It was determined this is a peopletools limitation still existing on 8.62 that impacts all fluid workcenters where a link takes the user to a fluid page. I have created an enhancement idea at the following link for this:

https://community.oracle.com/mosc/discussion/4591575/ability-to-remain-within-the-fluid-workcenter-after-clicking-a-link-to-be-taken-to-a-fluid-page/p1?new=1

The OSS Team has raised the below new Urgent Defect for the FIN Expenses Development team to further analyze:

DEFECT # 38373244

TITLE:
EX: Upon Clicking Onto Fluid Expenses WorkCenter Links to Fluid Delivered Pages the System Quits the WorkCenter, and Removes the Left Menu Panel, Unlike When Clicking Online Classic Links

PROBLEM:

Within the configuration of the Fluid Expenses WorkCenter Pagelet, new settings have been added into the My Links section pointing to the delivered Fluid pages of:

 - Create Expense Report
 - My Wallet
 - My Expense Reports
 - Expenses History

When the Users navigate to the Fluid WorkCenter, and click on any of these new links added, the system automatically quits the WorkCenter Menu/Component, and directly loads the corresponding page occupying the whole screen. This is a different behavior than that of links pointing to the same features, but in online Classic, where the page gets loaded in the right hand side of the screen, leaving the WorkCenter menu left panel untouched.

REPLICATION STEPS:

 1.- Log into the FSCM 9.2 Online Application as a System Administrator.
 2.- Navigate to: Enterprise Components > WorkCenter/Dashboards > Configure Pagelets
 3.- Open the delivered Configuration ID EX.
 4.- Go to the Links tab.
 5.- Scroll under display the Link Group 4 (Expense Report).
 6.- Click on the + icon to add a new row within the Link List grid.
 7.- On the new row, click on the Define link.
 8.- This loads the Define Link/Security pop-up page, where the 'Select Menu Item' link is to be clicked.
 9.- On the Select Content Reference sub-page, check the 'Include hidden Crefs' check-box.
 10.- Expand the 'Fluid Structure Content' option.
 11.- Expand the 'Fluid Pages' option.
 12.- Expand the 'Travel and Expenses' option.
 13.- Click on the 'Expense Create Report' link, (Menu Item EPEX_ADD_EXPRPT_FL_GBL).
 14.- Select the 'Override Label' check-box, enter a Label, and click on OK button.
 15.- Perform steps 6 through 14, adding the below 3 additional menu options:
           - My Expense Reports (Menu Item EPEX_EXP_LIST_FL_GBL).
           - My Wallet (Menu Item EPEX_MY_WALLET_FL_GBL).
           - Expense History (Menu Item EP_EX_HIST_MD_FL_GBL).
 16.- Save the changes.
 17.- Click on the 'Activate Links Settings' button.
 18.- Log into the FSCM 9.2 Online Application as an Expenses User.
 19.- Go to the Fluid Employee Self Service Homepage, and click on the Expenses WorkCenter tile.
 20.- Confirm that the 4 new options get properly displayed under the My Links section.
 21.- PROBLEM 1: Click on the 'Create Expense Report' link for the Fluid page, and confirm that the system is quitting the Fluid Expenses WorkCenter, to directly load the Expense Report header Fluid page/component.
 22.- PROBLEM 2: Click on the 'My Expense Reports' link for the Fluid page, and confirm that the system is quitting the Fluid Expenses WorkCenter, to directly load the My Expense Reports Fluid page/component.
 23.- PROBLEM 3: Click on the 'My Wallet' link for the Fluid page, and confirm that the system is quitting the Fluid Expenses WorkCenter, to directly load the My Wallet Fluid page/component.
 24.- PROBLEM 4: Click on the 'Employee History' link for the Fluid page, and confirm that the system is quitting the Fluid Expenses WorkCenter, to directly load the Expense History Fluid page/component, with the additional problem that the 'Expense Report History', and 'My Wallet History' filter options are missing altogether.

BUSINESS IMPACT:

Users are constantly driven out of the Fluid Expenses WorkCenter main Component/Menu, so once the needed task is completed, they need to go back to the main Homepage, and open again the Fluid Expenses WorkCenter functionality. This is not User friendly, and defies the whole purpose of being on a WorkCenter.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR:

The Fluid Expenses WorkCenter is working as per expected if the User clicks on the delivered Online Classic links for the same features. Each page gets loaded on the right hand side of the screen, while the left hand side contains the menu panel of the WorkCenter. If Fluid UI is to be adopted by Users, and rolled out by customers, the Fluid page links should behave in the same manner, keeping the Expenses WorkCenter framework and logic in the main page.