This preface introduces the new and changed features of Oracle Business Process Management Studio and provides pointers to additional information.
There are no new features added in this release. The guide for the release contains major bug fixes.
Screens shown in this guide might differ from your implementation, depending on the skin used. Any differences are cosmetic.
For a list of known issues (release notes), see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/soasuite/documentation/releasenotes121300-2124738.html.
For Oracle Business Process Management Studio Release 12c (12.1.3) this guide has been updated to include the following new and changed features:
Support for business parameters. See Introduction to Business Parameters and Working with Business Parameters.
Support for sharing Business Process Management (BPM) processes using the Process Asset Manager. See Sharing BPM Projects Using the Process Asset Manager.
Support for business object inheritance. See Introduction to Business Object Inheritance and Working with Business Object Inheritance.
Support for suspending the current process flow. See Suspending the Current Process Flow to Run an Alternative Process Flow.
Support for recovering from an exception in a catch event. See Configuring Catch Events to Recover from an Exception.
Support for BPM Scripting. See Writing BPM Scripts.
Support for BPM project debugging. See Debugging a BPM Project.
Additional Adaptive Case Management features including runtime case linking, support for sub cases, milestone due dates, and built-in support for Business Activity Monitoring analytics. See Working with Adaptive Case Management.
For Oracle Business Process Management Studio Release 12c (12.1.3) this guide has been updated to include the following ways:
Basic types changed so procedures were updated. See Handling Information in Your Process Design.
Business indicators changed so procedures were updated. See Using Process Analytics.
The human tasks UI changed so procedures were updated. See Configuring Human Tasks.
The Oracle Business Process Management Studio UI has changed significantly. Procedures describing how to accomplish tasks using the UI have changed accordingly.