requisition topic in the Topic Editor, if necessary.
2. Navigate to the second recorded frame.
3. Click Modify action areas in the Action Properties window.
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5. Size the new action area and place it over the Next button.
6. If necessary, reposition the bubble near the action areas.
7. Exit the Topic Editor and Save.
1. Select the new action area you added to the second frame of the Non Catalog Requisition topic.
2. Select the new action area.
3. Click Modify action areas in the Action Properties window.
4. Click the Delete action area command.
5. Click Yes.
6. Reposition the bubble as necessary.
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1. In the Bubble Properties window, click the Bubble icon button and select an icon.
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1. Change the bubble pointer as desired by clicking the Pointer position button.
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1. Navigate to the EBS login page. Switch back to the Topic Editor.
2. Navigate to the Start frame in the Non Catalog Requisition topic.
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Click Insert frame, action, or path and choose Insert Missing Frame(s).
The Recorder launches.
4. Activate the EBS login page by clicking in the title bar and navigate to the page you want to insert. Press
[PrintScreen].
5. Follow the instructions on how to record a topic
6. Click Finish in the Recorder once completed.
7. Navigate to the first recorded frame.
Deleting a Frame
Editing a Screenshot
1. In the Topic Editor select the last recorded frame and click Edit screenshot.
2. Make changes to the screenshot as desired (play with editing the picture).
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Publishing Documents
1. Select the topic you were working on in the last section.
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3. Accept the default publishing destination or select a specific location and click Next.
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4. Select Publish selection only option. Make sure the Skip advanced options page checkbox is checked and
click Next.
5. If you see a message that says “You have selected content that is different from what is already
published here. Old content will be replaced. What do you want to do?” click Continue.
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6. Check the formats you want to publish for example Training Guide, Instructor Manual and Test
Documents under Documents.
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7. Click Publish.
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8. When the publishing is complete, select the Open the folder where the content was published option,
then click Finish.
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9. Open the Training Guide folder. Double-click the iProcurement_TRAIN.doc to open it.
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