Documentation Updates for EnterpriseOne Tools 9.2.6
The following table contains links to documentation updates in support of EnterpriseOne Tools 9.2.6:
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Feature |
Description |
Documentation |
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Form Extension Improvements |
This feature enables users to disable an extended form control, enable a grid column, identify the label associated with a hidden text field, set the number of grid records, and associate a description with a grid column. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Using and Approving User Defined
Objects Guide:
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Launch Orchestrations from Composed EnterpriseOne Page |
This feature enables users to run orchestrations and notifications from a Composed EnterpriseOne page. |
See the following topics in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Using and Approving User Defined
Objects Guide:
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Orchestrator
Guide:
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Creating External Forms from EnterpriseOne Web Client |
This feature enables users to create external form application objects in Web Object Management Workbench. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Form Design Aid
Guide:
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Object Management Workbench for
the Web Guide:
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Offline Server Manager Monitoring and Notification |
Starting with Tools Release 9.2.6, system administrators can automate system administration tasks by using administrative orchestrations even when the core EnterpriseOne servers are down. |
See the following topics in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Server Manager
Guide:
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Pop-up Messages for Orchestrations Launched from the EnterpriseOne User Interface |
This enhancement enables users to specify a response message that is displayed to the end user when an orchestration is launched from the EnterpriseOne user interface. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Using and Approving User Defined
Objects Guide:
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Orchestrator Support for Media Objects |
Using Attachments in the Orchestrator Studio, you can automate EnterpriseOne transactions and include the options to manage text attachments, and upload or download file attachments (media objects) in transactions. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Orchestrator
Guide:
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Managing Media Object Security |
Media object services security was added in Tools Release 9.2.6 and it enables users to configure security for AIS media object attachment services; both REST services and the orchestrator attachment steps. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Orchestrator
Guide:
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Logic Extensions |
Using logic extensions, you can create business logic to perform operations such as string manipulation, arithmetic calculations, conditions, loops, and even table I/O. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Orchestrator
Guide:
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Attachments to Messages: Media Objects |
This feature enables the orchestration or notification designer to specify the JD Edwards media objects that can be attached to the orchestration and notification messages. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Orchestrator
Guide:
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Notifications
Guide:
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Return Associated Descriptions for Data Requests |
This enhancement enables the orchestration designer to retrieve the associated descriptions of data items easily from a data request. |
See the following topics in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Orchestrator
Guide:
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Files as Orchestration Input and Output |
This enhancement expands the capabilities of Orchestrator by allowing files as orchestration input and output. A file or files can be provided directly as orchestration input by including them in a multi-part form data REST call from the system that is invoking the orchestration. The data that is collected or generated as part of an orchestration, and subsequently is written as file(s) in the AIS server temporary directory, can be included in the orchestration output. |
See the following topics in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Orchestrator
Guide:
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Bypass Warnings During Process Recording |
This feature enables the user to bypass warnings that application forms show while Process Recorder is used. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Orchestrator
Guide:
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Removal of Groovy from the EnterpriseOne package |
Starting with Tools Release 9.2.6, the AIS Server is no longer preconfigured to create and run Groovy scripts. To edit or run existing Groovy scripts or to create new ones you must first configure the AIS servers with the Groovy libraries. This is also true for Jython. The AIS servers are preconfigured for JRuby. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Orchestrator
Guide:
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Server Manager
Guide:
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Add Current Environment as a System Value in Orchestrations |
This enhancement adds the EnterpriseOne runtime environment to the list of system values that are available to an orchestration. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Orchestrator
Guide:
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Service-only User |
This enhancement allows the security administrator to designate that a user can invoke an EnterpriseOne application functionality indirectly, for example through an orchestration, but cannot sign on to the EnterpriseOne user interface directly. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Security Administration
Guide:
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Display Messages in Orchestrator Monitor |
This enhancement provides information on Orchestration processing status by displaying Orchestration errors and warnings. Additionally, users can see the custom message configured in Orchestrator Studio. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Orchestrator
Guide:
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Health Check API for a Group of Interdependent Servers |
This enhancement enables the health status of an interdependent group of servers to be validated through a single API call. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Server Manager
Guide:
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Enhanced User Security Activity Tracking for Auditing |
Starting with Tools Release 9.2.6, the enhanced security history application provides additional user-level details such as client hostname, environment, pathcode, role, long user ID, applications release, and tools release. You can also view, analyze, and report user activity by using the UXOne graphs based on the data captured. These graphs help in providing better input to the security audit process and helps in troubleshooting security |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Security Administration
Guide:
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications UX One Roles User
Guide:
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Export E1 Search Results to Microsoft Excel |
With this enhancement, we provide users the ability to export E1 search results to Microsoft Excel. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Using and Approving User Defined
Objects Guide:
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Bypass Printer Selection Prompt |
Starting with Tools Release 9.2.6, users can bypass the printer selection prompt while submitting jobs through batch versions. This enhancement streamlines UBE submissions by providing the choice to make printer selection an optional step |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Report Printing Administration
Technologies Guide:
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Define Default Report Logging |
Starting with Tools Release 9.2.6, you can change the default report logging level and set the UBE logging level for specific users, roles, versions, environments, and reports. You would not have to remember to enable logging at every UBE launch. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Administration Guide:
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Define Default Job Queue |
Starting with Tools Release 9.2.6, you can define default job queues for UBEs. This enhancement simplifies UBE queue management by enabling customers to easily define the relationship between a UBE version and the default queue in which it will run, a process previously performed during UBE submissions. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Administration Guide:
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Updated Status of Terminated Jobs |
Starting with Tools Release 9.2.6, the status of terminated jobs moves to T, Terminated. Prior to this, the terminated jobs would move to status E, Error. This enhancement helps to distinguish the jobs terminated by the users from the jobs that ended in error. This enhancement further eases the troubleshooting process by saving the appropriate UBE termination statuses in the log files as well as in the Work with Submitted Jobs applications. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Administration Guide:
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Next-Generation Workflows |
Starting with Tools Release 9.2.6, you can use Workflows to design and configure the workflow process. Workflows is a web-based user interface that you can launch from the Orchestrator Studio. This enhancement removes the dependency on the development client to design and modify workflow processes. |
See the following topics in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Workflow Tools
Guide:
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JD Edwards Update Manager for Applications |
With Tools Release 9.2.6, you can summarize, analyze, and set special instructions for selected packages using Change Assistant. You can also enter the bug number in the First-In field to view the details of where the bug was first deployed. With this enhancement, you can copy an object from a base object and customize it as according to your requirements instead of creating an object from start. |
See the following topics in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Software Updates
Guide:
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Object Management Workbench
Guide:
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Zero Downtime Deployment for Applications |
With Tools Release 9.2.6, you can deploy packages with zero downtime. With Zero Downtime Package Deployment, customers can deploy full packages to the EnterpriseOne Enterprise and Web Servers without requiring to obtain a lock on services. After the new full package is deployed, any existing user sessions and jobs (UBEs) will continue to run off the previous package until their session completes, retaining the previous package specifications and logic. Any new user session or jobs that start after the package deployment, will run in the environment under the new package specifications and logic. |
See the following topics in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools REST API for Server Manager
Guide:
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Server Manager
Guide:
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Package Management
Guide:
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Setting Up OAM SSO Validation for JD EdwardsEnterpriseOne (9.2.6) |
This section explains how to set up the SSO token in OAM for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. |
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Security Administration
Guide:
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Replace Castor with JAXB |
Added these .jar files for Tools Release 9.2.6 and greater:
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See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools BI Publisher for JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne Guide:
See the following topic in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Connectors Guide:
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AIS REST APIs to Discover Objects and Execute Business Functions |
This feature provides two REST APIs on the Application Interface Services (AIS) server: one API to retrieve lists of EnterpriseOne objects, such as programs, reports, and tables; and another API to list and optionally to execute EnterpriseOne business functions. |
See the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools REST API for the Application Interface Services Server Guide. |