Update 22A

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Overview

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Quality Management

Quality Management

Use Actual Names to Search for Users in Quality Management

Search for users by first name, last name, or email address when you add users on quality issues, quality actions, problem reports and corrective actions. Users appear on the interface in your selected display format.

Create an Inspection Plan for a Quality Inspection Management Functional Area Catalog

Create an inspection plan for a functional catalog specific to quality inspection purposes. You can assign items to multiple quality functional catalogs to distinguish different types of testing.

Enter Inspection Results by Editing All Rows

Enter inspection results more efficiently after clicking in the table to enter your first result.

Product Lifecycle Management

Innovation Management

Include Unique Number and Sequence Data in Concept Setup Data Migration

Include unique number and sequence information when you migrate functional setup data for concepts.

Use Actual Names to Search for Users in Innovation Management

Search for users by first name, last name, or email address when you add users on ideas, requirements, concepts, and proposals. Users appear on the interface in your selected display format.

Product Development

Use Actual Names to Search for Users in Product Development

Search for users by first name and last name when you add assignees or approvers to a change. You can also search by user ID or email address.

Selected Product Development Bug Fixes in This Update

This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Development works. For details of these selected bug fixes, see the Oracle Product Development What's New content.

Product Hub

Manage Related Items at the Organization Level

You can now create and manage related item relationships at the organization level.

Query Additional Attributes Using the Items List of Values REST Resource

Use the Items List of Values REST resource for querying additional item attributes, item category associations, and item relationships.

NOTE: This feature was also made available in a monthly update of 21C and 21D.

Use Actual Names to Search for Users in Product Information Management

Search for users by first name, last name, or email address when you add users for Product Information Management business objects. Users appear in your selected display format on multiple UIs related to items, catalogs, item batches, import maps, item rule sets, spoke systems, data pool subscriptions, item classes, supplier products, and trading partner items business objects.

Apply a Template When Assigning an Item to an Organization

Simplify the process of assigning items to organizations by applying an item template in a single step. Using this feature you can assign attribute values to the child organization item at the time of creation.

Use Catalogs and Categories in the Quality Inspection Management Functional Area

Use catalogs and categories in the Quality Inspection Management business processes through the Quality Inspection Management functional area.

Define Superseded Item Relationships for Usage in Planning

Configure planning for the superseded type of item relationship so that you can use the item relationship in the Replenishment Planning work area in a future update.

Enforce Mandatory Descriptive Flexfield Validations for Catalogs and Categories

Enforce mandatory descriptive flexfield validations for catalogs and categories from the user interface, web services, and data import.

Improve Approval Notifications for Changes

Use the enhanced BI Publisher notifications to select the change lines you want to include in the approval.

Selected Product Hub Bug Fixes in This Update

This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way Oracle Fusion Cloud Product Hub works. For details of these selected bug fixes, see the Oracle Product Hub What's New content.

Product Development & Product Hub Common

Manage Trading Partner Items Efficiently With the Ability to Edit Trading Partner Item Number

Edit the number for the trading partner item. This number refers to customer item number, manufacturer part number, competitor item number, and supplier item number. You can edit the manufacturer part number in the Product Development work area as well.

Enforce Uniform Quantity Related Setting for Reference Designators

Keep the Quantity Related check disabled by default for reference designators across engineering and commercial items. You can now enable or disable this from the structure type setup page.

Accelerate Error Debugging for Changes

Improve error logging to enable quick debugging and resolution of change order errors.

NOTE: This feature was also made available in the January monthly update of 21D.

Separate Lifecycle Phase and Effective Date Changes from Other Changes

Ensure that lifecycle phase and effective date changes to affected objects on a change order are saved separately. This ensures that item rules are not compromised even if there are other concurrent attribute changes.

Improve Item Class Selection Efficiency and Simplify Default Search Criteria

Select an item class from the automatic suggestions that are displayed while searching for an item and use the default saved search without the catalog and category search criteria fields.

View and Edit User Item Type for Engineering Items

View and edit the user item type attribute for engineering items in the Product Development work area and in the simplified change management interface.

Quickly Enter Reference Designators on Change Orders

Enter reference designators inline with the item component directly from the affected objects table on a change order. Use a comma-separated list of values, or a range, or a mix of both, to enter multiple values.

View Item History on the Edit Item Page

View item history on a new History tab on the Edit Item page.

Secure Structures with View Structure Privilege

Secure your item and document structures with additional privileges to control who can view the structure and its subassemblies, or download related attachments.

Product Lifecycle Management Common

Control Workflow Actions by Specific Roles

Add up to five roles as columns in the Additional Workflow Controls table and define what actions users with these roles can perform.

Add Reviewers to Change Workflows

Add reviewers to changes that are in any status.

Broaden OTBI Analyses Using Additional Attributes

Use the new attributes added to OTBI subject areas to broaden the scope of your analyses. You can now see the task assignee and task assigned date in change order reports, the role and sign-off user in new item request reports, and the unique number attribute in proposal reports.

Configure Change Order Application Pages

Use Application Composer to extend and configure change order application pages to meet your business needs.