Update 22D

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
22 NOV 2022	Program Management and Reporting	Program Management Communication	Updated document. Revised feature information.
22 NOV 2022	Grant Management	Federal Financial Report Enhancements	Updated document. Revised feature information.
02 SEP 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

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• 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.

In some cases, you might want to opt in to a feature that's not listed in the New Features work area. Here's how to opt in:

1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > Offerings.
2. On the Offerings page, select your offering, and then click Opt In Features.
3. On the Opt In page, click the Edit Features (pencil) icon for the offering, or for the functional area that includes your feature.
4. On the Edit Features page, complete the steps to enable the feature.

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Feature Summary

Project Management

Project Management Common

Service Excellence Continuing Investments

In this update, improvements are available in the following areas:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT COMMON

• Project Attributes for Integration with Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) in OTBI: Added the following attributes in the Project folder of the Project Management subject areas:
  • Integration Application Code: The value is “ORA_EPM” if the project is already integrated with EPM Planning.
  • Integration Project Reference: Indicates the project number used in EPM Planning.

COST MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL

• Expenditure Item Date on Supply Chain Receipt Transactions: Opting into Inventory Management feature Use Transaction Date as the Expenditure Item Date for Purchase Order, the expenditure Item date on new project cost transactions are set as follows:
  • Receipt date for project-based purchase orders (inventory and expense destination)
  • Receipt date for project-based transfer orders with inventory destination
  • Receipt date for project-based transfer orders with expense destination, with receipts
  • Shipment date for project-based transfer orders with expense destination, without receipts

For more information, please refer to the 'Use Transaction Date as the Expenditure Item Date for Purchase Order Receipts' feature.

Based on Idea 595643 from the Project Management Idea Labs on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.

• Manage Distributed Labor Costs Improvements: Efficiently manage labor costs distributed through labor schedules using the additional functionality of:
  • Search on labor costs by pay element providing management of distribution results of pay element-based labor schedules.
  • View Total Count and Selected Count information readily on the page to understand volume of search results and actions to be taken on selected costs.
  • Simplified CSV download icon improving the visual interaction with the page.

GRANT MANAGEMENT

• Cost Share Attributes for Internal Funding Sources in OTBI: Added 3 attributes. The following cost share attributes are available for all internal funding sources in the Award Funding Source folder of the Award dimension:
  • Approval Date
  • Approved-By Person
  • Required by Sponsor

These attributes also exist in the Cost Share Details folder in the Award dimension, but this is only for the predefined internal funding source before multiple internal funding sources were supported.

NOTE: Add either the Award Total Funding Amount fact or the Number of Funding Sources metric in the Award Funding Source Measures to see all of the internal funding sources and the cost share details.

• Export Award Projects: Export award projects from the Manage Award Projects page using the standard Export to Excel icon.

Based on Idea 581414 from the Project Management Idea Labs on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.

PLANNING, SCHEDULING, AND FORECASTING

• Currency Conversion Variance Considered During Forecast Generation: Consider all periods with amounts during the forecast generation as part of modified forecasting logic. With this enhancement, even periods with net zero amounts are considered during forecast generation, thus ensuring accurate estimate to complete values for better planning. 

Based on Idea 615193 from the Project Management Idea Labs on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.

• Optimized Performance for the Manage Project Plan Page Load: Open the Manage Project Plan page in a significantly lesser time than earlier. In addition, you can also observe improved performance when you create tasks from a work plan template in a project.

• Task Financial Actuals Retrieval Using a REST API: View financial actual efforts and actual costs for project tasks using Task Financial Actuals resource under the Project Plans REST API.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

• Project Resource Request Search Performance Improvement: Include additional search criteria for requested start date range to improve the performance of project resource request search.
  • The requested start date range can be up to 1 year.
  • Existing saved searches that only specify Request Status should be updated to include at least one additional search criteria.

Steps to Enable

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

Billing and Revenue Management

Project Contract Invoice Deletion Using a REST API

Delete standard invoices in draft status using the Project Contract Invoice REST API. This feature gives the flexibility for deleting one or more standard invoices at a time.

When a standard project contract invoice in draft status is deleted using the REST API the underlying transactions are marked as un-invoiced. Also, the funds consumed are given back to the billing controls at the contract header and line level.

The business benefits of this feature are:

• System integrators, administrators, and developers can create new or extend existing integration and automation solutions for the deletion of project contract invoices.

• You can also leverage complementary offerings such as the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel to create user-friendly workbooks to perform the deletion of project contract invoices.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Tips And Considerations

• Set Parallel Requests to 1 in the Layout Designer of the Oracle Visual Builder Excel workbook, if any contract contains multiple draft invoices to be deleted.

Key Resources

• Related Help:
  • REST API for Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management guide available on the Oracle Help Center.
  • Developing Integrated Spreadsheets Using Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel is documented here.
  • How to configure parallel requests in Oracle Visual Builder Excel workbook is documented here.

• Based on Idea 613944 from the Project Management Idea Labs on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.

Role And Privileges

To use this feature, you need one of these roles:

• Job Role Name and Code:     
  • Project Integration Specialist (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST_JOB)       
  • Project Billing Specialist (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_BILLING_SPECIALIST_JOB)

Project Contract Invoice Mass Release Using a REST API

Release multiple project contract invoices in approved status using the Project Contract Invoice Release REST API. The business rules and validations in the Release of a single approved invoice REST API are honored in the Mass Release REST API.

The business benefits of this feature are:

• System integrators, administrators, and developers can create new or extend existing integration and automation solutions for the mass release of project contract invoices.

• You can also leverage complementary offerings such as the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel to create user-friendly workbooks to perform the mass release of project contract invoices.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Key Resources

• Related Help:
  • REST API for Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management guide available on the Oracle Help Center.
  • Developing Integrated Spreadsheets Using Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel is documented here.

Role And Privileges

To use this feature, you need one of these roles:

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Project Integration Specialist (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST_JOB)
  • Project Billing Specialist (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_BILLING_SPECIALIST_JOB)

Protect Supporting Documents from Deletion

Protect your supporting documents from being inadvertently deleted. Adding the new privilege, Delete Supporting Documents by Contract Status, to the required roles lets you restrict the deletion of supporting documents in all contract statuses other than Draft and Under Amendment. To restrict the deletion of supporting documents in all contract statuses, revoke the existing privilege, Delete Supporting Documents, for specific roles.

Delete Supporting Documents Privilege	Delete Supporting Documents by Contract Status Privilege	Result
Yes	Yes	User can delete supporting documents in all contract statuses
Yes	No	User can delete supporting documents in all contract statuses
No	No	User can't delete supporting documents in any contract status
No	Yes	User can delete supporting documents only in Draft and Under Amendment contract status

This feature lets you protect contracts' supporting documents from deletion using privileges.

Steps to Enable

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

Key Resources

• For information about how to add and remove privileges to user roles, see the "Edit Job or Abstract Roles" topic in the Securing CX Sales and B2B Service guide.
• For information about the new privilege, see the "New Privileges" topic in the Security Reference for Enterprise Contracts guide.
• For information about using contracts, see the "Create Customer Contracts" chapter in the Using Customer Contracts guide.

Role And Privileges

The supplied privilege, Delete Supporting Documents by Contract Status Privilege, isn't assigned to any role. Add the privilege to the necessary roles and revoke the existing privilege, Delete Supporting Documents.

Use Updated Rich Text Editor in Enterprise Contracts

Use the latest built-in rich text editor when editing clause text in Oracle Enterprise Contracts.

Built-in Rich Text Editor

Enjoy a simplified, more modern interface while using the same features available in the prior version of the editor.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

You can use the updated editor without requiring any additional steps to enable it. You can revert to the previous editor using the Opt In UI to disable this feature. From Update 23A, this feature is no longer optional, and you'll use the updated editor.

The updated built-in text editor is compatible with Firefox browser versions from Firefox 78.0esr.

The toolbar display is simplified, with features working in a similar way as before, with these notes:

• There are no toolbar icons to copy, cut, and paste, but you can perform these functions using keyboard shortcuts.
• You can select a bulleted or numbered list with fewer clicks. However, the numbered list with leading zeros is not supported.

Numbered Lists

• There is no SCAYT (spell check) feature.
• There is no Show Blocks feature.

Key Resources

• See the " Edit Contract Terms in the Clauses Tab " topic in the " Author Contract Terms " chapter in the Using Customer Contracts guide.

Cost Management and Control

Cross-Charge Business Unit Exceptions in Projects Using a REST API

Manage exceptions to the project-level cross-charge provider business units using the Projects REST API. If a project does not allow charges from all provider business units, then use the Projects REST API to manage those business units where cross-charges are allowed. Conversely, if a project does allow charges from all provider business units, then use the Projects REST API to manage those business units for where cross-charges are not allowed.

The business benefits of this feature are:

• You can now quickly add and delete exceptions to cross-charge provider business unit rules for multiple projects without accessing the application.
• You can update numerous projects and their respective provider business units using spreadsheets with the Oracle Visual Builder Add-In for Excel.
• You can use this functionality for project templates. 

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Tips And Considerations

• When updating the Allow Charges from All Provider Business Units from Yes to No or No to Yes, pay close attention to the warning message "Use of the exception business units will be reversed because you have changed the allow cross-charges option". Hence, make sure the provider business units listed are correct.

• You can't update existing provider business units using this REST API. You can only add new or remove existing provider business units.

• To invoke REST APIs from Excel, consider using the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel. This can be useful when performing bulk additions or deletions of provider business units for multiple projects.

Key Resources

• Related Help:
  • REST API for Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.
  • Developing Integrated Spreadsheets Using Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel.
  • There are examples of how to build integrated workbooks using the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel on Oracle Customer Connect. Search for posts in the Project Management category starting with the text "Did you know?".

• Based on Idea 543088 from Project Management Idea Labs on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.

Role And Privileges

To add and delete provider business units to both projects and project templates using REST API, you need the following privileges, respectively:

Projects

• Manage Project Service (PJF_MANAGE_PROJECT_SERVICE_PRIV)
• View Project Service (PJF_VIEW_PROJECT_SERVICE_PRIV)

Project Templates

• Mange Project Template (PPJF_MANAGE_PROJECT_TEMPLATE_PRIV)

The privileges listed above are both included in the following duty role:

• The duty role listed above is assigned to the following job roles:
  • Project Application Administrator (ORA_PJF_PROJECTS_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
  • Project Integration Specialist (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST_JOB)

Payroll Cost Distribution Error Removal

Remove all payroll costs that failed in distribution using labor schedules on initial import or when adjusted using new labor schedules. This allows for cleaning up payroll costs that need to be removed due to inadvertently importing or adjusting. You can use search results in the Manage Labor Costs page more efficiently with an added Pay Element filter attribute, standard shift key and mouse click combinations to select multiple rows, and active total and selected count data.

Multiple Costs Selected and Delete Action Available

For larger or more specific sets of data, you can use the REST API custom action on labor schedule costs and its multiple parameters to find and remove costs that are in a status of Error.

Watch a Demo.

The ability to delete costs in Error status will allow you to remove errors without having to create new labor schedules for successful cost distribution. Fewer costs in status of Error will reduce the amount of time needed to find and analyze costs that need updates to ensure projects are charged correctly. Removing larger sets of data using the new REST custom action will free up administrative time of having to search and select specific groups of costs.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• Related Help: REST API for Oracle Project Management Cloud guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.
• Based on Idea 591788 from the Project Management Idea Labs on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.

Role And Privileges

To use this feature, you need the following privileges:

• Manage Project Labor Distributions (PJC_MANAGE_PROJECT_LABOR_DISTRIBUTIONS_PRIV)

Project Cost Adjustments Using a REST API

Manage project cost adjustments using the Project Costs REST API. This release adds canceling of pending adjustments and editing expenditure comments to the list of adjustment types that are already available. This feature extends capabilities to build comprehensive integrated solutions for managing project costs, such as creating workbooks using the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel.

For example, to edit the expenditure comment for a project cost, the REST API request body would look something like this:

{

"name":"adjustProjectCosts",

"parameters":

[

{"AdjustmentType": "Edit comment"},

{"Comment": "This is the new comment for my project cost transaction."}

]

}

Similarly, to cancel all pending adjustments for a project cost transaction, which includes adjustments in a Pending or Rejected status, the REST API request body would look something like this:

{

"name":"adjustProjectCosts",

"parameters":

[

{"AdjustmentType": "Cancel"}

]

}

This is analogous to the user clicking the Cancel Adjustment button on the Adjustment History tab for a transaction on the Manage Project Costs page.

The business benefits of this feature are:

• You can close periods more quickly by canceling superfluous pending adjustments programmatically, in bulk.

• System integrators, administrators, and developers can create new or extend existing integration and automation solutions for managing project costs.

• Customers can also leverage complementary offerings such as the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel to create user-friendly workbooks to perform these operations.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

There are no additional steps required to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• Editing expenditure comments using REST API is an explicit action, so the 'Comment' parameter only applies when the 'Edit comment' adjustment type is used. Conversely, if any other parameters are provided when using the 'Edit comment' adjustment type, they will be ignored.

• Canceling pending adjustments using REST API cancels all pending adjustments for the specified project cost transaction. Only the adjustment type parameter is required. If any other parameters are included when using the 'Cancel' adjustment type, they will be ignored. If the pending adjustment that is being canceled is subject to workflow approval, any associated workflow tasks will be withdrawn.

• Cancelation of adjustments is not allowed if budgetary control validation status is one of 'Reserved with warning', 'Reserved' or 'Partially reserved'. If a draft accounting event has already been created for the pending adjustment, said event will be deleted when the adjustment is canceled (to prevent it from becoming orphaned).

• Editing expenditure comments and canceling adjustments using REST API is subject to the user having the required privileges (please refer to the Roles & Privileges section below). These two adjustment types are not currently subject to workflow approval, regardless of whether the action is initiated using REST or the application UI.

• To invoke REST APIs from Excel, consider using the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel. This can be useful when performing bulk actions, for example, changing expenditure comments or canceling pending adjustments for a range of project cost transactions.

Key Resources

• Related Help:
  • REST API for Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.
  • Developing Integrated Spreadsheets Using Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel.
  • There are examples of how to build integrated workbooks using the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel on Oracle Customer Connect. Search for posts in the Project Management category starting with the text "Did you know?".

• Based on Idea 621795 from the Project Management Idea Labs on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.

Role And Privileges

To edit expenditure comments and cancel adjustments using REST API, you need the following privileges respectively:

• Edit Comment (PJC_UPDATE_PROJECT_EXPENDITURE_ITEM_COMMENT_PRIV)
• Cancel Adjustment (PJC_CANCEL_PROJECT_EXPENDITURE_ITEM_ADJUSTMENT_PRIV)

The privileges listed above are both included in the following duty role:

• Project Cost Transaction Processing (ORA_PJC_PROJECT_COST_TRANSACTION_PROCESSING_DUTY)

• The duty role listed above is assigned to the following job roles:
  • Project Accountant (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_ACCOUNTANT_JOB)
  • Grants Accountant (ORA_PJF_GRANTS_ACCOUNTANT_JOB)

Project Cost Transaction Reversal After Person Assignment Changes

Import reversals of person-related cost transactions, such as time cards, regardless of the current status of the person's HCM assignment. Previously, reversals could be imported only if the person's associated assignment was active.

This feature allows person-related, matched cost reversals to be created without dependencies on the person’s current HCM assignment status, thereby avoiding assignment-related exceptions and unnecessary HCM assignment updates in order to process reversals.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• Existing rejected unprocessed cost transactions from predefined sources, such as Oracle Fusion Time and Labor or Oracle Fusion Payables, will not be impacted or resolved by this feature. These feature updates affect only new reversal transactions for these predefined sources.

• Reversals cannot be manually entered in the Manage Unprocessed Costs page or the Capture Costs Excel templates for persons with canceled work relationships.  You can use either the Unprocessed Project Costs REST API or one of the Import Project Cost FBDI templates to use Person ID to create reversals for persons with canceled work relationships.

• When using the Unprocessed Project Costs REST API to create a reversal, you do not need to specify any assignment-related attributes in the request as the assignment information from the original transaction will be copied to the reversing transaction.  If you do specify the person’s assignment in the request, use Assignment ID.  If Assignment Name or Assignment Number is used, then errors will be returned for persons without active HCM assignments.

• When using one of the Import Cost FBDI templates to create a reversal of a person-related transaction, you do not need to specify any assignment-related attributes in the file as the assignment information from the original transaction will be copied to the reversing transaction if successfully imported.  If you do populate any of the assignment-related columns in the template, these values will be ignored during import processing.

• When using the Unprocessed Project Costs REST API to create a reversal for persons with canceled or terminated work relationships, identify the person using Person ID in the request.  If you use Person Name or Person Number instead of Person ID, then errors will be returned.

Role And Privileges

To use this feature, you must have the privilege to create project cost transactions:

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Enter Project Unprocessed Expenditure Item (PJC_ENTER_PROJECT_UNPROCESSED_EXPENDITURE_ITEM_PRIV)

• Duty Role Name and Code:
  • Project Cost Transaction Processing (ORA_PJC_PROJECT_COST_TRANSACTION_PROCESSING_DUTY)

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Project Accountant (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_ACCOUNTANT_JOB)
  • Grants Accountant (ORA_PJF_GRANTS_ACCOUNTANT_JOB)

Unprocessed Cost Drill Down from OTBI

Drill down from OTBI analyses to unprocessed costs in the Costs work area. Add an action link on unprocessed transaction identifier, to enable the drill down using a deep link. A deep link is a URL to open a page without navigating through the application menu structure. Project accountants can easily navigate back and forth from the analysis to the application to review details.

You will see the Edit Transactions page if the transaction is editable, else you will see the transaction in a view only mode. Below are the steps to enable the deep link.

1. Add the Unprocessed Transaction Number as a column in your analysis to deep link to the unprocessed cost using the Project Costing - Unprocessed Transactions Real Time subject area.

2. Add the action link to Unprocessed Transaction Number in a distinct row of your analysis. 

   1. Select the configure icon next to the attribute and then the Column Properties action.
   2. Select the Interaction tab and then select Action Links for the Value, Primary Interaction.
   3. Select the Add Action Link icon. Enter a name for the link text and choose Navigate to a Web Page action.
   4. Optionally, you can select 'Do not display in a popup if only one action link is available at runtime'.

3. Add the deep link URL to the action link.
   1. Enter the following URL, replacing the hostname with your host name: https://<hostname>/fscmUI/faces/deeplink?objType=@{1}&action=@{3}&objKey=TxnInterfaceId=@{2};sourceOfNavigation=@{4}
   2. Enter values for these four parameters - objType, objKey, action, and sourceOfNavigation.
      1. The value for objType is UNPROCESSEDTXNDETAILS.
      2. Change the value type to a Column Value for objKey and then select "Unprocessed Transaction Details"."Transaction Interface Id".
      3. The value for the action is none.
      4. The value for sourceOfNavigation is deeplink.
   3. Select Fixed and Hidden for all parameters.
   4. Optionally, you can select Options and set 'Open In New Window' for the page to open in a new browser window.

The business benefit of enabling the deep link for unprocessed costs is quick and easy access for project accountants to review and correct unprocessed cost errors.

Steps to Enable

Leverage new subject area(s) by adding to existing reports or using in new reports. For details about creating and editing reports, see the Creating and Administering Analytics and Reports book (available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > Books > Administration).

Key Resources

• Creating and Administering Analytics and Reports for Project Management guide available on the Oracle Help Center.
• Based on Idea 585775 from the Project Management Idea Labs on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.

Role And Privileges

To use this feature, you need one of these job or duty roles:

• Role Name and Code:
  • Project Accountant (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_ACCOUNTANT_JOB)
  • Grants Accountant (ORA_PJF_GRANTS_ACCOUNTANT_JOB)
  • Project Costing Transaction Analysis Duty (FBI_PROJECT_COSTING_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_DUTY)

Use Transaction Date as the Expenditure Item Date for Purchase Order Receipts

When using Project-Driven Supply Chain, the expenditure item date plays an important role in your project accounting flow. For example, the expenditure item date is used as the date for budgetary control and cost accruals. Because it plays such an important role in project-based orders, you need the expenditure item date accurately reflected for your transactions. Prior to this update, purchase order receipts used the date captured on the purchase order as the expenditure item date. If some of your items have long lead times, this can result in an inaccurate accounting picture once those goods are received. Now, purchase order receipts use the user-entered transaction date as the expenditure item date for project-based supply.

With this enhancement, the expenditure item date on the purchase order is no longer considered by Oracle Receiving during put away and other receiving transactions. Instead, the transaction date is passed to Oracle Cost Accounting and Oracle Receipt Accounting as the expenditure item date for Project-Driven Supply Chain transactions. Return and correction transactions in Receiving will also consider the transaction date for the expenditure item date. 

Examples:

This purchase order is created with the project-relation information and Expenditure Item Date as 7/20/22 for an inventory destination.

Purchase Order

This receiving put away transaction is performed with the transaction date (Receipt Date) as 6/27/22.

The transaction date in Receiving is available with the following labels, which are now considered for the expenditure item date for project-related transactions.

• Receipt Date on Receive Lines page
• Transaction Date on Put Away Lines page
• Return Date on Return Lines page
• Transaction Date on Correct Lines page
• Transaction Date in Self-Service receiving pages
• Transaction Date in receiving REST and SOAP services
• Transaction Date in receiving FBDI

Receive Lines

For inventory destination purchase orders, we can view the expenditure item date populated with the transaction date using the Review Completed Transactions page in Oracle Fusion Cloud Inventory Management.

We can see the Expenditure Item Date as 6/27/22 on the Review Completed Transactions page which is passed from Receiving on put away of the purchase order line.

Review Completed Transactions

This feature ensures that an accurate expenditure item date is used for purchase order receipts in the Project-Driven Supply Chain process.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 23B

Tips And Considerations

• Purchase orders with inventory and expense destinations both consider the transaction date as the expenditure item date.

• For standard routing receipts where the receipt happens on date X and the put away on date Y, Receipt Accounting gets X for the receive transaction and Y for the deliver transaction as the expenditure item date, and Cost Accounting gets Y as the expenditure item date for Project-Driven Supply Chain transactions.

• The opt-in feature is always enabled after two releases, so from 23B.

• You can view the transaction date for the expenditure item date on the Review Completed Transactions, Review Receipt Accounting Distributions, Review Cost Accounting Distributions, and Manage Project Costs pages.

Key Resources

• Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Using Receiving guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role And Privileges

You have a couple of options for giving people access to this feature, depending on whether you're assigning them to predefined job roles or your own configured job roles.

•  Users who are assigned any of these predefined job roles are automatically able to access this feature:
  • Receiving Agent (ORA_RCV_RECEIVING_AGENT_JOB)
  • Warehouse Operator (ORA_INV_WAREHOUSE_OPERATOR_JOB)
  • Warehouse Manager (ORA_INV_WAREHOUSE_MANAGER_JOB)
  • Procurement Requester (ORA_POR_PROCUREMENT_REQUESTER_ABSTRACT)
  • Procurement Preparer (ORA_POR_PROCUREMENT_PREPARER_ABSTRACT)
  • Procurement Application Administrator (ORA_PO_PROCUREMENT_APPLICATION_ADMIN_JOB)

• Users who are assigned configured job roles that contain these privileges are able to access this feature: 
  • Create Self-Service Receiving Receipt (RCV_CREATE_RECEIVING_RECEIPT_SELF_SERVICE_PRIV) 
  • Receive Receiving Shipment Line (RCV_RECEIVING_SHIPMENT_LINE_PRIV) 
  • Put Away Receiving Receipt (RCV_PUT_AWAY_RECEIVING_RECEIPT_PRIV)
  • Correct Receiving Receipt (RCV_CORRECT_RECEIVING_RECEIPT_PRIV)
  • Manage Receiving Receipt Returns (RCV_MANAGE_RECEIVING_RECEIPT_RETURNS)
  • Correct Self-Service Receiving Receipt (RCV_CORRECT_RECEIVING_RECEIPT_SELF_SERVICE_PRIV)
  • Manage Self-Service Receiving Receipt Return (RCV_MANAGE_RECEIVING_RECEIPT_RETURN_SELF_SERVICE_PRIV)

Planning, Scheduling, and Forecasting

Project Forecast Planning Options Management Using a REST API

Manage planning options for project forecast using the Project Forecasts REST API. Override the default planning options defined from the financial plan type while creating a project forecast. This override facility better aligns to the user experience available to users in the user interface.

The business benefit is that system integrators, administrators, or developers can override the planning options while creating a project forecast version or view and manage the planning options for existing project forecast versions.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

You can't modify the planning options if the Forecast Creation Method is set to Copy from Another Source.

Key Resources

• REST API for Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

Role And Privileges

To use this feature, you need one of these privileges and roles:

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Project Forecast Working Version (PJO_MANAGE_PROJECT_FORECAST_WORKING_VERSION_PRIV)
  • Manage Project Forecast (PJO_MANAGE_PROJECT_FORECAST_PRIV)

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Project Integration Specialist (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST_JOB)
  • Project Application Administrator (ORA_PJF_PROJECTS_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
  • Project Administrator (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
  • Project Manager (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_MANAGER_JOB)

Project Templates Management of Additional Attributes Using a REST API

Manage additional template attributes using the Project Templates REST API. For example, manage the financial burden schedule and currency conversion values. Indicate whether projects will be enabled as planning projects used to schedule tasks and resources. Add or delete business units that are exceptions to the cross-charge rule and update and delete project tasks using child resources of the Project Templates REST API. Manage additional attributes for tasks including capitalization, burden, and cross-charge options.

The business benefits are:

• System integrators, administrators, and developers can create new or extend existing integration and automation solutions for maintaining project templates.

• Users such as the Project Application Administrator can efficiently update or delete project tasks. Where high numbers of project templates are defined, this capability saves time and effort over row-wise updates in the UI.

• You can also leverage complementary offerings such as the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel to create user-friendly workbooks to perform these operations.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

There are no additional steps required to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

To invoke REST APIs from Excel, consider using the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel.

Key Resources

• REST API for Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management guide available on the Oracle Help Center.

• Developing Integrated Spreadsheets Using Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel.

• There are examples of how to build integrated workbooks using the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel on Oracle Customer Connect. Search for posts in the Project Management category starting with the text "Did you know?".

• Based on Idea 539501 from the Project Management Idea Labs on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.

Role And Privileges

To use this feature you need the following privileges or roles:

• Privileges:
  • Manage Project Template (PJF_MANAGE_PROJECT_TEMPLATE_PRIV)

• Job Roles:
  • Project Application Administrator (ORA_PJF_PROJECTS_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB).
  • Project Integration Specialist (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST_JOB)

Simplified Resource Assignment User Experience for a Financial Project Plan

Expedite resource assignments with the simplified user interface on the financial project plan. The user interface changes make the selection of resources easy with profile images, gives flexibility to assign resources in multiple transaction currencies, and provides a quick search.

Use Assign Planning Resources to Selected Tasks page to assign resources to tasks on a financial project plan. Follow these steps to navigate to the Assign Planning Resources to Selected Tasks page:

1. Select the tasks for which you want to assign resources on the Manage Financial Project Plan page.
2. From the Actions menu, select Manage Resource Assignments, and then Assign Planning Resources to Selected Tasks.

Assign Planning Resources to Selected Tasks Page

The business benefit is increased productivity because you can:

• Find resources quickly using search.
• Assign resources to multiple tasks simultaneously.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Project Financial Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 23B

Tips And Considerations

• Use the Hide Prior Assignments option to limit the resources assignments to the ones added recently.

• You can't remove resource assignments using the Assign Planning Resources to Selected Tasks page. Use the Manage Resources dialog box to remove resource assignments. Right-click the tasks, select Manage Resource Assignments, and then Manage Resources for Selected Tasks to launch the Manage Resources dialog box.

Role And Privileges

To use this feature, you need one of these roles:

• Project Manager (ORA_PJF_PROJECT MANAGER_JOB)
• Project Administrator (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)

Transaction Analysis for Project Planning Resource Assignments Report

Use the new Transaction Analysis for Project Planning Resource Assignments Report to understand how a cost rate has been calculated for resource assignments in financial project plans, project budgets, and project forecasts. For example, use the report to quickly determine the cause of cost rate derivation errors, such as organizations missing from costing rules, or entries missing from rate schedules. Conversely, where cost rate values have been derived but are not as expected, use the report to understand the logic behind the derived value, for example where a project cost rate override has been used.

This release adds to the two reports delivered in 22C:

• Transaction Analysis for Project Planning Resource Assignments Report (new in this release)
• Transaction Analysis for Unprocessed Project Costs Report (released in 22C)
• Transaction Analysis for Project Costs Report (released in 22C)

Use the new Project Transaction Analysis reports to:

• More easily identify the root cause(s) for project costing errors in planned and actual transactions, such as:
  • No rate was found for the person.
  • A rate wasn't found for the person job.
  • No rate was found for the nonlabor transaction.
  • The application can't find a costing rule for the labor transaction.
  • A rate wasn't found for job X because the job doesn't exist in the job set or isn't mapped to another job in the job set.

• More easily understand how raw cost rates were derived for planned and actual transactions. For example:
  • Was a labor costing override used?
  • Was a project cost rate override used?
  • Was the correct date-effective rate schedule entry used?
  • Was the correct organization costing rule used for the expenditure organization?
  • For planning transactions, was an actual cost rate or planning cost rate used?

Example

The following worked example shows how a project application administrator uses the Transaction Analysis for Project Planning Resource Assignments Report to assist a project manager in troubleshooting a costing error for a project forecast.

• A project manager has encountered some costing errors when creating a project cost forecast, which they need to clear before being able to submit the forecast for approval. The project manager picks one of the errors to focus on first; 'A raw cost rate wasn't found for the planning transaction'. They take a screenshot of the error message, ensuring to include the project name, financial plan type, plan version, task, planning resource, and planning period. The project manager then contacts the project application administrator for assistance:

• The project application administrator navigates to Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI), and opens the Transaction Analysis for Project Planning Resource Assignments report from the catalog. The catalog location is Shared Folders > Projects > Projects Maintenance:

• The project application administrator enters parameter values based on the information provided by the project manager, and runs the report. The project application administrator then opens the downloaded report in Excel:

• The report has four sheets:
  • Report Details: Displays the report parameter values and runtime details, such as the date on which the report was run and the user ID that ran the report.
  • Transaction Details: Provides a summary of key transaction attributes to assist analysis.
  • Transaction Errors: Provides a summary of any existing errors or warnings relating to the transaction.
  • Costing: Provides a detailed breakdown of cost processing and related setups.

• The project application administrator opens the Transaction Details sheet. They browse the key attributes of the assignment and observe that the resource format is Job and not Person:

• The project application administrator now opens the 'Costing' sheet. The sheet is arranged in a number of sections, each of which has detailed guidance within the sheet. To summarize:
  • Cost Processing - Where a transaction has already been processed by costing, this section shows the outcome of that costing event.
  • Simulated Cost Processing - When the report is run, the transaction is reprocessed by costing in "simulation" mode. This serves two purposes:
  1. To check whether the costing error reported in the application still exists. For example, since the error was raised, another user may have fixed the costing setups but is yet to rerun the Import Costs process.
  2. If a transaction has already been costed, the simulated outcome can be compared to the existing cost outcome(s), for example, to identify where there have been any changes in costing setups since the transaction was processed. This use case is applicable to the next worked example, where we explore a processed project cost.
  • Simulated Cost Processing Errors - Details any errors resulting from the simulated cost processing above.
  • Cost Processing Setups - Lists out all of the application setups that relate to each of the costing methods that are considered when raw costs are calculated.

• Conditional formatting within the sheet makes it easy for the project application administrator to see where setups are a match or partial match to the transaction, including date effectivity. The project application administrator can see that:
  • The assignment was processed with a costing method of 'Organization Costing Rule', so the planning options must have been configured to use actual cost rates and not planning rates.
  • Simulated Cost Processing has resulted in the same error experienced by the project manager. This confirms that this is still an active issue based on current setups:

• The project application administrator scrolls down to see the setups relating to the Organization Costing Rule method. They can see that there's a matching rule for the business unit of the plan transaction. However, they also notice that said rule is associated with a person rate schedule (recall that the planning resource is based on a job, not a person):

• The project application administrator speaks with the project manager, and the project manager's preference is that a project cost rate override is used for this job, rather than plan at the named-person level in their forecast. The project manager asks the project administrator to add the override to the project:

• Prior to reviewing the forecast, the project application administrator can take advantage of the simulation mode in the analysis report to see if the outcome will be as expected. The project application administrator re-runs the analysis report with the same set of parameters. On the Costing sheet, they notice that:
  • The Simulated Cost Processing section now shows that a project cost rate override has been used, and the correct raw cost rate has been used to calculate the raw cost of the assignment.
  • To confirm this, there is a matching row shown in the Project Cost Rate Override setup table:

• The project manager can now refresh the rates for this assignment in their forecast. Here is the position before rates are refreshed:

• This is the position after; the error count has decreased and the raw cost rate and amount have been successfully derived:

The business benefits of this feature are:

• It empowers your project application administrators and application implementation consultants to provide better support to users of the Costs and Project Financial Management work areas. Project Transaction Analysis Reports reduce the effort and skill required to resolve costing issues for planned and actual transactions.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• These reports are intended for the project application administrator and/or the application implementation consultant, and are therefore secured by a functional privilege only (please refer to the Role & Privileges section below). No data security is applied to these reports, regardless of the user's roles and privileges. If you are considering making these reports available to end users, such as the project accountant, please bear in mind that the reports may display data that the end users do not have access to in the standard application pages.

• Consider using Excel features such as tables, filters and show/hide rows to navigate the reports more easily.

• The Costing sheet within the report has a limit of 10,000 rows for each costing method.

• If you raise a service request with Oracle Support related to costing errors, you may be asked to attach the output of the Project Transaction Analysis Reports. This will help expedite cost processing issues.

Key Resources

• The View Analytics, Reports, and Dashboards topic in the Creating and Administering Analytics and Reports for PPM guide.

Role And Privileges

Project Transaction Analysis Reports are secured by the following privilege:

• View Project Transaction Analysis Report (PJF_VIEW_PROJECT_TRANSACTION_ANALYSIS_REPORT_PRIV_OBI)

The privilege listed above is available in the following seeded job roles:

• Project Application Administrator (ORA_PJF_PROJECTS_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
• Application Implementation Consultant (ORA_ASM_APPLICATION_IMPLEMENTATION_CONSULTANT_JOB)

Program Management and Reporting

Program Management Communication

Keep stakeholders informed by regularly publishing program communications. Program Managers can share the program's health status with the stakeholders, and stakeholders can view and collaborate on the shared reports.

Tailored templates and frequency choices allow you to manage reporting that best fits the business needs of your programs. Report content includes program performance and text, allowing you to provide the information that you want to convey to your stakeholders. Each program communication report has a working version and previously published versions; the working version is automatically updated when the application collects performance data for program monitoring and analysis. Published reports are immediately available to stakeholders, and you can continue the conversation by reviewing and responding to stakeholders' comments from within the application.

Program Manager Communications, Report Publishing

As a stakeholder, you can view published reports using the new Program Stakeholders navigation. Review current and previously published reports for programs to which you have access. Share insights, provide guidance, and collaborate with your program manager and fellow stakeholders using comments that you can enter for each report version.

Program Stakeholder Report Review and Collaboration

Program managers can create a communication reporting plan for their program by defining reporting frequency, publishing options, and content layout. You can either use an existing layout template, copy a template and edit it to create a new template, or design a layout from scratch. The content interface supports a click-to-add approach for adding content from a predefined catalog. You add several attributes at once by selecting a group of attributes, such as a report header and program details. Report current program performance by including program metrics, such as margin, revenue, and earned value variances. Edit the template metric to display it as a value or as a scorecard, with trends visible from two previous reports. Add report sections and text using headings, line separators, and enterable paragraphs. List the top-five projects performing ahead or behind schedule, with related earned value charts and tables. All added content can be renamed, moved up and down, and removed. When you're ready, publish the template layout to define and generate stakeholder reports for your programs.

Communication Report Template Creation

The following REST APIs are available for program communications:

• Project Program Communications: Manage templates, reports, and report recipients. Manage comments for a report.
• Project Program Communication Feedback: Manage comments on reports.
• Project Program Communication Catalogs: Manage reporting content catalog objects.

Business Benefits

• Encourages stakeholder engagement by regularly communicating program performance. The consistent format and additional text provided by program managers help to enhance stakeholder insight and interest in the program. Report commentary promotes a timely exchange of insights, guidance, questions, and answers.

• Streamlines program status reporting, enabling program managers to easily define layout templates, set distribution frequency, control publishing options, and create content that best meets the reporting needs of their programs. Creating a report takes less time; a working version is automatically generated with performance values pulled directly from the program's performance data. Centralizes the location of program reports in the application, from where they're easily available to all stakeholders.

Steps to Enable

1. Program Options (required)

Select the program calendar, calculation methods, and currencies using the Manage Program Options task in the Project Financial Management offering.

• Calendar: The calendar defines periods for program analysis. This is typically the same calendar as your financial project accounting calendar. The mapping method determines how the project’s accounting calendar period maps to the program calendar, if the two are different.

• Currencies: Add a maximum of 5 currencies to your programs. The Update Program Performance Data process converts monetary values from the project’s currency to each program currency using the specified conversion rate type and date. The program analysis user interface initially displays amounts in the default currency. When a program manager changes the currency, then their selection becomes their personal default value.

• Calculation Methods: Select a method for calculating the physical percent complete. The Update Program Performance Data process calculates the physical percent complete if a value does not exist for the project. Choose either the financial plan or budget as the source to calculate earned value measures.

2. Performance Measures (optional)

• Approximately 145 performance measures are enabled for programs. To reduce the list of measures, disable unwanted measures using the Manage Performance Measures task in the Project Financial Management offering. You can modify the measure names and the default display values using the same task.

3. Conversion Rates (conditionally required)

• Define rates between your project currency and each program currency for the conversion rate type and currencies defined in your program options. Use the Manage Conversion Rate Types task in the Project Financial Management offering to complete this step.

Tips And Considerations

• Communication templates are shared and can be selected by any program manager for their reporting. There are two ways templates are created. You can directly create and name the template by selecting the Create Template action on the Communications page. A template is also created from a report when adding report content from scratch or modifying an existing template. In this case, the template will inherit the report name.

• The frequency and start date of a report determine the report's due date. The numerical date in the start date is used for monthly, quarterly, and yearly frequencies. To set a report due date for the end of the month, pick the 31st of any month earlier than today. The due date is automatically adjusted for shorter months. If using weekly and bi-weekly frequencies, the start date's day of the week determines the due date. If you switch automatic publishing on, the report will automatically get published on the due date. You can pause and resume automatic publishing as required.

• The initial working version of the report is empty until you refresh it for the first time. The report is refreshed with the latest measure values when project managers of projects that are associated with the program, submit the Update Project Performance Data process. The latest refresh date is noted on the report. If needed, you can force a refresh by selecting the Refresh Report button. This submits the Update Program Performance Data process, which may take a few minutes to complete. 

• You can browse the working and published versions from the Communications page by selecting the preview icon for the report.

• You can archive reports and templates when they're no longer needed.

Key Resources

• Related Help:
  • "Project Programs" chapter in the Using Project Performance Reporting guide
  • "Project Performance Reporting Configuration" chapter in the Implementing Project Financial Management and Grants Management guide
  • "Projects - Program Performance Reporting" subject area in the Subject Areas for Transactional Business Intelligence in PPM guide
  • Creating and Administering Analytics and Reports for PPM guide
  • REST API for Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud guide
  • Program Manager, Project Executive, and Project Application Administrator in the Security Reference for PPM guide
  • Securing ERP guide

• What's new for Update 22B: Program Management

Role And Privileges

To use this feature, you need these privileges and roles:

• Privilege Name and Code:
  • Manage Project Program (PJS_MANAGE_PROJECT_PROGRAM)
  • View Project Program (PJS_VIEW_PROJECT_PROGRAM)
  • Run Update Program Performance (PJS_RUN_UPDATE_PROGRAM_PERFORMANCE_PROCESS)

• Duty Role Name and Code:
  • Project Financial Application Administration Duty (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_FINANCIAL_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATION_DUTY)

• Job Role Name and Code:
  • Program Manager (ORA_PJF_PROGRAM_MANAGER)
  • Project Executive (ORA_PJF_PROJECT_EXECUTIVE)
  • Project Application Administrator (ORA_PJF_PROJECTS_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR)
  • Employee (ORA_PER_EMPLOYEE_ABSTRACT)

Grant Management

Federal Financial Report Enhancements

The Federal Financial Report is enhanced to display the new Unique Entity Identifier instead of the D-U-N-S number. The report is now compliant with the latest requirements posted by Grants.gov.

Enter the institution's Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) in the Manage Institutions page.

Manage Institutions

When you generate the Federal Financial Report, the system selects the UEI from the award's institution.

Federal Financial Report

A new parameter is added to the Generate Federal Financial Report process, shown here.

You can choose either Accrual or Cash for Basis of Accounting. The default value for this process parameter is the accounting method of the primary ledger.

Basis of Accounting

The business benefit of including UEI in the Federal Financial Report is that the report is now compliant with Grants.gov requirements.

Steps to Enable

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

Role And Privileges

To use this feature, you need one of these roles:

• Grants Administrator (ORA_PJF_GRANTS_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
• Grants Department Administrator (ORA_PJF_GRANTS_DEPARTMENT_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB)
• Principal Investigator (ORA_PJF_PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR_JOB)

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing Cloud service features with new features or removes existing features. When a feature is replaced the older version may be removed immediately or at a future time. As a best practice, you should use the newer version of a replaced feature as soon as the newer version is available.

Product	Removed Feature	Target Removal	Replacement Feature	Replaced In	Additional Information
Project Management Cloud	PPM Mobile application (Android and iOS) Enter Time on Mobile Manage Tasks on iPhones Manage Tasks on Android Phones	23B	Oracle Digital Assistant for Project Time and Project Management	21B	The mobile application will continue to work during the transition, but we do not plan any further enhancements. We will enhance the digital assistant skills for project time and project management in upcoming releases.
Project Management	Manage Project Plan – Old User Experience (Release 8)	22D	Expedite Your Project Planning with a New User Experience	20A	Considerations for opting in to the Expedite Your Project Planning with a New User Experience Feature
Project Management	Enterprise Project Structures (EPS)	TBD	Program Management	22B	We recommend moving to program management for reporting needs. For related security requirements to access projects that currently leverage the EPS, consider the following two security enhancements: Expanded Project Access Configuration for the Project Management Work Area (21D) Expanded View Project Plan Access for Non-Team Members (22A)
Project Management Cloud	Projects REST API access using the "View Project Financial Tasks Service" privilege	22D	Projects REST API access using the "View Project Service" privilege	Release 11	Transition to using the "View Project Service" privilege for Read access.

Remember to review all upcoming opt in changes in the Opt In Expiration section.

KNOWN ISSUES / MAINTENANCE PACK SPREADSHEETS

Oracle publishes a Known Issues document for every Update to make customers are aware of potential problems they could run into and the document provides workarounds if they are available.

Oracle also publishes Maintenance Pack and Statutory Maintenance Pack documentation of bugs that are fixed in the monthly or statutory patching.

To review these documents you must have access to My Oracle Support:

Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Doc ID 1545504.1)

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. Check for updated versions every release in the Skill Store. Versions stop working when the underlying platform version becomes inactive, at the longest 2 years after release. The next ODA platform version to be deprecated and deleted in 6 months: 21.04.

The following 22B versions of the skills won't receive any updates or patches:

• Project Management: 22.04.02
• Project Time Entry: 22.04.04

We recommend that you stay up to date and use the most current skills.