Update 21D

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 (21A, 21B, 21C, and 21D)
• 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:

• 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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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.

Regeneration of Security Profiles to Support Document Types

Regenerate Document Type security profiles in bulk using the Regenerate Security Profiles process. 

Support Removal of External Roles On Termination

Enable support for removing external roles on termination.

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.

Import and Load Data User Interface Enhancements

Review and filter records in the Object Status page by the reconciliation data you provide in business object files.

Business Object Enhancements

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

New Business Objects

Global Payroll

• Payroll Event Notifications

Updated Business Objects

Benefits

• Participant Enrollment

Global HR - Checklists

• Allocated Checklist
• Checklist Template
• Task Library

Global HR - Work Structures

• Location

Recruiting

• Job Requisition
• Job Requisition Template

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.

Enhanced Reporting

Extend your data set summary reports in OTBI for HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader. You can now include spreadsheet row counts in your reports.

Secured Business Objects Now Available to Business Users

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

Global Payroll

• Element Entry With Costing

Generate Spreadsheet Templates for Element Entry with Costing

Generate spreadsheet templates for the business object Element Entry with Costing. You can now submit a payroll flow to generate spreadsheet templates for an element or element 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.

Add Vendor Name or External System Name in Extracts Definitions

Add name of the vendor or the external system to which the HCM Extracts generated data is being sent to or interfaced with. You can add additional details to capture names of the systems or vendors when extract definitions are created, copied, or imported.

HCM Common Architecture

This section covers features used across all HCM Applications.

Enhancements to Approvals and Notifications

See the enhancements that have been made to Approvals and Notifications:

• You are now able to test approval rules without being required to recreate and submit any new transactions in the HCM Approval Rules page and Transaction Console.

• Users can now be shown a warning message if a duplicate attachment is found in the transaction at the time of submission. Users are not allowed to submit transactions that have duplicate attachments.

• The Transaction Console diagnostic log for failed transactions has been enhanced to list the approval rule conditions and to also highlight the specific rule condition that caused the transaction to fail.

• You can now create rules in the Transaction Design Studio to configure the Save and the Save and Close buttons, and to configure whether an Error or Warning message appears if mandatory sections have not been visited.

HCM Common

This section covers features used across all HCM Applications.

Lists of Values Configuration

Configure these settings centrally for list of values used in HCM:

• Which fields are searchable
• Which fields are displayed as search results and in what order

Workers List of Values Results Search Behavior Change

See improved search performance of the workers list of values component, that's used throughout HCM, with these changes:

1. No workers are displayed until some search terms are entered.
2. Searching by business title is disabled out-of-the-box. You can enable it, if required.

Transaction Design Studio for HCM Experience Design Studio Enhancements

Increase your data quality and enhance the user experience using Transaction Design Studio for HCM Experience Design Studio. These are the new features added to the tool.

• Increase your data quality by ensuring that your users complete the required fields before submitting the transaction. Out-of-the-box, your users are prompted with a warning message that they must complete the required information before Submitting the transaction. The user will not be able to submit transactions without first visiting the required regions, and once in the required region entering the required fields. For example, when hiring an employee, if a user submits the transaction before reaching the payroll region, a warning message lists the salary region and all the other mandatory regions to be visited before the transaction can be successfully submitted. The severity of the message can be changed, per action, from a Warning message to an error message. The feature is available for a selected list of actions in this release, but more transactions will subsequently be added to later releases.

• Enhance the user experience by allowing your users to save their transactions at any point of time. For example, when a user is in the middle of a hiring process and needs to switch to another task, they can save their work, resume later where the user left off.  The two action buttons, ‘Save’ and ‘Save and Close’, can be simply set via checkboxes within the Transaction Design Studio. Out-of-the-box, the two buttons are hidden. This feature is available for a selected list of actions in this release, but more transactions will subsequently be added to later releases.

New HCM Digital Assistant Skill Version - HCMV2

Check out the new version of HCM Digital Assistant skill. HCMV2 helps employees and managers handle their actions and tasks through richer conversational experiences across 90+ intents.

The HCMV2 skill attributes recently added platform features and enhancements including:

• More sophisticated natural language processing and natural language understanding models
• Standardized extensibility, lending itself much easier to functional analysts
• Native language support, paving the way for a multilingual implementation

Previously, all requests for each major feature area were fulfilled by one intent that used conversational chat to answer questions and retrieve information for that feature area.

With HCMV2, there are now separate intents for each business flow. For example, a user request to 'Find my coworker's phone number' is fulfilled by a different intent than 'Find my coworker's email.’ These discrete intents each support a specific business case, which makes the skill easier to manage and extend, especially for native language support.

Added to the improved intent classification accuracy, there is also new functionality like “Show me Ravi Chouhan's photo”.

All conversation flows in the new HCMV2 skill use resource bundle strings with named tokens, which makes the message strings easier to manage.

HCMV2 is delivered as part of the FADigitalAssistant.