Update 22A

Revision History

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

Overview

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Common Technologies and User Experience

Approvals and Notifications

Updated Assignees Tab for Workflow Task Configuration

In BPM Worklist, you use the Assignees tab to configure the approval rule sets and rules for a specific workflow task. Various aspects of the UI have changed, for example the general layout and how you do certain things. In general, what you're able to do with respect to configuring rule sets and rules remains the same; the exact UI element you use might just be different. For example, instead of clicking an icon from a toolbar to create a rule set, you now select an option from a drop-down list for rule sets. In a few cases, there are differences in what you can or can't do. For example, you can no longer select multiple rules at once, but you can now delete predefined rule sets (though you need to be very careful about doing that).

Audit Changes Made to Workflow Task Configurations

Get audit information about changes made to workflow task configurations. For example, you can see which tasks were updated, who made the changes, and when they did so.

User Experience

Status Details for Scheduled Processes

After you submit a scheduled process, use the Status Details tab in the Scheduled Processes work area to track its status and progress. For example, you can see how long your process has been running, or how long it took to finish. If it hasn't started running yet, you can see how many processes need to run first before yours do, or how long it's been blocked. If the process is blocked, you can get more information on why that is. For some processes, you can even see graphs that show how many records the process has successfully worked on, how many resulted in error, and how many are still pending.

Updates to Profile Options Related to Logging

The profile options associated with the logging functionality are disabled at the Site level. Although they remain available on the UI at the User level, you must never set these profile options unless instructed to do so by Oracle Support.

Last Hour As Default Saved Search in Scheduled Processes Work Area

When you first open the Scheduled Processes work area, by default you can now see the processes submitted within the last hour in the search results table. Previously, this table displayed processes submitted within the last 24 hours.

Redesign of the Dialog Boxes for Error Messages

In the 22A release, the look and feel of the dialog boxes for error messages is enhanced. For example, the font style of the message header is changed. 

Applications Security

Support Descriptive Flex Fields in the Roles Mapping

You can achieve better control over the roles autoprovisioning process by using the assignment descriptive flex fields as criteria in the role mappings.

Custom Password Complexity for Non-Federated Users

You can now set custom password complexity for non-federated users, using the Security Console.

Extensibility

Updated Oracle Visual Builder Studio

Here are some key things you can now do to extend your application pages using Visual Builder Studio:

• Use base component context parameters
• Size and sort dynamic table columns
• Easily add required and custom fields in the Layout editor
• Easily add field converters and validators
• Get clear visibility of sandboxes that aren't publishable

Updated Oracle ADF Desktop Integration Add-In

You can now download the latest version of the Oracle ADF Desktop Integration add-in, version 5.1.0.23822. Here are some key things that you get with this version:

• Added support for WebView2, the embedded browser based on Microsoft Edge/Chromium, instead of Microsoft Internet Explorer. For more information, see ADFdi Support for WebView2 Embedded Browser (2790862.1) on My Oracle Support at https://support.oracle.com.

• A new add-in installer, adfdi-excel-addin-installer-current-user.msi. It replaces the installer, adfdi-excel-addin-installer.exe which is now deprecated. For more information, see How to install the ADF Desktop Integration Add-in for Excel (2681794.1) on My Oracle Support at https://support.oracle.com.

• Various accessibility improvements.

• Ukrainian as another language for translation.

• Designer strings that are now translated into the standard set of languages.

• Simplified add-in version reporting.

Impact of New Groovy Version on Existing Scripts Authored in Application Composer

In this release, a new version of the Groovy scripting engine, version 2.5.14, is available with Application Composer. This new version changes some runtime application behavior. You can review your existing Groovy to confirm that everything still operates as expected, or modify your scripts as needed.

Reporting and Analytics

Updates to Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence and New Documentation Library

In 22A, Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) is updated from functionality available in Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.9 to 12c.

For general information about feature differences you can expect, go to: What's Notable and Different in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

There's a new OTBI library, with a new set of OTBI guides for Oracle Cloud Applications. It's recommended that you refer to the library below, and not to the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition and Oracle Analytics Server Middleware libraries on Oracle Help Center.

API and Schema

Notice About Obsolete Tables in Oracle Fusion Applications

Oracle Fusion Applications tables that were obsoleted in the past releases will no longer be available starting the next quarterly release. Read this document to identify the impacted tables and the release in which they were obsoleted so that you can plan your development tasks accordingly.

Changes to the Date Format in SOAP Response

Starting in update 22A, the response body of a SOAP web service presents the time stamp differently if the millisecond value isn't specified in the payload. If the millisecond is specified in the payload, it appears as is in the response. Otherwise, the response displays only the letter Z as seen in the date-time format YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SS"Z".

Geography Data

Import the Latest Loqate Geography Data - 2022.01.20

You can import the latest geography data drop from Loqate: 2022.01.20. This is available for 82 countries. See the List of Available Countries with GBG | Loqate Geography Reference Data.

In this release, geography data was enhanced for a few countries.

Functional Setup Manager

Deprecation of Attributes in OPSS Audit Data

The attributes in Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS) are continuously updated, and so, you need to check for the updated attributes in every release.

In this release, the Managed Application and Policy Principals attributes are deprecated. So, you can’t extract them from OPSS in the audit reports you generate using the Audit Reports page.

Deprecation of Oracle Data Integrator in the Audit UI

The usage of Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is no longer supported in the Audit work area. While setting up auditing for the application, don't set the audit level of ODI because your setting won't be saved.