November Maintenance Pack for 22D
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 |
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| 28 OCT 2022 | Created initial document. |
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:
- 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.
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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.
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.
Explore Careers in Skills Center
Enable your employees to explore a wide range of career advancement opportunities within your organization in Skills Center using these features:
- Oracle Search powered by search term suggestions
- Enhanced filtering capabilities such as job family, job function and skills
Career Ambassadors in Skills Center
Proactively manage your career by connecting with the career ambassadors recommended to you in the Skills Center. Reach out to career ambassadors who have the skills you need to develop or skill you are interested in. Sign up to be a career ambassador so you can help others and build your network within the organization.
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 OCT 2022 |
Talent Management | Configurable Business Title Switcher in Talent Manager Overview Pages | Updated document. Feature delivered in update 22D. |
| 28 OCT 2022 |
Performance Management | Configurable Business Title Switcher in Performance Management |
Removed feature from update 22D. Moved to 22C. |
| 28 OCT 2022 | Performance Management | Configurable Business Title Switcher in Manager Evaluate Performance Page | Removed from this release and moved to 23A. |
| 02 SEP 2022 | Created initial document. |
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.
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.
Features under this section are available to all talent applications.
View Delivered Notification Text from the Talent Notifications Page
Provide additional help to professional users on the Talent Notifications page and allow them to see the delivered notification text from the same page. Using this extra information, professional users can decide if these notifications need changing to meet your organization's requirements.
Configurable Business Title Switcher in Talent Manager Overview Pages
Easily identify the manager's required assignment in the Career Overview & Goals and Performance Overview pages by configuring additional assignment attributes to display in the Business Title switcher.
Oracle Touchpoints is a continuous listening and action channel between employees and managers to create meaningful interactions that build trust, boost retention, and foster growth. Touchpoints is a separately sold product.
Introducing Oracle Touchpoints
Support your employees' need to feel heard and valued every day. Introducing Oracle Touchpoints, a continuous listening and action channel between employees and managers to create meaningful interactions that build trust, boost retention, and foster growth. Key features included in this release:
- Managers can take the right steps to build trust with their team by connecting sentiment with actions.
- Managers and employees can have continuous, impactful conversations through ongoing check-ins with custom or recommended discussion topics.
- Employees can review their past and upcoming events and interactions, pulse trends, take recommended actions, and schedule manager check-ins, all from a single page.
Touchpoints Experience for Managers
Help managers understand employee engagement activities and pulse trends and have continuous, impactful conversations with employees through ongoing check-ins, feedback, and recognition.
Touchpoints Experience for Employees
Enable employees to review their past and upcoming events and interactions, view pulse trends, take recommended actions, and schedule check-ins with their manager.
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.
Development Goal FYI Notifications
See that the feature options for the HR assigned development goal notifications are now renamed as:
- Assigned goals inactivated by worker notification
- Assigned goals inactivated by manager notification
- Assigned goals deleted by worker notification
- Assigned goals deleted by manager notification
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.
Managers Delete HR Assigned Goals
Specify if HR Specialist want to allow managers to delete the goal, when assigning performance goals.
Human Resource Specialist Shared Goals
Configure a process to mass share performance goals with selected workers. The workers with whom the goal is shared can view and add the goals to their goal plan.
Oracle Performance Management supports features and functions for measuring and reporting worker performance.
Speed up a manager's evaluation of employees by providing ratings and comments for competencies and section summaries, for multiple employees with the same performance document, all in one page. Drill down to individual employee performance documents to evaluate goals and see additional reference information.
Configurable Business Title Switcher in Manager Evaluate Performance Page
Identify easily a manager's assignment when they have more than one, in the Manager Evaluate Performance page, by configuring additional assignment attributes to display in the Business Title switcher.
Support for Additional Comments in Printed Requested Feedback
View additional comments given by the feedback provider while printing requested feedback. If the requested feedback questionnaire includes the option to add additional comments, the print version will now include the comments.
Thank Requested Feedback Provider
Enhance the requested feedback experience by thanking the feedback provider. Depending on who’s allowed to view the requested feedback, the manager, HR specialist, or employee can send a thank you note to the feedback provider.
Performance 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.
Performance Management My Organization Page is Removed
The quick action to access the classic UI Performance page, My Organization, for managers has been removed in Release 22D. You can create your own custom versions of the reports from My Organization to meet your specific requirements using OTBI. Example reports created using OTBI are published in Oracle Cloud Customer Connect https://cloudcustomerconnect.oracle.com/posts/9eb532462e.
Survey employees with our Questionnaires.
Enhanced Presentation Options for New Subscribers
Present response options as a set of horizontal buttons in single-choice and multiple-choice questions created for two new subscribers, Touchpoints and Journey Surveys. Additionally, present questionnaires with different pagination options, such as one question per page, one section per page, or all questions in one page for these two subscribers.
Question Versions Included in List of Values
Identify the version of a question when adding it to a questionnaire or questionnaire template. Retrieve the version number of a question when performing a GET operation on a Questionnaire object.
New User Entity for Extracting Questionnaire Responses
Use the new user entity, Extract Question Responses – Large Object, in HCM Extracts to extract Character Large Object (CLOB) data including VARCHAR2 2000 or VARCHAR2 4000 data types from the Questionnaire Responses object.
Oracle 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.
Allow Peers to View Feedback and Notes
Enhance the usability of feedback by allowing peers of the feedback recipient to view the feedback. Additionally, allow talent review meeting notes to be viewed by peers.
Celebrations Context Type in Feedback Visibility Configuration
Leverage the new context type ORA_CELEBRATION_TYPE to support the Celebrations feature in Oracle Touchpoints. Configure visibility options that apply only to the Celebrations feature.
Thank Anytime Feedback Provider
Enhance the feedback experience by thanking the feedback provider. Depending on the feedback visibility settings, the manager, HR specialist or employee can send a thank you note to the feedback provider. This feature is available in Anytime Feedback and Oracle Touchpoints.
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.
Refine the list of AI-recommended succession candidates by applying business unit, grade, or location filters to the results.
Search for Candidates and Pool Members
Use the search by name feature to quickly find candidates in succession plans and members in talent pools you can access. Additionally, you can now sort candidates and pool members by their active or inactive status.
New Candidate Since and Member Since Record Fields
Use new back-end fields, added to replace the existing Candidate Since field in succession plans and Member Since field in talent pools. Custom reports should use these fields as of this release.
Enhancement to the Autocomplete Rules for Succession Plans Business Object
Extend the use of autocomplete rules for the Succession Plans business object by using the additional Succession Plan attributes that are now exposed in Autocomplete.
Oracle 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 Print Profiles Content Access
Print profiles content to which facilitators or managers have access to view when they use the Print Profiles feature on the Talent Review dashboard.
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.
File Attachment Attributes to Profile Subject Area
Enhance your reporting on the file attachments information in the Person Profile Real Time subject area with the addition of relevant attributes to the all profile content folder.