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When you find yourself in the admin seat in front of Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager (FSM), you might have a lot of tasks to juggle. What most admins do is to simply search for the task like this: To give FSM some credit, the search is case insensitive and retrieves any task (or task list) that contains the search string. Personally, I found myself more than once in the situation where I mistyped or plainly forgot the "key word". And scrolling is not an option... Custom Task List to the Rescue! With kudos to fellow Oraclean Kevin, we can of course resort to creating a custom task list. Just go to Manage Task Lists and Tasks and click the Create Task List button. Name your task list and add any existing task: Once you're done you can start using your custom task list in FSM and forget about remembering task names. have a nice day @lex

When you are the proud owner of a new and shiny instance of Oracle Fusion Applications or Sales Cloud (formerly known as Fusion CRM), one of the first tasks you find yourself at is to load administrative and customer data from various sources. For cloud instances, there are basically two options of importing (and/or exporting) data: File based data import (FBDI) Web Services For mass/bulk data, file based import has many advantages over web services, which are typically chosen for message-based real-time integration with other systems. In the remainder of this short article, we will focus on FBDI and point out how Oracle assists you with the sometimes tedious task of creating 'the right' import file. For this task, Oracle provides import templates. Let's see where and how we can get them: My Oracle Support A logical conclusion is to go to My Oracle Support and search for "fusion import template" (or "cloud import template"). One of the support docs you w...

As announced a few days ago, Oracle has published a new release of its Fusion Applications (ERP, HCM, CRM) product line, namely Release 8. For on-premise deployments, this means that the installers   as well as the new documentation set are now available on Oracle servers. For cloud customers which have signed up for the Oracle-hosted versions of Fusion Applications (aka Cloud Applications) such as Sales Cloud , Oracle is probably rolling out upgrades already. The new release brings hundreds of features, with the following (personal) list of highlights: New Skyros Theme With release 8, Oracle ships a new skin named "Skyros" (probably inspired by the blue sky and white houses on the Greek island of Skyros ). New Skyros skin in Fusion Release 8 The new skin provides a more "flat" look and feel and will also be available for the accompanying middleware products such as Identity Management or Oracle BI. Oracle has announced a skin editor for release 9 so customers can ...

As Oracle expands its Cloud business through both acquisitions and new releases of its own Fusion Applications (which are the backbone of Sales, HCM and ERP cloud), a new product line is emerging, nameley Oracle Cloud Applications . This is a combined offer of: Sales (formerly Fusion CRM) Human Capital Management Financials Value Chain Execution Product Value Chain Procurement Project Portfolio Management These applications are based on Oracle Fusion Applications and are hosted in the Oracle Cloud together with other Oracle products such as Marketing Cloud or Service Cloud. Still from an Oracle video on Sales Cloud. With Release 8 of Oracle Cloud Applications (and Fusion Applications), Oracle explores new ways in informing customers about enhancements and new features in the form of a release 8  readiness page on cloud.oracle.com . In addition to checking out the content on that page, the seasoned Fusion Cloud observer may want to peruse the really awesome Oracle Product Featur...

As announced in an earlier post , this is a review of the book Oracle Fusion Applications Development and Extensibility Handbook  by  Vladimir Ajvaz ,  Anil Passi  and Dhaval Mehta. Overall, the 500+ page oeuvre is a "must" for the aspiring Fusion Applications developer. Extending and customizing Fusion Applications can be challenging and should not be done without proper education. This book is a perfect companion alongside the training path offered by Oracle University. The first chapter is dedicated to the architecture of Fusion Applications with a strong focus on Fusion Middleware components such as WebLogic Server, Enterprise Service Scheduler and Enterprise Crawl and Search Framework. Chapter 2 introduces the various types of customizations such as personalization, run-time customization, application extensions and design-time customizations and extensions and doesn't shy away from Metadata Services (MDS), sandboxes and layers. A separate chapter on flexfields ...

Recently, two books on Oracle Fusion Applications have been released: Oracle Fusion Applications Administration Essentials  (this post) Oracle Fusion Applications Development and Extensibility Handbook  (future post)  If you happen to be on the "Fusion Path", you might find these worth purchasing (and reading of course). In this and another article to be published soon, I will provide a review of the new publications. Oracle Fusion Applications Administration Essentials by  Faisal Ghadially and Kalpit Parikh . I found this book to stay true to its own abstract (quote from the book): "The book provides detailed how-to steps. However, it does this by ensuring that the high-level context and purpose of these activities are clearly understood. Our purpose in writing this book is to give you a jump-start to managing Oracle Fusion Applications from a technical perspective. Readers who have worked with other Oracle ERP products will find this is an insightful introduction...