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 Xstore Office Cloud Service 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.
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Where new fields, User Interface (UI) changes, or glossary entries are introduced as part of a change, the portal owner may need to apply their own translations of the core system text.Column Definitions
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Feature: Provides a description of the feature being delivered.
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Module Impacted: Identifies the module impacted 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.
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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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Data Management |
Small |
Yes |
No |
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Data Management |
Small |
Yes |
No |
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Data Management |
Small |
Yes |
No |
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Administration |
Small |
Yes |
No |
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Administration |
Small |
Yes |
No |
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Administration |
Small |
Yes |
No |
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Administration |
Medium |
Yes |
No |
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Reporting |
Small |
Yes |
No |
New and Updated Options
This section describes the new and updated options.
Functional Enhancements
This section describes the functional enhancements for this release.
Archive Existing Broadcaster Configuration
Added the ability to archive existing, inactive broadcasters. Archived broadcasters can be restored if needed. The current “Enabled” column has been changed to “Status” with statuses of “Active”, “Inactive”, and “Archived”.
Data Publisher Activity View
Added support to view the status of all Data Publisher Request Activity, updated the Deployment Results screen to reflect Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service (MFCS) data refresh requests, and added the DeploymentID to the Deployment Detail screen.
On Demand Data Push for MFCS Integration
Added support for functionality to enhance self-service recovery in Xadmin when data integrity problems are found or suspected by a retailer.
Extract Broadcaster Failure Records
Added support to view the Broadcaster Error Logs via the Support Tools function.
Retail Home New Tile for Daily Sales Report
Created a new Retail Home Tile that displays a retailers Daily Sales Report which includes Total Stores, Total Transaction Count, and Total Net Sales for the Organization in the tile URL when the Tile is displayed.
Index Creation on Custom Table Support
Created the ability to add, delete and modify indexes on custom tables when dtx files are uploaded to Xadmin.
Enhanced Virus Scan Support
Added support for Enhanced Virus Scanning for complex and large .zip files. The user interface for file uploads has been updated to have a three step process – Upload, Scan and when done with Scanning, Deploy. This process will also be in place for the File Upload API. As a result of this enhanced virus scanning, the scanning of large, complex files will take time that Retailers will need to plan for in their Deployment Planning and Scheduling. Specifically, files larger than 1 gigabyte can take longer periods of time before they will be available in their auto deploy folders. The behavior for downloading JAR files has been changed to download priority “Immediate” as the only option. Retailers are advised to be aware of this enhanced virus scan support for large and complex files including updaters and upgrader files. For 25.1.301.0 Retailers should plan to test all their large and complex Updater/Upgrader files and large mnt/XLOAD files in their Stage/NPE environments to ensure that they do not have any issues in their Prod Environments. The Oracle Retail Xstore Office Cloud Services User Guide has been updated to reflect these changes.