How to add a link to Oracle applications 12.1 home page using personalization

To start with this activity you need to change profile option “Personalize Self-Service Defn” for the desired user to Yes.

Login to the application using the user who have the personalization enabled.

Click on "Personalize Page" link.

Change the Personalization Level to "Function: Applications Configurable Home Page" then click Go.

Select "Content" tab as shown in the below snap:

Select the region that you want to include the link inside it, the red arrow shows the region I have selected to put my Link:

The next step we will define the link details:

Item Style: Link

ID: link1

Destination URI: http://erpmigrate02.rsteel.com:8010/OA_HTML/HR_Policy.pdf

Text: *** HR Policy Manual ***

Click Apply button.

The newly added link will be placed by default at the bottom, we need to use the "reorder" link to put it in the requested place:

Click Apply button.

 At the end it will look like:

On the OS level, login as the MT owner, in my case "apfintest" and put the .pdf file in the correct location:

[apfintest@erpmigrate02 ~]$ cd $OA_HTML
[apfintest@erpmigrate02 html]$ pwd
/Test/FINTEST/apps/apps_st/comn/webapps/oacore/html
[apfintest@erpmigrate02 html]$ ls -l HR_Policy.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 apfintest oinstall 7096969 Jan 29  2013 HR_Policy.pdf
[apfintest@erpmigrate02 html]$

Click on the "home" link again, and you will see your link.