Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1.3

Announced at AUG-2010 Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3 is now available for download.

Oracle EBS R12.1.3 combines maintenance patches(RUP) and can only be installed on an existing EBS 12.1 environment. which combines error corrections, regulatory updates, and functionality enhancements into a consolidated, suite-wide patch set.

Several product family RUPs included in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 are available individually and might contain conditions and prerequisites that apply to its application (Ex: Supply Chain Management, Financials, CRM and Value Chain Planning,...). Compare to Release 12.1.1 and 12.1.2 had a lot more functionality that we would be interested in all.

Some new features:

1. Accessibility: Keyboard-only users should set their Accessibility mode to "Standard" to ensure that the keyboard-only accessible version of user interface enhancements introduced in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 are enabled.
2. Confirugable Home Page: The Configurable Home page is now enabled by default.
3. Look Ahead LOVs: New UI indicator if the Look Ahead feature is enabled on a particular LOV field. The indicator takes the form of an angular downward-facing arrow at the end of the LOV input field. Ability to control the number of records to display in the Look Ahead LOV visible area. Standard accessibility for keyboard-only users.
4. Inline Attachments: Viewing, updating, and deleting attachments inline within an Attachment Table item. Adding attachments inline within a Message Inline Attachment item. Rendering in BiDi languages.
5. Pop-ups: Allowing a form submit done on a pop-up component to refresh the base page. This enables you to build a pop-up that modifies data on the base page.Rendering descriptive flexfields in a pop-up. Displaying a warning about pending changes when a user tries to close a pop-up. Standard and screen reader accessibility.
6. Portlets: A link within an Oracle E-Business Suite OA Framework-based portlet can now be opened in a new browser window. This allows the base portal or Oracle WebCenter page to remain in context while a drilldown link in the portlet opens content in a separate window. All Oracle E-Business Suite content will launch into a single window.
7. Data Export: Data export has been enhanced to allow you to control the export file format and encoding used when you implement an Export button to export data displayed in one or more regions of an OA Framework page to a file.

For more information of this Release, reference:
    * Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Readme (Note 1080973.1)
    * Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Release Update Pack (Patch 9239090)
    * Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3: Release Content Documents (Note 561580.1)

OracleValue Team