Extending HCM Redwood

Applications Using Visual

Builder Studio:
Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQs)

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This document provides an overview of the frequently asked questions on Extending Redwood Applications Using Visual
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Purpose Statement 1
Disclaimer 1
Introduction 3
Feature Questions and Answers 3
Terminology 3
Branding 3
Express Mode and Business Rules 3
Delivered Rules AKA Built-in Rules in VB Studio 4
VB Studio 4
Page Composer and Transaction Design Studio 4
Documentation 5
Training 5
Support 5
Cost and License 5
Migration, P2T, Upgrade and Patching 5

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INTRODUCTION
This document contains a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs).

FEATURE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

This document is a resource intended to supplement the material provided in Extending Redwood Applications Using Visual
Builder Studio guide. You can find frequently asked questions in the section below.

TERMINOLOGY
Question Response

What does TDS stand for? Transaction Design Studio

What does ACR stand for? Autocomplete Rules

BRANDING
Question Response

How can I update the branding of the Redwood pages? Refer to the Overview of Configuring Themes and Home Page
Settings documentation

EXPRESS MODE AND BUSINESS RULES

Question Response

How do I know what's extensible in a page? Customizations are page specific, see Understand
What's Extensible in an HCM Redwood Page
section in the Extending Redwood Applications
Using Visual Builder technical brief.

What should I do if Express mode is not available for my page? The coverage of VB Express mode pages is still evolving and is
expected to evolve further in the upcoming releases. Kindly
await these forthcoming releases as we enhance the coverage
for VB Express mode pages.
Note: Please refrain from making any alterations, even if the
Advanced mode option is available for such pages. It is
important to note that only changes related to VB Express mode
are supported.

Why can't I see the Business Rules for my page? It means that Business Rules hasn’t been enabled for the page
yet.

What should I do if the change I need to do on a Redwood page is If the desired change is not covered in the guide, please use the
not listed in the guide or supported use cases? Customer Connect forum to post queries. Our development
team will review and provide guidance.
Use this URL to post your questions on customer connect-
https://community.oracle.com/customerconnect/categories/hc
m-visual-builder-studio-for-hcm

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 Why do I see the Start Preparing button on the Business Rules After selecting Configure Business Rules, you will see the Start
page? Preparing button on the Business Rules page when creating a
new rule. This is to prompt you to migrate any existing layouts
from layout(-x).json to metadata-rules(-x).json. It applies to all
dynamic layouts in the extension, occurring only once. Click the
Start Preparing button to load all rules and conditions.

DELIVERED RULES AKA BUILT-IN RULES IN VB STUDIO

Question Response

Which release are the built-in rules available in Business Rules? Built-in rules, such as best practices or localization rules,
are targeted as of 24A and are page specific.

VB STUDIO
Question Response

How do I enable VB Studio? To learn more about extending your application using VB
Studio, visit Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of
interest > Books > Configuration and Extension.
Before you can start working with VB Studio, a systems
administrator must set the requisite environment following
these instructions.

Which security is needed to access VB Studio? Refer to the Set Up VB Studio Users documentation

What do we do if we don’t have an identity admin in the system? Open a service request with the problem type-Cloud Hosting
Services (Outage, P2T/T2T, Enable SSO, Resize, CloudPortal,
MyServices, User/Password, Network, Schedule
Maintenance).

How do I use VB Studio with IP whitelisting? Open a service request to get VB Studio IP Addresses added
to the allowlist.

How do I use VB Studio with location-based access control (LBAC) Open a service request to get IP ranges for your VB Studio
enabled? instance and then update your LBAC setup with this
information.

How can we identify which POD has VB Studio associated? By default your VB Studio is associated with your test pod.
If you need to switch from the default test pod to a different
non-production instance, Oracle will support a one-time
switch through a service request.
We are working on an enhancement request that will allow
customers to have VB Studio access from every non-
production instance.

PAGE COMPOSER AND TRANSACTION DESIGN STUDIO

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 Question Response

Is Page composer available for Redwood pages? Page Composer is applicable for responsive pages only.
Express mode of VB Studio must be used for Redwood pages.

Should I move all my changes from Page Composer to VB All extensibility changes done in a responsive page must be
Studio? done in the Redwood page using Express mode.

Will customizations done in Transaction Design Studio be All rules created in Transaction Design Studio must be manually
available in Redwood pages? created in Business Rules for the equivalent Redwood page.

Do I need a Sandbox or Customization Set Migration (CSM) No, you will not need these tools. You will be managing
tools for Redwood pages? extensibility changes as well as deployment or rollbacks using
Visual Builder Studio.

DOCUMENTATION
Question Response

Where can I find the documentation? Docs.oracle.com > Human Resources > Configuration
and Extension > Extending HCM Applications Using
Visual Builder Studio

TRAINING
Question Response

Does Oracle University deliver trainings, or will the training be Oracle University training isn’t available yet.
hosted in future as part of Customer Connect sessions?
Session training will be hosted in the future as part of
Customer Connect sessions.

SUPPORT
Question Response

Does Oracle only support changes done in Express mode? Yes.

COST AND LICENSE

Question Response

Is there additional cost to using Express mode? No, there’s no additional cost to use Express mode.

Is there a separate license to implement Express mode? No, it doesn't require a separate license.

MIGRATION, P2T, UPGRADE AND PATCHING

Area Question Response

Migration Will changes done in Redwood pages using VB Studio Please watch our Customer Connect forum for more
prior to 23D be automatically migrated? details on this topic. Please refer-
https://community.oracle.com/customerconnect/categ
ories/hcm-visual-builder-studio-for-hcm

Migration What happens to my Business rules and VB Express There should be no change in the functioning of your
Mode during an upgrade? rules when you upgrade to a higher version of Oracle

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 Fusion application. However, we do encourage
customers to keep an eye on the Fusion Application
release notes “What’s New” document to be aware of the
upcoming changes and enhancements.

Migration Is there any documentation on the Express Mode or Migration from one instance to another is handled
Business Rules migration from one instance to within Visual Builder Studio. For more information refer
another? to Set Up the Project to Deploy to Other DEV and TEST
Instances documentation.

Migration Can I use SSO for deployment? We currently support only Basic Authorization. We
encourage you to create a new idea lab request.
When submitting an idea lab request, please use
application as “Human Resources” and tag as “VB
Studio”.
Please refer How to Submit an Enhancement Request
for Your Oracle Cloud Application through Idea Labs on
Cloud Customer Connect (Doc ID 2254478.1) for more
information.

P2T Do I need to reapply the Express mode or Business Customer needs to re-deploy the extension from VB
Rules changes after P2T? Studio if it has disappeared from the target pod because
of P2T. The data in VB Studio is not impacted by P2T
and therefore customer can re-run the VBS Pipeline to
re-deploy the extension.
As a best practice, use VB Studio with a pod that is not
periodically impacted by P2T. If you must use for
example a TEST pod, be aware that if the TEST pod is
down then so will be your access to VB Studio (since it
federates the identity to TEST). Be prepared to re-
deploy your changes from VB Studio because P2T will
overwrite the TEST DB.
Please refer to Deploy an Extension From Your Local
System for additional guidance on P2T.

Upgrade Does Express mode need to be reapplied with each No need to recreate rules and other extensions, though
quarterly update and/or CWB changes? you should follow the best practices of testing all
customizations after each update.

Migration Can I migrate changes from a pod that is on a lower Make sure that the source and target instances are of
release to a pod that is on a higher release? the same release, with the same standard and one-off
patches applied to both environments.

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