Enable Announcements

System announcements provide timely and important information to Oracle Integration users. Your tenancy displays system announcements only after an administrator creates a policy that allows the announcements. Creating the policy is a one-time action that applies to all Oracle Integration instances in the tenancy.

Understand the Differences: Announcements, Notifications, and Alerts

Oracle Integration provides in-product information using announcements, notifications, and alerts.

The title bar shows the placement of the Announcements, Notifications, and Alerts icons

  • Announcements Announcements come from Oracle and can include information about new releases or blog posts.
  • Notifications Notifications are specific to you and the activities that you perform. They don't persist from one session to the next.
  • Alerts Alerts are generated when an error is detected.

How to View Announcements

  • For administrators: In the Oracle Cloud Console, click Announcements icon in the top panel.

    A green dot appears on the icon when there are new announcements for either Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or Oracle Integration.

  • For users: In the top pane of Oracle Integration, click Announcements Announcements. An announcements window appears, listing past and ongoing announcements related to your Oracle Integration instance. See View Notification Alert Announcements in Using Integrations in Oracle Integration 3.

    Announcements appear only after an administrator sets the policy, described below. The list of announcements refresh every hour.

Learn More About Announcements

For information about console announcements, the types of information they contain, viewing options, and managing the email delivery of announcements, see Console Announcements.

Update the Recipients of Email Announcements

Oracle sends announcements to the default tenancy administrator email address on record. However, Oracle recommends changing the email address to a group address so that multiple people receive the email announcements. To change the email address, contact Oracle Support.

To Set the Oracle Integration Announcements Policy (One-Time Task):

  1. In the Oracle Cloud Console, open the navigation menu and click Identity & Security, then, under Identity, click Policies.
  2. Click Create Policy.
  3. In the Create Policy window, enter a name (for example, AnnouncementsPolicy) and a description.
  4. Select the root compartment.
    The announcements policy must be created at the root compartment.
  5. Under Policy Builder, choose Show manual editor, and enter the required policy statements.

    allow service integration to {ANNOUNCEMENT_LIST} in tenancy

    allow service integration to {ANNOUNCEMENT_READ} in tenancy

  6. Click Create.
    The policy statements are validated and any syntax errors are displayed.
  7. Go to the Oracle Integration web application, and verify that announcements are now displaying in the announcements window.