What's New in PPM 24.3

The following new features and enhancements are introduced in PPM 24.3.

Note: The Help Centers for PPM versions 24.1 to 24.3 are streamlined into a single Help Center. Any version-specific changes are indicated where relevant.

This topic describes the new features and enhancements available in PPM 24.3. To view enhancements for version 24.1-24.2, see What's New in PPM - Earlier Versions.

Manage request types from web UI

You can now create and configure request types from web UI, without opening PPM Workbench.

For details, see Create request type fields using web UI and Configure field layout using web UI.

Simplified resource assignment

This is a Beta feature.

As a team manager, you can now share your team or team members with a project, a type of projects, or another user. This makes resource assignment more efficient for both team managers and project managers:

Project managers can directly assign shared resources to their projects without sending resource requests.
After sharing resources, team managers do not need to deal with assignments of these resources.

For details, see Share a team and Assign shared resources to a project staffing profile.

Submit reports using Navigator

You can now submit and download reports with fewer clicks by interacting with Navigator.

For details, see Submit a report.

Create data sources from request types

As an admin, you can now create dashboard SQL data sources and self-service portlet data sources from request types. This simplifies data source creation and saves your time.

For details, see Create portlet data sources from request types and Create self-service portlet data sources from request types.

View request progress from progress bar

If your admin marks certain workflow steps as key steps, a progress bar is available on the top of the request details, showing these key steps. The progress bar gives you a clear overview of where the request is in its workflow.

For details, see Enable progress bar for requests.

Feature toggle updates

As an admin, you can now have separate feature toggles to control whether to use enhanced auto-complete lists or drop-down lists, which gives you more flexibility in feature management.

For details, see New drop-down and auto-complete lists.

Portlet enhancements

The following updates are added to portlets.

Enhanced data visualization in self-service portlets

Self-service portlets enhance data visualization:

For clustered charts and stacked charts, you can select whether to show numeric values next to each bar.
For grids, you can select whether to show the total number of records at the bottom.

For details, see Set up display options for a self-service portlet.

Specify sorting order for self-service portlet columns

Admins can now define the sorting order for columns in self-service portlets. When displayed, these columns are sorted by the defined order.

For details, see Sort By.

Date field enhancements in self-service portlets

Date fields in self-service portlets are now treated as dates instead of text, supporting functions such as filtering data using options like "start from" and "end before", and sorting date column to arrange data in chronological order.

For details, see Set up display options for a self-service portlet.

Milestone Summary portlet update

The Milestone Summary portlet can now display up to 1,000 milestones in its maximized view.

For details, see View project milestones.

Rich text support for program notes

Rich text formatting is now also supported in program notes.

For details, see Rich text formatting in Notes area.

Set session language for single sign-on

You can now set your session language for PPM when connecting via single sign-on from the Edit My Profile page.

For details, see General settings.

PPT and Word reports updates

PowerPoint and Word reports now provide more options for presenting data retrieved from PPM. You can display each dataset on individual slides in PowerPoint or as separate paragraphs in Word.

For details, see PowerPoint and Word reports.

Control the number of portfolio contents

Two new parameters are added to control the maximum number of entities to be included in a portfolio:

PORTFOLIO_MAX_PORTFOLIOS: Controls the maximum number of sub-portfolios that can be included in a portfolio.
PORTFOLIO_MAX_PROGRAMS: Controls the maximum number of programs that can be included in a portfolio.

For details, see Server parameters.

Finnish language support

This release adds support for the Finnish language.

For details, see Supported languages.

Entity migration update

When migrating entities using the web UI, if an entity you want to migrate references other entities that already exist in the target instance, the referenced entities are not replaced unless they are also selected to migrate. This prevents unintended overwrites.

For details, see Migrate entities from web UI.

New object type for Oracle EBS extension

The Deployment Management Extension for Oracle E-Business Suite now includes the new object type: FNDLOAD-AOL: Single Report Group Unit Migration. It enables you to use Oracle's FNDLOAD utility to automate the migration of a single component from a report group in the source environment to the target environment.

For details, see PPM extensions and migrators.