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:

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
27 MAY 2022	User Experience	Software Updates	Updated document. Delivered new feature in update 22B.
20 APR 2022	User Experience	Removal of Settings and Actions Drop-Down Icon from the Global Header	Updated document. Delivered new feature in update 22B.
28 MAR 2022	IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations		Updated document. Added new section.
18 MAR 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are being updated directly from 21D to 22B you should review the content of both 22A and 22B sections to ensure you see all the changes included in the update.

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Optional Uptake of New Features (Opt In)

Oracle Cloud Applications delivers new updates every quarter. This means every three months you'll receive new functionality to help you efficiently and effectively manage your business. Some features are delivered Enabled meaning they are immediately available to end users. Other features are delivered Disabled meaning you have to take action to make available. Features delivered Disabled can be activated for end users by stepping through the following instructions using the following privileges:

• Review Applications Offering (ASM_REVIEW_APPLICATIONS_OFFERINGS_PRIV)
• Configure Oracle Fusion Applications Offering (ASM_CONFIGURE_OFFERING_PRIV)

Here’s how you opt in to new features:

1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > New Features.
2. On the Features Overview page, select your offering to review new features specific to it. Or, you can leave the default selection All Enabled Offerings to review new features for all offerings.
3. On the New Features tab, review the new features and check the opt-in status of the feature in the Enabled column. If a feature has already been enabled, you will see a check mark. Otherwise, you will see an icon to enable the feature.
4. Click the icon in the Enabled column and complete the steps to enable the feature.

For more information and detailed instructions on opting in to new features for your offering, see Offering Configuration.

Opt In Expiration

Occasionally, features delivered Disabled via Opt In may be enabled automatically in a future update. This is known as an Opt In Expiration. If your cloud service has any Opt In Expirations in this update, you will see a related tab in this document. Click on that tab to see when the feature was originally delivered Disabled, and when the Opt In will expire, potentially automatically enabling the feature. You can also click here to see features with current Opt In Expirations across all Oracle Cloud Applications. Beyond the current update, the Financials forums on Cloud Customer Connect have details of Opt In Expirations upcoming in future updates.

Feature Summary

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.

This is how the drop-down icon for the Settings and Actions menu looked prior to 22B.

And here's how it looks now in 22B.

This change is made to enhance the look and feel of the application.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

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.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

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.

Submitting the Report in the Scheduled Processes Work Area

The report contains the following details:

Section	Content
Originator Employee Details	Information about the employee who has defined the vacation or delegation rule, such as the employee name, person number, position, job code, location and email ID.
Rule Details	Details of the rule defined by the employee. Includes the rule type (vacation or delegation), validity period, type of action(reassign or delegate) and the rule conditions based on which the workflow tasks will be reassigned or delegated.
Destination Employee Details	Information about the employee to whom the workflow tasks are reassigned or delegated. Includes the employee's name, person number, position, job code, location, email ID and the name and person number of the employee's manager.

Employee Vacation and Delegation Rules Report

This report helps you manage and troubleshoot approvals, for example for people who are out of office.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

If you don’t enter the date parameters while submitting the report, the report runs as if you had entered the first and last date of the current month.

Key Resources

• Review Employee Vacation and Delegation Rules (available April 1, 2022)

Role Information

• To run and view this report, you must have a role that contains both:
  • Run BPM Workflow Reports (FUN_RUN_BPM_WORKFLOW_REPORTS_PRIV) privilege
  • Run BPM Workflow Reports (FUN_RUN_BPM_WORKFLOW_REPORTS_PRIV_OBI) role

• Both are already granted to these predefined job roles:
  • Financial Application Administrator (ORA_FUN_FINANCIAL_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
  • Procurement Application Administrator (ORA_PO_PROCUREMENT_APPLICATION_ADMIN_JOB)

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.

What's Notable and Different in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

There are some important one-time considerations when you prepare for Oracle to update OTBI from Release 21D to 22B or later. For other issues related to updates, carefully review Known Issues.

1. The OTBI catalog is placed in read-only mode three days before your update from Release 21D to 22A or later. During this three-day period, you can access the catalog, but changes you make aren’t retained. This one-time activity, which is required to ensure that the catalog is migrated in a consistent state prior to 22B update, won’t be repeated for the next Oracle Applications Cloud update.

When the catalog is in read-only mode, you can’t retain:

• Changes to artifacts such as Publisher objects, analyses, and agents (including artifacts that were edited)
• Modifications to objects in the catalog (such as renaming objects or changing their permissions)
• Modifications to the catalog structure (such as adding or deleting folders)

To retain your changes after update, it's recommended you archive changed content before the update and then unarchive after the update is complete.

2. Before you move the catalog content from stage to production environments using the Archive and Unarchive actions, prepare for Oracle to update both stage and production environments to OTBI. You can’t move catalog content from a Release 22B environment to a Release 21D environment. See Can’t Move Catalog Content from a 22A Environment to a 21D Environment.

OTBI is updated from functionality available in Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.9 to 12c.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

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.

Key Resources

For information about using, configuring, and administering OTBI, go to the OTBI library, a new set of OTBI guides for Oracle Cloud Applications.

• Get Started

• Guides

1. Use OTBI to explore and analyze data by building and sharing analyses and dashboards.

Creating Analyses and Dashboards in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

2. Model data and design pixel-perfect reports in Publisher.

Designing Pixel-Perfect Reports in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

3. View, publish, and manage pixel-perfect reports.

Using Oracle Analytics Publisher in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

4. Manage users and configure OTBI.

Administering Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

5. Administer and configure Publisher for pixel-perfect reporting.

Administering Oracle Analytics Publisher in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

6. Review developer and integrator information, and known issues.

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Extensibility

New Groovy Scripting Usage in Flexfields Is Desupported

New usages of Groovy default values and validators in flexfields are deprecated because they won't be automatically upgraded in future releases. However, flexfields already using Groovy will continue to work. But if you want to add Groovy expression to new flexfields, you must set the Flexfield Groovy Usage Support Restricted (ORA_FND_FLEX_GROOVY_RESTRICTED) profile option to N.

Groovy scripting is desupported because it's difficult to upgrade in the future.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

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.

You can specify task flow parameters while configuring quick actions using this field.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

• Configuring and Extending Applications (available April 1, 2022) 

Simple Panel Configuration Is Desupported

You can no longer use the Page Composer tool to configure a simple panel and make changes to all instances of a UI component across pages. Instead, you should use this tool to configure individual pages. If you’ve configured a simple panel previously in your sandbox, those configurations will continue to work. But we recommend you to delete such configurations, make the changes on individual pages, and then publish your sandbox. Doing this will improve the application's performance and avoid issues when your application is updated or upgraded.

NOTE: Make sure you note all the simple panel configurations in your sandbox before deleting them so that you can configure the components at individual page levels again in the same sandbox.

Here are some FAQs to help you find simple panel configurations and delete them, if required.

How do I know if an active sandbox has simple panel configurations?

Before publishing an active sandbox, you can verify if the sandbox has simple panel configurations.

1. Click Navigator > Configuration > Sandboxes.
2. Identify the active sandbox in which configurations are done.
3. On the Sandbox Details page, verify the list of artifacts. If you see /oracle/apps/fnd/applcore/patterns/ui/components/SimplePanel.jspx listed in the artifacts, don’t publish the sandbox. Instead, delete the configuration and then publish the sandbox, if required.

How can I find out if my environment has any simple panel configurations that were already published?

Follow these steps:

1. Click your user image or name in the global header, and on the Settings and Actions menu, select Manage Configurations.
2. On the Manage Configurations dialog box, use the Search field to search for the /oracle/apps/fnd/applcore/patterns/ui/components/SimplePanel.jspx document.

How do I delete simple panel configurations that were already published?

Follow these steps:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Administrator Profile Values task in the Application Extensions functional area.
2. Search for the Manual Updates to Metadata Allowed (FND_ALLOW_MANUAL_METADATA_UPDATES) profile option.
3. In the FND_ALLOW_MANUAL_METADATA_UPDATES: Profile Values section, set the profile value to Yes.
4. Click Save and Close.
5. Click Done.
6. Sign out of the application and sign back in.
7. Create and activate a sandbox that has the Page Composer tool in it. Make sure the context layer of your sandbox is supported by the page you want to edit. Otherwise, you won’t be able to edit the page.
8. Go to the home page.
9. Click your user image or name in the global header, and on the Settings and Actions menu, select Manage Configurations.
10. On the Manage Configurations dialog box, use the Search field to search for the /oracle/apps/fnd/applcore/patterns/ui/components/SimplePanel.jspx document.
11. If the document is listed at the Site level, click the Delete link to delete the simple panel configurations.
12. After verifying your changes, publish the sandbox to make your changes available to all users.

NOTE: After publishing your sandbox, reset the Manual Updates to Metadata Allowed (FND_ALLOW_MANUAL_METADATA_UPDATES) profile option to No.

Configuring individual pages increase performance.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

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.

This feature lets you:

• Do a proactive audit before starting a CSM Migration Import process
• Self-troubleshoot issues that occur on one environment but not on another environment

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

On the Migration UI, before you perform an import, you can click on the gear icon to review the Source, Destination, and Delta configuration (comparison) reports.

Key Resources

• See the "Before You Begin" chapter in the Configuring Applications Using Application Composer guide.

Geography Data

Import the Latest Geography Data

Import the latest Geography data drop 2022.01.20 for Fusion Applications. This data refresh is available for 82 countries:

Country Name	Country Code
Andorra	AD
Angola	AO
Argentina	AR
Australia	AU
Austria	AT
Belgium	BE
Bolivia	BO
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BA
Brazil	BR
Bulgaria	BG
Canada	CA
Cayman Islands	KY
Chile	CL
China	CN
Croatia	HR
Cuba	CU
Cyprus	CY
Czech Republic	CZ
Denmark	DK
Dominican Republic	DO
Ecuador	EC
Estonia	EE
Finland	FI
France	FR
Germany	DE
Great Britain	GB
Greece	GR
Guadalupe	GP
Guam	GU
Guernsey	GG
Hungary	HU
Iceland	IS
India	IN
Indonesia	ID
Ireland	IE
Isles of Man	IM
Israel	IL
Italy	IT
Jamaica	JM
Japan	JP
Jordan	JO
Kenya	KE
Latvia	LV
Liechtenstein	LI
Lithuania	LT
Luxembourg	LU
Malaysia	MY
Malta	MT
Martinique	MQ
Mexico	MX
Netherlands	NL
New Zealand	NZ
Norway	NO
Oman	OM
Peru	PE
Poland	PL
Portugal	PT
Puerto Rico	PR
Qatar	QA
Reunion Island	RE
Romania	RO
Russia	RU
San Marino	SM
Singapore	SG
Slovakia	SK
Slovenia	SI
South Africa	ZA
South Korea	KR
Spain	ES
Sri Lanka	LK
Swaziland	SZ
Sweden	SE
Switzerland	CH
Taiwan	TW
Thailand	TH
Tunisia	TN
Turkey	TR
United Arab Emirates	AE
United States	US
Uruguay	UY
Vatican City	VA
Vietnam	VN

Steps to Enable

Follow the steps in the Geography chapter to uptake the latest Geography data: Replace Existing Master Geography Data with Revised Oracle-Licensed Geography Data.

Tips And Considerations

NOTE: GSI (Global Single Instance) customers who either actively implement or who could prospectively implement HCM Cloud for payroll or payroll interface purposes must import Vertex Geography data for the United States and Canada.

See Known Issues.

Key Resources

• List of Available Countries with GBG | Loqate Geography Reference Data
• Best Practices for Managing Geography Mismatches
• FAQs for GBG | Loqate Support

Role Information

You must have the Master Data Management Administrator job role to access and submit the import activities for geographies.

Import the Latest Geography Data - Geodrop 2021.05.02

You can import the latest geography data drop from Loqate: 2021.05.02. 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. 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.

Oracle licenses geography data from Loqate that you can import at no additional cost.

Steps to Enable

Follow the steps in the Geography chapter to uptake the latest Geography data: Replace Existing Master Geography Data with Revised Oracle-Licensed Geography Data.

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.

Oracle licenses geography data from Loqate that you can import at no additional cost. This data drop provides better geography data for territory management and address geography validations.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

NOTE: GSI (Global Single Instance) customers who either actively implement or who could prospectively implement HCM Cloud for payroll or payroll interface purposes must import Vertex Geography data for the United States and Canada.

See Known Issues.

Key Resources

• List of Available Countries with GBG | Loqate Geography Reference Data
• Best Practices for Managing Geography Mismatches
• FAQs for GBG | Loqate Support

Role Information

You must have the Master Data Management Administrator role to access and submit import activities for geographies.

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.

Oracle licenses geography data from Loqate that you can import at no additional cost. This data drop provides better geography data for territory management and address geography validations.

Steps to Enable

Follow the steps in the Geography chapter to uptake the latest Geography data: Replace Existing Master Geography Data with Revised Oracle-Licensed Geography Data.

Tips And Considerations

NOTE: GSI (Global Single Instance) customers who either actively implement or who could prospectively implement HCM Cloud for payroll or payroll interface purposes must import Vertex Geography data for the United States and Canada.

See Known Issues.

Key Resources

• List of Available Countries with GBG | Loqate Geography Reference Data
• Best Practices for Managing Geography Mismatches
• FAQs for GBG | Loqate Support

Role Information

You must have the Master Data Management Administrator job role to access and submit the import activities for geographies.

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.

 You can use this information to exclude obsolete tables from your development environment and prevent any broken links or missing references to them.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

• Oracle Fusion Applications Obsolete Tables (Doc ID 2819840.1)

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

DEPRECATION OF OLDER DIGITAL ASSISTANT SKILL VERSIONS

The Digital Assistant and its skills continuously receive updates as they get smarter and provide enhanced conversational experiences. In every release, check for updated versions in the Skill Store. Versions stop working when the underlying platform version becomes inactive, at the longest 2 years after release.

The Expenses skill built using Oracle Digital Assistant platform version 20.08 is deprecated. You can continue using your skill in platform version 20.08. However, no updates or bug fixes for this specific version of the skill will be provided. We encourage you to move to the latest version of the Expenses skill at the earliest opportunity.

The 20.08 platform version of the Expenses skill will be removed from the Skill Store in six months.