Update 24A

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	Module	Feature	Notes
05 JAN 2024	Absence Management	Absence Duration Rounding Options	Updated document. Revised feature information.
05 JAN 2024	Absence Management	Availability API Rounding Options	Updated document. Revised feature information.
01 DEC 2023			Created initial document.

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this What’s New:

• Release Updates (24A, 24B, 24C, and 24D)
• 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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• HCM Common What's New - In this What's New you will find features that are used across applications.
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• Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1).  These documents identify bug fixes and possible known issues. You will also need to review these documents based in the release update version you are currently on or will be moving to.
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Feature Summary

Absence Management

Absence Management

Oracle Absence Management is a configurable and flexible global solution that enables organizations to manage absences of their workforce. The framework provides ability to define both complex and diverse absence plans. It integrates with the Oracle Cloud Global Payroll and Time and Labor products and provides dedicated work areas for the roles of Administrator and Employees. Simplified user interface is provided for employees’ absence data entry.

Calculate and Post Accruals at Start of Repeating Period

While configuring an accrual absence plan, if you select the accrual method to be incremental, a new Accrue on option is now enabled. It has two options called Start of repeating period and End of repeating period.

If you select Start of repeating period option, the application will post the accrual at the beginning of the repeating period.

If you select End of repeating period option, the application will post the accrual at the end of the repeating period. This is currently the default value.

Your configuration of when the accrual plan accrues will be reflected in the Calculate Accruals and Balances absence process automatically.

You now have the option to configure absence plans to either accrue at the start of a repeating period or the end of a repeating period using a new Accrue on option.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Enhanced Message for Absence on a Scheduled Nonworking Day

Sometimes when a worker’s schedule changes, they might have a future absence that is now scheduled to start on a nonworking day.  If the absence type is not configured to allow absences to start on nonworking days, administrators must update the future absence before any new absences can be recorded. An enhanced error message has been delivered to help the administrator locate the absence in error. The message now displays the absence type and start date.

When an employee's the start date of a future scheduled absence falls on a nonworking day due to a schedule change and an administrator tries to enter an absence, the application displays an error message. This message has been enhanced to display the absence type and start date of the absence in error for the greater ease of the administrator.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Assignment Number Displayed With Business Title (Assignment Name)

The application now displays the assignment number along with the business title during an absence transaction. This is helpful for workers who have the same business title across different assignments because it enables them to differentiate between the assignments. It applies to the Redwood pages for absence entry, absence bidding, donations, and disbursements.

Assignment number displayed with assignment name in basic absence entry mode.

If you switch to the individual date records, you’ll see that each individual entry shows the assignment number and business title.

Assignment number displayed with assignment name in individual day record.

Differentiate between similar assignment names with the new enhancement that displays the assignment code also for employees with multiple assignments.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Availability API Rounding Options

The availability API has been enhanced to support a configuration option for returning values rounded up to 9 decimal positions. This allows consuming applications to have more control over when to round to a lower precision.

Get returning values rounded up to 9 decimals using the new enhanced availability API to allow consuming applications to have greater control.

Steps to Enable

To use this feature, you need to enable the ORA_HWM_DECIMAL_ROUNDING_LIMIT profile and set the desired decimal value.

Absence Duration Rounding Options

Absence Management has now introduced a new profile to control the rounding precision for absence duration and entitlement calculations. You can now round up to 9 decimal positions in Absence Management and allow payroll to round to a lower precision when processing the absence transactions.

You can now round up to 9 decimal positions in Absence Management for absence duration and entitlement calculations. Payroll can round to a lower precision during absence transaction processing.

Steps to Enable

To use this feature, you need to enable the ORA_HWM_DECIMAL_ROUNDING_LIMIT profile and set the desired decimal value.

Payroll Update Mode

The enhanced Update mode for payroll processing now supports all absence transactions including absences entered on the time card in Time and Labor. Previously, it was limited to just the absences entered using Cloud Absences. The changes you make on a time card are now automatically updated for the payroll interface.

You need to enable the time and absence integration to use this feature.

Payroll processing now automatically updates the changes you made on the time cards in the payroll interface using the update mode.

Steps to Enable

1. Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area.
2. Search for and click the Manage Profile Options task.
3. Search for and select the ORA_PAY_ INTFC_ABSENCE_IN_PLACE_UPDATE profile option.
4. Select the Level as Site.
5. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
6. Click Save and Close.

Payroll Calculation Card Enhancements to Evaluate Earned Date

Payroll integration with Absence Management is now enhanced to ensure proper payment for partial day absences which have shifts that cross midnight. For workers who have shifts that cross midnight, the parent calculation card in payroll for absence entries can now have an effective start date that is one day prior to the absence start date, provided the work day definition assigned to the worker is using the Start Day rule. Additionally, the effective end date of the parent calculation card can be one day later than the absence end date, if the work day definition assigned to the worker is using the End Day rule.

The new Payroll calculation card enhancements helps in evaluating proper earned date and ensure correct payment for absences which have shifts that cross midnight.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Payroll Integration Performance Improvements

Oracle Cloud Payroll and Absence Management have delivered a new internal API for transferring absence data to payroll. The new API no longer creates a cache for each absence record. This eliminates possible issues and improves performance.

NOTE: In Update 24B, the new API will be automatically enabled in all environments.

Transfer absence data to payroll without creating a cache for each absence record using a new internal API. This enhancement improves the performance of the application.

Steps to Enable

To enable this feature, you need to configure the lookup code. Here's how you can do it:

1. Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area.
2. Search for and click the Manage Common Lookups task.
3. Search for lookup type lookup type ANC_PROC_CONFIGS.
4. Add and enable the lookup code ANC_PAY_PERF_INTEGRATION.
5. Click Save and Close.

Redwood Experience

These pages or flows have been recreated in the Redwood tool set Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio) to improve your user experience. The pages or flows look and act like Redwood pages or flows, to help create cohesiveness through the application.

Redwood Experience for Absence Entry

The absence entry page for Generic, Illness and Injury, and Childbirth/Placement type absences was re-created using the Redwood tool set available in Oracle Visual Builder Studio to improve the user experience by providing the same consistent functionality across Redwood pages.

New Absence Redwood page

Here’s how you use the Redwood page for absence entry:

1. On the Home page, click Me.
2. Click Time and Absences.
3. Click the Add Absence tile.

NOTE: Absences now uses workersAssignmentLOV to display active assignments as of the current system date.  When entering an absence, you'll only see the business titles that are effective as of the entry dates. The LOV will no longer show future dated assignments or future inactive assignments.

The new Redwood page for absence entry lets you experience Redwood’s high-fidelity interactions.

Steps to Enable

This page is turned off by default. If you want to enable this page, you will need to do so in the Profile Options. Here are the steps for changing the delivered Profile Options:

1. Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area.
2. Search for and click the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
3. Search for and select the ORA_ANC_ADD_ABSENCE_VBCS_UI_ENABLED profile option.
4. In the Level list, select Site.
5. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
6. Click Save and Close.

Tips And Considerations

The new Redwood absence entry page currently doesn't support the following few features and they will be added in a future release:

• Ability to enter repeating absences.

• Display of absence entitlement for absences based on qualification plans.

• Display of absence type plan balance details and projected balance details.

• Leave agreement and payment request details.

Transactional Business Intelligence for Absence 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.

Support For Flexfields in Absence Entitlement Case Real Time Subject Area

You will find it easier to report with the enhanced Entitlement Case Details dimension in the Workforce Management - Absence Entitlement Case Real Time subject area. This dimension now supports the Developer Descriptive Flexfields and Descriptive Flexfields.

Use this to enhance your reporting on Workforce Management - Absence Entitlement Case Real Time subject area.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations for Absences

REPLACED OR REMOVED FEATURES

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing Cloud service features with new features or removes existing features. When a feature is replaced the older version may be removed immediately or at a future time. As a best practice, you should use the newer version of a replaced feature as soon as the newer version is available.

Product	Removed Feature	Target Removal	Replacement Feature	Replaced In	Additional Information
	Nothing at this time.

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KNOWN ISSUES / MAINTENANCE PACK SPREADSHEETS

Oracle publishes a Known Issues document for every Update to make customers are aware of potential problems they could run into and the document provides workarounds if they are available.

Oracle also publishes Maintenance Pack and Statutory Maintenance Pack documentation of bugs that are fixed in the monthly or statutory patching.

To review these documents you must have access to My Oracle Support:

Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1)