2 Before You Install the Recipe

You must perform the following configuration tasks on your Oracle ERP Cloud instance and Slack instance in order to successfully connect to these external systems using Oracle Integration and post notification messages in Slack for purchase order approvals in Oracle ERP Cloud.

Configure Oracle ERP Cloud

To access the Oracle ERP Cloud instance from Oracle Integration, you'll require a separate user account on Oracle ERP Cloud.

Log in to your Oracle ERP Cloud instance as an Administrator and perform the following tasks.

1. Create a user account for Oracle Integration. Make a note of the user name and password you set for the account. You'll use the credentials of this user account to connect to Oracle ERP Cloud from Oracle Integration.
2. Assign the following roles to the user account. For more information, see Assign Required Roles to an Integration User.
   • Integration Specialist
   • Oracle ERP Cloud-specific data access to the integration user

Configure Slack

To access the Slack instance from Oracle Integration, and post notifications for approved Oracle ERP Cloud purchase orders, you must perform certain configuration tasks.

You have to set up your Slack instance by creating a workspace, creating a channel in the workspace to post notifications, and then adding people into the channel to whom you want to send the notification messages. For more information, refer to Slack documentation.

In addition, you must create a Slack developer account, and then sign in to the Slack developer console at https://api.slack.com to perform the following tasks. For more information, see Prerequisites for Creating a Connection.

1. Create an OAuth application.
2. Get the client ID and secret.