February Maintenance Pack for 19D

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	Feature	Notes
31 JAN 2020		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 (19A, 19B, 19C, and 19D)
• 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 on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

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.

Learning and Development

Learning Cloud

Oracle Learning Cloud enables you to make a transformational shift in learning delivery. Subject matter experts in your organization can easily publish videos and assemble tutorials to deliver on-demand and social learning. Collaboration features encourage continuous community feedback.

Use the Learning Item Title Drop-Down List

Use the Learning Item Title drop-down list when searching for assignments for either an administrator or manager in the top level of the Manage Learners area. This field existed in previous versions of Learning Cloud, but it was a text box.

December Maintenance Pack for 19D

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	Feature	Notes
27 NOV 2019		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 (19A, 19B, 19C, and 19D)
• 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 on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

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.

Learning and Development

Learning Cloud

Oracle Learning Cloud enables you to make a transformational shift in learning delivery. Subject matter experts in your organization can easily publish videos and assemble tutorials to deliver on-demand and social learning. Collaboration features encourage continuous community feedback.

Profile Option Changes

Note the following profile options were created in previous releases of Learning Cloud to control the availability of certain features before they were released to a wider audience. The functionality associated with them is now available to all, however the following changes have been made:

• WLF_RBA_USE_SQL - Enables you to use an analysis object with the mass assignment functionality to assign more than 75,000 records.This profile option has been removed, and the functionality is enabled for everyone.

• WLF_ROLLUP_FAILED_SCORM - Used to determine how rollup completions occur for failed SCORM, AICC/HACP or assessment backed activities. This profile option is now set to N by default.

IMPORTANT: If you set WLF_ROLLUP_FAILED_SCORM to Y in 19D, you will need to set it back to Y after the update.

Updated Layout for Course, Offering, and Specialization Pages

Notice the infotiles on the course, offering, and specialization pages have been replaced with tabs. There is no change in the functionality.

Two New Options for Alerts

Take advantage in Setup of the two new option on the Alerts tab:

• Default Organizer for Calendar Meeting Invites – enter a default email address for meeting organizers.
• When Available, Use Primary Offering Coordinator as the Organizer for Calendar Meeting Invites – indicates you want to use the email address of the primary offering coordinator, if it is indicated for the offering. If this is selected, and a primary offering coordinator is not listed for the offering, or the offering coordinator's primary email address is null, then the Organizer element for the .ics file uses the Default Organizer for Calendar Meeting Invites, if one is indicated, or <olc@example.com>.

Social Capabilities in 20A

Take note that currently, if a course, specialization, or offering details page is enabled for Social Conversations, a pane appears, and the users collaborate about the learning item using Oracle Social Network (OSN).

In 20A, Oracle Learning Cloud will have natively-built commenting and conversation capabilities as part of the Newsfeed. The OSN social functionality will go away. You can keep using the current OSN social capabilities until you upgrade to the Newsfeed and get moved to the new natively-built social capability.

NOTE: None of the existing social data from OSN will migrate over when you upgrade to Newsfeed.

November Maintenance Pack for 19D

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	Feature	Notes
25 OCT 2019		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 (19A, 19B, 19C, and 19D)
• 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 on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

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.

Learning and Development

Learning Cloud

Oracle Learning Cloud enables you to make a transformational shift in learning delivery. Subject matter experts in your organization can easily publish videos and assemble tutorials to deliver on-demand and social learning. Collaboration features encourage continuous community feedback.

Ability to Download Search Results to a Spreadsheet

Download search results to Microsoft Excel from all administrator search pages.

Default Value for Primary Classroom Field

Use the default value for the Classroom field is "No Location Defined" when creating instructor-led or blended offerings.

Change to What Displays on Transcripts for Completed Offerings

Transcripts only display the offerings that were completed before a specialization was completed. If learners retake an offerings for completed specializations, they will no longer see the additional attempts on their transcripts.

Global Access Group Follow Mode

Grant access to courses and specializations to members of learning communities who engage with these learning Items from within the learning community. This guarantees access to these items for community members no matter what the Access Control setting is.

Ability to Run Reconciliation Jobs as Another Person

Select a Run As person for the Reconcile Dynamic Assignments, and Reconcile Dynamic Access Groups jobs. Normal reconciliation occurs using the security settings of the person who initially created an access group or initiative. Selecting a Run As person when creating an access group or initiative prevents issues that might arise later if that person leaves your organization, or if changes are made to their security settings.

Initiatives Ongoing Due Date Can Be Set to Specific Date

Select a Date from the Ongoing Due Date drop-down list when creating an ongoing required learning initiative. Previously, you could only select Days. Selecting Date is useful if you want mandatory training to be completed by a specific date, such as the end of your organization’s calendar or financial year. When you select Date, a new field called Minimum Number of Days displays. Use this field to indicate the minimum number of days a learner has to complete the training. If a learner is assigned to the initiative when there are not enough days remaining prior to the due date, they are assigned a due date for the next year. For example, a learner is assigned to an initiative on December 20, 2019, and the due date is December 31, 2019. If the minimum number of days to complete the initiative is 30, then the learner’s due date automatically becomes December 31, 2020.

Support for Non Rich Text in Course and Specialization

Use the new HCM Data Loader (HDL) attribute called either DescriptionText or SylllabusText (depending on the situation) that can be used for a course, offering, ILT activity, self-paced activity, specialization, and specialization section. This is a non-rich text version of the description text. If a description or syllabus does not contain a rich text file name, then the DescriptionText or SyllabusText value is used.

Profile Option to Control Completion Rollup for Failed SCORM, AICC/HACP, and Assessments

Use the new profile option called WLF_ROLLUP_FAILED_SCORM to determine how rollup completions occur for failed SCORM, AICC/HACP or assessment backed activities. If the profile option is set to Y, the completion rollup occurs, and learners are not able to resume the content.  If the profile option is set to N, the completion rollup does not occur, and learners are able to resume and complete the content.

Numeric Value Support for LearningItemNumber Using HDL

Use numeric values in LearningItemNumber within the Learning Record object now.

NonCatalog Learning HDL Object and Update to LearningRecord

Add noncatalog learning items, noncatalog learning item translations, and external learning records using HCM Data Loader (HDL). Noncatalog learning items represent learning consumed outside of Oracle Learning Cloud, and which you want to record in learners’ training history. For example, a learner takes at course at a local community college, and you want to record it in his training history.  In addition, you now have the ability to add Continuing Professional Education (CPE) attributes to the learning record business object to support noncatalog learning. CPEs are used to collect knowledge and skills related to a Learner’s professional life and development.

Community Relation HDL Object

Associate multiple learning items to a community using HCM Data Loader (HDL).

REST API Update

Control uploads of videos greater then 1 GB. The REST API has been updated to prevent the uploading of videos that are greater than 1 GB.

Learning Cloud 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.

Contextual Learning in 20A

Edit application pages to embed learning items that enhance application work flows with contextual Learning components. The following learning resource catalog components can be added using Page Composer: Learning Association Component, Learning Showcase Component, Voluntary Assignment Component, Required Assignment Component.   

In 20A, Oracle Learning Cloud will be removing contextual learning in Oracle Learning Cloud. Administrators will no longer be able to add components on a page. If they remove a component, they will not be able to add it back. Any components added by you will be completely removed in the 20B release.

Update Scripts and Replace with ESS

Use the new Learn Migration job to help you to manage data correction and data updates when you move to a new version of Oracle Learning Cloud that is available in the 19D November Updates. Running this job prevents functional issues with reconciliation, initiatives, and learning payment processing. It is recommended that you run this job in all of your pods after updating from 19C to 19D. If you do not run this job you may encounter functional issues with reconciliation, initiatives, and learning payment processing.

Transactional Business Intelligence for Talent Management

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.

Learning

Learner Skills and Qualifications Due to Learning Outcomes

Report on the learning outcomes within the Learner/Worker folder in the Learn Subject Area. You can report on the learner skills and qualifications gained through the learning outcomes configured on the learning items. This applies to any profile content types subscribed by learning outcomes.

Offering Start Date and Offering End Date

Create an offering, specify the offering start date and end dates. You can now report on these dates.

Update 19D

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	Feature	Notes
31 JAN 2020	Profile Management/Replaced or Removed Feature: Mandatory Upgrade to Enhanced Talent Profile in 20A	Updated document. Revised feature information.
27 NOV 2019	Profile Management/Replaced or Removed Features: Mandatory Upgrade to Enhanced Talent Profile	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 NOV 2019	OTBI/Performance: Required Number of Performance Document Participants Enhancement	Updated document. Revised feature information.
25 OCT 2019	Performance Management: Print Check-In Document	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
25 OCT 2019	Performance Management: Saved Search in Performance Management	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
25 OCT 2019	Profile Management/ Redesigned User Experience: LinkedIn Profile Import	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
25 OCT 2019	Recruiting: Attach Documents to Job Applications	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
25 OCT 2019	OTBI/Recruiting: Compliance Tracking Beyond United States	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
25 OCT 2019	OTBI/Recruiting: Agency Portal Support	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
25 OCT 2019	OTBI/Recruiting: Candidate Job Application Preferred Locations	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
25 OCT 2019	OTBI/Recruiting: Pipeline and Hiring Requisitions	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Performance Management: Export and Import Request Feedback Templates Using Functional Setup Manager	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Succession Management: Succession Plan Quick Action Removed	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Talent Review: Talent Review Quick Action Removed	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Recruiting: Ask Candidates to Fill In Additional Questionnaires	Updated document. Revised feature information.
27 SEP 2019	Recruiting: Candidate Autoconfirmation	Updated document. Revised feature information.
27 SEP 2019	Recruiting: Capture Additional Candidate Details in Job Applications	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Recruiting: Classify Contingent Workers for the Recruiting Process	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Recruiting: Contextualized Recruiter Selector	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Recruiting: Improved Job Application Flow Navigation	Updated document. Revised feature information.
27 SEP 2019	Recruiting: Merge Candidate Files	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Recruiting: Request Sensitive Personal Information	Updated document. Revised feature information.
27 SEP 2019	Recruiting: Run Candidate Duplicate Check	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
06 SEP 2019		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 (19A, 19B, 19C, and 19D)
• 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 on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

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.

Questionnaire

Survey employees with our Questionnaires.

Questionnaire Preview Displays Mobile Responsive Features

Preview the questionnaire in mobile-responsive application pages. We have enabled the Questionnaire Preview to resemble the functionality of mobile responsive pages.

Career and Succession

Career Development

Oracle Career Development provides tools for workers and managers to manage their career interests and development plans. These tools include recommendations on roles based on workers’ qualifications, comparisons to target roles and required development needs for workers. You can establish development goals and manage development progress, by managing the roles of interest for the worker and comprehensive development plan for workers.

You can now manage your near and long-term career development strategies using a development plan. Based on your role permissions, you can create and manage your development goals within your development plan. You can tag goals with Development Intents. Development Intents are tags that allow you to organize and track your goal towards future development.

Career Development Redesigned User Experience

Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. Clutter-free pages, with clean lines and just the essential fields, can be personalized to suit.

Goal Attachments and Flexfields Added to Redesigned Career Development Pages

Take advantage of the new Career Development features that are now available in the redesigned mobile-responsive pages.  The added features include Goal Attachments and Flexfields for a Development Goal.

Enhanced Approvals Capability for Career Development

Use the new and enhanced approval capabilities for your development goal requirements. The approvals enhancements support increased flexibility in defining approval rules and provide a user experience that is consistent with all the other HCM approval flows. Significant feature changes for Career Development are that a worker can submit multiple goals as a single batch for approvals and an approver of an employee’s goals transaction can edit the submitted goals and approve them with the changes. The transition from legacy approvals to the enhanced approvals transaction framework will require some administrative attention to address potential migration matters with legacy approval transactions.

Talent Review

Oracle Fusion Talent Review is an analytic product enabling your organization to review and evaluate data from the profile, performance, goals, career development, and compensation management solutions.

Talent Review Redesigned User Experience

Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. Clutter-free pages, with clean lines and just the essential fields, can be personalized to suit.

Talent Review Meeting Notes and Notes History Redesigned

Enhance the user experience with the new responsive talent review notes history page. You can now also add and view notes about the meeting. The redesigned page is accessible to the line manager and HR Specialist as an action from the Meetings Overview page.

Additional Responsive Actions Available from the Talent Review Dashboard

Enhance the user experience from the talent review dashboard with the following actions that now have responsive pages:

• Add Development Goal
• Add Performance Goal
• Add to Plan
• Add to Pool

You can access these actions on the redesigned talent review dashboard.

Talent Review 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.

Talent Review Quick Action Removed

Access the Talent Review work area by the standard navigation path under My Client Groups or My Team depending on your role. You can no longer access the Talent Review work area using the Talent Review Quick Action, as this is no longer available.

Succession Management

Oracle Succession Management helps to create succession plans to replace key personnel. Succession plans identify workers who are ready now, or can develop the necessary skills, for jobs and positions that aren't currently vacant, insuring, a smooth transition and help you to manage candidate development.

Succession Management 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.

Succession Plan Quick Action Removed

Access the Succession work area by the standard navigation path under My Client Groups, as you can no longer access the Succession work area using the Succession Plans Quick Action.

Profile Management

Oracle Fusion Profile Management provides a common foundation for the talent suite of products and other Oracle Cloud applications to retrieve, insert, and update talent profile information. Profile Management also supports the HR specialists, line managers, matrix managers, and employees in performing critical HR talent functions. Managing people and job profiles, career planning functions, managing, and tracking talent data can be also done through Profile Management.

Profile Management Redesigned User Experience

Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. Clutter-free pages, with clean lines and just the essential fields, can be personalized to suit.

LinkedIn Profile Import

Take advantage of our new partnership with LinkedIn, which allows your employees to import their LinkedIn profile information into their talent profile. This enhanced functionality provides you with greater access to your employees’ updated skills, preferences, and credentials. It’s an easy way for your employees to keep their talent profile updated.

Profiles 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.

Mandatory Upgrade to Enhanced Talent Profile in 20A

Act now, you must upgrade to Enhanced Talent Profile Management prior to the application of HCM Cloud Release 20B.

HCM Cloud Release 20A is the last release to perform this upgrade.

Performance

Goal Management

Oracle Goal Management enables you to transform business objectives into goals across various organization levels, providing a clear line of sight from managers to employees. Business leaders can communicate high-level initiatives which managers can translate into goals for their employees.

Goal Management Redesigned User Experience

Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. Clutter-free pages, with clean lines and just the essential fields, can be personalized to suit.

Enhanced Approvals Capability for Goal Management

Enhance your approval capabilities with performance goal requirements. The approvals enhancements support increased flexibility in defining approval rules and user experience consistent with all other HCM approval flows. Most notably for Goal Management, an approver of an employee’s goals transaction can edit the submitted goals and approve them with the changes. Transitioning to the enhanced approvals transaction framework will require some administrative attention to address potential migration matters with legacy approval transactions.

Enhanced Goal Management Administration

Check out these new features in Goal Management administration:

• HR specialists now have enhanced search capabilities to find and select goal plans and goal plan sets. REST APIs are available to support the capabilities.
• Administrative users now have improved search when selecting the required eligibility profile for a performance goal mass assignment process. A REST API is available to support this capability.

Performance Management

Oracle Performance Management supports features and functions for measuring and reporting worker performance.

Export and Import Check-In Templates Using Functional Setup Manager

Leverage Functional Setup Manager to export and import check-in templates. During migration, take advantage of this enhancement by using two new services and the automated features of Functional Setup Manager. Previously, this had to be done manually for check-in templates.

Export and Import Request Feedback Templates Using Functional Setup Manager

Leverage Functional Setup Manager to export and import request feedback templates. During migration, take advantage of this enhancement by using two new services and the automated features of Functional Setup Manager. Previously, this had to be done manually.

Performance Approvals Added to Transaction Console

Facilitate easier monitoring of Performance approvals using Transaction Console. HCM Administrators can identify stuck transactions and take the appropriate actions to resolve them.

Display Check-In Feedback in Performance Documents

Increase the ease of viewing questionnaire and notes feedback provided in check-ins when completing evaluations in the performance document. Launch a PDF version of the check-in document to easily refer to the details. Additionally, when evaluating goals refer to associated notes in the same page by enabling them with HCM Transaction Design Studio.

Display Requested Feedback in Performance Documents

Increase the ease of viewing requested feedback when completing evaluations in the performance document. Launch a PDF version of the requested feedback to easily refer to the information while working on the performance document.

Saved Search in Performance Management

Improve searching in Performance Management pages with user defined saved searches. Select the required criteria from the filter and save the search to use again or make it the default. Saved searches can be managed or deleted.

Print Check-In Document

Print check-in documents from the Performance page on an employees' Spotlight. The print action generates a PDF of the data displayed in the online check-in, which can then be printed using the print options of the device being used. The default format of the BI Publisher RTF Template can be customized to meet customer requirements.

Recruiting

Recruiting

Oracle Recruiting Cloud provides tools for hiring managers and recruiters to source and nurture candidates, create and manage job requisitions, screen and select candidates, create and manage job offers, and onboard new employees into the organization. It also provides career sites for employees and external candidates to search, discover and apply to jobs using a frictionless application process.

Enhanced Job Application List

Give hiring teams more actionable information with enhanced job application list views. New views that contain more info on the list help users compare candidates and take action right from the list. Flip between views to see info relevant at that point in the hiring process. Use candidate qualifier icons to quickly identify important candidate details, like those candidates that are internal, were referred, or are currently active on another requisition. Candidate resumes can now be downloaded directly from the list, another time saver for busy recruiters and hiring managers. 

Reorder Prescreening Questions

Define the order of prescreening questions displayed to candidates when they apply for a job.

Prevent Moving Candidates Based on Condition

Prevent moving candidates out of a candidate selection process status if a condition is not met. Define conditions when candidates can be moved out of a state.

Job Requisition and Job Requisition Template Management Enhancement

Create and manage job requisition templates associated to jobs or positions. 

Create and manage job requisitions based on jobs or positions within your organization. Field values from the job or position are automatically added to fields in the job requisition as well as values from the job requisition template associated to the job or position.

Create posting descriptions in the content library and use them in job requisitions.

Use Fast Formulas for Candidate Selection Process Conditions

Create and manage fast formulas to define conditions in the candidate selection process. Conditions can be used to determine if an automated action must be executed or to prevent moving a job application.

Ability to Score Prescreening Questions

Score questions used in external or internal prescreening questionnaires filled by candidates when they apply for a job. Add an individual score to each answer of prescreening questions. The system then automatically calculates the questionnaire overall score where such questions are used.

Tax Credit Third Party Integration

Validate tax credit eligibility of your candidates using a new third party integration. Validated tax credit partners, once integrated, validate the eligibility of various federal, state, and other tax credits. Progress status and results are displayed in the candidate job application Screening section.

Candidate Notifications Moved from Alerts Composer to Recruiting Content Library

Manage candidate notifications centrally from the Recruiting Content Library. All existing candidate notifications have been moved from Alerts Composer to Recruiting Content Library. The list of notification tokens are now standardized across notifications.

NOTE: Existing notifications in Alerts Composer will still be available as a reference for existing customers, but they will not be used to deliver notifications.

Work Locations Displayed to Candidates

Decide what work location details are displayed to candidates within the description of jobs on the career site. You can display the work location name, the work location full address including postal code, the postal code only, or no work location details.

Adjust Offer Letters

Adjust the content of any candidate's job offer letter if needed in specific situations, such as offers for an executive position or a hard-to-recruit job. Users with a specific privilege can make adjustments to an offer letter based on a standard template, or can create a unique offer letter as needed. 

Bypass Extending Offers to Candidates

Bypass extending job offers to candidates, allowing the offer team to indicate whether an approved offer is accepted or not without the need for any online communication to or from the candidate. Each candidate selection process can be configured to include or to skip the standard offer extension capabilities, such as notifying the candidate of their extended offer, displaying this offer letter to the candidate, and capturing their offer acceptance and accompanying e-signature. 

Take Action on Many Candidates at Once

Take action on a large batch of candidates at once, in order to save time while evaluating candidates for a job requisition. Users can easily select dozens or hundreds of candidates and then perform the desired action on all of them. These standard actions include moving the candidates forward in the selection process, sending an email message to all of them, adding them to another requisition or to a pool. For batch sizes over 50 candidates, the user will receive an alert when the action is complete. 

Ask Candidates to Fill In Additional Questionnaires

Ask external candidates to fill in additional questionnaires once they have applied to a job. Make the additional questionnaire confidential to reveal candidate responses only to users with dedicated privilege.

Improved Job Application Flow Navigation

Allow external candidates to easily navigate through their job applications. If the job application form needs to be fixed before being submitted, candidates are guided through errors and required fields.

Request Sensitive Personal Information

Ask external candidates their date of birth and national identifiers while they apply for a job or once they have applied to a job. The recruiter or hiring manager needs to have dedicated privilege to see sensitive personal information provided by candidates.

Candidate Autoconfirmation

Leverage this feature to create easy and frictionless application experience. When the candidate autoconfirmation setting is on, external candidates no longer need to verify the email address they used in their job application. Upon submission candidate and job application are automatically confirmed. 

Contextualized Recruiter Selector

View recruiters previously selected and recruiting representatives in the Recruiter selector. In 19C, this feature required to create a profile option. In 19D, it’s available by default to all customers.

Merge Candidate Files

Merge pre-identified candidates after running a duplicate check or using specific identifiers.

Run Candidate Duplicate Check

Run a duplicate check to identify potential duplicate candidates. 

Classify Contingent Workers for the Recruiting Process

Classify and process contingent workers as internal or external candidates to align with your business practices and processes.

Capture Additional Candidate Details in Job Applications

Ask external candidates to provide additional details when they apply for a job.

Attach Documents to Job Applications

Attach additional documents to job applications such as notes from interviews or off-line conversations to job applications. These documents are only visible to the hiring team.

Recruiting 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.

Changes to Navigation for Managing Job Offers by HR Specialist

Manage all accepted job offers in a redesigned user interface, with search and filters for both mobile device and desktop usage. The HR specialist page on which offers were previously managed, within the New Person work area, is being phased out. Now these capabilities are reached from a convenient Quick Action available on the main landing page to users with the HR Specialist role.

Career Site Classic Template Phase Out

Take notice that the Classic design template to create career sites is being phased out in 19D. The Minimal design template released in 19C is designed as a replacement for the Classic template.

As an ongoing commitment to deliver a modern, engaging experience to candidates, Oracle periodically releases new design templates for the career sites. With the release of each new design template, an older template is phased out and we inform customers so they can plan to move to one of the newer design template.

HR Optimizations

Transactional Business Intelligence for Talent Management

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.

Performance

New Subject Area - Workforce Performance - Requested Feedback Real Time

Enhance your reporting with the addition of a new subject area that caters to the feedback requested and feedback provided between workers, managers and others in the organization.

A new subject area named Workforce Performance - Requested Feedback Real Time is added to report on the requested feedback details.

New Attributes to Performance Document Participant Dimension

Improve your reporting on the worker's performance appraisal with the inclusion of the new attributes that provides further details of the participant. The enhancements are done to the Performance Document Participant dimension in the following subject areas:

• Workforce Performance - Performance Rating Real Time
• Workforce Performance - Performance Task Status Real Time

Required Number of Performance Document Participants Enhancement

Enhance your reporting on performance appraisals with the addition of new metrics related to performance document participants.

You can report on the minimum number of participants required to provide feedback for an employee's performance document in the performance template.

Recruiting

Compliance Tracking Beyond United States

Augment your reporting capabilities on recruitment with the inclusion of the attribute related to legislative information beyond the United States.

Agency Portal Support

Take advantage of the agency portal which is now fully supported in reporting. Start reporting on your agencies, agents, and the activities with their referred candidates.

Candidate Job Application Preferred Locations

Enhance your reporting on work or recruiting locations by including candidate location preferences in your reports.

Pipeline and Hiring Requisitions

Enhance your job requisition and job application reports by adding the pipeline attribute and content to your analysis.