3 Design Studio for Inventory

This chapter provides release notes for Oracle Communications Design Studio for Unified Inventory Management (UIM).

New Features

This section includes information about new features introduced in release 7.4.1.

Note:

The Design Studio Online Help has not been updated for the features delivered in this release.

Diagram Specifications for UIM NRM Operations

Design Studio 7.4.1 introduces Diagram Specifications that filter the related specifications, which are displayed in the UIM Diagram Pallet. This specification is extended from Network Specification. A new template, Diagram Template, is introduced in Design Studio that helps in displaying all the devices in the Planning Diagram page in the runtime application.

You can perform the following tasks on the Diagram Specification:

  • Create a new Diagram Specification. To create a new Diagram Specification, you need to add the following dependency cartridges:

    • ora_uim_model

    • ora_uim_basetechnologies

    • ora_uim_basetags

  • Add diagramnetwork tag to the newly created Diagram Specification, which helps to display the specification in runtime application

  • Add base project to the specification

  • Add related specifications to control the specification drop-down list in the runtime application

  • Add required rules to the specification

Fixes in This Release

Table 3-1 lists the UIM fixes for Design Studio Platform release 7.4.1 and provides a brief description of the resolution.

Table 3-1 Fixes in UIM for Design Studio Release 7.4.1

Service Request (SR) Number BugDB Number Description

n/a

29638193

In Design Studio, an option Enable Search is added in Settings tab that appears when you select the Control Type as Text. Selecting this option provides a browse option in the runtime environment, which opens a pop-up window to search using the text entered.

n/a

29530881

Characteristics created in Design Studio with Primitive Type as DateTime now appears in the runtime environment with the calendar pop-up. This calendar pop-up now allows you to select time of which the values can be saved as Date and Time.