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:

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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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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HCM Common

HCM Common Architecture

This section covers features used across all HCM Applications.

Enhancements to Approvals and Notifications

Take advantage of these enhancements that have been made to the Transaction Console:

• Improved fault messaging in transaction summary page for the faulted transactions.
• Scheduling purge policies for archived transactions in Approval Rules tab to improve performance.
• Data Cache Corrector that allows Admin users to correct an attribute value or add or edit an XML node in transaction data cache to recover faulted or stuck transactions.

Surrogate Key in Atom Feeds

Use the enhanced Atom feeds feature, which includes the surrogate key of the object that's referred to in the feed as a context attribute.

New Atom Feed for Work Relationship Update

Take advantage of the new Atom feed, which is generated when the work relationship of an active employee is updated. This feed includes changes to the start date of the work relationship and can be configured to include other available attributes.

Character Data in Atom Feeds

Review special characters in the Atom feeds title, summary, and content encoded with the Character DATA or CDATA tag. This tag allows the feeds to display special characters including multi-byte characters and language characters that can be handled by XML parsers.

HCM Common

This section covers features used across all HCM Applications.

Autocomplete Rules for HCM Experience Design Studio Enhancements

Enhance your users' experience authoring new rules in Autocomplete Rules for HCM Experience Design Studio with more capabilities available for different areas such as:

• Person Disability to retrieve all effective dated disability records and support use cases like 'allow only one active disability at a time'.
• Assigned Payroll to default payroll from HR attributes for the Local and Global Transfer flow.
• Document Records with a new hcmParam to trigger rules in page transactions only.
• Provide access to Past, Current and Future Incumbents from Position and Worker Assignment to support use cases like 'prevent changes to position when there is a future incumbent'.

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 two features have been extended to more actions.

• Personalize the Save and Save and Close Actions in the toolbar to Eligible Jobs and Employment Contracts.
• Region Required to Recruiting - Create and Edit Job Offer.

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.

Restrict Bulk-Loading of Security Related Data

Manage which job roles can bulk-load security related data using HCM Data Loader. Once you enable this functionality, the pre-configured Human Capital Management Integration Specialist job role will not have access to bulk-load these security related business. Following are the job roles:

• User
• Delegated Role
• Role Mapping
• Exclusion Rule
• Legislative Data Group Security Profile
• Organization Security Profile
• Country Security Profile
• Position Security Profile
• Document Type Security Profile
• Areas of Responsibility
• Job Requisition Security Profile

Business Object Enhancements

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

New Business Objects

Wellness

• Wellness Activity
• Wellness Goal
• Wellness Task
• Work Life Team

Updated Business Objects

Global HR - Checklists

• Allocated Checklist
• Checklist Template
• Task Library

Global HR - Work Structures

• Position

Global Payroll

• Balance Adjustment Line

Recruiting

• Agent
• Candidate

Talent Management

• Performance Document
• Question
• Questionnaire
• Questionnaire Template
• Answer Translation

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.

Include Reconciliation and Reporting Information in Spreadsheet Uploads

Include reference and reconciliation data in your HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader bulk uploads. Use the Reference attributes to capture identifying data within the staging tables that can be used to reconcile your data uploads in OTBI and HCM Extract reports.

Configure Roll Back Access for HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader Templates

Control which job roles can initiate roll back within your HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader spreadsheets.