What's New

Update 23D

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 What’s New:

• Release Updates (23A, 23B, 23C, and 23D)
• 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.

• 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.
• Oracle Help Center - Here you will find guides, videos and searchable help.
• Release Readiness - New Feature Summary, What’s New, Feature Listing Spreadsheet, Spotlights and Release Training

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Feature Summary

Benefits

Benefits

Oracle Benefits is a complete, configurable and flexible global solution that enables organizations to successfully evolve and adapt to the unique needs of their workforce. The solution enables setup of traditional 'one-size fits all' plans to highly complex plans that selectively target different workforce segments with different benefit packages. Self-service capabilities present the user with an out of the box intuitive guided enrollment process with contextual information and embedded analytics.

ACA Eligibility Automation

We have made it easier for you to automate your benefits eligibility tracking and ACA reporting.  The new ACA Eligibility Process:

• Identifies when changes are needed based on new hires and key dates in the process date range.

• Determines if a rehire should continue with their prior benefits or be treated as a new hire.

• For employees with variable work hours, the process determines their benefits eligibility.

  1. At the end of each measurement period, it checks their hours worked in all assignments within a payroll relationship.

  2. It divides the hours worked in the measurement period by the number of weeks or months in the period.

With this feature, you can easily manage ACA benefits eligibility for your employees.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• You must be using HCM Cloud Human Resources and Benefits (Offer and Enrollment).

• Run this process every 7 days to ensure it captures new hires and changes in eligibility.

• Run this process in Draft mode to review and approve the changes it proposes, and then run it in Final mode to commit those changes.  This process generates a Process Audit Report that provides a before-and-after view of each employee with proposed changes.

Key Resources

Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management for the United States: US Affordable Care Act (ID 2067360.1) on My Oracle Support

Oracle Cloud United States Benefits Legislative Announcements (ID 2183762.1) on My Oracle Support

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 Self-Service Benefits Employee Resources Page

The Self-Service Benefits Review Employee Resources page was recreated in the Redwood Toolset Visual Builder Studio to improve the user experience by providing the same consistent functionality across Redwood pages. The functionality of the page remains the same.

Here’s how you use the Self-Service Benefits Review Employee Resources Redwood page:

1. On the Home page, click Me.
2. Click the Show More link under Quick Actions.
3. Search for Review Employee Resources.

Self-Service Benefits Review Employee Resources Redwood Page

This feature lets you experience Redwood’s high-fidelity interactions.

Steps to Enable

Here’s how you enable the Self-Service Benefits Review Employee Resources page:

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_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED profile option.
4. Select Site from the Level list.
5. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
6. Click Save.
7. Search for and select the ORA_BEN_SELF_SERVICE_ENROLLMENT_REDWOOD_ENABLED profile option.
8. Select Site from the Level list.
9. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
10. Click Save and Close.

Access Requirements

Required Privileges, Duty Roles, and Data Security Policies

• If you have custom roles, ensure that the respective privileges and aggregate privileges of the functional modules are part of your role hierarchy.
• After adding the privileges and aggregate privileges, regenerate the data role and verify the user interfaces.
• If you have direct job roles assigned to users, you need to create data role out of the job role for the data security to work.

Roles:

• Human Capital Management Application Administrator: To enable VBCS profiles.
• Employee
• Benefits Manager
• Benefits Specialist
• Benefits Administrator

Security

You need to update the custom roles with the following aggregate privileges and duty roles:

Aggregate Privilege: None

Inherited by Seeded Duty Roles:

• Benefits Enrollment Maintenance
• Employee Enrollment

Page Privileges:

• BEN_SUBMIT_ELECTIONS_PRIV
• BEN_ELECT_BENEFITS_PRIV

DSP: None

Redwood Experience for Benefits Service Center – Benefits Relationship Page

The Benefits Service Center – Benefits Relationship page was recreated in the Redwood Toolset Visual Builder Studio to improve the user experience by providing the same consistent functionality across Redwood pages. The functionality of the page remains the same.

Here’s how you use the Benefits Service Center – Benefits Relationship Redwood page:

1. On the Home page, click My Client Groups.
2. Click the Show More link under Quick Actions.
3. Search for Benefits Relationships.

Benefits Relationship Redwood Page

This feature lets you experience Redwood’s high-fidelity interactions.

Steps to Enable

Here’s how you enable the Benefits Service Center – Benefits Relationship page:

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_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED profile option.
4. Select Site from the Level list.
5. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
6. Click Save.
7. Search for and select the ORA_BEN_ADMINISTRATIVE_ENROLLMENT_REDWOOD_ENABLED profile option.
8. Select Site from the Level list.
9. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
10. Click Save and Close.

Access Requirements

Required Privileges, Duty Roles, and Data Security Policies

• If you have custom roles, ensure that the respective privileges and aggregate privileges of the functional modules are part of your role hierarchy.
• After adding the privileges and aggregate privileges, regenerate the data role and verify the user interfaces.
• If you have direct job roles assigned to users, you need to create data role out of the job role for the data security to work.

Roles:

• Human Capital Management Application Administrator: To enable VBCS profiles.
• Employee
• Benefits Manager
• Benefits Specialist
• Benefits Administrator

Security

You need to update the custom roles with the following aggregate privileges and duty roles:

Aggregate Privilege:

• Manage Person Benefit Relationship
• View Person Benefit Relationship

Inherited by Seeded Duty Roles:

• Benefits Enrollment Maintenance

Page Privilege:

• BEN_MANAGE_BENEFITS_RELATION_PRIV

DSP:

• BEN_VIEW_BENEFITS_RELATION_DATA on PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F
• BEN_MANAGE_BENEFITS_RELATION_DATA on PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F
• PER_CHOOSE_PUBLIC_PERSON_DATA on PER_PERSONS
• PER_CHOOSE_WORKER DATA on PER_ALL_ASSIGNMENTS_M

Redwood Experience for Benefits Service Center – People to Cover Page

The Benefits Service Center - People to Cover page was recreated in the Redwood Toolset Visual Builder Studio to improve the user experience by providing the same consistent functionality across Redwood pages. The functionality of the page remains the same.

You can use the common search functionality to search for employees faster and more accurately.

The family and emergency contacts page also was recreated in the Redwood Toolset Visual Builder Studio.

Here’s how you use the Benefits Service Center – People to Cover Redwood page:

1. On the Home page, click My Client Groups.
2. Click the Show More link under Quick Actions.
3. Search for People to Cover.

People to Cover Page

This feature lets you experience Redwood’s high-fidelity interactions.

Steps to Enable

Here’s how you enable the Benefits Service Center – People to Cover page:

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_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED profile option.
4. Select Site from the Level list.
5. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
6. Click Save.
7. Search for and select the ORA_BEN_ADMINISTRATIVE_ENROLLMENT_REDWOOD_ENABLED profile option.
8. Select Site from the Level list.
9. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
10. Click Save and Close.

Access Requirements

Inherited by Seeded Duty Roles:

• Benefits Enrollment Maintenance
• Employee

Page Privileges:

• BEN_ELECT_BENEFITS_PRIV
• BEN_MANAGE_BENEFICIARY_ORGANIZATION_DETAILS_PRIV
• BEN_MANAGE_BENEFIT_CONTACTS_PRIV

DSP:

• PER_VIEW_PERSON_CONTACT_DETAILS_DATA

Redwood Experience for Print Temporary ID Card Page

The Print Temporary ID Card page was recreated in the Redwood Toolset Visual Builder Studio to improve the user experience by providing the same consistent functionality across Redwood pages. The functionality of the page remains the same.

Here’s how you use the Print Temporary ID Card Redwood page:

1. On the Home page, click Me.
2. Click the Show More link under Quick Actions.
3. Search for Temporary ID Card.

Print Temporary ID Card Redwood page

This feature lets you experience Redwood’s high-fidelity interactions.

Steps to Enable

Here’s how you enable the Temporary ID Card page:

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_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED profile option.
4. Select Site from the Level list.
5. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
6. Click Save.
7. Search for and select the ORA_BEN_SELF_SERVICE_ENROLLMENT_REDWOOD_ENABLED profile option.
8. Select Site from the Level list.
9. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
10. Click Save and Close.

Access Requirements

Required Privileges, Duty Roles, and Data Security Policies (DSP)

• If you have custom roles, ensure that the respective privileges and aggregate privileges of the functional modules are part of your role hierarchy.
• After adding the privileges and aggregate privileges, regenerate the data role and verify the user interfaces.
• If you have direct job roles assigned to users, you need to create data role out of the job role for the data security to work.

Roles:

• Human Capital Management Application Administrator: To enable VBCS profiles.
• Employee
• Benefits Manager
• Benefits Specialist
• Benefits Administrator

Security

You need to update the custom roles with the following aggregate privileges and duty roles:

Aggregate Privilege:

• View Benefit Participants Enrollment Results by Administrator
• Manage Benefit Participant Enrollment Results by Administrator
• Manage Benefit Participant Enrollment Result by Worker
• View Benefit Participant Enrollment Result by Worker

Inherited by Seeded Duty Roles:

• Benefits Enrollment Maintenance
• Employee Enrollments

Page Privileges: 

BEN_VIEW_ENRT_RSLT_BY_WORKER_PRIV

DSPs:

• BEN_VIEW_ENRT_RSLT_DATA on PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F
• BEN_MANAGE_ENRT_RSLT_DATA on PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations for Benefits

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.

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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)