Content Highlights
During June our App Composer series looked at object relationships and how to leverage them in your groovy scripts. We covered Many-to-Many and One-to-Many relationships in depth to illustrate how to create both programmatic access and updates using the generated foreign key fields.
Also related to Sales Cloud was the growth of our Application Composer performance series with content covering tuning queries and using the newView function effectively. More to come from this during July. We also explained the trigger lifecycle - helping you understand where best to put your custom code, and again during July we'll cover the validation rule lifecycle in a similar manner.
Our Groovy Tuesday series continued with articles covering use with regular expressions, the user profile API's, setting Field Values, use inside sandboxes, and firing validations when data loading.
Away from Sales Cloud, Jani's series covering the features of the Java Cloud Service for use with Cloud Applications looked at two scheduling options; Cron4J and Quartz. We also looked at flexfields in detail, covering setups and configuration of DFF's with additional posts looking at EFF's in the works.
From Other Teams
With the new HCM REST services due for release 10, the Oracle A-Team provided a useful post that explains how to use SOA Suite to create a secure connection. They also looked at the upgrade process for on-premises customers, visiting the manual IDM activities, looking at optimization techniques. Although not Fusion-specific the A-Team also published articles on the new Mobile Cloud Service, and BI Cloud Service, as potential services to enhance your Cloud Applications.
As new Platform Cloud Services were unveiled by Oracle recently, the Fusion Middleware blog covered these in detail. For example look at the Process Cloud Service or the Integration Cloud articles.
Oracle AppsUX looked at API's for PaaS and IoT in an interesting take on extending and enriching your Cloud Applications and how a good user experience extends beyond the UI. They also highlighted Oracle ERP Cloud's great capabilities with an entertaining interview with Oracle's David Haimes (@dhaimes) who leads the Cloud Financials development team.
Events
In June were were lucky enough to get out and about, hearing stories of Cloud Application implementation and success.
We presented at the German Oracle Applications User Group (DOAG) to business leaders and partners looking at Oracle's cloud applications and services. We also attended the Oracle Cloud HCM Community Innovations Day were we heard interesting insights from customers and partners. Read more about both events here.
Similarly the UKOUG also help an Innovations Day for their ERP Community, where we listened to a broad range of content topics, discussed ideas with partners, and presented our own content. Read more and download our slides from here.
During June we ran a one day Oracle Partner event, entitled the "Groovy Workshop". This was specifically directed at Oracle Parnters who are working with Sales Cloud implementations but lack some of the fundamentals that help them tailor and extend the solution using Groovy script. You can read more here and we hope to run the class again, so if you are interested please get in touch.