What's New in This Guide for Release 11.1.3

This chapter provides information about what is new in the Oracle Fusion Applications Developer's Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1.3) since Release 1 (11.1.2) was released in September 2011.

Documentation Changes for Release 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.

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.

Sections	Changes Made
Chapter 3, "Setting Up Your JDeveloper Workspace and Projects"
Section 3.8, "Overriding the Default Resource Bundle"	Section added to provide Oracle Fusion Applications-specific information for overriding a resource bundle.
Chapter 6, "Defining Defaulting and Derivation Logic"
Section 6.3, "Using Oracle ADF Validators and Convertor Hints"	Section revised to include information about how to override an Oracle ADF validator or converter message with new text.
Chapter 11, "Setting Up Document Sequences"
Section 11.4, "Striping Document Sequence Assignments"	Section has been added to describe how document sequences can optionally be given a determinant type when defined.
Chapter 12, "Implementing Audit Trail Reporting"
Section 12.2.1, "How to Set Metadata"	Updated steps to populate and define metadata.
Chapter 14, "Implementing the UI Shell"
Section 14.9, "Using the Help Menu"	Added new menu items: User Productivity Kit About This Page
Section 14.8, "Using the Administration Menu"	Added description of Customization Manager menu option.
Chapter 15, "Implementing Search Functions in the UI Shell"
Section 15.2.5, "How to Implement Data Security for Recent Items and Favorites"	Added section describing how to add security to child pages so a user cannot use the Recent Items or Favorites features to bypass the security of the parent page.
Section 15.6.2, "How to Use Basic Search"	Added these new features: Recent Search UI support to support SES alternate word feature Order by and Universal Facet on LastModifiedDate Hide facet values with zero hit count
Chapter 19, "Implementing Attachments"
Section 19.2, "Creating Attachments"	"Before you begin:" section revised to include information about controlling the upload size of Attachments.
Section 19.2.4, "How to Delete the Business Object"	Section added describing how to delete a business object and its Attachments.
Section 19.5, "Working with Attachments Programmatically"	Section added that describes how to add new Attachment types programmatically; specifically, the TMURI (ManagedURL) type.
Chapter 21, "Working with Localization Formatting"
Section 21.3.1.1, "Formatting Decimal Numbers"	Added section specific to formatting decimal values.
Section 21.3.1.2, "Formatting Integer Numbers"	Added section specific to formatting integer values.
Section 21.3.1.3, "Formatting ID Numbers"	Added section specific to formatting ID values.
Section 21.3.1.4, "How to Format Numbers in Hyperlinks"	Added section on how to use af:commandLink and af:goLink to format numbers in hyperlinks in Oracle Fusion applications.
Section 21.3.1.5, "How to Format Percentage Values"	Added section on how to present percentage values in a locale-sensitive format in Oracle Fusion applications.
Section 21.4, "Formatting Date and Timestamp Values"	Added section devoted to formatting date and timestamp values.
Section 21.7, "Implementing Bi-directional Support"	Added section describing how to implement support for bi-directional languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew, in Oracle Fusion applications.
Section 21.8, "Supporting Mnemonic Keys"	Added section describing how to implement mnemonic, or soft, keys in Oracle Fusion applications.
Section 21.9, "Implementing Localization Formatting in ADF Desktop Integration"	Added section on how to implement localization formatting in Excel spreadsheets in ADF Desktop Integration in Oracle Fusion applications.
Section 21.10, "Implementing Localization Formatting in Oracle BI Publisher Reports"	Added section on how to implement localization formatting in Oracle BI Publisher reports in Oracle Fusion applications.
Section 21.11, "Implementing Localization Formatting in ADF Data Visualization Components"	Added section on how to implement localization formatting in Data Visualization Tools in Oracle Fusion applications.
Chapter 24, "Using Extensible Flexfields"
Section 24.3, "Creating Extensible Flexfield Data Tables"	Section modified to include the CATEGORY_CODE column and to remove nonrequired columns from the extension table specifications.
Section 24.8.2, "How to Customize the Runtime User Interface Modeler for Extensible Flexfields"	Section added that describes how to customize the extensible flexfield runtime user interface modeler.
Chapter 26, "Testing and Deploying Flexfields"
Section 26.3, "Using the WLST Flexfield Commands"	Section revised to include new deleteFlexPatchingLabels WLST command for inquiring about or deleting MDS flexfield patching labels.
Chapter 28, "Creating Searchable Objects"
Section 28.4.4.4, "Defining a Facet to Use a Child View Object Attribute"	Section added describing new feature of being able to search on a child View Object.
Section 28.2.10.1, "Checking for Stored Attribute Conflicts"	Section added describing how ECSF now checks for stored attribute conflicts when defining a search.
Section 28.2.6.1, "Making View Object Attributes Searchable"	Section revised with expanded information of Crawl Date Column in Table 27-1 Searchable Attribute Properties to explain that ECSF will pick the most recent Crawl Date column value to use as the LastModifiedDate value.
Chapter 64, "Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Security"	New chapter explains how Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Security features provide access control for Oracle Enterprise Scheduler resources and application identity propagation for job execution.