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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 DEC 2020 | Extensibility | Roles Excluded from Migration Set While Importing Are Automatically Excluded from Subsequent Imports | Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20D. |
| 30 SEP 2020 | User Experience | Enhanced Global Search | Updated document. Revised feature information. |
| 04 SEP 2020 | Created initial document. |
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.
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Inactive and Unavailable BI View Objects (BIVOs) and BIVO Columns for Exclusion from Extraction in BI Cloud Connector
Beginning with update 18B, there are BI View Objects and BI View Object columns that are unavailable or marked inactive in Oracle Applications Cloud. These objects are unavailable for extraction using BICC in Oracle Applications Cloud.
Deploy Descriptive Flexfields to Unified Sandboxes
Besides deploying flexfields directly to the mainline environment, you can now also deploy your descriptive flexfield changes to a unified sandbox. By deploying to a sandbox, you can test your changes and then publish your sandbox to make your changes available in the mainline environment.
Create Automated Regression Tests
You can create automated regression tests against your staging pod by following the set of instructions for Oracle ADF - Runtime Automation Sample Library:
https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/application-development-framework-downloads.html
Roles Excluded from Migration Set While Importing Are Automatically Excluded from Subsequent Imports
Now you don't have to manually remove the same excluded roles from your migration set every time you import data from your source to target environments. That’s because while importing, if you exclude any roles from your migration set, those roles are automatically excluded from subsequent imports. If required, you can always find the excluded roles in the Missing Roles section of the Details dialog box, and manually create them in the target environment.
BI Platform Author Role Renamed to BI Author Role
The display name for the BI Platform Author Role is changed to BI Author Role. This change is reflected in Security Console and the Manage Privileges page, and doesn't affect user security roles and privileges.
New OTBI Usage and Performance Subject Areas
How many users run analyses? What is the usage pattern? What are the longest running analyses? Where is the performance bottleneck? Two new OTBI usage and performance subject areas are included to answer these questions and more. Report developers and administrators can use the new subject areas to monitor OTBI users and report and subject area usage trends, and to diagnose run-time errors and performance.
- OTBI Usage Real Time: Monitors OTBI usage, including user, analysis and dashboard, and subject area usage trends.
- OTBI Performance Real Time: Monitors usage trends and OTBI analysis execution time, execution errors, and database physical SQL execution statistics.
You can now enable the search extension framework to enjoy the enhanced experience of real-time global search. With this new framework, you get highly responsive, index-based, and full-text search capabilities. You can also manage and configure the indexes after they’re created. Here are some of the things you can view using this framework.
- List of attributes and their associated set of available values in the search results.
- Action links associated with the searchable objects.
- Recent searches for all the objects enabled in the search.
Updated Oracle ADF Desktop Integration Add-In
You can now download the latest version of the Oracle ADF Desktop Integration add-in, version 5.0.5.21469. With this version, you get Croatian as another language for translation.