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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...

Thanks to Jan Peterson for this article Oracle Sales Cloud  has made some significant progress in the past 18 months and has become a very compelling offering. Alex has posted a summary of the R8 release a while ago . Simplified UI is - in my humbled opinion - the biggest improvement of recent releases. It has been introduced with R7 and significantly improved as part of R8.  As part of the R8 release, the configuration capabilities have been significantly enhanced. As I had a bit of time, I decided to test if more complex Open UI configuration examples can be migrated to Simplified UI. The short answer - at least for the example I picked - is "yes". I have recently  posted an article about arbor, a jQuery plug-in that allows to display complex relationship hierarchies. In the Open UI example we used it to display relationships of a contact. For Simplified UI, I picked opportunities as an example. Below a screenshot of the final outcome that shows a opportunity and its ...