Update 22B

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

User Experience

Removal of Settings and Actions Drop-Down Icon from the Global Header

In the 22B release, the drop-down icon for the Settings and Actions menu won’t be available anymore in the global header. So, to open this menu, you need to click your user image or name in the global header.

Software Updates

The applications have adopted the Fusion Applications Taxonomy, the source of truth for classifying each pillar, family, and product in the portfolio.

We want to ensure that our Oracle-branded pillar, family, and product names promote Oracle's differentiation in delivering one cloud for all our customers' lines of business. By naming and organizing our products this way, our customers can understand the scope of our product line and effectively find the information they need. A well-crafted taxonomy ensures an efficient experience for the Oracle ecosystem.

For example, the browser tab for the Fusion Applications home page is renamed from Oracle Applications to Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications.

Approvals and Notifications

Employee Vacation and Delegation Rules Report

Use the Employee Vacation and Delegation Rules Report to view the vacation and delegation rules set by your employees in BPM Worklist. Administrators can use this report to review details of the rules defined by employees to delegate or reassign their workflow tasks. To submit the report and see the output, use the Scheduled Processes work area.

Extensibility

Page Parameters List Field for Quick Actions Renamed to Task Flow Parameters

The Page Parameters List field on the Create Quick Action and Edit Quick Action pages is now renamed to Task Flow Parameters. If the page takes task flow parameters, then you can enter a semicolon-delimited string of name=value pairs (for example, "mode=#{'MY_TASK'};backMode=#{'APP'}") in the Task Flow Parameters field.

Compare Application Composer Changes Between Environments

Compare Application Composer configuration changes between two environments during the migration process. You can check for configuration differences so that you can more easily troubleshoot issues that are occurring in one environment, but not in another.

Reporting and Analytics

Updates to Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence and New Documentation Library

As of Release 22A, Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) is updated from functionality available in Release 21D or earlier. If your update is from Release 21D to 22B, this new functionality is part of the update.

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.

Geography Data

Import the Latest Geography Data

Import the latest Geography data drop 2020.08.04 for Fusion Applications. This data refresh is available for 82 countries:

Import the Latest Geography Data - Geodrop 2020.11.06

Import the latest geography data drop from Loqate: 2020.11.06. This is available for 82 countries. See List of Available Countries with GBG | Loqate Geography Reference Data.

In this release, the geography data language is mapped correctly for all 82 countries. For example, previously, the Canada - British Columbia language tag was incorrectly mapped to French instead of English. Also, there is change in the geography structure names for Spain, Cuba, and Romania. Previously, the Cuba geography structure name was set to Provincia instead of Province.

Import the Latest Geography Data - Geodrop 2021.02.02

Import the latest geography data drop from Loqate: 2021.02.02. This is available for 82 countries. See List of Available Countries with GBG | Loqate Geography Reference Data.

In this release, geography data was enhanced for a few countries. For example, previously for Australia, cities could get incorrectly changed to a suburb of that city (such as Haymarket and Sydney) for specific postal codes. Previously for Germany, some Kreise were missing for Sachsen. Those issues have been fixed.

Import the Latest Geography Data - Geodrop 2021.05.02

Import the latest geography data drop from Loqate: 2021.05.02. This is available for 82 countries. See List of Available Countries with GBG | Loqate Geography Reference Data.

In this release, geography data was enhanced for a few countries. For example, missing postal codes have been added to Canada geography data; Mixed mode is now available for New Zealand, Norway, and Sweden geography data; and there are geography data enhancements for Switzerland.