This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Module | Feature | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 SEP 2023 | Created initial document. |
HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:
- Release Updates (23A, 23B, 23C, and 23D)
- Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update
It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.
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Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:
- HCM Common What's New - In this What's New you will find feature that are used across applications.
- Human Resources What’s New – In the Global Human Resources section you will find features on the base application in which other application are built upon.
NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.
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Oracle Absence Management is a configurable and flexible global solution that enables organizations to manage absences of their workforce. The framework provides ability to define both complex and diverse absence plans. It integrates with the Oracle Cloud Global Payroll and Time and Labor products and provides dedicated work areas for the roles of Administrator and Employees. Simplified user interface is provided for employees’ absence data entry.
Work Pattern Starting Point in Scheduling Hierarchy
Exercise greater control while creating an absence type with the newly delivered work pattern option in the Schedule Hierarchy Start Point field. An employee's work pattern determines the duration of an absence entry and applicable payments. If you select work pattern in the Schedule Hierarchy Start Point field, the application starts searching at that level and continues down until it finds a schedule or relevant work hours.
Automatically Reprocess Absences When Work Pattern Changes
Reprocess future dated absences automatically when a worker's work pattern changes. You can use events in absence management to do this.
Link Absence Global Descriptive Flexfield to Time Card Field
Pass payroll costing information from Time and Labor to Absences and Payroll using global descriptive flexfields. When you create a global descriptive flexfield with the same name as a payroll costing key flexfield attribute, the application now recognizes the field as a placeholder for storing cost overrides. It then passes the values to payroll.
These pages or flows have been recreated in the Redwood tool set Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio) to improve your user experience. The pages or flows look and act like Redwood pages or flows, to help create cohesiveness through the application.
Streamline absence management in your organization by enabling workers to bid for vacations. Depending on the configured rules, managers can approve bids based on worker seniority, or the submission date and time to determine who submitted the bid first. Approval can also depend on workers who are likely to go on vacation at similar time frames that could cause overlap or conflict in their absence bid dates.
Redwood Experience for Compensatory Plan Adjustments
Enrich your Redwood application experience for Compensatory plans with the manager's ability to create and update compensatory time manual adjustments and expiration dates. To do this, you need to enable Compensatory Plan Balance pages using the ORA_ANC_PLAN_BALANCE_VBCS_UI_ENABLED profile option.
Redwood Experience for Unvested Accruals and Unvested Compensatory Time
Enrich your Redwood application experience for Compensatory and Accrual plans with the Plan Balance pages which now display unvested balances. Unvested accruals or unvested compensatory time along with the vested date will be shown in the Unvested region. You can enable the Plan Balance pages using the ORA_ANC_PLAN_BALANCE_VBCS_UI_ENABLED profile option.
Transactional Business Intelligence for Absence Management
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence is a real time, self-service reporting solution offered to all Oracle Cloud application users to create ad hoc reports and analyze them for daily decision-making. Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence provides human resources managers and specialists, business executives, and line managers the critical workforce information to analyze workforce costs, staffing, compensation, performance management, talent management, succession planning, and employee benefits.
Don’t want to start from scratch building a report or analytics? Check out the library of sample reports for all products on Customer Connect on the Report Sharing Center.
Approval Date In Absence Subject Areas
Enhance your reporting on absence details with the addition of the approval date related to the absence record.