A new version of Oracle Visual Builder Studio, version 2401, has rolled out over the weekend, learn about the new features it offers in the areas of DevOps, visual application development, and extending Oracle Fusion Cloud Apps.
Configuration Protection for Builds and Pipelines
New security feature allows restricting access to the configurations of build jobs and pipelines – giving you better control over who in the project is allowed to modify them. This is separate from the ability to run these builds and pipelines.
Merge Request Templates
Teams can now define templates for merge requests that guide the developers to provide specific information as part of their request. This can help the reviewers better understand the context of the code changes they are looking at.
Change Workspace Ownership
Project administrators can now change the ownership of a workspace, allowing you to handle situations where the original owner of the workspace can no longer maintain it.
Wiki Home Page
The team can now create a home page for their project's wiki, providing a clearer entry point into their knowledge repository.
JavaScript Action Chains
Summary View
You can toggle the view of action chains to see a detailed view or a summary view of the actions which helps scan action chains faster.
Convert Function to Action Chain
You can convert local functions in your action chain to separate action chains that you'll be able to call from other action chains – this refactoring helps increase reusability of the code you develop.
Simplified Display of Parameters
Parameters and return results from action chains are now displays in a more intuitive way in action chains increasing readability.
Page Designer Improvements
In the Visual Builder IDE environment you can now reopen tabs you closed. This is not limited to just the last tab also.
The switch to live mode using a keyboard shortcut will only get activated when your mouse is hovering over the editor, releasing the key combination for other usages when needed.
AppUI Extension Improvements
Lots of enhancements are available for developers creating extension to Oracle Fusion Cloud Apps with VB Studio including:
Role based security setting for extensions
Define who can access your extension using Fusion Apps roles. This is available at the extension, flow, and page levels giving you granular control.
Local Servers for Backends
While you are developing your application you can overwrite the backends that are defined in your environment with local definition in your workspace. This allows you for example to leverage a different external server servicing the REST services you work with while developing, and then switch to another server when you deploy your extension.
Page Modifications
An improved condition builder with support of nested conditions helps you define the business rules conditions that control the way Fusion Apps pages display in different conditions.
There is More
These are just some of the key new features, but there are other enhancements provided in this version – have a look at our what's new document that has links to deeper documentation on each one of the features.