Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process

Release Notes

Extensibility Pack 3.6

E50217-01

October 2013

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Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process Extensibility Pack 3.6 Release Notes

E50217-01

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Contents

Chapter 1: What’s New in This Release............................................................ 4

What’s New in This Release?..................................................................................................................................... 4

Email Extensibility.................................................................................................................................................... 4

User Interface Extensibility.................................................................................................................................... 4

Preface

This document describes issues that you may encounter with this release. Internal Tracking numbers that appear in the tables are used to identify issues reported by customers. You can use these numbers to identify the issue should you need to contact Oracle Support. Locator numbers that appear in parentheses after some notes are for Oracle internal use only.

Chapter 1: What’s New in This Release

This chapter contains information on new product features for Extensibility Pack 3.6 of Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process.

What’s New in This Release?

This extensibility pack contains two new extensibility features:

• Email Extensibility
• User Interface Extensibility  

Email Extensibility

Customizing the content of workflow emails in GSM and SCRM without custom code is now easier with the addition of a new set of placeholder variables, conditional variables, and other capabilities. These variables are available by deploying a new set of plugins, which can be configured through the CustomPluginExtensions.xml file.

Some examples of the new functionality include:

• Displaying new data in the emails, such as the workflow Comment, Cross Reference numbers, Category/Sub-category/Group, a trade specification’s GTIN, a material specification’s Ingredient Statement, etc.
• Providing meaningful related specification information in Signature Document emails.
• Conditionally displaying data, such as only including a material specification’s classification if it is an Approved status.

See the Email Extensions.docx document in the ReferenceImplementations\EmailExtensions\Documentation\Email Extensions.docx file for details.

User Interface Extensibility

Clients wishing to customize specific User Interface behavior, such as marking certain fields as read only, or applying formatting to show required fields, will be able to do this using the User Interface Extensions feature. Clients can write simple Javascript code which then gets pulled into the desired user interface pages. The Javascript code can leverage useful new Javascript variables and functions that make it easier to perform user interface manipulation, as well as access specific data from the given item (e.g., the specification’s status, the user’s groups, etc).

See the User Interface Extensions.doc document in the Utilities\UIExtensions\ folder for more information.