Leverage the DRG Calculate Name and Calculate Parent features – Part 1

A long time ago (i.e. a little bit more than a year ago) I started playing with DRM and more specifically with the new DRG features that had just been added like Calculate Name and Calculate Parent, and so I had made a quick post about their availability and how to enable them and I……

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Fun with Oracle DRM and JavaScript

Episode 1: PropDefObject Good day all! I thought I would start a new blog series detailing the different (Oracle DRM) Data Relationship Objects and how to work with them using the newer JavaScript option available for derived property types. In this first episode, we will look at the PropDefObject object since I recently worked with……

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The DRM Batch Client II

I thought today, I would do a little follow-up post, based on a question from one of our commenters. The question was, “How do we automate blends and backups using the batch client?”. As we saw from an earlier post, configuration files allow some flexibility when setting up DRM automations. Let’s walk through a simple scenario……

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Oracle DRM, External Lookup Properties and Filtered Lists

Have you ever created a list-type property in DRM and wished you could contextually filter the list? Do you have a DRG Workflow model that includes a property update that you wish you could restrict users from selecting an inappropriate entry? In this post, we’ll discover the use of external lookups that leverage the selected……

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DRM Duplicate Check

One of the things I’ve always wanted to focus on, with this blog, is how the tools we use, sometimes provide simple and effective solutions. For instance, there are always cases, when we develop hierarchies on DRM, where we will need to filter down our exports based on the existence of duplicate attributes. In other……

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DRM – Insufficient Rights Error

I thought today, we’d look at a simple error message that might crop during your implementations. I’ve been neglecting the blog for a month or so, and I need something simple to get me back in gear. So, here goes. Sometimes, when you run action scripts, you might run into the following error, “Insufficient rights……

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Workflow Task Calculate Name and Calculate Parent features

DRM (Data Relationship Management) version 11.1.2.4.341 brings some new features to DRG, specifically to the workflow tasks and in this post we will talk about the Calculate Name and Calculate Parent features. (Hopefully, a Calculate Description option will be added in a future release) Before I start, I just want to mention that I had not personally used……

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DRM Errata Close Version

Here’s a quick little post on some errata in the DRM documentation. I was recently looking at setting up a process to unload versions as part of my automation scripts. I was using regular batch utility execution, instead of the configuration file method (see here). According to the documentation, the way to do this is:……

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