What's New in This Guide for 11g Release 1 (11.1.4)

For 11g Release 1 (11.1.4), this guide has been updated in several ways. The following table lists the sections that have been added or changed.

For changes made to Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) for this release, see the What's New page on the Oracle Technology Network at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/documentation/index.html.

What's New in This Guide for 11g Release 1 (11.1.4)

For Release 11.1.4, this guide has been updated in several ways. The following table lists the sections that have been added or changed.

Sections	Changes Made
Chapter 3 Customizing Existing Pages
Section 3.2, "Editing a Page in Page Composer"	Section revised to remove the note in Task: Customize a Tasklist Menu that stated that task lists can be customized only at the site level.
Section 3.4, "Editing the UI Shell Template Used by All Pages"	Section revised to add the description of the new Customize Global Page template option in the Administration menu. Section revised to account for the fact that Composer can now be used to edit the UI Shell template for non-CRM applications (as well as CRM applications). Section revised to indicate that you use the skin editor to change the logo. Modified the following tasks to improve usability: Task: Add a Component to the UI Shell Template, Task: Edit a Component in the UI Shell Template, Task: Delete a Component from the UI Shell Template.
Chapter 5 Using Flexfields for Custom Attributes
Section 5.3.1, "Planning Descriptive Flexfields"	Section added to explain how to plan attribute mapping to Oracle Business Intelligence logical objects.
Section 5.3.2, "Planning Extensible Flexfields"	Section added to explain how to create actions that enable you to specify view and edit privileges for a context's attributes.
Section 5.5.1, "Configuring Descriptive Flexfields"	Section modified to explain how to create segment labels and how to assign segments to segment labels to help automate the importation of business-enabled flexfields into Oracle Business Intelligence.
Section 5.5.2, "Configuring Extensible Flexfields"	Section modified to explain how to specify view and access privileges for a context's attributes.
Section 5.8, "Integrating Custom Attributes"	Section modified to explain how to business-intelligence enable descriptive flexfield segments, how to map attributes to Oracle Business Intelligence logical objects, and how the mapping affects the way in which a descriptive flexfield is flattened for Oracle Business Intelligence.
Chapter 11 Customizing and Extending ADF Application Artifacts
Section 11.1.1, "Before You Begin Customizing Oracle ADF Application Artifacts"	Section revised to include warning to not use JDeveloper to customize flexfields.
Section 11.2, "Editing Existing Business Components"	Section revised to include the task of customizing business logic using Groovy triggers.
Section 11.8.1, "About Customizing and Extending the Oracle Fusion Applications Schemas"	Section revised to include information about extending the schemas for a custom peer application.
Section 11.13, "Extending Oracle Fusion Applications with a Custom Peer Application"	Section added to describe how to add a custom peer application.

What's New in This Guide for 11g Release 1 (11.1.3)

For Release 11.1.3, this guide has been updated in several ways. The following table lists the sections that have been added or changed.

Sections	Changes Made
Chapter 1 Customizing and Extending Oracle Fusion Applications
Section 1.2, "Understanding Customization Layers"	Revised section to remove mention of the obsolete Enterprise layer.
Chapter 2 Understanding the Customization Development Lifecycle
Section 2.3.2, "Viewing Customizations Using the Manage Customizations Dialog"	Revised section to describe how to use the new feature to manage customizations for a user other than yourself.
Section 2.4, "Downloading and Uploading Customization Files"	Section added to describe how to download and upload customizations using either Oracle WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) commands, or Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Applications Control.
Chapter 3 Customizing Existing Pages
Section 3.1, "About Customizing Existing Pages"	Section revised to introduce terms and provide better overview of Page Composer.
Section 3.1.3, "What You Can Do with Pages at Runtime"	Section revised to reflect feature changes. Source view is no longer available in CRM applications, except for editing the UI Shell template. Some tasks can only be completed in CRM dashboard pages or non-CRM applications.
Section 3.2, "Editing a Page in Page Composer"	Section revised to reflect feature changes. Source view is no longer available in CRM applications, except for editing the UI Shell template. Some tasks can only be completed in CRM dashboard pages or non-CRM applications. Task added to describe how to change the page title.
Chapter 5 Using Flexfields for Custom Attributes
Section 5.3, "Planning Your Flexfields"	Section revised to describe new Highlight Flexfields and Page Composer features for determining whether there are flexfields on a page and determining a flexfield's name, code, module, and usage.
Section 5.5, "Configuring Flexfields"	Section revised to note naming restrictions for segment and context codes.
Chapter 7 Customizing and Extending BPMN Processes
Section 7.5, "Deploying an Oracle BPM Project"	Revised section to include information on generating a deployment plan using Business Process Composer.
Section 7.6.2, "Configuring BPMN Processes in HCM Applications"	Added new section containing information on using BPMN processes in Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management applications.
Chapter 10 Using JDeveloper for Customizations
Section 10.2.1, "Creating the Customization Application Workspace"	Section revised to reflect that the connection to the exploded EAR is now created in the Application Resources panel of the Application Navigator.
Section 10.2.5, "Resynchronizing Your Customization Workspace Configuration Files"	Section added to explain how to update local workspace configuration files after a patch to the application.
Chapter 11 Customizing and Extending ADF Application Artifacts
Section 11.8, "Customizing and Extending the Oracle Fusion Applications Schemas"	Section added to describe how to make changes to Oracle Fusion Applications schemas.
Section 11.11, "Customizing Menus"	Section added to explain how to customize the home page, preferences, and navigator menus.
Chapter 14 Customizing and Extending Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs
Section 14.3, "Creating a Custom Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Application to Extend Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Jobs"	Section added to explain how to create, deploy, and register a customized hosting application for customizing and extending Oracle Enterprise Scheduler jobs.
Chapter 15 Customizing Security for ADF Application Artifacts
Section 15.3.10, "What You Cannot Do with Security Policies at Design Time"	Revised section to remove recommendation to run GUID WLST command when migrating security policies to a production environment. Running the command is no longer necessary because reconciliation is now performed automatically during migration to a production environment.
Section 15.3.11, "Before You Begin Customizing Security"	Revised section to clarify that database resources should be created in a custom schema. Added a link to the chapter on Customizing and Extending ADF Application Artifacts for details.
Chapter 19 Customizing the Oracle Fusion Applications Skin	Chapter added to describe how to use Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Skin Editor to change the look and feel of Oracle Fusion applications.
Appendix A: Troubleshooting Customizations	Appendix added to discuss how to troubleshoot customization problems.