Getting personal
Oracle’s Karen Brown and Louise Farner show us how easy it can be to personalize the JD Edwards user experience with JD Edwards UX One functionalities. We started looking deeper at Notifications and Watchlists and learning how to organize Composed Pages (UX One Landing Pages) based on the Alert, Analyze, and Act paradigm. We have never seen such a clear description of that paradigm as in this presentation, where we could view firsthand the way watchlists were set up to the left of the screen, data and graphs in the middle of the screen and the menu options to the right.

Meet Lucy
Brown and Farner based their presentation on a persona — a maintenance supervisor named Lucy. Lucy is graded on three vital accomplishments: responsiveness, workload and commitment to execution.

How do these traits weigh into what Lucy is responsible for?

• Responsiveness — How timely her team is at completing assigned work orders
• Workload — How balanced the work orders are assigned among her direct reports
• Commitment to execution — How often her team completes scheduled preventive work by service type

They performed a live, 30-minute demo creating and exploring a Composed Page just for Lucy. What we see is a very detailed, interactive demo that helps Lucy track the three goals mentioned above. With a few clicks and adjustments to the data, we see a watchlist representation of any open and overdue maintenance work orders, charts representing her goals, and a menu with just the things Lucy needs to do.

With Form Personalization and Personalized Grids Lucy has so much control over feel and function. You can rearrange information you care about and eliminate fields and entire tabs you don’t. You can even view all your information in a column fashion that displays all the fields you need.

Each user has the freedom to create his or her own composite application, and you can move around some features using drag-and-drop functionalities to see everything you are working with at once.

A little note: licensing
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne UX One is delivered with ready-made content (Landing Pages) as part of the JD Edwards applications modules. If you need to create your own watchlists as demonstrated in the presentation, you will need to purchase another license, for One View Foundation.