Find Guides, Release Readiness Documents, and Other Resources

The Oracle Help Center (https://docs.oracle.com) has guides, videos, release readiness documents, and other resources for Oracle Applications Cloud.

• Guides give you cumulative information about all features in each cloud service, for example how to use, set up, and extend them.

• Release readiness documents tell you what's new or changed in a particular release update. This material is published before the update happens, to help you prepare for it.

In the application, when you click links in help windows, most of the time you open a specific guide in the Help Center. From there, you can search or browse to find other content. Or, if you're on the oracle.com site, open the main menu and select Documentation in the Product Help menu group to get to the Help Center. It's a good idea to bookmark the Help Center.

Let's take a look at how you can move around and find what you're looking for in the Help Center.

Browse for Cumulative Content About a Cloud Service

Here's how you find guides, videos, and other resources:

1. From anywhere in the Oracle Help Center, open the main menu and click Cloud Applications. Or, click Cloud Applications on the Help Center home page.

2. On the Cloud Documentation page, browse the cloud services which are organized in categories.

3. Click the name of your cloud service.

4. On the main page for the cloud service, select a release update if you don't want to see the latest content.

5. Use the navigation pane to get to a specific guide, video, or other resource. Here are some examples of where you might go:

   • Books or Videos: Get all the videos or guides for the cloud service.

     • On the Videos or Books page, you can use the View list to filter by category.

     • Most guides are available in multiple formats, for example HTML and PDF.

   • Tasks: Click a task category and then a specific, common task to go straight to information that will help you with that task.

   • REST API: Get reference information about REST APIs.

Tip: Use the breadcrumbs to get to other parts of the Help Center.

Search Within or Across Guides

The scope of the search in the global header of the Oracle Help Center depends on the page you're on. For example, on the Cloud Documentation page, you search across guides for all cloud services. On the pages for a specific cloud service, you search only within that service, which gives you more targeted results. If you want to search within one guide, use the Search tab in the guide.

From the search results, find the entry you want and click one of the two links for that entry:

• The first link takes you to the beginning of the relevant chapter.

• The second link takes you directly to the part of the chapter that has the summary text that you see in the search result.

Review Release Readiness Documents

Let's find the release readiness material that can help you prepare for your next quarterly update:

1. On a page in the Oracle Help Center for your cloud service, click Cloud Readiness / What's New in the navigation pane.

2. On the main page in Oracle Cloud Readiness for your service, find the What's New subsection under the Essential Content section.

3. Click HTML or PDF to open a What's New document in a new browser tab.

4. Click the release update you want to review.

5. In the table of contents, click Feature Summary to see which features are enabled or disabled by default. You need to take action to make disabled features available to your users.

6. If you see an Opt In Expiration tab, click it to see when disabled features will become enabled by default.

7. Click the tab for your release update to go back and see the details about specific features.

8. Return to the browser tab with the main page for your cloud service to explore other release readiness content. From there you can also jump over to other cloud services.