EBS Foundation - What's new in 12.2.8 and 12.2.9 and ...

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EBS Foundation - What's new in 12.2.8 and 12.2.9 and Impacts on OCI

Susan Behn

VP – Oracle ApplicationsInfosemantics, Inc.

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MICHIGAN ORACLE USERS SUMMIT 2020Monday October 26 – Thursday October 29, 2020

Virtual event

EBS FOUNDATION - WHAT'S NEW IN 12.2.8 AND 12.2.9 AND IMPACTS ON OCISUSAN BEHNVP – ORACLE APPLICATIONSINFOSEMANTICS, INC.

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Copyright ©2020 Infosemantics, Inc. All Rights Reserved . Any other commercial product names herein are trademark, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

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About the Speaker – Susan Behn

■ Oracle Ace Director

■ OATUG Star Presenter of the year, 2015

■ Dallas Oracle User Group “DOUGie of the Year” - April, 2019

■ Over 28 years E-Business Suite development and support

■ Member-Oracle Proactive Support Customer Advisory Board

■ Member – EBS ATG Customer Advisory Board

■ Chair-Oracle E-Business Suite User Management SIG

■ Webmaster-Texas-Louisiana Oracle User Group TLOATUG

■ Board Member – Customizations and Alternatives SIG

■ Over 100 presentations on E-Business Suite

■ Co-author for multiple books on E-Business Suite■ The ABCs of Workflow for E-Business Suite Release 11i

■ Release 12 and The Release 12 Primer – Shining a Light on the Release 12 World.

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About Infosemantics

■ Established in 2001

■ People First

■ Global Reach – Offices in US (DFW, LA, Chicago), Singapore, Philippines, and India

■ Broad base of Commercial, Federal and Public Sector clients

■ www.infosemantics.com

http://www.infosemantics.com/

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Agenda■ Technology

■ Java Web Start on macOS with Firefox 12 ■ Multiple Forms Sessions with Java Web Start

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■ OAF 12.2.7 – 12.2.9■ Favorites ■ Simplified Attachment Pop-up window■ Themes■ Multi-column search in look-ahead LOV■ Simplified Home Page Enhancements■ List Search■ Query By Example■ Simplified Table Toolbar■ Enhancements for Rich Table Interaction■ Record History Enhancements■ Key and Descriptive Flexfield Enhancements■ Date Picker Modal Window Enhancements■ Personalization Workbench Enhancements

■ AOL

■ New Concurrent Processing Output File Naming Conventions

■ Concurrent Processing Timed Shutdown

■ Secure Configuration Console Enhancements

■ Workflow

■ Action History Enhancement

■ Configuring E-mail Eligibility for Item Types and Message

■ WebADI Enhancements

■ Impacts on OCI and use cases

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Technology Configuration

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Java Web Start-Back-ported from 12.2.9 to 12.1.3+/12.2.3+■ Java Plug-in - Runs within the web browser and must support the NPAPI protocol■ Java Web Start

■ Included in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) - no separate plugin install needed■ Launched from a web browser, but no dependency on the web browser

▸ Runs in its own restricted environment

■ Choose Plugin vs Web Start (launch method) by setting the context variable “variable s_forms_launch_method”■ jws = use Java Web Start■ browser = use Java Plug-in (Default)

■ Context variable setting in autoconfig will set two profile options as follows highlighted in yellow■ Enable Java Web Start

▸ Yes - Use Java Web Start▸ No - Use Java Plug-in

■ ICX: Forms Launcher▸ Java Web Start

■ <s_webentryurlprotocol>://<s_webentryhost>.<s_webentrydomain>:<s_active_webport>/forms/frmservlet?config=jws

▸ Site level default■ <s_webentryurlprotocol>://<s_webentryhost>.<s_webentrydomain>:<s_active_webport>/forms/frmservlet

▸ Java Plug-in■ <s_webentryurlprotocol>://<s_webentryhost>.<s_webentrydomain>:<s_active_webport>/forms/frmservlet?config=browserMode

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Multiple Forms Sessions with Java Web Start

■ On the home page, click the gear icon, then choose “Preferences”

■ Check the box to allow multiple sessions■ JSP pages only – not professional forms

■ Back-ported to 12.1.3 from 12.2.9■ Supported on all Windows supported browsers and Firefox for macOS■ Requires JRE 8 Update 181 or higher■ For more information see MOS 389422.1, Recommended Browsers for Oracle E-

Business Suite, section 'Multiple EBS Java Sessions’■ See patches required in MOS 2188898.1 (Using Java Web Start with Oracle E-

Business Suite)

https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?parent=DOCUMENT&sourceId=2188898.1&id=389422.1

https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=2188898.1

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Oracle Application Framework –12.2.7-12.2.8

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OAF New Features in 12.2.7

■ OAF 12.2.7 new features listed below are covered in the following presentation on www.oatug.org and www.infosemantics.com■ OAF Personalizations 2019 – Quick Innovation Wins▸ Personalization Workbench

▸ Column freezing in HGrids

■ OAF 12.2.7 new features in this presentation include:■ Favorites▸ 12.2.7 – add favorite for outside link

▸ 12.2.9 – default favorites, choose favorites using icon

■ Simplified Attachment Pop-up window

■ Themes (Includes 12.2.9 color palette)

■ Multi-column search in look-ahead LOV

■ There are no new OAF features in 12.2.8

http://www.oatug.org/


https://infosemantics.com/download/oaf-personalizations-2019-quick-innovation-wins/

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Add to Favorites – Add outside link 12.2.7

■ Click the Add to Favorites icon to add more favorites

■ Enter the prompt and responsibility and click the Go button

■ Check the box for the function needed and click the Apply button

■ New feature – Add outside link

New: Add

outside link

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Add to Favorites – Add outside link 12.2.7

■ Enter a function prompt and URL, check the open in new window box, then click the Apply button

New favorite on

home page.

Important – check box

so Oracle session is

not clobbered

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Default Favorites 12.2.9

■ Administrators can set the default favorites which appear as “suggested favorites” in Functional Administrator → Personalization → Favorites

■ Add or remove default favorites on this page

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Adding Favorites – Quick select Using Icon 12.2.9

■ After clicking “Add to Favorites” Icon, default favorite icons appear

■ Only the suggested favorites that apply to the user based on their responsibilities and favorites already chosen are displayed

Click a star to

add to favoritesClick a circle for

additional pages

Manage Favorites takes you to the forms to add additional

favorites that are not set up as favorites

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Default Favorites 12.2.9

■ Vote for enhancement request to provide API to assign favorites to userhttps://community.oracle.com/mosc/discussion/4404337/create-admin-favorites-that-are-automatically-inherited-by-users#latest

■ All Tech stack ideas: https://community.oracle.com/mosc/categories/technology_stack_-_ebs-ideas

https://community.oracle.com/mosc/discussion/4404337/create-admin-favorites-that-are-automatically-inherited-by-users#latest

https://community.oracle.com/mosc/categories/technology_stack_-_ebs-ideas

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Vote on EBS ideas!

■ From Cliff Godwin’s presentation on 12.2.10 – voting matters!

■ https://community.oracle.com/mosc/categories/e-business-suite-ideas-lab

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Simplified Attachment Pop-up 12.2.7

■ 12.2.7+ Shows # of attachments and open as a pop-up (better for tablets)

■ Earlier releases show paperclip holding paper and open a separate page

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Themes 12.2.7

■ Themes allow users to change the Look and Feel on OAF Pages

■ Go to Functional Administrator →Personalization →Themes

■ Click the Go button■ Click a radio button

for a theme, then click the activate theme button

■ Recommendation –Use a different theme for production, test, development

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Themes 12.2.7

■ I deactivated this one right away…a little bright for me

Click to deactivate

– returns to default

Click to Create

Custom Theme

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Themes 12.2.7

■ Create your own custom theme to match your corporate colors

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Color Picker Enhancement 12.2.9

■ The color picker user interface now uses an enhanced color spectrum and color swatch

• Earlier Releases • 12.2.9

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Multi-column search in look-ahead LOV 12.2.7

■ Multi-column search allows searching on all search-allowed columns for the look-ahead LOV instead of just the first column

■ This is enabled for the accounting Flexfield as an example in EBS

■ Developers set the property "Look Ahead Multi Column Search Enabled" to True

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Oracle Application Framework 12.2.9 Selected New Features

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Profile Options Impacting Home Page

■ The simplified home page was released in 12.2.4

■ The simplified home page is the recommended format for many new features

■ This chart shows the profile option settings for the various home page UIs

Home Page User Interface (UI)

Self Service Personal Home Page Mode

FND: Disable ConfigurableHome Page

Flat list navigator like 12.1 Framework Only (default) True

Flat list navigator like 12.1 Framework Tree True

Configurable with Tree

Navigator like 12.2

Framework Only (default) False (default)

Configurable with Tree

Navigator like 12.2

Framework Tree False (default)

New Simple Home Page Framework Simplified N/A (overrides value)

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Simplified Home Page 12.2.9

Gear Icon replaces several

buttons with links shown in

the box below the button

Favorites icon displays list

of favorites

12.2.7 Navigator is now

on the left corner.

Clickable dots show

multiple pages

Switch user appears

if you are a proxy

user

Alarm bell icon

shows number of

unread notifications

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Simplified Home Page and UI Updates 12.2.9

■ Layout of the simplified home page is more user friendly■ UI has been developed with the new

Masonry Layout component▸ Allows the UI and global header to change

based on device – tablet, phone, etc.■ Buttons will be replaced with menus on

smaller viewports■ Avoids use of horizontal or vertical scroll

bars

■ Configurable icon style – circular or square▸ See themes on earlier slides

■ OAF uses ‘Standard' Document mode in Internet Explorer 11 ■ No need to run in compatibility mode■ Avoids issues with misaligned icons and

buttons

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Masonry Layout – Adjusts to Tablets and Phones (12.2.9)

■ Ipad view

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Simplified Home Page Updates – Navigator Search (12.2.9)

■ Navigator – users can now search for both responsibilities and functions

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Simplified Home Page - Potential issue when upgrading to 12.2.8+

■ Consider deleting personalizations on the home page and re-creating after upgrade

■ Experienced this issue with 12.2.5. to 12.2.8 and 12.2.6 to 12.2.8

■ Error after login:

■ Used SQL to set profile option “Disable Self-Service Personal” to “Yes”

■ Deleted Personalizations

■ Set “Disable Self-Service Personal” back to “No”

■ Recreated personalizations

■ This issue has been reported to Oracle Support

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List Search 12.2.9

■ List search similar toQuery by Example

■ Set FND: Enable List Search profile option to True

■ Implemented in EBS on pages with key business transactions such as■ iProcurement Catalog

■ Orders

■ Project costing expenditure inquiry

■ Purchasing buyer work center

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Query by Example (QBE) on Advanced tables 12.2.9

■ Set the profile option FND: Enable Rich Table Interactions = True

■ Click the filter icon

■ Use Query Operators such as =, !=, <>, >=, <, <=

■ Click enter to submit query

Click to open up

row for QBE

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Simplified Table Toolbar 12.2.9

■ The table toolbar has been simplified to comply with the latest UI design■ Previous versions show icons

for Refresh, Detach, Columns, Freeze, and Reset on the toolbar

■ In 12.2.9, these are a popup displayed by clicking the Action menu

■ Set the profile option FND: Enable Simplified Table Control Bar to False to display the icons as in previous releases

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Rich Table Interaction 12.2.9

■ Rich table interactions are now supported for the following table types

■ Descriptive flexfields rendered as a pop-up

■ Tables with a key flexfield displaying the combinations list of values

■ Example – before 12.2.9, rich table interactions were not supported on the supplier sites page shown below because it includes a key flexfield

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Rich Table Interactions Video clip

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Record History 12.2.9

■ More tables with record history are enabled in each new release

1. 12.0.6+ Set FND: Record History Enabled to Yes to enable record history for a Header, Table or Advanced Table region

2. If #1 doesn’t work, click the Personalize Page button to try a personalization to turn on record history for a specific region

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■ Click in the “Supplier Sites” region and then on the Properties palette on the left, scroll down to find “Record History Enabled” and set it to true

■ Then scroll back up to click Save and Return to Application

1. Click

in this

region

2. Set

to True

3. Save* Personalization

Workbench View

4. Return to Application

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■ Choose a site and click the record history icon that is now on the page

Record

history

icon now

shown for

Supplier

Sites;

Click for

record

history

popup

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Flexfield Enhancements

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Flexfields Registration HTML UI 12.2.6

■ The form to register key flexfields and descriptive flexfields and search for registered flexfields is now available in Oracle Application Framework pages for use by developers

■ Application Developer → Flexfield → Key

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Open Key Flexfield Window by Default 12.2.4

■ The profile option Flexfields: Open Key Window On Default controls whether a flexfield window will open when a user presses Tab to leave a concatenated key flexfield field

■ Set to Yes if you want the window to open for the user to always view and/or edit segments

■ Set to No, to allow the user to tab through and accept defaults

■ It’s common for this behavior to be different by application so consider setting this profile option at the application level

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Key Flexfield LOV Pop-up 12.2.9

■ The key flexfield combinations list of values window now appears as a pop-up by default instead of in a browser window if FND: Enable Open LOV In Popup is set to True

■ Better for tablets

■ Set to False to use the modal browser window as in previous releases

■ Shorthand Alias search is now in Flexfield popup

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Read-Only Flexfields Segments Capability 12.2.9

■ Flexfield segments can now be defined as read-only by unchecking the Insertable and Updatable checkbox

■ Flexfield segments used as concurrent program parameters can also be defined to be read-only by unchecking the Allow Update checkbox

New

checkboxes

in 12.2.9+

New

checkboxes

in 12.2.9+

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Read-Only Flexfields Segments Capability 12.2.9

■ Flexfield value set security provides role-based separation of duties for viewing, creating, and updating segment values and concurrent parameter values

■ User Management Part II – Security Wizards and Proxy Users presentation provides detailed examples

▸ Available on www.infosemantics.com or www.oatug.org

https://infosemantics.com/download/user-management-part-ii-security-wizards-and-proxy-users/


http://www.oatug.org/

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Date Picker Enhancements 12.2.9

■ The date picker now uses a pop-up bean to provide a HTML window instead of using a modal browser window – better for mobile devices

Earlier releases 12.2.9

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Personalization Workbench Enhancements 12.2.9

■ The Personalization Workbench now uses a masonry layout with accordion views for the property and component palettes

■ Support is also added for some Rich Table Interactions

■ Hiding and reordering columns

■ Page-level buttons

■ Return to" navigation link

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Personalization Workbench – Earlier releases

■ Note the component palette on the left and property palette on the right

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Personalization Workbench 12.2.9

■ In 12.2.9 the component and properties palettes are moved to the left

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■ The accordion features allows the user to expand the properties or components palette using arrows

■ Components are displayed as icons

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■ Rich table interaction allows the user to hide or resize the left panel

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Application Object Library 12.2.9 Enhancements

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New Concurrent Processing Output File Naming Conventions 12.2.9

■ The output file naming conventions for Concurrent Processing have changed

■ Options for the APPCPNAM variable to allow configuration of the output file name: ■ USER.REQID – Results in username.request

■ REQID.OUT – Results in o<requestid>.out

■ NULL (Default) – Results in o<requestid>.<extension> with the extension derived from the request output type as follows: ▸ Text - .txt

▸ PDF - .pdf

▸ HTML - .html

▸ XML - .xml

▸ Postscript - .ps

▸ PCL - .pcl

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Concurrent Processing Timed Shutdown 12.2.9 backported to 12.1.3

■ The timed shutdown feature allows you to submit a normal, graceful shutdown ■ Specify the number of minutes after which an Abort command will be executed▸ After this number of minutes has passed, and if Concurrent Processing has not yet shut

down, the graceful shutdown will be converted to an Abort, and all remaining Concurrent Processing processes will be aborted■ All processes that can gracefully shut down do so, but if there is a problematic process,

the shutdown will be guaranteed to take no longer than the specified number of minutes

■ Concsub Syntax where X = number of minutesCONCSUB <ORACLE ID> <Responsibility Application Short Name> <Responsibility Name> <User Name> [WAIT=<Wait Flag] CONCURRENT FND TIMEDSHUTDOWN X

■ CPADMIN utility ▸ Use Manager Control option and respond to prompts for timed shutdown

■ Backported to 12.1.3▸ Apply RUP3 Patch 22549247

https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/ui/patch/PatchDetail.jspx?parent=DOCUMENT&sourceId=2480173.1&patchId=22549247

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Secure Configuration Console Enhancements

■ 12.2.6+ – The Secure Configuration Console UI provides central UI to configure security features

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Secure Configuration Console Enhancements

■ Access to the Secure Configuration Console■ System Administrator → Oracle Applications Manager → Dashboard → Security →

Secure Configuration Console■ Functional Administrator → Configuration Manager

■ Additional security checks added to the secure console in 12.2.7+■ Clickjacking Protection■ Diagnostic Web Pages Protected■ PUBLIC Privileges■ Workflow Email Link Login■ Allowed Resources Configuration■ Allowed Resources Whitelist Configuration■ Database Parameters (init*.ora)■ Database Password Profiles■ iRecruitment File Upload Profile■ Workflow Admin Access

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Secure Configuration Console Enhancements 12.2.9

■ Verification of security configurations is now required - EBS is locked down until the system administrator configures or acknowledges the recommended security configurations in the Secure Configuration Console to unlock the system for normal usage

■ Log into EBS using the local login page (http(s)://[host]:[port]/OA_HTML/AppsLocalLogin.jsp)

▸ Navigate to the console and unlock the system

▸ If a user with local system administrator privileges is not available, you can access the Secure Configuration Console through a command line utility AdminSecurityCfg

▸ For more information, see "Secure Configuration Console" in the Oracle E-Business Suite Security Guide, Part No. E22952

https://support.oracle.com/epmos/12.2.7/%5bhost%5d:%5bport%5d/OA_HTML/AppsLocalLogin.jsp

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/nav/technology.htm

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Diagnostic Console Enhancements 12.2.9

■ Diagnostics console button appears on the home page when the profile option FND: Diagnostics is set to Yes

■ Quicker way to clear cache

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Workflow 12.2.9 Enhancements

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Workflow Enhancements 12.2.9

■ Action History Enhancement

■ You can now include the action history table in a notifications with the Expand Roles option

■ Ability to manually enable/disable email delivery for specific item types or specific messages

■ Provides added level of security for specific emails containing PII or other personal information such as many HR emails

■ Use the new Email Notification Preference field in the Workflow Configuration page to configure the messages that are eligible to be sent in e-mail

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■ Workflow → Administration → Workflow Configuration

■ Scroll down to the Notification Response section

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■ Default is Enable All

■ Choose Enable Specific or Disable Specific

■ Click the

■ Choose an Item Type, then click the arrow to expand

■ Must select each message to disable

■ To select all, must click through each page (next 10) and check the top checkbox for all on each page

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■ Pro tip: Personalize the page to set the records displayed to a higher number■ Click Complete View radio button and Expand All link

■ Use <ctrl F> to search for “Select Workflow Messages”

■ Click the pencil to edit the next Advanced table

■ Set the “Records Displayed” property to a higher number

■ Click Apply and “return to Application


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■ Next and previous links are now gone because the number of rows is higher than the number of records


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WebADI

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Excel Icon on OAF pages 12.2.6+

■ Set the profile option FND: Enable BNE Table Integration to true to show excel icon (or popup starting in 12.2.9)

■ When the user clicks the excel icon, a window pops up to open or save the file – I recommend saving first

■ Internet explorer settings

■ Tools → Internet Options → Security → Trusted Sites → Custom Level

▸ In the Downloads settings, select Enable for the File download option

▸ In the Scripting settings, select Enable for the Allow status bar updates via script option

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WebADI 12.2.6+

■ Users can potentially use this as a WebADI spreadsheet starting point

■ 12.2.4+ The Oracle Menu in Excel new has a more user-friendly ribbon display

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WebADI 12.2.5

■ WebADI now supports Office Open XML (OOXML) standard■ OOXML is a format developed by Microsoft for spreadsheets/other documents

▸ Creates document on server and does validations on server▸ Smaller file size / Faster Uploads▸ More secure – does not require excel “trust” settings

■ Set the profile option BNE: Enable OOXML Standard to Yes▸ Starting in 12.2.6, default is Yes

■ Spreadsheets exported from OAF tables are always OOXML regardless of profile setting

■ If you are upgrading, you need to rebuild your templates unless you set this back to No

■ Excel → Options → Trust Center → Trust Center Settings → Macro Settings■ If Not using Digital Signatures

▸ Enable check box for “Disable all macros with notification”

■ If Not using Open XML▸ Enable check box for “Trust access to the VBA project object model”

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WebADI Digital Signatures 12.2.4

■ Digital signatures increase security

■ Digital Signature settings

■ Set the profile option BNE Enable Digital Signature to Yes

▸ After you initially identify the Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator macros as coming from a trusted source, Microsoft Excel automatically allows the macros to run

■ Excel → Options → Trust Center → Trust Center Settings → Macro Settings▸ Enable check box for Disable all macros except digitally signed macros

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WebADI Simplified Layout Page 12.2.5

■ Set the new profile option, BNE: Enable Simplified Define Layout to Yes to use the simplified Define Layout page■ Users enter all document parameters on a single page

■ If set to No, the old method is used to guide users through multiple pages to enter the layout properties

■ Setting this profile option at the application level is recommended due to the different end user experience by application■ Two end user access options depends on individual product implementations

1. The product integrates the generate spreadsheet functionality within its own functional page flow

2. Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator is used in the background to generate the spreadsheet (most common)

■ See the product-specific documentation for details on accessing the Desktop Integration functionality

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WebADI 12.2.5

■ View of page with the BNE: Enable Simplified Define Layout profile option set to Yes

■ Replaces five pages where parameters are requested on each page and user must click “next page” until all parameters are entered

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WebADI 12.2.5

■ Click the save button to show the popup for shortcut info and settings

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WebADI 12.2.7 – 12.2.9

■ 12.2.7 Certifications now include the following

■ 32-bit and 64-bit releases of Microsoft Office 2016

■ Office 365 ProPlus 2016

■ 12.2.9 Sequence Source Type now available

■ Can now define interface attributes with a source type of sequence to increment for each row during upload

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Issues with WebADI after Upgrade to 12.2.9

■ There are several known issues that may occur after the upgrade when using Budget Wizard and/or Desktop Integrator■ Resolutions for two of these issues are provided in this presentation

■ Check for recent patch recommendations for BNE to proactively avoid issues

■ Issue 1 - User is successfully able to select parameters in the first Budget Wizard screen, but after clicking on Create Document, user receives an error related to the Parameter List ID 101:GL_BUD_CNT_DNLD■ Solution: Run FNDLOAD UPLOAD with CUSTOM_MODE =FORCE in your

test instance to upload the WEBADI layout▸ Log in to unix with apps login and run below FNDLOAD command.

▸ FNDLOAD apps/appspwd@ 0 Y UPLOAD $BNE_TOP/patch/115/import/bneintegrator.lct $GL_TOP/patch/115/import/US/glbwint.ldt CUSTOM_MODE=FORCE

▸ Bounce the middle tier

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Issues with WebADI after Upgrade to 12.2.9

■ Issue 2 – WebADI Fatal Error

■ Solution: Add Desktop Integration - Create Document and Create Document functions to the GL_SUPERUSER menu

■ Leave the prompt empty

■ Note: The 'Oracle Web ADI' responsibility has been superseded by the 'Desktop Integration' responsibility.

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EBS on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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EBS on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

■ EBS on OCI should be viewed as a platform change – but easier with more options■ Use Cases

■ Disaster recovery ■ Replacement of hardware at end of life with OCI using lift and shift■ Additional instances for special projects

▸ Upgrade Testing Instances (Except UAT)▸ Module implementations needing additional instances

■ Quick provisioning of vision instances■ High performance is more cost effective in cloud than on-premise

■ Lift and shift to cloud from Oracle Linux, Red Hat Linux aor SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (x86-64)■ Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud) can be found at:


■ 12.1 Platform migration from non Linux –■ E-Business Suite 12.2 Platform Migration from On-Premises to Oracle Cloud using Transportable

Tablespaces with 12cR1 can be found at: https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=2473449.1



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From Cliff Godwin’s Presentation

www.mous.us

SAVE THE DATE• OATUG Forum Live

• December 7-11, 2020

• Virtual Event

• https://forum.oatug.org

• MOUS 2021• October 27, 2021

• Schoolcraft College -VisTaTech Center, 18600

Haggerty Rd, Livonia, MI

• Session Surveys• Please complete the session survey for this session

using the Zoom session survey link.

• The survey link will be provided via email once the

webinar is closed.

THANK YOU

Susan Behnwww.infosemantics.com

https://forum.oatug.org/

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Questions?Comments

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