Update 23B

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	Module	Feature	Notes
25 AUG 2023	Approvals and Notifications	Enhancements to Transaction Console Diagnostic Log	Updated document. Revised Key Resources.
25 AUG 2023	User Experience	Updated Oracle ADF Desktop Integration Add-In	Updated document.  Updated the MOS link.
26 JUN 2023	Approvals and Notifications	Enhancements to Transaction Console Diagnostic Log	Updated document. Revised Tips & Considerations.
01 JUN 2023	Approvals and Notifications	Worklist: Notifications and Approvals Work Area Includes New Task Filter	Updated document. Delivered new feature in update 23B.
12 MAY 2023	IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations		Updated document. Added two new entries.
12 MAY 2023	Reporting and Analytics	What's Notable and Different in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence	Updated document. Delivered new feature in update 23B.
12 MAY 2023	API and Schema	Notice About Obsolete Tables in Oracle Fusion Applications	Removed from document. No more updates to this notice in update 23B.
13 MAR 2023			Created initial document.

Overview

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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 Configure Offerings.

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

Albania Territory is Added to the Territory List on Your Set Preferences Work Area

The Albania territory is now added to the list of territories on the General Preferences: Regional page of the Set Preferences work area.

You can now select Albania as a territory when you're setting your regional preferences.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Set Regional Preferences (Available April 7, 2023)

Changes in the Color Strip of Page Headers

The color strip on all page headers is changed to match the Redwood look and feel of the application.

This is how the color strip on the page headers looked before update 23B.

And here's how it looks now in 23B.

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.

Updated Oracle ADF Desktop Integration Add-In

You can now download the latest version of the Oracle ADF Desktop Integration add-in, version 5.1.2.25306.

Here are some key things you get with this version:

• A prompt to use your credentials to authenticate a failed session
• The updated version of WebView2 SDK, version 1.0.1343.22
• Improved diagnostic logging for WebView2
• The new version for ADFdi client health check, version 1.8.1

Steps to Enable

You need to install the new add-in on each desktop. For more information, see How to install the ADF Desktop Integration Add-in for Excel (2681794.1) on My Oracle Support.

Key Resources

• Oracle ADF Desktop Integration Add-In for Excel (Available April 7, 2023)

Profile Option to Control CKEditor Version for Rich Text Editor Component

Use the CKEditor Version for Rich Text Editor Component (ORACLE.ADF.VIEW.RICH.RTE_LAYOUT) profile option to specify the CKEditor version the rich text editor component should use, for example, CKEditor 4 or CKEditor 5. The default value for this profile option is CKEditor 5. You can find this profile option in the Manage Administrator Profile Values task in the Setup and Maintenance work area.

NOTE: This profile option isn't used by Oracle Fusion Service.

This profile option helps you specify the CKEditor version you want to use.

Steps to Enable

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

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 generating an audit report, don't select ODI in the search parameters, because ODI won't be considered.

Steps to Enable

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

Profile Option to Set the Maximum Number of Records That Can Be Exported to Excel from the Audit Reports Work Area

To restrict the number of records that can be exported to Excel from an audit report, you can create a new profile option named FND_AUDIT_EXPORT_ENTITY_LIMIT and specify its value. You can use the Manage Profile Options task in the Setup and Maintenance work area to create this profile option.

In the Audit Reports work area, users can enter search parameters and export the data to excel. If the number of records processed by the search parameters exceeds the set limit, a message is displayed requesting the users to narrow down the search criteria. The maximum limit you can specify for the FND_AUDIT_EXPORT_ENTITY_LIMIT profile option is 10000 per table. This maximum limit is set as the default value for the profile option.

The actual rows returned might have more records, because a single transaction can update multiple tables.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Audit Configuration for Business Object Attributes (Available April 7, 2023)
• Create and Edit Profile Options (Available April 7, 2023)

Vietnamese Language is Added to the Language Pack on Your Application

The Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese when the application is run in the Vietnamese 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

• Language Packs on Your Application (Available April 7, 2023)

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.

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

• R13.x Deprecated and New BI View Objects

What's Notable and Different in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

For new features and release announcements, see What's Notable and Different in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence.

New OTBI functionality provides you with the ability to expand your data and business analysis.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• What's Notable and Different in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence

Approvals and Notifications

Remove Prefix from Subject Lines and Titles in Workflow Notifications

By default, email and in-app notifications sent out as part of a workflow or approval process have a prefix in the subject line or title, for example Action Required. If you have a specific requirement, you can choose to exclude that prefix in the notifications that are sent.

For a particular workflow task, you can set this up for specific combinations of task statuses and recipients. For example, you can exclude the prefix when the task status is Assigned and notifications are sent to the assignees. Your setup won't apply to FYI notifications, which will always show the prefix.

To remove the prefix from the notification subject line or title:

1. 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.

2. In BPM Worklist, on the Task Configuration tab, search for the workflow task in the Tasks to be configured pane.

3. Select the task from the search results and click the Edit task icon in the toolbar.

4. Click the Notifications subtab.

5. For any of the task status and recipient combinations, select the Exclude Notification Prefix check box.

Removing the prefix can help grab the readers' attention with a more direct notification subject line or title, say for notifications advertising special offers. For example, Action Required: Early Payment Offer - Accelerate Payments for up to USD 1000 becomes Early Payment Offer - Accelerate Payments for up to USD 1000 after the prefix is removed.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

You should use this feature only if you have a very specific requirement to do so. Otherwise, leave the prefix displayed in the notifications.

Key Resources

• Remove Prefix from Subject Lines and Titles in Workflow Notifications (available April 7, 2023)

Access Requirements

• To manage task configurations and exclude the prefix, you need a custom role that includes the BPM Workflow System Admin Role (BPMWorkflowAdmin).

Enhancements to Transaction Console Diagnostic Log

The Transaction Console diagnostic log now includes two new sections you can enable and make use of.

• Task Level Configuration
• Transaction History

You can view these sections when you download the diagnostic log from any pending or error transaction details page in the Transaction Console.

Task Level Configuration

This section lists details of task configuration in BPM Worklist for the process type of the selected transaction. The details shown in this section are for the current configuration of the task, not from the time the transaction was initiated.

Transaction History

This section lists all the approval stages a transaction has passed through based on the approval rule configuration.

When diagnosing an issue, users can quickly get a snapshot of the task configuration and approval history in one place.

Steps to Enable

To create the profile option that controls whether these sections are in the log:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Applications Core Profile Options task in the Application Extensions functional area for your offering.

2. On the Manage Applications Core Profile Options page, click the New icon.

3. On the Create Profile Option page, enter HRC_TXN_TAC_DISABLE_EXTN_LOG as the profile option code.

4. Enter a display name that you can easily remember to help you find the profile option later, for example Disable Diagnostic Log.

5. From the Application list, select Common Work Setup.

6. From the Module list, select Application Common.

7. Click Save and Close.

8. On the Manage Profile Options page, select the Enabled and Updatable check boxes for the Site level.

9. Click Save.

To set the profile option value so the sections are included:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Applications Core Administrator Profile Values task in the Application Extensions functional area for your offering.

2. Search for the profile option code HRC_TXN_TAC_DISABLE_EXTN_LOG.

3. In the Profile Values section, set the Site to False.

Tips And Considerations

By default, the Task Level Configuration and Transaction History sections are included in the log. You can disable them, for example to improve performance, using the HRC_TXN_TAC_DISABLE_EXTN_LOG and HRC_TXN_TAC_DISABLE_RULE_AUDIT_TRAIL profile options.

• If the HRC_TXN_TAC_DISABLE_EXTN_LOG profile option is created and is set to true, the Task Level Configuration and Transaction History sections isn’t included in the diagnostic log.

• If the HRC_TXN_TAC_DISABLE_RULE_AUDIT_TRAIL profile option, which disables the audit trail segment along with rule details, is created and is set to true, the Task Level Configuration section isn’t included in the diagnostic log. If the profile option isn’t created or created and set to false then the Task Level Configuration section is omitted and only the Transaction History section is included.

Key Resources

• Manage Included Sections in Logs

Worklist: Notifications and Approvals Work Area Includes New Task Filter

In the Worklist: Notifications and Approvals Work Area, a drop-down list has been added to filter tasks by when they were created. This additional filter applies only to the default My Tasks view, showing tasks created in the last seven days by default. The filter's options include 7, 14, or 30 days. Select All to display a complete list of tasks for you and your groups. The filter drop-down is also available in BPM Worklist if the My Tasks view and Me & My Groups filter are selected, which is the default.

Response time is improved by having a filtered list of tasks when the work area opens.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• Because the new task filter applies only to the default My Tasks view, if you select a different view in the work area, for example, Initiated Tasks, it won't be available.

• If you don't see this new filter in 23B, you'll see it in 23C.

Key Resources

• Use Your Worklist to Manage Workflow Tasks

Extensibility

Updated Oracle Visual Builder Studio

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

• Service connection enhancements

Use a new Type viewer to see the type structure for an Endpoint's request or response. This means that you no longer have to create a web app and use a query string or type from the Endpoints tab in the Page Designer to see the type structure. For visual apps, see Create a Service Connection from an Endpoint. For extensions, see Create a Service Connection from an Endpoint.

• Audit warning for IP-based service URLs

An IP address audit warning is shown for service connections that use IP-based addresses in URLs, as a reminder to use DNS-based URLs instead. For visual apps, see Create a Service Connection from an Endpoint. For extensions, see Create a Service Connection from an Endpoint.

• Option to change page templates

If you create pages from templates, either Redwood template patterns or fragments, you can now change the page's content at the click of a new Select Page Template button. This option allows you to remove everything from the page, including associated files, but keep the same page name. For visual apps, see Change Page Templates. For extensions, see Change Page Templates.

NOTE: To work with Redwood template patterns, the Redwood components associated with your application must be on Update 23.01 or later. Template patterns are not available in Update 22.10 or earlier.

• Advanced category in the Components palette

For discoverability reasons, you can now use all JET components in the Components palette, with those that don't have design-time properties showing under a new Advanced category. Components in the Advanced category typically require you to manually code different aspects of their functionality. For visual apps, see The Components Palette. For extensions, see The Components Palette.

• Abort HTTP calls

You can now use our documentation to cancel long-running HTTP calls using AbortController, a browser-based interface that lets you abort a web request. AbortController was an experimental feature previously but is now supported by all browsers. For visual apps, see Abort Pending REST Calls. For extensions, see Abort Pending REST Calls.

• Support for configuring customizers for constants

When developing an App UI, you can now customize a constant so that users extending the page have a more suitable component to edit the constant's value in the Page Designer's Properties pane. Previously, the Properties pane always used text field components for editing the values of constants. See Configure How a Constant is Customized in the Properties Pane.

• OAuth user assertion authentication for service connections

For service connections in an extension, you can now use OAuth user assertion authentication as another mechanism for identity propagation. See How Does Authentication with Identity Propagation Work? For instructions on how to configure your app to use this form of authentication, see Connect to Oracle Cloud Service REST APIs Using Identity Propagation.

• Environment's sandbox for a new workspace

When you use Edit Page in Visual Builder to change Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications pages and you're accessing a workspace for the first time (that is, one was created but never opened), your workspace is automatically set to your environment's sandbox if one isn't associated with your workspace. See What's the Extension Lifecycle?

The new Visual Builder Studio functionality provides you with a platform to extend your Fusion Applications extensively.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Create a Service Connection from an Endpoint (for visual apps)
• Create a Service Connection from an Endpoint (for extensions)
• Create a Service Connection from an Endpoint (for visual apps)
• Create a Service Connection from an Endpoint (for extensions)
• Change Page Templates (for visual apps)
• Change Page Templates (for extensions)
• The Components Palette (for visual apps)
• The Components Palette (for extensions)
• Abort Pending REST Calls (for visual apps)
• Abort Pending REST Calls (for extensions)
• Configure How a Constant is Customized in the Properties Pane
• How Does Authentication with Identity Propagation Work?
• Connect to Oracle Cloud Service REST APIs Using Identity Propagation
• What's the Extension Lifecycle?

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 the latest ODA skill platform version and the corresponding FADA skill release version.

  Certified ODA Skill Platform Version	New Feature	Skills Supporting New Feature	Certified FADA Skill Release Version
  22.12	None	N/A	23.04.19

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.
• For more information on recently-added features and enhancements in the different versions of the ODA platform, see What's New in ODA.

PUBLISHER TO AUTOMATICALLY PURGE THE TRANSIENT DATA OF JOBS COMPLETED MORE THAN 365 DAYS AGO TO IMPROVE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE

In 23C, Publisher will automatically delete transient data for reports from scheduled jobs older than 365 days. Once the report output has been deleted, it can’t be restored.

If you need to retain report output beyond the system retention period, you can download the report output. See View Job History for a Specific Report, View Details of a Job History, Download Data from a Report Job, and Send an Output to a New Destination for instructions on how to download reports or deliver report outputs outside the Oracle Analytics Publisher application.

OPEN-SOURCE FONTS TO REPLACE LICENSED MONOTYPE FONTS IN ORACLE TRANSACTIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

In 24A, open-source fonts will replace the Monotype fonts currently available in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence. You can use the open-source fonts available in the current release with your existing reports and edit the layouts as appropriate.

For details on this font replacement, see Open-Source Fonts to Replace Licensed Monotype Fonts.