Oracle – Exploring Work Areas

Hello, my name's Paul. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to 
get started using work areas. A work area is a set of pages with 
everything I need to accomplish a business goal. 

[No Audio: User selects an About Me icon, then selects the 
Expenses icon]

Let's go to a work area now.

Most work areas have simplified pages, which make it easier to 
do work on any device. 

[No Audio: User is on the Travel and Expenses page, the Expense 
Items, Expense Reports, Approvals, and Cash Advances tiles are 
highlighted]

In this example, we have a row of info tiles. Each tile gives us 
key info about a specific business object, and determines what 
records we get below.

[No Audio: User selects the down arrow button on the Expense 
Reports tile]

We can also use the links to filter the records for the info 
tile. 

[No Audio: User selects the cash link in the Expense Items tile, 
then selects a specific Hotel record]

In most work areas, I can drill down from the first page, to a 
specific record. Some pages have tabs on the left to take us to 
another page in the work area, or in this case, to other parts 
of the same page. 

Some pages have tabs on the right, that give us additional tools 
for doing our work. For example, we can find more tasks related 
to this work area. Now, let's check out another work area, with 
simplified pages. 

[No Audio: User selects the main menu and then the My Team link.  
User then toggles between the grid and list view]

On this page, we can toggle between this grid view or list view 
of the same records. With either view, I can open up and edit 
any of the records, or select the action I want to take from 
here.

[No Audio: User selects a down arrow on the far right side of a 
record, which reveals a drop-down menu. ]

You might also find some work areas with desktop pages, which 
are suitable for long, complex tasks. Desktop pages often have 
this area on the left that I can hide or show. What I do in this 
left area, affects what's in the main area, where I do my work. 
For example, if we select a task, a new page opens up in the 
work area, and I can go ahead, and do my work.

Thank you.