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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06 SEP 2022 | Extensibility | Ukrainian Language Is Added to the Language Pack on Your Application | Updated document. Delivered new feature in update 22C. |
| 29 JUL 2022 | Geography Data | Import the Latest Loqate Geography Data - 2022.06.04 | Updated document. Delivered new feature in update 22C. |
| 17 JUN 2022 | Created initial document. |
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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:
- Click Navigator > My Enterprise > New Features.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Column Definitions:
Report = New or modified, Oracle-delivered, ready to run reports.
UI or Process-Based: Small Scale = These UI or process-based features are typically comprised of minor field, validation, or program changes. Therefore, the potential impact to users is minimal.
UI or Process-Based: Larger Scale* = These UI or process-based features have more complex designs. Therefore, the potential impact to users is higher.
Features Delivered Disabled = Action is needed BEFORE these features can be used by END USERS. These features are delivered disabled and you choose if and when to enable them. For example, a) new or expanded BI subject areas need to first be incorporated into reports, b) Integration is required to utilize new web services, or c) features must be assigned to user roles before they can be accessed.
| Ready for Use by End Users Reports plus Small Scale UI or Process-Based new features will have minimal user impact after an update. Therefore, customer acceptance testing should focus on the Larger Scale UI or Process-Based* new features. |
Customer Must Take Action before Use by End Users Not disruptive as action is required to make these features ready to use. As you selectively choose to leverage, you set your test and roll out timing. |
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Common Technologies and User Experience
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
Introduced Limit on Number of Role Mappings
Create role mappings for roles auto provisioning with the number of role mappings limited to 50,000.
This feature helps control the performance of roles auto provisioning.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Configure From and Reply-To Email Address
In email notifications sent to users as part of workflow, the From and Reply-To fields have a default email address and no sender name. It's been possible to add a sender name to the From field. Now, you can also change the email address for the From and Reply-To fields.
With an email address other than the default (<your pod>.fa.sender@workflow.mail.<your data center>.cloud.oracle.com) in the From and Reply-To fields, you can provide an address that fits your business needs better, or one that your users will more easily recognize.
Steps to Enable
- If you plan to use any email address other than the default, you need to do these steps to avoid email delivery issues:
- Make sure that Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is set up.
- Verify that whichever email address you want to use is valid.
- In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Applications Core Administrator Profile Values task in the Application Extensions functional area. Set the From and Reply To Email Address Configuration Enabled (ORA_FND_BPM_FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS_ENABLED) profile option to Yes at the Site level.
- In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Task Configurations task in the Application Extensions functional area. Or, depending on your offering, you might use a different functional area or another approval setup task.
- In BPM Worklist, on the Task Configuration tab, search for and select the workflow task in the Tasks to be configured pane.
- Click the Edit task icon in the toolbar.
- Open the Notifications subtab and click the Expand More icon.
- Select one of the Email: From and Reply to address options.
- Select Default email address to show the default from and reply-to address.
- Select Submitter to show the task submitter’s email address. If that address can't be determined for a specific notification, the default email address is used.
- Select the last option to show a specific email address. Enter the address in quotes, for example “your.company@oracle.com.”
Options to Set the From and Reply-To Address
Tips And Considerations
- After updating the From and Reply To Email Address Configuration Enabled (ORA_FND_BPM_FROM_EMAIL_ADDRESS_ENABLED) profile option, you may notice some time lag for the setting to take effect in BPM Worklist.
- Make sure that the sender name and email address make sense together in the From field. For example, if you've already set up the sender name to be the task submitter's name, you should set up the From field to show the task submitter’s email address.
- After completing all the setup, test and ensure your emails are delivered to the inbox of a separate email domain other than your own company's domain. Incorrect or incomplete setup may lead to email delivery to the spam folder or stop the email delivery to your recipients.
Key Resources
- Set Up the From Field in Workflow Email Notifications
- Set Up Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
- Configure Email Security
Also, check the What's New documents for specific services. Some documents might have additional information, for example about which notifications support this feature.
Role And Privileges
To set up this feature, you need a role that lets you perform administrative tasks in BPM Worklist, for example a predefined application administrator role for your product family. Such predefined administrator roles would also give you access to set profile options.
Updated Oracle Visual Builder Studio
Here are some key things you can now do to extend your application pages using Visual Builder Studio:
- In addition to configuring your applications to suit your specific business needs, you can now create your own application UIs and deploy them alongside other applications in your Fusion Applications instance. In fact, you can now use the same tools that Oracle uses— namely, Visual Builder Studio and Oracle Javascript Extension Toolkit (JET)— to build robust applications that are managed as part of the same Fusion Applications ecosystem as the application UIs produced by Oracle.
If you don’t see App UI in the Designer’s navigator, you might still be working with an older version of the Fusion Applications. In that case, you should continue to refer to the Using Visual Builder Studio with Classic Application Extensions guide. However, if you’re working in the new App UI world, refer to the Extending Oracle Cloud Applications with Visual Builder Studio guide. You might want to start with The Basics, just to get oriented.
- You can't use the OAuth 2.0 User Assertion authentication type with extensions (this doesn't apply to classic application extensions). You must select either None or Oracle Cloud Account for authentication. See Configure Authentication Types for Service Connections and Backends.
- Fragments are now supported in extensions (this doesn't apply to classic application extensions).
- You can create fragments in your extension and add fragments from your extension's dependencies to pages and components in your extension. See Add a Fragment From a Dependency.
- You can extend fragments directly in your extension. You can configure elements the fragment developer has made extendable, allowing you to override constants, access fragment events and actions, and components defined in fragments, such as Dynamic Containers in Fragments. You can also configure the fragments defined in dynamic components in your extension's dependencies, so you can now Extend a Fragment in a Dynamic Container and Extend a Fragment in a Dynamic Form or Table.
- You can now run tests on action chains in extensions.
The new Visual Builder Studio functionality provides you with a platform to extend your Oracle Applications Cloud extensively.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
The Oracle Help Center has 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 of 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:
- Oracle Applications Cloud: Using Functional Setup Manager is renamed to Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications: Using Functional Setup Manager
- Oracle Field Service: Administering Oracle Field Service is renamed to Oracle Fusion Cloud Field Service: Administering Field Service
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Changes in the Splash Screen for Android Devices
The Progressive Web Applications (PWA) splash screen for Android devices gets a new look with a different background color and a modified Oracle application launcher icon.
This is how the screen looked in the 22B release.
This is how the screen looks now in the 22C release.
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.
Ukrainian Language Is Added to the Language Pack on Your Application
The Ukrainian language is now added to the list of supported languages in the language pack. So, if activated, this language will appear as a language option on the General Preferences section of the Set Preferences work area.
Various UI artifacts, such as labels, predefined data, messages, and BI catalog data are displayed in Ukrainian when the application is run in the Ukrainian language.
Steps to Enable
You must install the language packs on your environment, and once installed, the language is available for users to select and use. If the language has been installed in your environment, you don't need to do anything else to enable the language.
Key Resources
Updated Oracle ADF Desktop Integration Add-In
You can now download the latest version of the Oracle ADF Desktop Integration add-in, version 5.1.1.24107. With this version, you get updated translations for a given language.
This version of Oracle ADF Desktop Integration add-in gives you updated translations for a given language.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Key Resources
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.
You can use this information to omit deprecated and inactive BIVOs from your BICC tasks and add new ones as appropriate.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Key Resources
Import the Latest Loqate Geography Data - 2022.06.04
You can import the latest geography data drop from Loqate: 2022.06.04. This is available for 82 countries. See the List of Available Countries with Loqate Geography Reference Data.
In this release, geography data was enhanced for a few countries.
Oracle licenses geography data from Loqate that you can import at no additional cost.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
- See Known Issues.
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.
- Follow the steps in the Geography chapter to uptake the latest Geography data: Replace Existing Master Geography Data with Revised Oracle-Licensed Geography Data.
Key Resources
- List of Available Countries with Loqate Geography Reference Data
- Best Practices for Managing Geography Mismatches
- FAQs for Loqate Support
Role And Privileges
You must have the Master Data Management Administrator role to access and submit import activities for geographies.
IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations
NEW ODA PLATFORM FEATURES AND THEIR AVAILABILITY in SAAS SKILLS
When new features are added to the Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) platform, product development needs to uptake them to add to the certified skill platform version. For example, the installed FADigitalAssistant 22.07.61 version is certified for the new features added in the 22.02 platform version.
- The features added in the 22.02 platform version won't be available in the FADigitalAssistant 22.04.60 version certified for the 21.12 platform version. That’s because the 21.12 platform version is lower than 22.02, and isn't backward compatible. You must upgrade to the latest FADA skill version and incorporate the new features into the skills while upgrading. For more information, see Upgrade Digital Assistant and Add a Skill to a Digital Assistant.
- See this table for a list of new features available in a specific ODA platform version and the FADA skill version that has incorporated these features.
| Certified ODA Skill Platform Version | New Feature | Skills Supporting New Feature | Certified FADA Skill Release Version |
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| 22.02 |
Value Agnostic Intent Entities |
This feature is available in all the skills, such as Expenses, HcmV2, Project Time Entry, Project Management, and CX Sales. A skill can enable or disable this feature based on the required intent and entity combination. |
22.07.61 |
NOTE: In the FADA version number, the first four digits correspond to the application release and the last two digits show the FADigitalAssistant version within the release. For example, in the 22.07.48 version, 22 corresponds to the year 2022, and 07 corresponds to the quarterly release (01 = A, 04 = B, 07 = C, 10 = D) of the application version. The last two digits, 48, show the FADigitalAssistant version within the 22.07 release. The platform version is displayed in a four-digit format, the first two digits show the year, and the next two digits show the month. For example, in the 22.02 platform version, 22 corresponds to the year 2022, and 02 corresponds to February.
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 and may become obsolete soon. 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. For more information on the lifecycle phases of skill versions, see Lifecycle Phases of Platform Versions.