The following topics introduce the new and changed features of ADF Desktop Integration and other significant changes that are described in this guide, and provides pointers to additional information.
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Oracle ADF Desktop Integration 12c (12.2.1.1) includes the following new and changed development features for this document.
This release deprecates the ADF Button component. You are encouraged, but not required, to replace ADF Button components in your integrated Excel workbooks with ribbon commands. For more information, see Configuring the Runtime Ribbon Tab.
New property, FailureMessage
, where you can specify a message to appear to the end user if an action set fails. For more information, see How to Configure Error Handling for an Action Set.
New property (ActionOptions.NonBlocking
) that, when set to True
, enables your users to use other Excel features while an action set executes. Set this property to True
on action sets that may take time to complete such as, for example, a Table.Download
action for 100,000 rows. For more information, see How to Allow End Users to Continue Working in Excel While an ActionSet Executes.
ADF Desktop Integration now enables end users to save a connection report with diagnostic information when connection failures occur or are canceled. For more information, see Generating ADF Desktop Integration Diagnostic Reports and Troubleshooting Connection Problems to Fusion Web Applications.
ADF Desktop Integration now enables client-side logging by default (Information
level). For more information, see About Client-Side Logging.
This release introduces new menu options to provide easier access to you and end users when generating the diagnostic report and enabling verbose logging to an XML file in a directory that you choose. For more information, see:
End users can now choose a time period (next week, next month, and so on) to determine when they next receive a prompt to upgrade their ADF Desktop Integration client version to match the server version. For more information, see How to Upgrade ADF Desktop Integration On a Local System and Verifying the Client Version of ADF Desktop Integration.
The ADF Desktop Integration add-in can now be installed to the roaming application data folder (%appdata%
) using the ADF Desktop Integration installer from the command line. For more information, see How to Run ADF Desktop Integration Installer from Command Line.
This release includes the Client Health Check tool that verifies an environment is configured to use integrated Excel workbooks. For more information, see Running the Client Health Check Tool.
Added section to describe how you can control the display of the system check that appears when an end user attempts to download an integrated Excel workbook from a Fusion web application. For more information, see How to Manage the Display of the System Check to End Users.
ADF Desktop Integration rejects Excel cell error values that integrated Excel workbooks send to the Fusion web application. As a result, these values are not successfully uploaded. For more information, including how to configure this behavior, see Providing Data Entry Validation for an Integrated Excel Workbook.
For 12c (12.2.1.1), this document has been updated in several ways, to include corrections and clarifications. In addition, the following significant changes or additions have occurred in these sections:
This guide now includes the Administering ADF Desktop Integration chapter that was previously published in Administering Oracle ADF Applications.