October Maintenance Pack for 23C

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
29 SEP 2023			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 (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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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.

Phone Validity Field Updated to List of Values

Take note the Phone Validity field, which is used to identify when the phone number should be used as a method of contacting a person, such as day, evening, or weekends, has been updated to be a List of Values rather than a text box. 

Update 23C

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 AUG 2023	Global HR / Redwood Experience	Control Defaulting of Effective Date on Redwood Workforce Structures Pages	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 23C.
28 AUG 2023	Global HR / Redwood Experience	Enhanced Main Address Section on Redwood Locations Page	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 23C.
28 AUG 2023	Global HR / Redwood Experience	History Hyperlink on Redwood Workforce Structures Pages	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 23C.
28 AUG 2023	Global HR / Redwood Experience	Summary of Changes Section on Redwood Workforce Structures Pages	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 23C.
28 JUL 2023	Global HR / Redwood Experience	Approvals Support for Transactions Initiated from Redwood Pages	Updated document. Revised feature information.
30 JUN 2023	Global HR / I-9 HireRight	Automatically Complete I-9 HireRight Journey Tasks	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 23C.
30 JUN 2023	Global HR / I-9 HireRigh	Additional Values in User Reference for Section 2 Field for I-9 HireRight Journey Integration	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 23C.
30 JUN 2023	Global HR / Journeys	Open External URL on Same Assigned Journey Page	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 23C.
30 JUN 2023	Global HR / Workforce Structures	Use the Workforce Structures Work Area to Access Its Redwood Pages	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 23C.
02 JUN 2023			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 (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.

____________________

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.

Area of Responsibility (AOR)

Introducing Areas of Responsibility Usage

Enhance the utilization of your Areas of Responsibility (AOR) and performance of your HCM Approvals and Checklists by specifying the AOR's usage to filter to the relevant consuming product area. Now, you don't have to enable the "Include in work contacts" option as a Journeys user, unless the representative is truly a contact.

Autocomplete

Autocomplete Rules for Person Business Object

Enhance the user experience by duplicating the delivered SA Default Hijri Date Based on Date of Birth Autocomplete rule for Saudi Arabia to populate the Hijri Date of Birth when the Date of Birth is entered when a person is added to the application. This rule uses an Oracle standard function that is based on the Umm al-Qura calendar.

Document Records

Tags to Support Document Type Classification and Grouping

Classify document types using tags from a user-defined list. This makes it easy to group related document types with the same tag.

Multiple Occurrences Check for Document Records at Assignment Level

Check for multiple occurrences of document records based on assignment and not person. This will allow users to create a document record, even when the configuration for Allow Multiple Occurrences is set to "No" for an assignment-level document type.

Employment

REST Support for Override Standard Working Hours in Worker Assignment

Use the Workers REST resource to update the assignment standard working hours and frequency.

REST Support for Adjusted FTE in Worker Assignment

Use the Workers REST resource to update the Annual Working Duration, Standard Annual Working Duration, Annual Working Ratio, and Adjusted FTE.

Journeys

Control Search on Assigned Journeys Tab

Control the search criteria for the Assigned Journeys tab. You can search by only using the person name or the person name and journey name.

Control the Send Reminder Action for Journey Tasks

Leverage the Display Settings to control the display of the Send Reminder action for a journey task.

Open External URL on Same Assigned Journey Page

Configure the option to open the hyperlink of an External URL task type on the same Journey page instead of a new browser tab.

Redwood Experience

These pages or flows have been recreated in the Redwood tool set Visual Builder Studio (VBS) to improve your user experience. The pages or flows look and act like Redwood pages or flows, to help create cohesiveness through the application.

Approvals Support for Transactions Initiated from Redwood Pages

Enhance the ability of users to enable approvals for transactions initiated from the following Redwood pages:

• Employment Contracts
• Eligible Jobs
• Positions
• Share Data Access

Redwood Experience for Pending Workers

Enrich the user experience with the new Pending Workers page developed using the Redwood toolset. The page is built from the ground up using Visual Builder Studio (VBS) to give you a unique experience of Oracle applications.

Redwood Experience Enhancements to Share Data Access

Improve the user experience with the enhancements to Share Data Access in the Redwood Experience.

Summary of Changes Section on Redwood Workforce Structures Pages

View the summary of changes between the selected date effective record and the prior date effective record. This feature is available on the following Redwood pages:

• Departments
• Job Families
• Jobs
• Locations
• Positions

History Hyperlink on Redwood Workforce Structures Pages

Leverage the History Hyperlink to view historical date effective records. This feature is available on these Redwood pages:

• Departments
• Job Families
• Jobs
• Locations
• Positions

Enhanced Main Address Section on Redwood Locations Page

Ensure better data quality for your location addresses with the enhanced main address section. The section now supports list of values for attributes like country.

Control Defaulting of Effective Date on Redwood Workforce Structures Pages

Enforce the user to select the appropriate effective date. The effective date will now default to blank if the Default Effective Start Date isn’t configured on the Manage Enterprise HCM Information page. This feature is available on these Redwood pages:

• Departments
• Job Families
• Jobs
• Locations
• Positions

Workforce Structures

Position Management: Route Position Approvals To The AOR Of The Parent Position Incumbent

Route position approvals now to the Area of Responsibility (AOR) of the incumbent of the parent position. Transactions such as Request a New Position or Request a Position Change will send a notification to the AOR of the incumbent of the parent position for approval.

Use the Workforce Structures Work Area to Access Its Redwood Pages

You can now access the Positions, Jobs, Job Families, Locations, and Departments Redwood pages from the Workforce Structures work area under My Client Groups.

Work Patterns and Scheduling

Shifts and Work Patterns for Workforce Scheduling

Create and manage shifts and work patterns, which will form the basis for building staff schedules in Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud.

• Shifts define the start and end times that people work, including break durations.
• Work patterns define the shift frameworks that people work in, on specified days. 

I- 9 HireRight

Automatically Complete I-9 HireRight Journey Tasks

Complete the I-9 HireRight journey tasks automatically by selecting the appropriate value in the Update Status in HR field when you configure the I-9 HireRight integration in Journeys.

Additional Values in User Reference for Section 2 Field for I-9 HireRight Journey Integration

Select the Person Identifier, Person Number, or Primary Email value in the User Reference for Section 2 field when you configure the I-9 HireRight journey integration in Journeys. Earlier, you only had the Primary Email value.

Human Capital Management for Saudi Arabia

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

Autocomplete Rules for HCM Experience Design Studio Enhancements

Enhance your users' experience authoring new rules in Autocomplete Rules for HCM Experience Design Studio with this additional capability for Global HR: New Autocomplete delivered rule "SA Default Hijri Date Based on Date of Birth" for Saudi Arabia to populate the Hijri Date of Birth when the Date of Birth is entered when a person is added to the application. This rule uses an Oracle standard function that is based on the Umm al-Qura calendar.

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.

Converged Payroll Interface For ADP Global Payroll V2 Integrates With ADP Celergo

Use the converged Payroll Interface For ADP Global Payroll V2 to integrate with both ADP Global Payroll and ADP Celergo.

Perform a Baseline Extraction of Payroll Interface for ADP Global Payroll V2

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

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

Document of Records - New and Hidden Attributes

Enhance your reporting on documents of record subject areas with the addition of new attributes related to document type.