Oracle Fusion R13 - Highlights For Developers

You now have new options to tailor the look-and-feel of the homepage. This includes a homepage layout tab and support for a panel view or a banner view under the Appearance feature. 

Multiple Home Page Styles

In addition, under the Structure feature you can now reorder and rename all custom Pages added to the homepage.

SmartText for Engagement Cloud

For users of the Service side of Oracle Engagement Cloud (i.e. Service and Sales functionality together). To aid service agents working on service requests, SmartText allows predefined blocks of text to be included in messages and description fields. It supports the merge of run-time data (e.g Severity below)) for dynamic and personalized information and a complete reuse/sharing capability to be controlled as desired.

Links to Records in Approval Notifications

As shown below, notifications now include hyperlinks to the specific records to which they apply. This simple feature requires no setup and simply increases user productivity.

Groovy Debugger

This tool allows you to quickly analyze your scripts to help troubleshooting and enhancement. It reduces the need to repeatedly execute scripts and to monitor the run-time log messages output. The best way to explain is through an simple illustration.

• First I created an onCreate Object Trigger on my new custom object called 'Vehicle'.
• Clicking the Custom Objects link (tree node) in the left-hand window of Application Composer, shows all custom objects in a table.
• From here I click my Vehicle object and press the debug button on the toolbar, shown below. This launches the debugger in a separate browser window.

• The debugger launches In a second browser window. Next a break-point is set by clicking the line number in the code window. Notice the red star on line 2 in the screenshot below.
• Next in the normal user interface and hit the Create button on the Vehicle page.
• The debugger refreshes itself (in the separate window) and shows the Stack and Variables data at my break-point.

Metadata Configuration Report

This new report provides a comprehensive view of all your Application Composer customizations. It includes everything published (not sandbox content) in the environment, by all users. It has a full summary at the top, followed by object-specific configurations including all properties of fields, triggers, validation rules, object workflows, object functions and more.

Once generated it can be downloaded as a HTML or XLSX file and reviewed and stored offline to follow best practice configuration management.