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What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

We are living days of change.

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Previous industrial revolutions liberated humankind from animal power, made mass production possible and brought digital capabilities to billions of people.

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In this post we will create a basic process to create and approve employees.
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Log in to Oracle Process Cloud Service.
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Name the application as Create Employee Application.
Select New Space option, and then name it as HR.

In this step, we will create the process and we have many options to create it.
Select the Form Approval Pattern option.

Name the process as Create Employee Process.

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The Oracle JET MOOC starts on Monday. When we talk about Oracle JET we always say that it solves "enterprise challenges". One of these is internationalization/localization/translation of JavaScript applications. Recently I started playing with the translation features of Oracle JET and they're pretty impressive. Really, if you want to create JavaScript applications that need to be translated, you should look no further than Oracle JET.

Let's start by looking at the result of a small sample I've been working on. Here's an application that can be switched to 4 different languages, with a screenshot of 3 of them below: 

Everything to achieve the above is documented in "Internationalizing and Localizing Applications" in the Oracle JET Developer Guide. This topic is also dealt with in the 3rd week of the Oracle JET MOOC.

There are several bits and pieces involved in this sample: 

1. Bundled translations for Oracle JET components. Oracle JET components, such as the date/time picker that you see above, have already been translated. The translations are found in libs/oraclejet/dist/js/libs/oj/resources/nls.
   
   
2. Custom translation bundles. Aside from the Oracle JET components, which have already been translated, Oracle JET provides a facility for storing and loading your own translations. Below, you can see a folder called "resources/nls", with subfolders for each of the languages I am supporting:
   
   
   
   In "main.js", I have this, which registers the "resources/nls/l10" structure and merges it with the translations that are provided by Oracle JET:

   config: {
       ojL10n: {
           merge: {
               'ojtranslations/nls/ojtranslations': 'resources/nls/l10'
           }
       }
   }

   The most important file in "resources/nls" is the file named "l10.js", which could be named anything at all, so long as it matches the registration in "main.js" shown above. It looks like this, in my case:

   define({
     "root": {
       "date": "Date:",
       "greeting": "Good Morning"
   },
     "ar": true,
     "fr": true,
     "cs": true
   });

   In each of the folders that have been enabled above, i.e., "ar", "fr", and "cs", translations of the above texts are found, e.g., in "ar":
   
   
   
   Now, anywhere in our viewModel, we can use this statement to retrieve the greeting of the current locale:

   oj.Translations.getTranslatedString('greeting')

3. RTL Support. Bidirectional features are included too, read here, simply by setting the "dir" attribute of the "html" element to "rtl" and back to "ltr".
   
   
4. Dynamic Locale Switching. Via the buttons you see above, the locale can be switched, as described here.

Following from the above, the complete code for the viewModel is as follows, focused on enabling the switching between locales, which will cause the translation bundles to be loaded dynamically:

define(['ojs/ojcore', 'knockout', 'ojs/ojbutton', 'ojs/ojdatetimepicker'],
    function (oj, ko) {
        function mainContentViewModel() {
            var self = this;
            self.formats = ko.observableArray(["english"]);
            self.date = ko.observable();
            self.greeting = ko.observable("Good Morning");
            self.localeDate = ko.observable();
            self.localeDate(oj.Translations.getTranslatedString('date')); 
            self.localeGreeting = ko.observable();
            self.localeGreeting(oj.Translations.getTranslatedString('greeting')); 
            self.setLang = function (data) {
                var newLang = '';
                switch (data) {
                    case 'Arabic':
                        newLang = 'ar-EG';
                        self.formats(["arabic"]);
                        break;
                    case 'Czech':
                        newLang = 'cs-CZ';
                        self.formats(["czech"]);
                        break;
                    case 'French':
                        newLang = 'fr-FR';
                        self.formats(["french"]);
                        break;
                    default:
                        newLang = 'en-US';
                        self.formats(["english"]);
                }
                oj.Config.setLocale(newLang,
                    function () {
                        $('html').attr('lang', newLang);
                        if (newLang === 'ar-EG') {
                            $('html').attr('dir', 'rtl');
                        } else {
                            $('html').attr('dir', 'ltr');
                        }
                        self.localeDate(oj.Translations.getTranslatedString('date')); 
                        self.localeGreeting(oj.Translations.getTranslatedString('greeting')); 
                        $('#dateInput').ojInputDateTime('refresh');
                    }
                );
            };
        }
        return new mainContentViewModel();
    });

And here's the view:

<div data-bind="ojComponent: {component: 'ojButtonset', checked: formats}">
    <!--Arabic-->
    <label for="arabic">Arabic</label>
    <input data-bind="click: function(){setLang('Arabic');}" 
           type="checkbox" value="arabic" id="arabic"/>
    <!--Czech-->
    <label for="czech">Czech</label>
    <input data-bind="click: function(){setLang('Czech');}" 
           type="checkbox" value="czech" id="czech"/>
    <!--French-->
    <label for="french">French</label>
    <input data-bind="click: function(){setLang('French');}" 
           type="checkbox" value="french" id="french"/>
    <!--English-->
    <label for="english">English</label>
    <input data-bind="click: function(){setLang('English');}" 
           type="checkbox" value="english" id="english"/>
</div>
<br/>
<br/>
<span style="font-size: 50pt" id="greeting" data-bind="text: localeGreeting"></span>
<br/>
<span data-bind="text: localeDate"></span>
<input id="dateInput" type="text" 
    data-bind="ojComponent: {
        component:'ojInputDateTime', 
        value: date,
        datePicker: {changeMonth: 'none', changeYear: 'none'}
    }"/>

That's it. And here's the sample code shown above:

https://github.com/GeertjanWielenga/OJETCourse/tree/master/Part-024

A next step is to generate all the buttons automatically from JavaScript, i.e., there should be some way to provide new buttons to switch to new languages easily, without having to code them in HTML, i.e., in the viewModel, find the lists of available translation locales and create the buttons, and their logic, based on that. 

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There are many map components in the world out there—and I have documented how to integrate several of them in an Oracle JET application, e.g., 3DCityDB, Mapbox, Leaflet, and LuciadRIA, as well as Oracle JET's ojThematicMap component. 

However, Oracle has its own map component, as described in detail below, which includes the Oracle Maps Javascript library:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/mapviewer/overview/index.html

Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer is a development toolkit for incorporating interactive maps and spatial analyses. It is optimized for use with Oracle Spatial and Graph. (The related Oracle blog is blogs.oracle.com/oracle_maps_blog.) Here below is how it looks when integrated into an Oracle JET application, with many thanks to my colleague Jayant Sharma, who made it happen and provided the instructions that follow, which I have successfully used and I can report that it works.

Instructions for integrating Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer with Oracle JET, assuming you have set up an Oracle JET application, e.g., via the Oracle JET QuickStart Basic template:

1. Add the Oracle Maps V2 kit into js/libs as a folder named 'oraclemaps'. The kit can be downloaded from here and specifically here: http://download.oracle.com/otn/other/mapviewer/12c/12211/v2_122110_full.zip
   
   
2. Modify "main.js" to include the various Oracle map libraries, in the requires.config "path" and "shim" sections. I.e., add these entries in the "paths" section:

   //File paths for Oracle Maps HTML5 API
   'omapsv2-hammer': 'libs/oraclemaps/v2/jquery/jquery.hammer-full.min',
   'omapsv2-i18n-properties': 'libs/oraclemaps/v2/jquery/jquery.i18n.properties-min-1.0.9',
   'omapsv2-mousewheel.min': 'libs/oraclemaps/v2/jquery/jquery.mousewheel.min',
   'omapsv2-rtree': 'libs/oraclemaps/v2/rtree/rtree-min',
   'omapsv2-fortknox': 'libs/oraclemaps/v2/fortknox-libs/fortknox-canvas',        
   'omapsv2_core': 'libs/oraclemaps/v2/oraclemapsv2_core'

   ...and these in the "shim" section:

   //Oracle Maps HTML5 API dependencies
   'omapsv2-i18n-properties':  ['jquery'],
   'omapsv2-hammer': ['jquery'],
   'omapsv2-mousewheel.min' : ['jquery'],     
   'omapsv2_core': {
      deps: ['jquery','hammerjs','omapsv2-fortknox','omapsv2-rtree','omapsv2-hammer','omapsv2-i18n-properties','omapsv2-mousewheel.min'],
      exports: 'OM'
   }

3. Modify the view of an Oracle JET module, e.g., "home.html", in the way it's done for the MapBox example, i.e., rewrite "home.html" to be the following and include "css/styles.css" containing "#map { width:100%; height:100%; }": 

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--
  @import url(css/styles.css);
-->
</STYLE>

<div id='map'></div>

4. Modify the viewModel of an Oracle JET module, e.g., "home.js", to be as follows, and read the comments below to understand the code:

   define(['ojs/ojcore', 'knockout', 'omapsv2_core'],
       function (oj, ko) {
           function mainContentViewModel() {
               var self = this;
               self.handleAttached = function () {
                   /* */
                   if (OM !== undefined) {
                       //Where to load Oracle Maps HTML5 API resource files (fonts, css and icons et al):
                       OM.gv.setResourcePath("js/libs/oraclemaps/v2");
                       //Default http method when fetching remote geospatial contents:
                       OM.gv.setHttpMethod("GET");
                   } else
                       console.log('OM not loaded');
                   var X = -77;
                   var Y = 38.9;
                   var initialZoom = 11;
                   //This function adds various map controls to the provided OM.Map instance:
                   var addMapControls = function (myMap)
                   {
                       //defines various properties for the navigation control:
                       var navConfig = {
                           orientation: 1,
                           style: OM.control.NavigationPanelBar.STYLE_ZOOM_BUTTONS_ONLY,
                           anchorPosition: 1
                       };
                       //creates the navigation control:
                       var navigationControl = new OM.control.NavigationPanelBar(navConfig);
                       // navigation control (and other map controls) are typically added
                       //to the map as map decorations:
                       myMap.addMapDecoration(navigationControl);
                       //defines the basic properties for the map scale bars:
                       var sbConfig = {
                           format: "BOTH",
                           anchorPosition: 4,
                           endMarks: false
                       };
                       //defines the display style of the scale bars:
                       var sbStyle = {
                           thickness: 5,
                           color: '#257db3',
                           shadow: true
                       };
                       //creates the actual scale bar instance and sets the display style:
                       var scaleBar = new OM.control.ScaleBar(sbConfig);
                       scaleBar.setStyle(sbStyle);
                       //adds the scale bar to the map as another map decoration:
                       //myMap.addMapDecoration(scaleBar);   
                   };
                   var showMap = function ()
                   {
                       //This is the DIV that will display the map; it needs to be passed into
                       //the map instance:
                       var mapDiv = document.getElementById('map');
                       if (!mapDiv)
                       {
                           console.log("Map container DIV not found!");
                           return;
                       }
                       //Creates a new map instance. Notice we are not supplying a Universe
                       //like in helloworld.js, since the universe will be defined when we
                       //add the tile layer to the map. Every tile layer includes its own
                       //universe definition as part of the tile layer's configuration:
                       var map = new OM.Map(mapDiv, {mapviewerURL: ''});
                       //This is how we create an Oracle eLocation tile layer: by creating
                       //a new instance of the OM.layer.ElocationTileLayer class. Check
                       //the <a href="https://apidoc/index.html">API Doc</a> for other built-in tile 
                       //layers such as Bing maps:
                       var tileLayer = new OM.layer.ElocationTileLayer("elocation");
                       //Adds the tile layer to the map:
                       map.addLayer(tileLayer);
                       //creates a point object located at the given longitude and latitude: 
                       var point = new OM.geometry.Point(X, Y);
                       //Adds various map controls to the map:
                       //console.log('adding mapControls');
                       addMapControls(map);
                       // set the initial map zoom level and center (same as the location marker):
                       map.setMapCenter(point);
                       map.setMapZoomLevel(initialZoom);
                       //Now we can complete the initialization of the map. You must
                       //only call this method once.  Note however map layers can
                       //be added even after calling this method:
                       map.init();
                   }; //showMap
                   // console.log('call showMap');
                   showMap();
                   /*  */
               }; // handleAttached
           }
           return new mainContentViewModel();
       });

That's it. Run the project and you'll see the same as in the screenshot above.