Update Preferences
Updating preferences allows you to modify update-version, site-creation-date, and cutover preferences for a B2C Service site.
While most of the preferences are for Auto Update Program (AUP) sites, there are some preferences which are applicable to both AUP and legacy sites. These preferences allow customers to control the timing and frequency of their B2C Service site updates.
| Preference | Notes |
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Update Version |
AUP sites are opted into one or more versions to ensure that a release update takes place at least once a year. You can edit the version preference if the production site is on a version less than a year old. For older version sites, the preference is read only. You cannot modify the version preference in such a way that it leaves more than a year gap between the updates. |
| Site Creation Date |
Upgrade site creation date for AUP sites. |
| Cutover Preferences | Cutover date preference is set as a number of days after upgrade site
creation starts, and this should reflect the duration of the user acceptance-testing period.
Though the cutover date is calculated and established using the Cutover Preferences value, the cutover date can be rescheduled later, if needed. For more information, see the Reschedule Production Site Cutover section. For some sites, the utility delay is set to 0 hours. Therefore, all the utilities start running after cutover. Setting this to a non-zero value results in utilities not running until the specified delay period ends, which allows some tests to be performed before utilities start processing data. When an B2C Service production site is updated, Customer Portal (CP) files are migrated from the upgrade site and not from the pre-update production site. File Sync copies all production site CP files to the upgrade site 8 hours before the cutover; so no changes made to the production site after the upgrade site creation are lost. File Sync is only available to sites that are enrolled in the Auto Update Program (AUP). For more details about the File Sync, please refer to Answer ID 9638. |
| Language | This preference determines the language of email notifications sent from a release update incident on the Oracle support site. Update incidents are used for automated communications about release update and cutover, and they can be used to contact Oracle with general update related enquiries. Currently, English and Japanese languages are available for selection. |