What's New in PPM 2023

The following new features and enhancements are introduced in PPM 2023.

Portfolio Management enhancement

You can now add the same entity to multiple portfolios that are in different portfolio hierarchies. This feature is enabled when the Add Same Entity to Multiple Portfolio Hierarchies feature toggle is turned on.

For details, see Add portfolio contents .

Project Management enhancements

The following enhancements are added to the Project Management module.

Project scheduling integration updates	The project scheduling integration includes the following updates: You can now upload and download Oracle Primavera P6 XER and XML files in a project work plan to synchronize the project scheduling information between PPM and Oracle Primavera P6. Note: This is a Beta feature. For details, see Use work plan files for scheduling integration. PPM administrators can now use the DISPLAYED_SCHEDULING_INTEGRATION_MODES parameter to restrict the control modes that can be selected for the project scheduling integration. For details, see Select control mode.
Task user data support extended	Task user data can now include up to 100 fields, and each field can now contain a maximum of 4,000 characters. For details, see Configure task user data.
Financial summary link always available in Cost tab	The financial summary link is always displayed in the Cost tab, regardless of whether the financial summary includes cost lines. For details, see Open the financial summary of a project.
Set default percentage complete value for milestones	A new parameter, SET_SUCCESSOR_MILESTONE_PERCENTAGE, is introduced. It enables you to set the default percentage complete value for milestones whose predecessors are completed. PPM automatically updates the milestone status based on the specified value. For details, see Set a task as milestone.

PPM-Agile integration enhancements

The following enhancements are added to the PPM-Agile integration.

New sync direction for PPM request type and ALM Octane entity type mapping

A new sync direction, PPM request -> Existing agile entity, is added for PPM-ALM Octane integration. It enables you to map a PPM request to an existing ALM Octane entity.

For details, see Link a PPM request to an existing ALM Octane entity.

Support Jira 9.0 for PPM request and Jira issue integration

PPM now adds support for Jira 9.0 for the integration between PPM requests and Jira issues.

For details, see Integrate PPM requests with Jira issues.

Platform enhancements

The following enhancements are added to the Platform module.

Save email notifications as files

You can now save email notifications as files in the folder specified in the EMAIL_DEBUG_DUMP_FOLDER server parameter. This enables you to test email notifications that PPM sends to users without configuring an SMTP server.

For details, see Server parameters.

Support custom validations for more OOTB fields

You can now use custom validations for more OOTB fields, including:

The Include Proposals, Include Projects, and Include Assets fields in the Add New Proposals/Projects/Assets page.
The Region and Role fields in the Search Cost Rules and Add Cost Rules pages.
The Business Objectives field in all pages and the OOTB portlets.

For details, see Use custom validations for OOTB fields.

Financial Management enhancements

The following enhancements are added to the Financial Management module.

Display financial summary empty values as zero in exported Excel files

A new server parameter, EXPORT_NULL_FINANCIAL_DATA_AS_ZERO_TO_EXCEL, is introduced. It enables you to control whether to replace empty financial summary cells with zero in exported Excel files.

For details, see Display empty values as zero in Excel.

Add notes when editing cost rules

When editing a cost rule, you can now add notes to capture more information.

For details, see Add notes.

Resource Management enhancements

The following enhancements are added to the Resource Management module.

Exported staffing profiles include resource email addresses

When a staffing profile is exported to Excel, resource email addresses are displayed as tooltips in the Resource column. This helps you distinguish resources that have the same name.

For details, see Export staffing profile.

Proposal staffing profile region defaults to proposal's region

When you create a staffing profile for a proposal, the proposal's region is used as the staffing profile's default region.

For details, see Create a staffing profile.

Administration enhancement

You can now designate specific users as protected, preventing them from unintended modifications.

For details, see Protected users.

Demand Management enhancement

Instead of viewing request details in sections, you can now view them in tabs, which avoids scrolling up and down the long page.

The use of tabs is enabled when the Use Tabs in Request Details Page feature toggle is turned on.

Note: This is a Beta feature.

For details, see View requests.

APM enhancement

Dynamic graphing now works on most modern browsers.

For details, see Dynamic graphing.

Portlet enhancement

A new option, Show projects in the same order as in "Project Name" field, is added to the Project Timelines portlet preference page. It enables you to show the projects in the same order as defined in the Project Name preference field.

For details, see Edit portlet preferences.

Deprecation

The following features are discontinued:

Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer is discontinued.
SQL Runner is removed from the PPM Workbench. To run SQL statements, use the Administration Console. For details, see Run SQL queries from the Administration Console.