January Maintenance Pack for 22D

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	Module	Feature	Notes
20 DEC 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

Human Capital Management for Australia

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

Foreign Employment Indicator and Inbound Assignees To Australia

Use the Australian Foreign Employment section, under Assignment, to record the employees' foreign employment tenure. Use the Inbound Assignees to Australia flag in the Statutory Deductions calculation card to identify foreign nationals working in Australia.

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.

Force Complete or Delete Assigned Journeys Using Archive and Purge Journey Data Process

Streamline management of assigned journeys by periodically force completing open journeys using the additional cleanup modes available in the Archive and Purge Journey Data process. Using this process you can also delete journeys that are assigned in error.

Configuration for Task Expiry Days Moved to Details Tab of Task Setup Page

Make use of the Expire field that's now available on the Details tab when you configure a task. Previously, this field was in the Notification and Reminders tab.

Human Capital Management for Finland

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

New Separators Added to the National Identifier

Record the newly added format for the Finnish personal identity number (National Identifier). Due to a limitation with the number of available unique codes, new separators were added to the existing ones. The separator is “T” in the DDMMYYTNNNC format of the Finnish national identifier.

The new separators are:

• For those born after 2000: B, C, D, E, and F, in addition to the current letter A.
• For those born from 1900 to 1999: Y, X, W, V, and U, in addition to the current symbol “-“.

The format validation is updated to support the described statutory update.

December Maintenance Pack for 22D

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	Module	Feature	Notes
22 NOV 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.

Prepare for Changes to Load Additional Assignment Info in Update 23B

Prepare for a change in the way HCM Data Loader loads additional assignment info (EFF) in the 23B Update. The change is that extensible flexfield (EFF) data will be loaded only if there is a corresponding assignment split on that date.

November Maintenance Pack for 22D

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	Module	Feature	Notes
28 OCT 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:

• 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 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 Payroll Interface for ADP Global Payroll V2

Perform a baseline extraction for Payroll Interface for ADP Global Payroll V2 after applying this update to avoid a full file extraction.

Update 22D

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	Module	Feature	Notes
30 SEP 2022	Human Resources / 23A Preparation	Prepare for Changes to Retained Grade Context in Assignment Extensible Flexfield in Update 23A	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 22C.
30 SEP 2022	Human Resources / 23A Preparation	Prepare For Change In Default Value of Profile Option For Deferring I9 Creation in Journeys	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 22C.
30 SEP 2022	Human Resources / Person	Last Updated By and Last Updated Date Fields Added to Personal Info Responsive Pages	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 22C.
02 SEP 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

• 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.

23A Preparations

Prepare for Changes to Retained Grade Context in Assignment Extensible Flexfield in Update 23A

Prepare for a change to the Retained Grade Context in the Assignment Extensible Flexfield (EFF) in the 23A Update. The Retained Grade Context will provide an enhanced user experience with these new segment names and lookups.

Prepare For Change In Default Value of Profile Option For Deferring I9 Creation in Journeys

Take note of the change to the default value of the Defer I9 Creation on Checklist Allocation Enabled profile option that will default to Y from Release 23A.

Autocomplete

Autocomplete Support for Defaulting Effective Date in When and Why Section

Create autocomplete rules to default the effective date in the When and Why section. You can now default your preferred effective date in the application. For example, you can default the pay period start date as the effective date.

Document Records

Archive and Purge Document Records

Streamline retention and management of document records by archiving and purging document records that are no longer required for regular access.

Move Deleted Document Records to Archive Table

Configure the option to move the deleted document records to an archive table instead of permanently deleting them.

Improved Document Type Description Field

Configure the content of the Description field on the Create Document Type setup page by now using rich text format. The formatted content is fully displayed on the responsive Document Records page for the document type.

Enhanced Process for Mass Download of Document Records

View the consolidated output and the simplified log files when using the Mass Download of Document Records process.

Employment

Workforce Structure Codes Added to Employment Info Page

Enhance the usability of the Employment Info page with the inclusion of additional fields in the Assignment and Manager sections of the page.

Assignment Section

• Bargaining Unit Code
• Collective Agreement Code
• Department Title
• Grade Code
• Job Code
• Location Code
• Position Code
• Proposed Start Date (Only for Pending Worker records)

Manager Section

• Manager Assignment Number

Contextual Job Information Added to Employment Info Page

Improve data visibility by enabling the Job Info section on the Employment Info page. These job attributes are displayed when you enable the section:

• Job Name
• Job Code
• Job Family
• Job Function
• Level
• Management level
• Overtime Status
• Job Attributes (Descriptive flexfields (DFF))

Synchronize Worker Data from Position When Using Worker REST API

Enhance the worker rest service by synchronizing worker data from the position using REST API. This synchronization happens when the user has enabled position synchronization.

Check Time Cards While Deleting an Assignment

Restrict the deletion of an additional assignment if a time card exists for the assignment.

Configurable Business Title Switcher in My Team

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

Journeys

Secure Journey Category Selection When Creating Journeys

Control access to the journey category list of values when creating a journey from the Journeys app and when creating a checklist template from the Checklist Template setup page.

Template Based Security For Journeys

Control access to journey templates and assigned journeys by enabling template level security.

Advanced Journey Task Type Using Combination of Different Task Types

Combine up to three different task types to configure an advanced task type, thereby reducing the number of tasks users need to track and update.

Parameterized Deep Links for Journeys

Leverage the parameters supported in Journeys deep links to directly access specific Journey pages without additional clicks or navigation.

Surveys in Journeys

Configure journey templates for the delivered category of Survey. This allows you to configure Touchpoint-related surveys and also General surveys.

Guided Journeys for Compensation Flows

Support users by providing guidance such as tutorials, company policies, and best practices, in the context of compensation flows, using guided journey tasks.

Contextual Journeys for Compensation Flows

Configure tasks that need to be performed by different performers before a transaction using Contextual Journeys which now supports quick actions related to the compensation area.

Person

Last Updated By and Last Updated Date Fields Added to Personal Info Responsive Pages

Enhance the user experience with the addition of the Last Updated By and Last Updated Date fields in the Personal Details, Contact Info, Identification Info, Family and Emergency Contacts, and Person Identifiers for External Applications responsive pages.

Person Name Formats Validation Updated

Benefit from a new validation created on the Person Name Formats setup and maintenance task that prevents erroneous global name formats being created with a legislation.

Prepare for Increase to the PER_ADDRESSES_F attribute TOWN_OR_CITY to 60 Characters in Update 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.

Workforce Structures

Configure Default Effective Start Date for Work Structure Objects

Default the effective start date when creating work structure objects in classic and responsive pages.

Prevent Inflight Job Transaction Updates When Using HCM Data Loader

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

Prevent Inflight Location Transaction Updates When Using HCM Data Loader

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

Prevent Inflight Department Transaction Updates When Using HCM Data Loader

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

Position Management: Profile Option to Restrict the Number of Valid Grades

Use the new profile option ORA_PER_POS_NUM_VALID_GRADES_ALLWD so you can define how many valid grades can be added to a position. For example if you want to restrict that positions can have only 1 valid grade associated, you can set the profile option to 1. 

Global HR Replaced or Removed Features

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing features with new features, or removes existing features.

Replaced features may be put on a path of removal, the features below will let you know what update you will have to have moved to the newer feature. As a best practice, you should move to the newer feature as soon as possible for full support and to stay up with the latest updates that the product offers.

Any feature that is removed, will have an Update in which that feature is no longer available. Please make necessary plans to move off the feature by the Update indicated, as it will no longer be available.

Prepare for Removal of Person Gallery and Portrait Access in Update 23A

Prepare for the removal of the Person Gallery and Portrait pages starting in the 23A update.  The Person Gallery and Portrait pages were decommissioned several updates ago and the code supporting these pages will be removed in 23A.  

Prepare for Discontinuation of Support for Employees REST Resource in Update 23D

Support for Employees REST resource (/emps) will be discontinued in the 23D update. Any usage of this resource must be replaced with the already existing Workers (/workers) and User Accounts (/userAccounts) REST resources, which extend its functionality.

This includes any usage including but not limited to usage by any custom code, by Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Employee ATOM feeds integrations, and Resource Alerts.

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.

Updated Meaning of Various Attributes Used for Disability Reporting

Make use of the updated meaning for attributes like certifying authority, company type and managing exemptions. These attributes are used for the disability reporting to interface IW-Elan.

Human Capital Management for Italy

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

Additional Sublevel segment at Collective Agreement

Add Sublevel information to the existing Qualification and Level data at Collective Agreement for the Italian national labour agreements, as required.

Human Capital Management for Oman

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

Additional Information at an Organization Level

Prepare for the delivery of Oman payroll. Select additional information on your legal entity for Employer Category and Employer Sector.

Additional Information at a Person Level

Prepare for the delivery of Oman payroll. Additional information is added at the person level for Oman:

• Information about the Sponsor has been added to Visa Details
• You can record who is a statutory dependent on Contact
• You can use the Reporting Description available on Disability Details

NOTE: The Payroll Relationship Rule 'Continuous Period of Service (C)' is used to calculate the employee’s payroll.

You can use the Transaction Design Studio person rules which are automatically available.

Payroll Definitions

Use Calendar Month as a payroll period to calculate the social insurance when the country extension is (Fusion) Payroll. You can also select the Biweekly period, used by third-party payroll providers, when the country extension is payroll interface or human resources.

Payment Methods

Use the supported payment methods such as Direct Deposit, Payment by Cheque, Cash and International Transfer.

Human Capital Management for Spain

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

Enhanced Validation of the Foreigner's Identification Number

The validation of the Foreigner's identification number is now enhanced to accept two formats of this Spanish national identifier: the existing 9-character and the newly added 10-character. Both format and check digit validation are enabled for the two options.

Human Capital Management for United Kingdom

Oracle HRMS (UK) supports country specific features and functions for the United Kingdom. It enables users to follow the UK’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Process Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave

Process Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave for employees for all the assignments in compliance with the statutory processing rules. The application automatically calculates the amounts for aggregated and non-aggregated assignments. For aggregated assignments, the payments are split by the number of assignments. And, for non-aggregated assignments, each qualifying assignment receives the appropriate payment. 

Process Statutory Absences for Multiple Assignments

Process statutory absences such as Statutory Maternity/Adoption/Paternity, and Sickness During Maternity Pay Period absences for employees for all the assignments in compliance with the statutory processing rules for multiple assignments. The application automatically calculates the amounts for aggregated and non-aggregated assignments. For aggregated assignments, the payments are split by the number of assignments. And, for non-aggregated assignments, each qualifying assignment receives the appropriate payment. Once you enable this feature, you won't be able to use the previous UK Statutory Maternity/Adoption/Paternity and Sickness During Maternity Pay Period solution.

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 Payroll Interface for ADP Global Payroll V2

Perform a baseline extraction to ensure that a full file doesn't get extracted in the Payroll Interface for ADP Global Payroll V2.

Perform a Baseline Extraction of Payroll Interfaces generated from Global Payroll Interface Template

Perform a baseline extraction of the payroll interfaces generated using the Global Payroll Interface template to ensure that a full file doesn't get extracted.

Global Payroll Interface Process To Generate Interfaces For Payroll Connect Vendors

Use the Generate Payroll Connect Interfaces process to generate payroll interfaces for Oracle Payroll Connect vendors.

Global Payroll Interface Template Supports Salary Using Simple Components

Integrate salary based on simple components with third-party payroll systems using the enhanced Global Payroll Interface template to generate payroll interfaces.

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.

Communication Teams

Create communication teams with specific campaign managers, campaign purposes and types, predefined audiences and sender profiles. Communication teams can limit access of campaign managers to specific campaign parameters specified on their communication team. This feature helps promote a more tailored and secure experience.

Email Follow-up Targeting for No Response

Target audience members that didn't click a response on a Get Responses communication campaign for follow-up emails. This feature helps campaign managers in tailoring communications for specific audience segments to improve engagement.

Seeded Campaign Templates

Use a list of predefined templates for common types of communications. You can use these templates as is, or further customize them to align with your organization’s brand and communication needs. These seeded templates help administrators get quickly started on template creation for their organization.

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.

Assignment Termination Details In Assignment Subject Areas

Improve your reporting on worker assignments with the inclusion of the attributes related to assignment termination.

New Attributes Related To Position And Documents Of Record

Enhance your reporting on position dimension and documents of record details dimension with the addition of new attributes.

Reporting On Document Attachments Data

Enhance your reporting on documents of record with the addition of the data related to the attachments to these records.