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Process Automation helps you to rapidly design, automate, and manage business processes in the Cloud

Step-by-step guide discovering how to provision and build a business process with OCI Process Automation

OCI Process Automation (shortly OPA) is an OCI PaaS Oracle Managed cloud service which helps customers to build their business processes based on Structured or Unstructured models. This is the best solution to easily manage business processes granting to business users to build their own implementations without coding but just using a web browser and drag&drop capabilities… what we usually call a “no code” environment

The article has the goal to explain how, step by step, we can quickly test the features included in OPA… starting from my experience with the tool.

Just to simplify the explanation, I will describe a “happy path” process … in my example building one business process which usually is quite loved by everyone…. mainly when talking about the Vacation Request Approvals 🙂

Advance XSL Mapping inside Oracle Integration Cloud !!!

Recently, I came across one issue while working with one Customer where they were facing bit of challenges to update existing working Integration with new JSON field input.

So, in this use case, two integration orchestration process flow are involved, Master Integration and Child Integration both working well in production. However, time to time developer gets requirement from business to enrich this working flow by adding more fields into Child Integration which was interacting with Oracle Responsys System. The Master Integration getting data from NetSuite, passing Child Integration same data which was interacting with Responsys and completing business flow.

Here is flow diagram with existing working flow Vs flow with new requirements and highlighted problem area.

Problem Statement:

Once developer add new fields into Child OIC orchestration flow, saved, activated and tries to refresh the Parent OIC orchestration flow, it breaks existing mapping. Behind the scene obviously since Child Integration orchestration flow input payload got changed it has cascading impact on calling Integration flow and calling Integration flow fails to deduct those changes and breaks existing mapping and wiped out existing mapping. see the relevant snaps –

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Invoking Oracle PaaS service APIs protected by OAuth

Oracle PaaS services are typically protected by Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), which provides unified access management for the Oracle Cloud. This protection extends to their exposed APIs, which usually require you to present a valid access token as part of your invocation. Unfortunately, the documentation for a number of the services tends to assume that the reader has an in-depth knowledge of OAuth concepts, and IDCS operations.

Typically my blog posts are around specific proof of concept things I have been working on, or go in-depth into more advanced IDCS concepts, but I have realised (mostly because people kept asking me…) that many developers using these services don’t have a strong practical understanding of OAuth, and struggle to interpret the documentation around the authentication requirements for the services. This blog post is designed to provide a step by step explanation of what is required from an IDCS perspective, as well as an explanation of the techniques to obtain a an access token to use the service APIs.

A non-exhaustive list of PaaS services for which these instructions are applicable:

Oracle Integration Cloud
Oracle Blockchain Platform
Oracle API Platform Cloud Service
Oracle Mobile Hub
Oracle Digital Assistant

Manage Custom Fields in Salesforce using Oracle Integration Salesforce Adapter !!!

Customisation is essential part of any SaaS implementation to capture unique business needs. In Salesforce SaaS application also, there could be several use-cases where user might need to create a new Custom Object or add custom fields into existing Standard Object such as Contact, Account and Organisation etc. In this blog I will be showing how can we add Custom fields e.g. Degree name, Passing Year etc. into existing Salesforce Contact object and can update the same field using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) Salesforce adapter. I will write another separate blog later where I can show how a completely new Custom Object can be created in Salesforce and updated through Oracle Integration Salesforce Adapter.

Before, I go into deep drive, just want to highlight the core objective of this blog to show Salesforce configuration and OIC Salesforce adapter configuration, I am assuming reader has already basis understanding of OIC product features such as Connection, Integration, mapping and deployment.

My colleague had already covered Salesforce Inbound and Outbound integration using Oracle Integration Cloud Salesforce Adapter. So, I might not be repeating few steps which already been covered in this blog. if you doing Salesforce Integration first time, then its recommended to review these blogs as well.

So let’s do deep dive now. Below are the high levels flow and steps which needs to be performed to achieve desired result.

Create custom fields e.g. Degree Name and Passing year into Salesforce existing Contact Object
Create/Update Salesforce Connection in OIC
Create REST Adapter in OIC
Create Integration which maps Contact Object Custom Fields from REST Adapter to Salesforce
Activate Integration
Trigger Integration using Postman
Verify Result In Salesforce

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Oracle Engagement Cloud Event Processing using Sales Cloud Adapter within Oracle Integration Cloud !!!

Recently, I been part of one POC where I have learned how we can consume Business Events from Oracle Engagement Cloud.

Oracle Engagement Cloud is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering from Oracle which provides unified Sales and Service Capabilities, includes sales force automation to manage the full sales lifecycle including leads, accounts, contacts, opportunities, assets, activities, assessments, and forecasts. Leverage content on mobile, the web, and email applications etc.

Beneath the hood, there are several business object e.g. Account, Contact, Plan, Opportunity, service request etc. which form the data model to store data in back-end and exchange data with other systems.

In this blog, I will be simply demonstrating the prerequisite which are required to configure inside Oracle Engagement Cloud and OIC Sales Cloud Adapter configuration.

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