#668 OIC --> VB CS --> Service Connections. Triggering an Integration from VB CS

From the docs -

When you want to expose business objects from an external source in your visual application, you can add and manage connections to sources in the Service Connections pane of the Artifact Browser.

Ok, so this allows us to bring external functionality into VB CS.

The previous post showed my Organization Business Object.
I also have an Integration that creates Organizations in Service Cloud.
This Integration is exposed via REST -

https://myOIC/ic/api/integration/v1/flows/rest/AA_CREATESERVICEORG/1.0/createOrganization

Add Authentication -

add the body -

As you can see, The Hare of the Dog Public House already exists.


Now I can leverage this Service Connection in the app from the previous post -

I have added an Edit page to the app -

I will leverage the Service Connection from this page - but first I add a new field to my Organization Business Object -

Here is the Edit page -

I add a new Button - Create in Service Cloud

I create a new Event -

I select Call REST Endpoint -

I select the Service Connection -

Assign the Organization fields to the request body -

Test -

Monitor the Integration -

#667 OIC --> Visual Builder Cloud Service --> Business Objects

VB CS, as you all probably know, enables one to create, publish and host mobile and web apps.

One uses Business Objects to define business data. These Business Objects and their data are then persisted in the underlying VB CS persistence store.
Access to the data, in my case below, Organizations, is via REST Services.
The REST APIs are used by the VB CS apps you create,
however, you can leverage them from without as well.

Recently, I had the opportunity to delve a bit deeper into Business Objects -

Business Rules

I hope the basic idea of Business Objects is clear from my previous posts on VB CS.
Essentially, I can define a business object then auto-magically generate Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete forms for the aforementioned.

Now to some of the extra value-add - The CountryCode field above is
defined as ReadOnly.

So where did the above CountryCodes come from?

Ok, the above is rather simplistic, but one can do much more complex processing -

Endpoints

Test in Postman -

Now to the POST Endpoint -

Role Based Security

Fine grained role based security is also available -

Import/Export Data

I can pre-populate my business objects -

I can also export in .csv format -

#666 Managing OIC - Instance Management - Users & Roles

I see the above when I log into my account at cloud.oracle.com
I click on Autonomous Integration

In the above, I can manage existing OIC instances and provision new ones.

Let's look at Management first -

OIC Instance Management

The first menu option takes me to the OIC home page, when I can create integrations, processes etc.

Start/Stop -

Stop does the following -
-Integration endpoints are quiesced.
-Process instances are quiesced.
-Runtime is quiesced.
-Scheduled integrations do not execute.
-Database purging continues to run.
-REST APIs are available for use.
-Design time is available for use.

Start - starts all of the quiesced above.


Add Tags - tags can be used for categorising and searching your instances.

Scale Instance - from the docs -

You can increase or decrease the number of message packs for your instance based
on the demand. The maximum number of message packs for an instance is based on
your license type. For a bring your own license type (BYOL), the instance can have a
maximum of 3 message packs and each message pack adds 20K Messages per Hour
Pack to your instance. If you don’t have a BYOL license type, the instance can have a
maximum of 12 message packs and each message pack adds 5K Messages per Hour
Pack to your instance.

So what happens if you need to cater for more than 60k msgs per hour?
You simply add another OIC instance.

Remember, you are charged hourly, based on the number of 5K msg packs you specify.
So scaling here will directly affect your charges.

Change License Type - enables BYOL

Delete - scraps the OIC instance

OIC Provisioning 

Very simple -

Note: I have selected the BYOL option above

If I select the other license type -

That's it!

Read a couple of pages of The Hare of the Dog, available from Amazon, and then your instance is ready for use.

Provisioning users and assigning OIC Roles

So what do users, with these roles, see when they login to OIC?

Let's create one -

I define the user in ID CS -

I assign the roles to that user, back in the user management of OIC -

ServiceUser Role

Let's assign the role ServiceUser to Nuada

I now login to OIC as Nuada -

Note - I only see the Integrations IDE link.

But I have limited permissions within Integration.

I have View Only access to Integrations -

I cannot activate an integration -

I do, however, see all of the monitoring dashboards -

However, this role can be used for OIC Integration clients.
e.g. my integration is exposed as a REST service and my client want to
test this from Postman. My client needs to authenticate herself against OIC.
Giving her this role allows her to call the api but doesn't allow her to do anything in
OIC designtime.

ServiceDeployer Role

I now assign the above role to Nuada.

I login to OIC and see -

I click on the Integrations link

So the ServiceDeployer has no permissions whatsoever.
It is not applicable to Integration.

ServiceMonitor Role

Nuada can now only see the Monitoring page(s).

ServiceDeveloper Role

I login to OIC -

and have full functionality.

#665 OIC pre-builts on the Oracle Marketplace

Now there is a dedicated OIC page on the Oracle Marketplace.
To date, there are ca. 40 pre-built integrations available for download and use.

Just click here