JD Edwards extensibility tools continue to transform the way organizations customize, streamline, and modernize their EnterpriseOne environments. In his INFOCUS 2025 session, The Extensibility Awakens: Introducing Possibilities of The E1 Force, Andrew Ostdiek shared how his team embraced extensibility to solve real business challenges—quickly, effectively, and without traditional custom code. 

Framed as a journey into “The E1 Force,” Ostdiek showcased four use cases that highlight how orchestrations, notifications, form extensions, and logic extensions can work together to deliver solutions to the business, while balancing agility, and governance to improve the user experience. 

Extensibility Use Cases 

Use Case 1: Real-Time Alerts for Payroll 

When a new company was created in JD Edwards, payroll wasn’t always notified in time, creating delays and issues. Instead of building a custom report or implementing a table trigger, the team leveraged an orchestration with a notification and direct message component to facilitate a solution. 

• Logic Location:  Company Setup Form (W0010B) 
• Action:  Orchestration fires once a record is added to the company master, triggered on the ‘Add Record to DB – After’ event 
• Outcome:  Payroll automatically receives real-time alerts with the new company details, along with the date, time, and user information from that event 

The solution approach balanced efficiency with user preferences, allowing broader subscriptions via notifications for general stakeholders, while ensuring payroll administrators received direct messages for these events. 

Use Case 2:   Dynamically Hide and Show Form Controls 

After a recent upgrade broke a long-standing custom order entry screen that had embedded an attachment viewing pane within the form itself (via FDA) and finding that rebuilding the customization was not possible, the team used the new Café One Attachment Viewer capabilities enabled by Oracle in Tools Release 9.2.8.2.  They paired it with form extensions and logic extensions to allow a single source solution for all form uses (Add/Edit/Copy modes). 

• Extensibility Solution:  Conditionally displayed the CafeOne Attachment Viewer only when required fields were populated. 
• Extensibility Enhancement:  A “Copy Attachment” button was exposed through Logic Extensions only when certain form conditions were met and then hidden after the button was pressed. 
• Automation:  The button triggered an orchestration to copy all attachments under a new media object key. 

This approach not only replaced the broken customization but delivered enhanced functionality and simplified maintenance moving forward, to mitigate future upgrade risks. 

Use Case 3: Tracking Critical Date Changes in Model Homes 

In homebuilding, completion date changes on model homes drive downstream decisions. Stakeholders needed visibility into when those dates were changed, without resorting to old-school table triggers to facilitate them. 

• Approach: Exposed a hidden field from the business view via a Form Extension and then temporarily transferred date values behind the scenes using Logic Extensions when the user entered the form. 
• Notification: Used Orchestrations to enforce model home logic and capture “before and after” values to send alerts if the date value was changed. 
• Integration: Leveraged the B98ORCH BSFN to ensure inbound integrations also triggered the same Notification component. 

With this solution, stakeholders received clear, dynamic notifications, including key Community and Lot information, along with user details, and the current and prior date values whenever a change occurred to that date. 

Use Case 4:  Create a Reconciliation Option for an Exception Review Process 

The final scenario tackled home option selections on homes. When certain combinations of home options appeared on the same Community Lot, users needed to be alerted and also have the ability to reconcile, or review, them without their presence being repeated on subsequent alerts. 

• Solution:  Introduced a reconciliation option, by adding a hidden and unused status code to the grid and adding a reconciliation button on the form, through Form Extensions and Logic Extensions. 
• Logic:  The Logic Extension evaluates the current status code value and will either use a Table I/O to update the value based on option criteria 
• Interactive User Feedback:  The Logic Extension was wrapped in an orchestration to deliver meaningful success or warning messages to the end user. 

This solution framework provided needed visibility into exception scenarios that needed to be reviewed, while reducing noise for those users, all while ensuring accountability and auditability of changes made. 

Key Takeaways: The Power of E1 Extensibility 

Across all four use cases, the theme was clear: JD Edwards extensibility empowers organizations to respond quickly to business needs, eliminate traditional customizations, and deliver more value with fewer resources. 

From proactive notifications to smarter integrations and user-friendly controls, the “E1 Force” is about combining orchestrations, logic extensions, and form extensions into practical, impactful solutions. As Ostdiek emphasized, extensibility is not just about replacing old methods, it’s about unlocking new possibilities for agility and innovation in JD Edwards. 

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