What's New in 12.1.0.0

Redesigned Activity Detail Screen for Group Bill Management

This release enhances the Billing tab of Activities Results screen with an improved, tab-based interface that replaces the earlier section expander design. The new layout introduces a Billing tab with a search filter and Find and Clear buttons, enabling users to quickly locate and manage specific bill line items.

These enhancements significantly improve usability and navigation, especially when handling large billing datasets, allowing group customer users to review, filter, and manage group and member billing information more efficiently.

Processing ChangeOwnership Activity

In the current OIPA application, whenever one or more users process the Change Ownership activity simultaneously for the same Policy, Claim, or Client on OIPA, it results in duplicate owners being created. However, this issue has now been resolved with a bug fix and it works as below; whenever the first logged-in user processes the Change Ownership activity, and if a second logged-in user also attempts to perform the same action, then the second user receive an error message instead. The error message will read as, Policy has been modified by another user. Your operation was not completed.

In such a scenario, the OK button is disabled but if the second user clicks on Cancel button, then the activity page refreshes with the latest data, enabling the second user to view the activity processed by the first user.

Status Filter on Requirement Screen

In the current OIPA application, the Requirements screen lacks the ability to filter requirements based on their status. To address this issue, the Requirements screen is enhanced by adding a Status filter at both the Application and Policy levels that enables users to view requirements based on their statuses. By default, it displays requirements from all statuses, but users can select one or multiple statuses to refine the results. With this enhancement, the overall functionality of the Requirements filter is improved and offering users a more efficient way to view and manage requirements.

Workflow Task Generation at Group Customer Level

OIPA now supports generating Workflow Tasks at the Group Customer level, in addition to existing Client and Policy contexts. Tasks can be generated both manually and automatically (via Cycle, DI, AsFile, or user-initiated actions), enabling better tracking and management of customer-related workflows across the application.

Group Customer Navigation

In the current OIPA application, the group customer screen lanks the ability to allow the user to navigate to different group customer components. To address this issue, Oracle Insurance Group Policy Administration application now includes a new feature called Group Customer Navigation. This feature visually presents a graphical overview of the elements of a group customer, depicts their relationships, indicates the setup status of each element, and offers users an intuitive interface to navigate and access group customer information.

Key Features

  1. Graphical Overview: Visualize all components and relationships within a group customer, making complex structures easy to understand.

  2. Status Indicators: Clearly see the status of each element—such as Active, Inactive, or Pending—through color-coded nodes for quick identification of items needing attention.

    1. Brown - Pending and draft

    2. Green - Active

    3. Grey - Inactive

  3. Direct Navigation: Jump directly to any component’s detailed screen by clicking the navigation icon within each node, reducing the need to search or navigate through multiple menus.

  4. Expand/Collapse Controls: Use Expand All and Collapse All buttons to view details at different levels. Click the Show Hidden button to reveal nodes you’ve chosen to hide.

  5. Hide/Show Elements: Temporarily hide elements and their related sub-items from the diagram for a focused view.

  6. Hover Information: Hovering over any component node provides additional, context-sensitive information (including, for Plan and Class Groups, the count and status of associated time slices).

  7. Zoom and Pan: Adjust the diagram’s level of detail and navigate large group structures with built-in zoom controls.

Disbursement Approval Screen

In the current OIPA application, there was no centralized mechanism for reviewing and approving payments before processing. To address this issue, Disbursement Approval screen is introduced with two options. The top portion of the screen provides an area to search for disbursements using the search fields provided. The bottom portion of the screen contains a table of all disbursements that apply to the company associated with the user. Only disbursements that have been processed and are in active status will appear in the table on the Disbursement Approval screen. Disbursement amounts can be totaled for each page displayed if the currency types are the same. If mixed currencies are used, then the amounts will not total.

Display Filters on the Final Action Screen

In the current OIPA application, there was no option for locating, filtering, and processing final activities. To address this feature, the Final Action screen provides a centralized interface for users to view, filter, and process all end-stage activities within an application. It enables users to easily manage actions such as Documents, Financials, Shadows, Reversals, and Deletes through customizable filter options. The feature streamlines activity execution by allowing users to process selected or all final actions efficiently from a single screen.

Encryption Key Management

In earlier releases, the OIPA application stored encryption keys in two separate locations — one part in a .dat file (as defined by the encryptDecryptFilePath parameter in the PAS.Properties file) and the other in the AsEncryptiondatabase table.

Starting with this release, both keys are consolidated into a single PKCS12 keystore (oipakeystore.p12), which is password protected. This unified keystore is now used for all encryption and decryption operations, improving security, simplifying key management, and reducing configuration complexity.