Configuring Oracle PCS with Oracle IDCS

This post covers the steps required to configure Oracle PCS (Process Cloud Service) as and application (for SSO) in IDCS (Identity Cloud Service). So let us start,

Configuration in IDCS

• Login to the IDCS console
• Go to Applications tab and click on Add
• Select App Catalog in the pop up
• Search for Oracle  and select Oracle Cloud.
• Enter basic details and select Oracle Process Cloud Service in the App links section
• Enter identity domain, domain name and SSO domain name
• Identity Domain: your identity domain you can find it in my services dashboard
• Domain Name: You can find it from your cloud url Eg: XXX.oraclecloud.com
• SSO Domain name: Same as domain name
• SSO Configuration
• Entity ID: “entityID” attribute value from the PCS metadata file
• Signing Certificate: the Signing certificate downloaded from PCS SSO configuration
• Download the Signing Certificate and Identity Provider Metadata from this page (which will be used in PCS sso configuration page)
• Save the configuration and Activate it.

Configuration in PCS

• Login to PCS cloud services dashboard

• Click on Users on the top right side

• Click on SSO Configuration tab and click on Configure SSO button

• Select import identity provider metadata

• Choose File and upload the identity provider metadata file (such as idcs_metadata.xml, the one downloaded in IDCS page).

• Select HTTP POST as SSO protocol.

• Select User’s Email Address as User Identifier.
• Select the Name ID as the contained in field

•  Save the details and you are ready to test it and enable the SSO

Unlocking oracle ICS flows

The new ICS release (17.2.5) has unlock feature,
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To unlock the connection:
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1. Log in again as the same user who was editing the connection when the browser crashed, then log out.
For example, if you were logged in as icsdeveloper when the browser crashed, log in again as icsdeveloper, and log out. This action unlocks the connection.
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Error while deploying oracle BPM case management project

Version : Oracle BPM 12.2.1
You might face any of the following errors while deploying a BPM case management project.

- The process domain is encountering the following errors while loading the process "ProcessName" (composite "CompositeName"): Could not initialize variable.

- ":" is not allowed in the schema file (pointing to your base schema)

- Can't load case data for the process activity <Activity Name>


Resolution:

All the above errors are because of an error in auto generated schema file for case management rules (jdeveloper generates this file when you create a case). Go to Schemas folder and open the <CaseName>Rules_<CaseName>RulesMessageTypes.xsd and verify the import schema of you base payload schema.

It will have the complete path of your payload schema which is the root cause for the above errors (engine is not able to locate the complete path, it should always be relative path)

<import namespace="http://www.example.org" schemaLocation="../C:/XXXX/XXX/YYY/Payload.xsd"/>

Change the schema location to the relative path and the deployment will be successful.
<import namespace="http://www.example.org" schemaLocation="../Payload.xsd"/>