Oracle Cloud Redwood Customization Helper Tool
Today is the day! Oracle has released details of how to run the Redwood Customization Helper Tool. So what is it? It is a new tool that reports on your Responsive UX page personalisations that have been made in either Page Composer or Transaction Design Studio.
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The tool outputs a JAR file which indicates which personalisations are supported in your current version of Visual Builder Express (VB Express) Business Rules. What’s even more exciting than the tool providing details of your personalisations to make the move to Redwood easier? Well, the tool also offers the option to migrate supported personalisations to your Redwood environment! It might not be quite as manual as we originally thought.
The above table lists all of the HCM Design Studio Rules which have the potential to be migrated using the Redwood Customization Helper Tool. Whilst not all functionality can be migrated, this is a massive improvement on what was originally communicated about the move from Responsive UX to the Redwood UX.
One key point to note is that the Customization Tool does not work with Single Sign On (SSO) accounts. If your Production pods are SSO only, you may want to run it against a non-prod pod where SSO is optional, providing all of the personalisations are present.
The second point of note is that you have to download an .exe file for it, so if your organisation has tight rules about what you can download, this may cause an additional complication. If you can obtain permission to download the file, it is definitely worth it.
The final piece of information that I want to highlight is that Oracle has also created a new forum area on Customer Connect as well. This will make it easier to raise any questions relating to the new tool. If you add a tag of ‘Redwood’ the core team at the Oracle Centre of Excellence will pick up the query and answer it more quickly.
About the author:
Kate Mead is an Oracle-certified HCM Consultant and Solution Architect at Version 1 with 14 years of experience in Oracle HR and Payroll systems, including 7 years with Oracle HCM Cloud. She has worked across implementation projects and managed services, has a sound knowledge of UK Payroll legislation and — before becoming a consultant — was an HR Manager.
If you have any questions or would like more information on how Version 1 can help you realise the full potential of your Oracle Cloud instances, please contact her at kate.mead@version1.com
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