October Maintenance Pack for 20C

Revision History

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

Overview

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

• Release Updates (20A, 20B, 20C, and 20D)
• 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.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
• Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

• Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
• Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
• Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

• Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found in Release Readiness under Human Capital Management or via the Oracle Help Center under Cloud Applications > Human Capital Management.

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.

HCM Common Architecture

This section covers architecture features used across all HCM Applications.

Alerts Purge Settings and Process Schedule

Use the new default purge settings to purge Alert notifications automatically from the application. Alert notifications and associated process logs that are older than 90 days are now purged automatically on the first Sunday of every month. This is a predefined schedule and can't be updated. However, you can create a new schedule or submit additional purge processes as per your requirements.

HCM Data Loader

HCM Data Loader provides a flexible and efficient method of bulk loading business object data for data-migration and on-going incremental updates to Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.

New Business Objects Supported

Simplify your element entry creation with this new Payroll object:

• Element Entry Costing

Update 20C

Revision History

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

Overview

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

• Release Updates (20A, 20B, 20C, and 20D)
• 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.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
• Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

• Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
• Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
• Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

• Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found in Release Readiness under Human Capital Management or via the Oracle Help Center under Cloud Applications > Human Capital Management.

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.

HCM Common Features

This section covers features used across all HCM Applications.

New Employee Summary Page in Person Spotlight

Enrich access to your employees' info with the new Employee Summary page in the person spotlight. You can access the page by clicking the person name - on the My Team page or in the person smart navigation window. This page is also accessible from a quick action of the same name under My Team tab.

The Employee Summary page shows an employee's most-commonly used information, compiled from public and private information from the person spotlight, based on your security role. For example, you can see an employee's contact info, assignment, managers and direct reports, representatives, current salary, feedback, learning, and talent profile sections on this page.

The Employee Summary page isn't the default page out-of-the-box. You can configure this setting using the Person Spotlight task in the HCM Experience Design Studio. You can also personalize the look and feel of the page using the Transaction Design Studio.

Personalize Saved Searches for Yourself or for Your Organization

Enhance your search experience by personalizing saved searches. Pages such as Team Compensation, Team Time Cards, or Team Schedule deliver a set of filter criteria associated with a delivered saved search out-of-the-box. You can now personalize the filter criteria for yourself or for your organization. For example, if you use Time and Labor but don't use the Project Portfolio Management product, you can hide the criteria associated to projects for all your organization in the Team Time Cards filters.

New Enhancements to Transaction Console

Enable administrators to resubmit terminated or stuck transactions eliminating the need for users to re-enter data with the enhanced Transaction Console.

HCM Digital Assistant - New Features

Use the Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) and the HCM skills to get the information you need. Interact with the HCM digital assistant in a conversational way using skills that are designed to answer specific questions or help you complete tasks.

The HCM Skills have been modified to support the following new features:

• AutoComplete
• Extending Digital Assistants and Skills with Rebasing
• Enhanced intent to view or update your feedback or feedback about your team.
• Enhanced intent to view teams absences.

Enhancements to HCM Approval Rules

Make it easier to configure the Change Personal Information flow approval rules. For any new rule, Admin users can now select a new check box to automatically add check conditions for undefined values.

Performance Improvements for HCM BIP-Based Approval Notifications

See the improved performance and rendering of BIP-based approval notifications with the enhanced HCM Data Model. The improvements not only help performance, but also give added protection for future upgrades.

Enhancements to the Human Capital Management Approval Rules Page

Support workers with multiple assignments. Users are now able to route their approvals to the supervisor hierarchy that belongs to the assignment from which the transaction was initiated. There is no impact on existing approval rules and routing policies.

HCM Digital Assistant - Chat Widget Configuration

Configure the Digital Assistant Chat Widget using HCM Experience Design Studio to modify the look and feel of the chat widget, including its features, layout and icons, colors, and text.

Applications Security

Oracle Applications Security provides a single console where IT Security Managers and Administrators can perform various functions including user lifecycle management, role definition, security policy management(both functional and data), role hierarchy maintenance, username and password policy administration, and certificate management. The console also enables users to simulate the effect of security changes, to run security reports, and download a connector for integration with Microsoft Active Directory.

SelfDetails REST API

Use the SelfDetails REST API to retrieve personal information of the logged in user as well as user session details such as language code, currency code and time zone.

HCM Data Loader

HCM Data Loader provides a flexible and efficient method of bulk loading business object data for data-migration and on-going incremental updates to Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.

Initiate File Processing from Mobile Devices

Import and load bulk-data files on the go. The Recent File Uploads task allows you to import and load files that exist on the WebCenter Content server.

Business Object Enhancements

Extend your data loading capabilities with these new and enhanced business objects.

New Business Objects for Compensation

• Stock
• External Data

New Business Objects for Payroll

• Cost Account Combination
• Cost Cross Validation Rule

New Business Object for Absence Management

• Absence Certification

New Business Object for Recruiting

• Referral

Extended Business Object Hierarchies for Learning

You can now define the default access for courses, offerings and specializations:

• Course
• Specialization

Extended Business Object Hierarchy for Absence

You can now load attachments for absence entries with this enhanced object

• Absence Entry

Business Objects with New Attributes

These existing objects hierarchies are introducing new attributes:

Compensation

• Salary Basis

Global HR

• Task Library
• Checklist Template
• Allocated Checklist

Recruiting

• Candidate
• Candidate Job Application
• Candidate Pool

Talent

• Goal Plan

HCM Data Loader Removed or Replaced 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.

Business Objects Being Withdrawn

Take Note: Business Objects Discontinued in Release 21A

Learning

The following object hierarchies will be discontinued from release 21A. Files for these business objects will then fail to load:

• CourseLearningItem
• CourseLearningItemTranslation

Global HR

From release 21A onwards, Worker.dat files that contain metadata for the given discriminators below will fail to load. The following components are being discontinued within the Worker object hierarchy:

• WorkTermsExtraInfo
• WorkTermsGradeSteps
• WorkTermsSupervisor
• WorkTermsWorkMeasure

Take Note: Business Objects Discontinued in Release 21B

Global Payroll

The following object hierarchies will be discontinued from release 21B. Files for these business objects will then fail to load:

• CostAllocationAccount
• CostAllocation
• CostInfo
• UserTable
• UserTableTranslation
• UserColumnTranslation
• UserRowTranslation

HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader

HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader provides a flexible and efficient method of bulk loading business object data for data-migration and on-going incremental updates to Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.

Secured Business Objects Now Available to Business Users

Extend your business user's bulk-loading capabilities for an object. Spreadsheets based on these objects now implement the user's data security and can be shared with business users.

• Worker
• External Bank Account
• HCM Group

HCM Extract

HCM Extracts provide a method for extracting data from your HCM applications that can be used for interfacing data to another source or extracting data to integrate reporting across systems.

HCM Extracts Diagnostics Report

Run diagnostics on an HCM Extracts definition to generate a report on the best practice recommendations, missing or incorrect design choices, and take corrective actions. You can also run the diagnostics for a specific HCM Extracts process to identify the phase-wise timing for these processes and recommendations. This can improve the processing time for subsequent runs.