1 What's New in Release 4.6.0
Here’s an overview of new features and enhancements added to Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel in Release 4.6.0.
New and Changed Features
| Area | Feature |
|---|---|
| Tables | Support for adding pending create rows populated from a separate data source has been added. See Add New Data. |
| Polymorphic BO | Configuring polymorphic segment fields is now supported, and polymorphic metadata refresh preserves edits to the metadata. See Configure the Behavior of Polymorphic Segments. |
| Expressions | Preference Service Support has been added. See Preference Service Support. |
| Translations | Ability to fetch translations from a remote server has been added. See Fetch Translations from a Remote Service. |
| Authentication | Ability to use workbook parameter expressions in the ScopesFQ property in the FA Token Relay configuration has been added. See Use Workbook Parameters for ScopesFQ in Fusion Application Token Relay Authentication.
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| Authentication | Publish now clears the token relay host value if Clear all authentication properties is checked. See Publishing an Excel Workbook that Accesses REST Services. |
| Upload | Rows are now treated as stale if the service response does not include updated field values. See Treat Row as Stale After Upload. |
| Status Viewer | If the user closes the status viewer, it now remains closed for minor events. |
| Upload (Dependent Layouts) | Now skipping create rows in dependent layouts when the parent row creation fails. |
| Translations | The extracted translation file now includes polymorphic segments that are used in the workbook's layouts. See Translate Your Integrated Workbook. |
| Service Metadata | Format is now considered when harvesting number fields from OpenAPI metadata. |
| Designer | Business Object Editor is now able to filter the list of fields. |
| Third-Party | WebView2 SDK Upgrade to version 1.0.3405.78. See The Embedded Browser. |
Fixed Issues in Release 4.6
These issues in prior releases have been fixed in version 4.6:
- Required harvested from GET schema for regular BO fields (VBAFE-1952)
- Required harvested incorrectly for custom action payload fields when field IDs coincided with BO fields (VBAFE-2408)
- Excel crashes when resolving certain circular references in service metadata (VBAFE-2447)
- Performance: inserting large numbers of new rows into a table layout becomes increasingly slow (VBAFE-2454)
- NotSupportedException when adding a download parameter in layout using catalog type "other" (VBAFE-2458)
- Unexpected error when performing copy-down in a range that includes the table header and other table rows (VBAFE-2545)
- Unable to delete newly added unused row finder row when the ID is empty (VBAFE-2554)
- LOV: form not showing context sensitive fields on discriminator auto selection (VBAFE-2564)
- Date no-time search fields not added to the query string when using the search editor (VBAFE-2573)
- NullReferenceException when uploading multiple attachments in a batch if the service returns an empty response erroneously (VBAFE-2586)
- NullReferenceException when updating an LOV configuration (VBAFE-2595)
- HCM WorkSchedules custom action fails in Batch mode (VBAFE-2607)
- Perform Action ribbon button incorrectly enabled for non-root layouts in a hierarchy (VBAFE-2612)
- IsRequired For Create/Update not captured properly for some cases (VBAFE-2628)
- Default values not updating as expected in Form-over-Table layouts when the configuration changes (VBAFE-2619)