Creating an Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) Application

As a Service Administrator, you must create an Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) application and provide the connection credentials to your users so that they can use the organization's sign in credentials to connect to their business processes from Oracle Smart View for Google Workspace.

Follow this procedure only if your users want to use the organization's sign in credentials to access their business process environments from Smart View. This procedure is not required if your users are native users using basic authentication such as a user name and password.

When users want to connect using their organization's sign in credentials, they are required to enter Server URL, Client ID and IDCS URL in the Connect dialog.

Connect dialog with Company Sign In selected

As a Service Administrator, ensure that you configure and share these connection credentials with your users:

  • Server URL: This refers to the web application link of your Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management business process. Modify the web application link to remove "/epmcloud" and add "/HyperionPlanning" towards the end of the URL.
  • Client ID: This is generated as part of the IDCS application creation process explained below. To find the Client ID, go to Identity domains and click Integrated applications. Click your IDCS application link and, in the General Information section, see the value in the Client ID field.
  • IDCS URL: This is the URL that you get on the Sign In page when you open your Cloud EPM web application. Modify the link to retain it till "identity.oraclecloud.com" and remove the characters after this part. For example, https://idcs-<instanceID>.identity.oraclecloud.com.

The process of creating an IDCS application is divided into the following steps. This is a one-time configuration required for each environment.

Step 1: Add an Application

Create and add a custom application for each business process that your users want to access through Smart View. There are various types of custom applications. For the purpose of Smart View, you need to create a Mobile application.

  1. In the Identity Domain panel in the IDCS Console, click Integrated applications, and then click Add Application.
  2. In the Add Application dialog, select Mobile Application and click Launch Workflow.
  3. In the Add application details step, enter a name for your application and click Next.
  4. In the Configure OAuth step, under Authorization, clear any options selected by default and select the Refresh tokens and Device code options.
  5. Click Finish.

    The application's page opens providing an overview of the application details and related actions

Note that the Client ID that appears General Information section for the application. Make sure this Client ID is made available to your users, along with the Server URL and IDCS URL, before they start using Smart View.

For more information, see the following topics in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation:

Step 2: Activating Application

Now, activate the application you created in Step 1, so that it is available for users. On the application page, under the application name, click Activate.

For more information, see Activating an Application in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation.