July 2019 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Planning, July Update

This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.

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Announcements

REST API Updates

When using REST APIs to import security records, you can now download the error message file. Additionally, you can now use the Sort Members REST API with Free Form applications.

New EPM Cloud Features Tool

Oracle has released an EPM Cloud Features tool. Use this tool to quickly find features released each month for your EPM Cloud business process. Click a link to learn more about each feature in the What’s New document and the EPM Cloud user assistance.

Working with Time Periods (Strategic Modeling)

You can now manage time periods for models in Strategic Modeling on the Web.

Working with Funding Options (Strategic Modeling)

You can now work with funding options in Strategic Modeling on the Web.

Changes to Provisioning Terminology

With a view to standardizing the terminology around assigning roles to users at the identity domain, application, and artifact levels, EPM Cloud has changed such labels in the user interface to "Assign". Because of this change, the labels of Provision Roles tab and Provisioning Reports tab in Access Control have been renamed to Assign Roles and Role Assignment Report respectively.

Export Expanded Reports to Excel

Now you can include expanded rows and columns when you export a Financial Report to Microsoft Excel.

Maintenance Notification in the Simplified User Interface

Starting with this update, a notification indicating the imminent start of the daily maintenance process will be displayed to all active users. This new notification in the Simplified User Interface will be displayed to all active users 15 minutes prior to the start of the daily maintenance process so that they can save their work and sign out of the environment.

New Version of EPM Automate

A new version of EPM Automate is available with this update. These new commands are now available: exportAppSecurity and exportAppAudit.

Removal of Support for Transport Layer Security Protocol 1.0 and 1.1

Oracle now supports only Transport Layer Security protocol version 1.2 (TLS 1.2) to communicate with EPM Cloud. To ensure the highest level of authentication and data encryption security, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 are no longer be supported.

Self-Service Content Update

Starting with this update, Service Administrators will be able to specify the content update start time for all Planning Modules and Oracle Strategic Workforce Planning environments. Content update propagates the changes introduced to out-of-the-box functionality during the daily maintenance of an environment.

Ability to Call External REST Resources from Groovy Object Model

Planning Groovy object model APIs have been enhanced with the ability to call external REST APIs.

New Domain Option in Smart View (Mac and Browser) Manifest File

There is a new option to add a Domain URL in Smart View (Browser and MAC) when creating the manifest file. Smart View will extract the domain from the Server URL and will add it to the App Domains list as the default. Smart View also supports adding multiple domains.