September Maintenance Pack for 22C

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
26 AUG 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:

• Release Updates (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)
• 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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HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our products better, please let us know. To enter an idea go to the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. In this document wherever you see the light bulb icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

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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.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

Human Resources

Global Human Resources

Oracle Global Human Resources enables your organization to plan, manage and optimize all workforce segments using flexible and extensible best practices to realize extraordinary gains while insuring compliance and increasing total workforce engagement.

Enhanced Security of the Personal Info Regions

Improve the user experience on the Personal Information responsive pages with enhanced security for specific regions. 

August Maintenance Pack for 22C

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
29 JUL 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:

• Release Updates (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)
• 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.

____________________

HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our products better, please let us know. To enter an idea go to the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. In this document wherever you see the light bulb icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

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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.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

Human Resources

Global Human Resources

Oracle Global Human Resources enables your organization to plan, manage and optimize all workforce segments using flexible and extensible best practices to realize extraordinary gains while insuring compliance and increasing total workforce engagement.

Allow Journey Task to be Assigned to More than 500 AoR Representatives

Make use of the new profile option to allow the allocation of a journey task where the performer is derived based on areas of responsibility (AoR) and the number of derived representatives are 500 or more.

Update 22C

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
26 AUG 2022	Workforce Directory	Enhanced Connections Theme	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 22C.
29 JUL 2022	Human Resources / Seniority Dates	Assignment Category Attribute Available in HCM Data Loader for V3 Seniority Dates	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 22C.
24 JUN 2022	Human Resources / Journey	Journey Level Actions Available Only From the Drill-Down Page	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 22C.
24 JUN 2022	Human Resources / Checklists	Auto-Generated Checklist Code in Checklist Templates	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 22C.
03 JUN 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:

• Release Updates (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)

• 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.

HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our products better, please let us know. To enter an idea go to the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. In this document wherever you see the light bulb icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products

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.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

Human Resources

Global Human Resources

Oracle Global Human Resources enables your organization to plan, manage and optimize all workforce segments using flexible and extensible best practices to realize extraordinary gains while insuring compliance and increasing total workforce engagement.

Autocomplete

Additional Parameter Support in Autocomplete Rules for Document Records Business Object

Include an additional HCM parameter (hcmParam) to support autocomplete rules in document records. You can use this new parameter to control when the autocomplete rule is run. For example, you can configure the rule to run only for transactions done from the document records page.

Autocomplete Rules for Person Disability Business Object in Person

Enhance the user experience by authoring new rules for the Person Disability business objects with more capabilities. You can now use the new view accessor Get All Person Disabilities to retrieve all effective dated disability records.

Autocomplete Rules for Position Business Object in Workforce Structures

Extend the ability to create an Autocomplete rule based on the incumbent values using the new view accessor for Position business object.

Checklists

Auto-Generated Checklist Code in Checklist Templates

Make use of the auto-generated checklist code to uniquely identify checklist templates.

Document Records

Configurable Business Title Switcher in Document Records

Identify the required assignment easily in document records by configuring additional assignment attributes to display in the Business Title switcher.

Deep Link to Mass Download Document Records

Use the deep link to directly access the Mass Download of Document records page without having to navigate to the page using the application.

Enhanced Mass Download of Document Records Page

View the improved page for mass download of document records that shows relevant information when you submit a mass download request.

Time Displayed for Document Records Attachments

View the time in addition to the date when a document record attachment was uploaded on the responsive document records details page.

Employment

Configurable Business Title Switcher in Responsive Pages

Identify the appropriate assignment easily by configuring additional attributes in the Business Title list of values (LOV).

Consolidated View for Assignment and Salary Changes on Employment Info Page

Enhance the Employment Info page by now displaying the salary changes along with assignment changes in the Employment History and Future Actions sections.

Combined Correction and Deletion for Assignment, Salary, and Document Records on View Employment Details Page

Correct or delete assignments along with its associated salary and document records on the Employment Details page. Additionally, you can also insert a new salary or document record while correcting the assignment data.

Filter Managers Using Parent Position Hierarchy in Responsive Employment Pages

Display only the incumbents of the parent position in the Managers LOV if there are multiple incumbents for the parent position in responsive employment pages. If there are no incumbents for the parent position, then the Managers LOV will display all the workers.

Check Time Cards While Cancelling a Work Relationship

Restrict the Cancel Work Relationship action if a time card exists for any assignments in the work relationship.

Personalize Visibility of Termination Info Section on Responsive V3 Termination Pages

Use HCM Experience Design Studio to personalize the visibility of the Termination Info section on responsive V3 Termination pages. Earlier to Update 22C, the Termination Info section was always visible on Termination pages and users had no option to hide the field. The Termination Info section is still visible by default in Update 22C, but users can now hide the section if required using HCM Experience Design Studio.

Journeys

Journey Level Actions Available Only From the Drill-Down Page

Take journey level actions such as Add to My Journeys, Assign to Others from a single drill-down page.

Upload Image For Journey Background and Thumbnail

Simplify adding of an image to a journey by uploading an image file directly instead of providing an image URL. The same image is used as the background and thumbnail image for the assigned journey.

Additional Quick Actions Supported for Contextual Journeys

Streamline your business processes by leveraging quick actions for contextual journeys. Contextual journeys enable you to put together tasks needed to complete an entire business process. Additional quick actions are now available when configuring contextual journeys.

Additional TDS Actions Supported for Guided Journeys

Enhance users' ability to complete transactions by associating guided journeys with TDS (Transaction Design Studio) actions. Guided journeys provide users guidance such as tutorials, company policies, and best practices, in the context of an HCM flow. Additional TDS actions are now available to associate with guided journeys.

Display Properties for Journey Initiator

Make use of the ability to configure display properties at the journey template level for a journey initiator.

Enhanced Process to Synchronize Journey Configuration Changes to Assigned Journeys and Tasks

Synchronize updates to journey templates and tasks with the assigned journeys and task attributes, by running the Update Assigned Journey Attributes Based on Modified Journey Template process. This process is now enhanced to allow you to configure specific attributes to synchronize, from the list of available attributes.

Work Information Details in Assigned Journeys for Pending Workers

View employment details for a pending worker that is displayed in the Work Info section of the assigned journey.

Person

Areas of Responsibility Reporting

Use the new OTBI subject area for reporting area of responsibility (AOR) relationships between representatives and the people they support. If you're a Human Resource Analyst, you can now use the new subject area for reporting purposes. Use Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS) to enable and schedule a new process called Refresh Representative Data in order to populate the reporting table and keep the data current and up-to-date. This process evaluates representatives by matching active worker assignments with current, active defined responsibilities. This process stores representatives against a person's assignment effective as of today.

Display Address in Public Info and Employee Summary Pages Based on the Selected Format

Improve the user experience in the Public Info and Employee Summary pages by displaying the work location address based on the address format selected in the Features by Country or Territory task in the Setup and Maintenance area.

Display the Dotted Line Reports in the Public Info and Employee Summary Pages

Enhance the user experience by displaying the dotted line reports in the Manager and Directs region of the Public Info and Employee Summary pages. Utilize the HCM Transaction Design Studio to control the display of both the Manager Relationship Type and the Directs Relationship Type.

Prepare for Increase to the PER_ADDRESSES_F attribute TOWN_OR_CITY to 60 Characters in 23A

Prepare for an increase to the PER_ADDRESSES_F attribute TOWN_OR_CITY field size from 30 characters to 60 characters that will be made in the 23A Update.

Seniority Dates

Assignment Category Attribute Available in HCM Data Loader for V3 Seniority Dates

Adjust the assignment category based V3 seniority dates using HCM Data Loader.

Work Structures

Position Management: Calculate FTE When Updating a Position

Calculate the Full Time Equivalent (FTE) value automatically in all position pages using the new profile option, ORA_PER_CALCULATE_FTE_IN_POSITION_ENABLED.

If you want to manually override the FTE for a specific position, then you can deselect the check box and change the application calculated value.

Position Management: Match Position Valid Grades with the Grades of the Job

Enforce in all position pages that the position's valid grades match the valid grades of the associated job with the new profile option, ORA_PER_MATCH_POS_GRADES_WITH_JOB_GRADES_ENABLED.

If the profile option is enabled, then the validation only considers grades that are active and valid for the position's business unit.

Prevent Inflight Position Transaction Updates When Using HCM Data Loader

Improve the approver’s experience by preventing updates to a position transaction that is pending approval.

Human Capital Management for Germany

Oracle HRMS (Germany) supports country specific features and functions for Germany. It enables users to follow German business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Simplified Name Style Behavior

Use the current solution to export all your person name related data to the ADP interface, independent of the usage of the original or current German name style.

Human Capital Management for Netherlands

Oracle HRMS (Netherlands) supports country specific features and functions for Netherlands. It enables users to follow country specific business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Statutory Updates for the Year 2022

Manage your employees’ Statutory Deductions and Reporting calculation cards in compliance with the year 2022 legislation. Select updated statutory values to ensure that predefined Dutch payroll extract definitions used by third-party payroll providers include up-to-date information. They can use these values in payrolls and statutory reports, such as the wage report.

Human Capital Management for Turkey

Oracle HRMS (Turkey) supports country specific features and functions for Turkey. It enables users to follow Turkey's business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Optional Title Field in the Name Style

Notice the condition of the Title field has been changed from required to optional in the Name Style for Turkey.

Global Payroll Interface

Oracle Global Payroll Interface sends personal payroll information to third-party payroll providers and imports payslips and processed payroll data into Oracle HCM Cloud. You can configure payroll interfaces using the ‘Global Payroll Interface’ template to extend and augment your data feed to third-party payroll systems. If you import processed payroll data or payslips from your third-party payroll provider, the data is available for further reporting and analysis.

Perform a Baseline Extraction of Global Payroll Interface V2

Avoid full extract file generation from Global Payroll Interface V2. You must perform a baseline extraction after moving to this release. This will avoid a full file getting extracted.

Perform a Baseline Extraction of ADP Global Payroll Interface

Avoid full extract file generation from ADP Global Payroll Interface V1 and V2. You must perform a baseline extraction for the Brazil legislative data group after moving to this release. This will avoid a full file getting extracted.

HCM Communicate

HCM Communicate provides communication teams a powerful way to create, target and track company communications sent to employees.  The product allows teams to granularly target communications to their employees, as well as retarget future communications based on employee engagement.  HCM Communicate provides an intuitive templated WYSWYG content creator that allows communication teams to quickly create engaging content.  The system allows communication teams to send out communication on behalf of others in the organization.  HCM Communicate provides a robust toolkit that allows organizations to engage effectively with their employees. HCM Communicate requires a subscription to Fusion HCM Communicate Cloud Service. Customers must first subscribe to this service prior to using HCM Communicate.

Eligibility Profiles for Predefined Audience

Use eligibility profiles to create predefined audiences in Employee Communication for granular communication targeting.

Email Content Builder

Create engaging content for employee email communications.

Campaigns for General Communications and to Get a Response

Define the purpose of a campaign based on the objective of the employee communication. The purpose of a campaign can be general communications or to solicit a response on a particular subject.

Workforce Directory Management

Oracle Workforce Directory Management allows you to find colleagues and view organization charts.

Enhanced Transaction Design Studio Support for Directory

Check out the enhanced Transaction Design Studio support for Directory:

• A large number of attributes can be personalized in the organization chart
• Attributes can also be personalized in the Advanced Search results

Enhanced Connections Theme

See the Connections enhanced new theme.

Transactional Business Intelligence for Human Resources

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.

Human Resources

New Subject Area - Areas of Responsibility

Leverage the new subject area Workforce Management - Areas of Responsibility to report on the various representatives of the workers and their details.

New Attribute in HCM OTBI Subject Areas

Enhance your reporting on common dimensions with the addition of a new attribute in both Job and Position dimensions.

New Attribute in Survey Questionnaire Subject Area

Enhance your reporting on HCM General Survey Questionnaire Real Time with a new attribute called Questionnaire Participant Response Question Instruction Text under the Questionnaire Participants Responses folder.

Grade Ladder Value Attributes to Grade Real Time Subject Area

Enhance your reporting on the Grade Real Time subject area with the addition of new attributes that provides details of the grade steps and their respective rate values.