Update 23A

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Overview

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Common Technologies and User Experience

User Experience

Changes in the User Image or Name Icon in the Global Header

For saved classic themes, the shape of the user image or name icon in the global header is changed to match the Redwood look and feel of the application.

View Additional Audit Information About Attachments

You can now use the Audit Reports work area to view audit information about the download, check-in, and checkout actions done on attachments.

While generating an audit report for a business object with attachments, you can select the Include attachment details check box and specify the actions from the Event Type list. Previously, you could only view audit information about the create, update, and delete actions on attachments. But now, you can also select these additional actions from the Event Type list.

• Attachment Check-In
• Attachment Checkout
• Attachment Download
• Attachment Cancel Checkout

Get News Feed Suggestions On Your Next Likely Actions

Get suggestions on your next likely actions in your news feed layout. This feature is currently in Controlled Availability and is available in Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, Financials, Project Management, and Procurement. Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms predict and suggest the actions each user is most likely to take during a session. The algorithms use historic navigation behavior and patterns of each user and users like them to determine which navigation target they’re most likely to visit.

Updated Oracle ADF Desktop Integration Add-In

You can now download the latest version of the Oracle ADF Desktop Integration add-in, version 5.1.2.24946. In this version, the add-in installer, adfdi-excel-addin-installer.exe is removed. So, instead of that add-in installer, you should now use one of the MSI-based add-in installers to install the Oracle ADF Desktop Integration add-in for Excel. For more information, see How to install the ADF Desktop Integration Add-in for Excel (2681794.1) on My Oracle Support.

If you've created any add-in installation scripts using the command-line interface of adfdi-excel-addin-installer.exe, you must update such scripts to work with the MSI-based installers.

Updated CKEditor for Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications

Some product families in Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications have been leveraging CKEditor, an open-source text editor that requires no client-side installation. CKEditor 4 is supported only until mid of 2023. So, instances of CKEditor are now migrated from CKEditor 4 to CKEditor 5.

Extensibility

Simplified Configuration for Oracle Guided Learning Integration

Instead of requiring you to provide details such as the mapping of roles, the Configure Guided Learning page has been simplified. The main thing you need to enter would just be the application ID that was given to you when you first got Oracle Guided Learning.

Updated Oracle Visual Builder Studio

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

• Navigate to an App UI from any other App UI once it’s published.

• Select the pillar your App UI belongs to.

• Write back changes in a variable's value to a fragment's parent container.

• Create pages with a fragment's content when the fragment is tagged with the page metadata.

• Customize the Properties pane of a fragment variable to suit the UI component that’s used to edit the variable in the Page Designer.

• Suggest a fragment as preferred content for particular components.

• Create a fragment directly from the Components Palette by using the Create Fragment icon next to the Fragments category.

• When you delete items, such as variables, types, event listeners, and action chains, Visual Builder Studio now provides a smart delete functionality that detects if the item is currently used in your application, or if it has related but unused items elsewhere in the application.

• When working with code editors, you can now change the default behavior of the code editor for the Tab key.

• The Git panel, which tracks changes in your workspace, is now badged to show a Git summary of your workspace. You can use this badge view without actually accessing the Git panel to get a count of the files that have changed in the workspace, as well as a color indicator for the type of changes.

• The file-level diff editor has now been improved to refresh automatically when the contents of the file change.

• Create pages based on Redwood templates and patterns to leverage high-fidelity interactions and responsive performance for your application pages out of the box.

• You can use these improved capabilities to improve your design experience:
  • View page initialization time
  • Improved tab bar
  • Components in Components palette categories expanded by default
  • Preferred category of components for use in slots
  • Insert a component in code editors

Approvals and Notifications

Resend Approval Email Notifications

Leverage the ability to resend email notifications for any in-progress transactions in the Transaction Console.

Archive Reminder in Transaction Console

The Transaction Console work area now displays a yellow banner that reminds users to archive completed transactions. The banner displays when the archive process hasn't been run in the past 3 months.

Diagnostic Log Availability and Attachments in Transaction Console

Take advantage of these enhancements to diagnostic logs in the Transaction Console work area:

• Transaction Console administrators can now download the diagnostic log for healthy pending transactions as well.
• The diagnostic log now also includes details of all the attachments added at any stage of the transaction.

Reporting and Analytics

Deprecated and New BI View Objects in Oracle BI Cloud Connector

Business Intelligence View Objects (BIVOs) that are deprecated are no longer available for extraction using BI Cloud Connector (BICC).

If you use BICC to extract data from Oracle Fusion Applications Cloud, review the Deprecated and New BI View Objects spreadsheets to identify deprecated, inactive, and new BIVOs so that you can revise your BICC tasks to omit deprecated BIVOs and include new ones as appropriate.