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Workflow SIG Meeting Collaborate’09

Workflow SIG Meeting Collaborate’09. John Peters Workflow SIG Coordinator. OAUG Knowledge Factory Birthday Celebration. In The Know? Want To Be? Join Us For An Informational Session, Refreshments and Prizes!!! Tuesday, May 5, 2009 OAUG Mini - Theater Time: 5:45pm .

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Workflow SIG Meeting Collaborate’09

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  1. Workflow SIG MeetingCollaborate’09 John PetersWorkflow SIG Coordinator

  2. OAUG Knowledge Factory Birthday Celebration In The Know? Want To Be? Join Us For An Informational Session, Refreshments and Prizes!!! Tuesday, May 5, 2009 OAUG Mini - Theater Time: 5:45pm

  3. Don’t miss the OAUG Annual Meeting of the MembersTuesday, May 54:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.Chapin TheaterFeaturing:Ray Payne, 2009 OAUG President,Distinguished OAUG Leaders,andExciting Giveaways!Sponsored by Global Software

  4. Visit the OAUG Membership Booth to discover what is new with the OAUG • Pick up your conference education CD • Update your OAUG profile for a chance to win a Flip Digital Video Camera • Create a candidate profile or job listing in the new OAUG Job Board and be entered for the chance to win a Nintendo Wii or an iPod Nano • Vote for your favorite exhibitor for the OAUG Users Choice Award • Sign up to volunteer with the OAUG • Meet the OAUG Board and staff, along with committee and council members

  5. Introduction • Vijay Shanmugam, Oracle Workflow Development Manager • John Peters, JRPJR, Inc.Workflow SIG Coordinator • Karen Brownfield, Solution Beacon • We do not work for Oracle. The Oracle Development and Support that support Workflow were unable to attend. I have worked with them to create this presentation.

  6. Agenda • Future of Workflow • Some information from Oracle • Workflow Builder and MS Vista • Workflow SIG Discussion • Other sessions of possible interest at Collaborate’09 • Other resources for Workflow Information

  7. Book Raffle • At the end of the session we will raffle off a copy of Karen Brownfield’s book

  8. Versions of Apps People Are On • Pre-11.5.10.2 • 11.5.10.2 – don’t know which RUP • 11.5.10, ATG RUP6 • Pre-12.0.5 • 12.0.6

  9. Future of Workflow

  10. Future of Workflow • Desupported as an Oracle product for standalone use. • No longer part of the 11G DB install. Will be installed as part of the Apps Tech Stack. • Still heavily used in R12 and will be supported by Applications Technology Group. • Will not be used in Fusion.

  11. BPEL - Business Process Execution Language • BPEL is the primary replacement for Workfow Technology. • You can use BPEL today with your 11i and R12 Applications. • Attend some of the BPEL sessions at Collaborate’09 to get some exposure to this powerful tool.

  12. Workflow to BPEL Migration • There will be no automated conversion/migration available. • A good reference on migrating to BPEL is: Migrating to BPEL from Oracle Work Flow An Oracle White Paper March 2008 http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/bpel/pdf/owf2bpel.pdf

  13. Current Workflow Functionality

  14. Current – Best Practices • Oracle Workflow Best Practices Release 12 and Release 11iMetalink Note: 453137.1 • This document is updated regularly so check it periodically.

  15. Current - Workflow Directory • How many of you have had trouble trying to activate a responsibility that was assigned to the user and deactivated in the past? • See the note in the Best Practices doc. “When a WF DS data in-consistency issue is found Administrators try to fix the problem by running the WF DS User Role Validation program (FNDWFDSURV). Although this can indeed fix the problem it can also hide it. Attempt should be made to identify the root cause of the data inconsistency problem working with Workflow Support. Run this program only upon request, when there is suspicion or evidence the WF DS data is out of synch. Ideally, you should never have to run this program, rather fix the root cause.” • WFDS Data Collection Script ML Note: 742062.1

  16. Current - Workflow Directory (cont) • ML Note: 433473.1 also ML Note: 734282.1 • This note has both a patch fix from 11i and R12 as well as instructions for a workaround. • The basic issue is Business Events for products you probably don’t have or use, that are enabled but error out. Just disable them is the easy workaround. • This works I have implemented this at two different clients!!!

  17. Current – Workflow Retry • This is implemented as a Concurrent Program to mass retry errored activities. • Available in 11iRUP6, 5903106 • Available in 12.0.2, 5934464 • This is a great fix for transient errors • PO Approvals • Notifications where the performer is not yet there due to Synchronize Workflow Local issues.

  18. Current – Administrator Role • Autoconfig runs change the role back to SYSADMIN • There is a fix in the Best Practices document • Or use the following SQL:(Oracle does not recommend or support direct updates of it’s tables) update wf_resources set text = ‘FND_RESP|FND|FNDWF_ADMIN_WEB_NEW|STANDARD’ where name = 'WF_ADMIN_ROLE';

  19. Current – Test Emails • The Norification Mailer in 12.0.6 will now send two Test Emails: • Framework Body  type which requires a connection to the web server to pull and embed the framework data in the message body • PL/SQL Body which is a PL/SQL Document Type email Gary Grant, Oracle Support

  20. Current – Workflow Purge • You absolutely must run the workflow purge concurrent program • Troubleshooting Workflow Data Growth IssuesML Note: 298550.1 • If you find really old workflows that have previously errorred you need to work with Oracle Support to complete/close these workflows so they can be purged.

  21. Future Workflow Enhancements

  22. NLS Requirements • How many of you have NLS requirements for Workflow Notifications? • How many of those Notifications are to individuals outside of your companies?

  23. Future - R12.1, and 11i-RUP7 • Full NLS context support for workflow e-mail notifications • Currently the e-mail notification content is generated only as per recipient role's Language and Territory preferences • In 12.1 Oracle plans to honor other preferences as well such as Date Format, Number Format and so on that the user may set from the Preferences screenVijay Shanmugam, Workflow Development Manager

  24. Future - R12.1 • Oracle has extended the Business Event System to consume and invoke web services using a simple wizard based WSDL consumer as part of Integrated SOA Gateway feature • Oracle plans to ship an out-of-the-box Java rule function that helps invoke the consumed web serviceVijay Shanmugam, Workflow Development Manager

  25. Collaborate’09 Workflow Sessions • Mon 5/4, 3:45-4:45 - 1727Where's my expense report? Workflow from a business perspective. Elizabeth Schlientz (Humana Inc.) • Mon 5/5, 9:45-10:45 - 1618Leverage Your Procurement Workflows in Release 12 Cal Kondratiuk (O2Works) • Tue 5/5, 3:15-4:15 - 2337Role of Workflows in Product Information Management Ram Sirish Pinneli (Infosys Technologies Ltd.)

  26. Collaborate’09 Workflow Sessions • Wed 5/6, 8:30-9:30 – 3163Workflow/BPEL Q&A Mark Clark (O2Works) • Wed 5/6, 1:30-2:30 – 1680Purging Workflows - Reducing Data Proliferation Nitin Jain (Infosys Technologies Ltd.) • Wed 5/6, 4:30-5:30 – 2585Workflow Performance Tuning Karen Brownfield (Solution Beacon, LLC)

  27. Collaborate’09 Workflow Sessions • Thu 5/7, 9:45-10:45 – 2554What's New in Workflow: 11i RUP5, RUP6 and R12 Karen Brownfield (Solution Beacon, LLC) • Thu 5/7, 11:00-12:00 – 2550Workflow Troubleshooting in Release 12 Susan Behn (Solution Beacon, LLC)

  28. Collaborate’09 AME Sessions • Mon 5/4, 8:00-9:00 – 2425Oracle Approvals Management (AME) Case Studies for AP, PO and HR Susan Behn (Solution Beacon, LLC)

  29. Collaborate’09 BPEL Sessions • Mon 5/4, 10:45-12:45 – 3054Hands-on Lab – Automating Oracle Applications‘ Processes using Oracle Business Process Management Srikant Subramaniam (Oracle) • Mon 5/4, 10:45-11:45 – 1171A Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Process for HR Integration Zoe Leach (IMPAC) • Mon 5/4, 3:45-4:45 – 3056Hands-on Lab - Service-enable Siebel CRM with Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager Nishit Rao (Oracle)

  30. Collaborate’09 BPEL Sessions • Tue 5/5, 9:45-10:45 - 2727Oracle BPEL Training Basheer Khan (Innowave Technology) • Tue 5/5, 9:45-10:45 – 1076Leveraging Oracle E-Business adapter to orchestrate an automated purchase order Sam Tong (Forsythe Technology) • Tue 5/5, 1:00-2:30 – 3059Hands-on Lab -Service-enable E-Business Suite with Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager Nishit Rao (Oracle)

  31. Collaborate’09 BPEL Sessions • Tue 5/5, 3:15-4:15 - 1037Mixing E-Business Suite and Pleasure Arnoud Roth (InterAccess) • Wed 5/6, 3:15-4:15 – 1799Leverage Oracle Advanced Queuing feature Using BPEL Asif Hussain (Innowave Technology)

  32. My Contact Information John PetersJRPJR, Inc. john.peters@jrpjr.com Copies of the presentation and other workflow related presentations are on: http://workflowsig.oaug.org/ http://jrpjr.com/

  33. Available at www.solutionbeacon.com Order Your Copy Today! Installing, Upgrading and Maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite Applications 11.5.10.2+ The Release 12 Primer – Shining a Light on the Release 12 World The ABCs of Workflow for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i and Release 12

  34. Book Raffle • At the end of the session we will raffle off a copy of Karen Brownfield’s book

  35. Questions & Answers

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