Intelligent Advisor Release 24C (12.2.36) is now available for public cloud and self-managed (on-premise) customers.
Be sure to also review the features added to 24B since our last post.
Oracle Integration Intelligent Advisor Adapter support for private endpoints (Monthly Update 2)
The Oracle Integration Intelligent Advisor Adapter can now connect to endpoints via private virtual cloud network (VCN) instead of common NAT gateway shared across tenants. All traffic goes through a private channel that is set up within Oracle Cloud.
Hub certificate upload (Monthly Update 2)
The Intelligent Advisor Hub certificate needed by the Identity Cloud Service client application when integrating Intelligent Advisor with Oracle Integration now needs to be user-generated and uploaded to Intelligent Advisor Hub. User-generated and uploaded Hub certificates allow greater control over the maintenance of the certificate including expiry renewal and rotation. The upload of the Hub certificate and maintenance can also be done using the new Hub Certificate REST API.
Note that Intelligent Advisor Hub will no longer generate its own Hub certificate. If there is no active certificate available, you will have to add your own Hub certificate. Existing server generated Hub certificates will remain valid until their expiration date. The status of the active Hub certificate is shown on the connection details page for the Oracle Integration connection.
Branch web-authored projects (Monthly Update 2)
Hub Managers can now branch a web-authored project so that development and maintenance can be conducted on separate branches in line with business needs. Branching can be done on the latest, or earlier versions of a project. A link is recorded from the copied project back to the version that it was copied from, retaining branch lineage.
New functions for web-authored rules (Monthly Update 2)
When writing rules in a decision service or flow project, you can now use:
- the Sort function to sort the records in a record list according to the specified sort parameters
- the Reverse function to return the records in a record list in reverse order
- the Exclude function to take a record list and one or more record or record lists of the same object type and return a new record list consisting of all the records in the first record list that do not appear in any of the subsequent record or record lists
- the Combine function to take a set of records or record lists of the same object type and return a new record list containing the unique set of all the record in the provided parameters
Quick access to help for web-authored rules (Monthly Update 2)
There is now an info icon in the header of the active rule block in web-authored rule documents that provides access to the documentation on working with rule blocks.
Fusion Sales and Service connector version choice (Monthly Update 1)
Fusion Sales and Service customers connecting to Intelligent Advisor can now change the connector version for existing connections so that they can uptake the latest enhancements when they choose to. The connection details page in the Hub shows which version of the connector is being used and indicates if it is not the latest version.
Decision service templates
Hub managers can now define decision service templates containing rule structures for authors to follow. This sets authors up for success in authoring projects by providing a starting point appropriate for their organization’s use cases. An out of the box IoT Issue Handler decision service template is provided for calculating how to action an issue originating through IoT Cloud. More templates will be added in future releases to quick start other common Oracle integrations.
Note that this feature is only available in Intelligent Advisor Cloud Service.
Navigation tab for flows
There is now an additional panel in the left hand pane of a flow project that shows the flow outline in a tree view. This gives authors an easy way to navigate through flow content and jump to the section needed. It also provides the ability to re-order items within the flow outline.
Entity collect substitution on interview screens
You can now use an attribute from the target entity as a text substitution attribute in a control that is a direct child of the entity collect. This enables you to provide entity instance specific information on the same line. Note that this feature is only available in latest Version interviews.
AND and OR functions for web-authored rules
When writing rules in a decision service or flow project, you can now use:
- the And function to connect multiple conditions in a record list function where all conditions must be satisfied
- the Or function to connect multiple conditions in a record list function where satisfying one condition is sufficient to satisfy the rule
This allows related logic to be grouped together rather than being obscured through the use of intermediate fields. While the primary purpose of these functions is to allow multiple conditions to be used as a condition for a record list function, these functions can be used anywhere a boolean expression is allowed.
Want to start using the 24C release?
Public cloud: You can upgrade your testing sites at any time via Oracle Cloud Portal Service Cloud Configuration Assistant. All sites will be automatically upgraded according to the published schedule.
Private cloud (on-premises): Licensed customers should download from Oracle® Software Delivery Cloud.