1 Feature Summary
This chapter describes the feature enhancements in this release.
Noteworthy Enhancements
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in the Oracle Retail Customer Engagement (ORCE) update and describes any tasks you might need to perform for the update. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.
Column Definitions
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Feature: Provides a description of the feature being delivered.
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Module Impacted: Identifies the module associated with the feature, if any.
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Scale: Identifies the size of the feature. Options are:
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Small: These UI or process-based features are typically comprised of minor field, validation, or program changes. Therefore, the potential impact to users is minimal.
- Medium: These UI or process-based features are typically comprised of field, validation, or program changes. Therefore, the potential impact to users is moderate.
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Large: These UI or process-based features have more complex designs. Therefore, the potential impact to users is higher.
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Delivered: Is the new feature available for use immediately after upgrade or must the feature be enabled or configured? If no, the feature is non-disruptive to end users and action is required (detailed steps below) to make the feature ready to use.
- Customer Action Required: You must take action before these features can be used. These features are delivered disabled and you choose if and when to enable them.
Table 1-1 Noteworthy Enhancements
| Feature | Module Impacted | Scale | Delivered | Customer Action Required? |
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Campaign |
Medium |
Yes |
No |
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Campaign |
Medium |
Yes |
No |
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| Recurring Award | Campaign | Medium | Yes | No |
New Feature Descriptions
This section describes the new features.
Oracle Retail Promotion Engine (ORPE) Enhancements
The following enhancements were made to ORPE during this release:
- Support is added for non-unique attributes in REST endpoints.
- The Fixed Quantity/Price offer is now allowed to accept Prorate offer or Issue to Qualifying items based on the user selection on the offer setup.
- Support is added for the Tiered Discount offer type.
- A new configuration is added for when ORPE offline requests updates.
- Support is added for offers to be deleted using REST endpoints.
Recurring Award
The Award Promotion has been enhanced to now include the ability to issue an award on a recurring basis during the promotion period. This new feature will allow the user to define how often the award will be issued (Daily, Weekly, or Monthly) and how many awards in total can be issued for the duration of the promotion. The award can be either an e-award or an entitlement offer and can be set to expire after defined days, weeks, or months after the award is issued. In addition to the promotion wizard updates, some additional features will be updated as well and include the following:
- Search for a Recurring Award Promotion on the Advanced Search screen is added.
- The View Promotion screen will include recurring award details.
- The Award Promotion Scorecard will include recurring award details.
- The Dynamic Promotions batch job was renamed to Dynamic and Recurring Promotions batch job. Additional recurring award processing was added to the batch job to issue the recurring awards.