Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

  One may need to archive process instances for compliance purposes and what better place to store those completed instances than OCI Object Storage. Here is the OCI bucket - The password entered in Configuring Services above is NOT your oracle cloud password. Rather - I approve 9 human tasks, completing 9 simple process instances - just that I've something to archive. Simple so far - now to defining the archiving schedule -  Only 6 minutes to go, so let's wait for the magic to...

With the new support for Oracle JET 9 in Oracle Visual Builder, it's much simpler to create a multi-row selection enabled table that with checkboxes for row selection. Below is a quick video showing how this is done. This is much simpler compared to the approach you had to take before. The table automatically adds a selection checkbox column when you set the selection-mode.row="multiple" attribute. There is an on-selected-changed event on the table - and you can attach an...

Join us on Thursday, April 22 to learn how you can transform your architecture into an efficient, scalable, and cost-effective solution with Oracle’s iPaaS options. Our team will illustrate the process, methodology, and technology involved in moving Oracle SOA Suite to the Cloud with AST’s proven Transcend methodology, which has been used to modernize integration platforms for dozens of customers across industries. We’ll be joined by one of our customers who will discuss...

If you need to view the Insights data for a Digital Assistant and at the same time also view the events for its constituent skills, you can export the data to a CSV file and create your own reports from there. You also can automate the export, which gives you a way to monitor how well an ODA is functioning at certain time intervals, for example. You do this making by REST calls to the Insights for Skills API from a script, as described in this topic. The section below is an...

We can poll files at regular intervals from a remote ftp/sftp server location using Oracle JCA adapter for FTP, with help of GET operation. We can integrate oracle JCA FTP adapter with BPEL, mediator, or OSB 12c. In this article, we will be creating one OSB project that will demonstrate polling of files from remote FTP location using FTP adapter and writing the files to our local server location Note: Using JDeveloper 12c (12.2.1.4). Pre-requisites: Connection factory configured...

In today’s enterprise, users must expect to multitask in order to achieve higher productivity. Thus, tasks and lists of tasks become necessary features of most enterprise applications-such as ERP, HCM or CRM--for improving user productivity. Tasks can range from simple to-dos that remind the assignee about activities outside the application to approvals for HR, finance or sales transactions.                          Enterprise users commonly must deal with multiple task...

Sometimes small nuggets turn out to be more valuable than the bigger ones. Hope this is one of those little tips that you will enjoy and use. So in this quick tip I explain how you can add character shortcuts to values lists in Oracle Digital Assistant. The trick is to use Apache FreeMarker expressions in a System.CommonResponse component. The System.CommonResponse component can be used to display list of values and card layouts from arrays and lists. For the sample, I...

Introduction: Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.4 was released on Sep 27, 2019, and is the latest SOA release in the market. The complete upgrade process is listed in Oracle SOA Upgrade Documentation, however, it is too exhaustive and a bit hard to follow. https://docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/fusion-middleware/12.2.1.4/fupss/preface.html#GUID-97108791-B395-4339-824C-2E8404C54DAD Hence, to simplify the upgrade exercise, I have divided it into several activities that are explained in...

Kotlin, which was originally developed by JetBrains, is an open source programming language compatible with Java and therefore the Android Java SDK. This article explain how you build Android mobile applications that integrate Oracle Digital Assistant chatbots using Android Studio and Kotlin. Following the instructions in this article, or downloading the sample code, you get a simple Android applications that exposes a chat messenger widget you can configure with a skill or...