Update 22A

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	Product	Feature	Notes
27 MAY 2022	HCM Data Loader	Business Object Enhancements	Updated document. Revised feature information.
25 MAR 2022	HCM Data Loader	Availability of Purge Person Data in Test Environments	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 22A.
25 MAR 2022	HCM Extract	Retention Period for HCM Extracts Archive Data	Updated document. Revised feature information.
25 FEB 2022	Application Security	Position Security Profile Hierarchy Access Enhances HCM Delegation	Updated document. Revised feature information.
28 JAN 2022	HCM Common Architecture	Enhancements to Approvals and Notifications	Updated document. Revised feature information.
03 DEC 2021			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 (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)
• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

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Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• Human Resources What’s New – In the Global Human Resources section you will find features on the base application in which other application are built upon. 

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.

• 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

HCM Common

Applications Security

Oracle Applications Security provides a single console where IT Security Managers and Administrators can perform various functions including user lifecycle management, role definition, security policy management(both functional and data), role hierarchy maintenance, username and password policy administration, and certificate management. The console also enables users to simulate the effect of security changes, to run security reports, and download a connector for integration with Microsoft Active Directory.

Extending Regenerate Security Profiles for Transaction, Recruiting, and Payroll

We've enhanced the Regenerate Data Security Profiles process to include the transaction, recruiting job requisition, and payroll-related security profiles for bulk regeneration. The specific security profiles that are now supported are: 

• Payroll Security Profile
• (Payroll) Flow Pattern Security Profile
• Transaction Security Profile
• Job Requisition Security Profile

This enhancement now supports all of the available security profile types. Prior to this enhancement, you would have to go into each security profile and manually save each security profile individually.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• The Regenerate Data Security Profiles process only needs to be run if instructed by the respective Oracle Development team, in case they changed the predicate logic for any reason.
• While not recommended to do; however if you have manually modified the Database Resource Conditions through the Security Console, be careful when running this process as it will overwrite your customizations with the system-generated SQL predicate!
• In the case of a person security profile using a payroll security profile, if the payroll security profile is regenerated, so is the person security profile. 

Key Resources

For more information please go to the HCM Common What's New for the following features:

• 19D -  Regenerating Data Security Profiles feature

• 21D - Regeneration of Security Profiles to Support Document Types feature

Additionally you can go to Application Help for the following topic:

• Regenerate Security Profiles

Position Security Profile Hierarchy Access Enhances HCM Delegation

We've enhanced the Position Security Profile to allow your users to dynamically delegate position hierarchy access to proxy users.  When securing by position hierarchy, the system will dynamically display the positions available for access.

Which positions appear in the position LOVs is dependent upon the Hierarchy Content selection.  The Hierarchy Content controls the positions that are displayed in the position LOVs, based on these options:

1. Delegating user's hierarchy displays positions derived from the delegating user's position hierarchy; or

• Both displays positions from both the signed-in user's position hierarchy, as well as those positions that are available from the delegating user's position hierarchy.

Note that Current user's hierarchy displays positions from the signed-in user's position hierarchy. This is the ready-to-use, existing behavior as if delegation is not enabled.

For the Users and Security functional area which can be found under the Workforce Deployment offering, the Manage Position Security Profile task's Export/Import capability has also been enhanced.  It now supports the addition of the Hierarchy Content Selection attribute on the existing position security profile object. You will find that a new PosHierarchyContent column has been added to the resulting CSV file.  We have also enhanced the HCM data Loader (HDL) support for Position Security Profiles. From the Data Exchange area under View Business Objects, you will see that the Position Security Profile business object now supports the addition of the Hierarchy Content Selection (HierarchyContent) attribute.  Additionally, a description has been added to existing attribute, PositionHierarchyTreeStructure.

Once your setup is complete, proxy users may need to leverage the assignment switcher to view the expected positions.  By default on My Team, the proxy's own assignment appears, but they can choose the delegator's assignment in order to access the additional positions. Here's a screenshot from My Team:

My Team

Change the assignment switcher to the delegated assignment and View By "Position" in order to see the new positions, as in this screenshot:

View By Position

Under the Positions action menu ellipsis (...), the user may see actions due to their new data access related to the delegated position which is inherited from the delegated role. 

The current HCM Delegation process allows a data role to be delegated to a proxy user. Prior to this enhancement a static list of positions could be delegated; however, it was not possible for a delegator to dynamically delegate access based on a user's own position hierarchy using HCM Delegation.

This enhancement now allows your IT Security Managers to configure the position security profile so that users, such as Line Managers, can delegate position hierarchy access through a delegated data role.

A typical scenario is when a Line Manager has an assistant and wants to delegate position management activities during the manager's absence while away for vacation, or an indefinite period of time.  This will now be possible when you enable this enhancement.

Steps to Enable

To enable this feature, IT Security Manager must:

1. Enable the profile option ORA_PER_ENABLE_POSITION_SECURITY_DELEGATION using these steps:

   1. Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area.

   2. Search for and click the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.

   3. Search for the ORA_PER_ENABLE_POSITION_SECURITY_DELEGATION profile option code and select the profile option in the search results.

   4. In the Profile Values area, enter Y in the Profile Value field.

   5. Click Save and Close.

   6. Sign out and sign in to the application for the changes to take effect

2. Once this profile option is enabled, a new field for Hierarchy Content appears in the Position Hierarchy section of the Position Security Profile. 
3. Configure the Hierarchy Content display behavior on the position security profile. 

• Current user's hierarchy will display positions from the signed-in user's position hierarchy. This is the existing behavior as if delegation is not enabled. 
• Delegating user's hierarchy will display positions derived from the delegating user's position hierarchy. 
• Both will display positions from both the signed-in user's position hierarchy, as well as those positions that are available from the delegating user's position hierarchy.

4. Note that the position security profiles must be uniquely associated to roles (such as custom Line Manager abstract or HR Specialist data roles) that are intended to provide position delegation.
5. Use Data Roles and Security Profiles to associate your position security profile to your delegation-allowed role.

Tips And Considerations

• When securing by Position Hierarchy, if a position security profile has Top Position Selection of "Select position", then it is not in the context of a user since it is a static list. Since no user context is involved, the Hierarchy Content does not apply for this option and is not available for selection. Hierarchy Content comes into play and is enabled when the Top Position Selection is in the context of a signed-in user, so the remaining options that are relative to a user will then apply.

• Once this feature is enabled for delegation-allowed roles on the Data Roles and Security Profile page, verification messages enforcing the synchronization of position security profile's Hierarchy Content Selection will appear if they are not in sync. You must verify that the position security profile is consistent with delegation-allowed roles.

• Similar to the person security profile implementation, the same position security profile cannot be used across multiple abstract or data roles. If this is attempted, then a validation error message will appear.

• This feature has no impact when your position security profile is secured by area of responsibility (AOR).  Similar to person security profiles that are secured by area of responsibility, you must assign AORs directly to the proxy user to grant direct access to such positions.

• If you're using automated software for testing, note that the fields in the Position Hierarchy section of the Position Security Profile have been rearranged due to logical dependencies.  Additionally, with the profile option enabled, a new field for Hierarchy Content appears in the Position Hierarchy section of the Position Security Profile.

• We have also improved the existing person security profile messages PER-1531594 and PER-1531817, to clarify that they're caused when a role is allowed to be delegated (i.e., delegation allowed checkbox is enabled).

Key Resources

For more information please go to the Oracle Help Center for the following topics:

• Role Delegation
• How You Enable Delegation for a Role
• Assign Security Profiles to Job and Abstract Roles

HCM Common Architecture

This section covers features used across all HCM Applications.

Enhancements to Approvals and Notifications

Now, you can immediately refresh the status of approval transactions. You no longer need to wait for the Refresh Transaction Administrator Console Transaction Status batch process to complete to view the updated status.

On the Transaction Summary tab of the Transaction Manager, click the refresh icon in each row to refresh the status of individual transactions or the icon in the header row to refresh all transactions shown on the page.

Refresh Icon on the Transaction Summary Tab

These 3 columns are refreshed when you click the refresh icon:

• Status
• Assignee
• Issue Assignee

View the current status of approval transactions and take immediate action.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

To hide the refresh column, create the HCM_TAC_ROW_REFRESH_HIDE profile option and set it to true.

1. Create the HCM_TAC_ROW_REFRESH_HIDE profile option:
   1. Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area.
   2. Search for and select the Manage Profile Options task.
   3. In the Search Results section, click New. You can see the Create Profile Option page.
   4. Specify the values indicated in this table for the new profile option. 

Field	Value
Profile Option Code	HCM_TAC_ROW_REFRESH_HIDE
Profile Display Name	Approval Rules Row Refresh Hide Enabled
Application	Global Human Resources
Module	Global Human Resources
Description	A suitable description such as  Enable hiding approval rules row refresh.
Start Date	1/1/2000

5. Click Save and Close.
6. On the Manage Profile Options page, select the Enabled and Updateable check boxes for the Site level.

7. Click Save and Close.

2. Set the HCM_TAC_ROW_REFRESH_HIDE profile option value to true:

1. Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area.
2. Search for and select the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.

3. Search for the HCM_TAC_ROW_REFRESH_HIDE profile option.

4. Set the Profile Value field to true.
5. Click Save and Close.

HCM Common

This section covers features used across all HCM Applications.

Autocomplete Rules for HCM Experience Design Studio Enhancements

Enhance the user experience authoring new rules in Autocomplete Rules for HCM Experience Design Studio with more capabilities.

Convert String in yyyy-mm-dd Format to Date Global Function

You can now convert a string in yyyy-mm-dd format to a date global function. The new global function is useful when you  need to author rules based on the payroll cycle date. The payroll cycle date is returned by the Get string value from HCM feature details global function with a string format. Using this global function to convert the payroll cycle into a date helps you to compare the payroll cycle date with any other dates.

The expected format of the string is yyyy-mm-dd otherwise it will return a null value.

New Options to Improve the Performance Execution of Your Rules

There are 3 new options available to improve performance execution of your rule.

• Exit rule in a condition block

As your requirements evolve, you may have to exclude some of your existing rules to execute for certain conditions.

For example, you need to exclude the French legal entity from the validation for an existing rule as shown below.

So instead of updating the entire rule, you can insert a condition to exit the rule for the French legal entity only.

• Exit Loop and Skip to the next row in a Row Collection Looping Block

When you loop on a row collection, you can now:

• Exit Loop once you find the row you're looking for
• Skip to the next row when the current row isn't the one you're looking for

The 2 options are available within a Row Collection Looping Block in a condition block.

Exit Loop or Skip to the next are the last expressions in a block.

• Improves user experience and reduces time spent on transactions by defaulting values
• Ensures accurate and consistent data by validating the user-entered values
• Allows your organizations to adjust quickly with HR compliance without relying on new releases

Steps to Enable

To enable this feature you need to log a Service Request (SR).

To enable Autocomplete Rules in the HCM Experience Design Studio, you need to log a service request (SR).

To get access, please review and follow the instructions provided in the My Oracle Support document, Enabling Oracle HCM Cloud Autocomplete Rules (Document ID 2767655.1).

Key Resources

For more information on Autocomplete Rules for HCM products, refer these What's New features in Update 22A:

• Global Human Resources:
  • Autocomplete Rules for Person Contact Relationship Business Object
  • Autocomplete Rule for Document Records Business Object
  • Autocomplete Rules in Position and Job Business Objects Based on Current and Proposed Values
• Talent Management
  • Autocomplete Rules for Talent Review Meeting Business Object in Talent Management
  • Add Remaining Attributes for Autocomplete Talent Profile Content Sections

Role Information

You must be granted the Human Capital Management Application Administrator role to work in a sandbox.

Transaction Design Studio for HCM Experience Design Studio Enhancements

Required Regions

Increase your data quality by ensuring that your users complete the required fields before submitting the transaction. In the example below, for the Hire an Employee flow the Payroll Details and Salary sections have been made mandatory.  When the user initiates the process, the behavior of the questionnaire remains the same. Payroll Details and Salary are not displayed as an option as they must be part of the guided process.

The feature is extended to more actions:

Release	Action	Release	Action
21C	Recruiting - Create Job Requisition	22A	Change Assignment
21D	Add Assignment	22A	Change Location
21D	Add Contingent Worker	22A	Change Manager
21D	Add Pending Worker	22A	Change Working Hours
21D	Add a Nonworker	22A	Create Job
21D	Create Work Relationship	22A	Create Location
21D	Edit Pending Worker	22A	Direct Reports
21D	Hire an Employee	22A	Employment Start Dates
21D	Local and Global Transfer	22A	Promote
		22A	Request a New Position
		22A	Request a Position Change
		22A	Resignation
		22A	Termination
		22A	Transfer
		22A	Work Relationship

Personalize the Save and Save and Close Actions in the Toolbar

Enhance the user experience by allowing your users to save their transactions at any point of time. For example, a user is adding a new contractor and has already provided half of the required info. If they need to switch to another task, they can save their work, resume later where they left off. Out-of-the-box, the two buttons are hidden.

The feature is extended to more actions:

Release	Action	Release	Action
21D	Add Assignment	22A	Change Assignment
21D	Add Contingent Worker	22A	Change Location
21D	Add Pending Worker	22A	Change Manager
21D	Add a Nonworker	22A	Change Working Hours
21D	Create Work Relationship	22A	Create Job
21D	Edit Pending Worker	22A	Create Location
21D	Hire an Employee	22A	Direct Reports
21D	Local and Global Transfer	22A	Job Details
		22A	Location Details
		22A	Position Details
		22A	Employment Start Dates
		22A	Promote
		22A	Request a New Position
		22A	Request a Position Change
		22A	Resignation
		22A	Termination
		22A	Transfer
		22A	Work Relationship

With this feature you can:

• Ensure accurate and consistent data by enforcing the entry of required fields for a specific process.
• Improve your user experience and reduces time spent setting up your solution by simplifying the personalization of HCM Cloud
• Streamline your transactions and processes by allowing your users to save their work at any point of time and resume later where they left off.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Required Regions

From this release onward:

• Users will get a warning message  if they have configured sections as required in the Transaction Design Studio.
• Users will get a warning message if they have not visited the mandatory sections in the above flows.

Save and Save and Close

A point to note is that rules will be evaluated for each attribute for active rules in the Transaction Design Studio.  If the same attribute is defined in multiple rule definitions, only the first in order of active rule attribute conditions are applied. For example, if you define:

• Rule 1: Generic rule where Save and Close is available unconditionally, but not Save.
• Rule 2: Save is available only for a specific legal employer

As a result, rule 1 is evaluated as the first rule in order of active rules and so the Save button won't be displayed for the legal employer selected in rule 2.

Key Resources

For additional information, refer to the following HCM Common What's New features:

• Update 21C - Required Sections During Job Requisition Creation
• Update 21D- Transaction Design Studio for HCM Experience Design Studio Enhancements

Role Information

You must be granted the Human Capital Management Application Administrator role to enable a sandbox.

HCM Data Loader

HCM Data Loader provides a flexible and efficient method of bulk loading business object data for data-migration and on-going incremental updates to Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.

Enhancements to View Business Objects

The Attributes tab of the View Business Objects user interface now displays the Reference attributes. These attributes have always been available in HCM Data Loader files and have been added to the Attributes page to encourage their use for reporting. Data supplied to these attributes is only available in the HCM Data Loader staging tables. These attributes are used for reporting on your data set until they expire and are then deleted from the staging tables.

Reference attributes remove the need for creating custom SQL in order to retrieve specific values from the HCM Data Loader staging tables for reporting and reconciliation.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Data supplied to reference attributes is available in the Imported Objects folder of the HCM Integrations Real Time subject area. If you're creating OTBI reports to filter by specific reference attribute values, assign these values to the first 4 reference attributes as only these are indexed.

Key Resources

You can download the HCM Data Loader Dashboard for OTBI from the HCM Report Sharing Center of Cloud Customer Connect.

Business Object Enhancements

You can now extend your data loading capabilities with these enhanced business objects:

UPDATED BUSINESS OBJECTS

Absence Management

Business Object	Component	New Attributes
Absence Entry	Absence Entry	AbsenceCaseId AbsenceCaseCode

Benefits

Business Object	Component	Changes
Person Benefit Balance	Person Benefits Balance	These attributes are no longer available: Uom LegalEmployerId LegalEmployer
Potential Life Event	Potential Life Event	The user key for this object has been extended to include LifeEventStatusCode. You can't update the status of a record unless you identify it using an integration key or the surrogate ID.

Global HR

Business Object	Component	Changes
Action Reasons	Action Reasons	You can no longer delete action reasons.
Actions	Actions	You can no longer delete actions.
Allocated Checklist	Allocated Checklist	New attributes: Archive After Months Purge After Months
Allocated Checklist	Allocated Checklist Tasks	This attribute is decommissioned: DependentOnTasks
Checklist Template	Checklist Template	New attributes: Archive After Months Purged After Months
Document Record	Document Attachment	This attribute has been removed having previously been decommissioned.  If you include this attribute, your uploads will fail: EntityName
Position Security Profile	Position Security Profile	New attributes: PositionHierarchyTreeStructCode HierarchyContent
Role Mapping	Role Mapping	New attributes: AssignmentCustomValue1 AssignmentCustomValue2 AssignmentCustomValue3 AssignmentCustomValue4 AssignmentCustomValue5 AssignmentCustomAttribute1 AssignmentCustomAttribute2 AssignmentCustomAttribute3 AssignmentCustomAttribute4 AssignmentCustomAttribute5
Worker		You can no longer upload date-effective updates for pending worker assignments, only create and correct existing assignment records.

Global Payroll

The following attributes have been removed, attempting to supply these will cause your upload to fail:

Business Object	Removed Attributes
Electronic Income Withholding Orders	TimePeriodId
Payroll Interface Inbound Record	TimePeriodId

Learning

Business Object	Component	New Attributes
Specialization V3	Specialization V3	ShowSectionIfSingleSectionExists

Talent Management

Business Object	Component	New Attributes
Goal Plan	Goal Plan	MaxGoalsNumInGoalPlan

Expand your bulk loading capabilities.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

Use the View Business Objects task to review the latest business object information.

Availability of Purge Person Data in Test Environments

The Purge Person Data from Test Environment process is now automatically available on your test or stage environments. Use this process to purge person records and related data, such as assignment records, calculation cards, element entries, absences and benefits.

You no longer have to request access to this process.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

This process is not available on production environments.

If you're unable to find the process on your test or stage environment, raise a service request with Oracle Support.

Key Resources

For more information, see the following help topics in the HCM Data Loader guide located in the Oracle Help Center:

• Purge Person Data from Test Environments
• Tables Purged by the Purge Person Data in Test Environments Process

HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader

HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader provides a flexible and efficient method of bulk loading business object data for data-migration and on-going incremental updates to Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.

Secured Business Objects Now Available to Business Users

You can now extend your business users' bulk-loading capabilities for an object. Spreadsheets based on these objects now implement user's data security and can be shared with business users.

Global Payroll

• Payroll Interface Inbound Record

Your business users can bulk load data for this object using spreadsheets.

Steps to Enable

When creating a new spreadsheet template, the template security automatically defaults to the setting where data is uploaded as session user. For existing templates based on these objects, you can update the template configuration and set the user type to Session User.

Key Resources

For more information, see the following help topics in the HCM Data Loader guide located in the Oracle Help Center:

• HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader Templates
• How You Associate A User Name with a Data Upload

Preconfigured HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader Access

You would require the following access to use HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader spreadsheets for bulk-data loading:

Privilege	Access
Load Data using HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader	Enables the ability to generate spreadsheet for bulk-data loading.
Access HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader	Provides access to the Run Spreadsheet Data Loader task, which provides access to generate spreadsheets for the templates a user has access to.
Manage Data Exchange Work Area	Provides access to the Data Exchange work area where the Run Spreadsheet Data Loader task resides.

This access is now preconfigured for these job roles:

• Compensation Analyst
• Compensation Manager
• Human Resource Specialist
• Human Capital Management Application Administrator
• Payroll Manager
• Payroll Administrator
• Payroll Interface Coordinator
• Time and Labor Manager

Reduces the security setup requirements for providing access to bulk-loading spreadsheets.

Steps to Enable

If you are using custom versions of these job roles, you can add HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader access by granting these privileges:

Aggregate Privileges

• Load Data using HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader (ORA_HRC_LOAD_DATA_USING_HSDL)
• Access HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader Templates (ORA_HRC_ACCESS_HSDL_TEMPLATES)

Function Security Privilege

• Manage Data Exchange Work Area (HRC_MANAGE_DATA_EXCHANGE_PRIV)

Tips And Considerations

Access to the Run Spreadsheet Data Loader task doesn't automatically provide bulk-data loading capabilities. The user is only able to access active spreadsheet templates that have been assigned to a job role granted to the user.

Key Resources

For more information please go to the HCM Data Loader guide on the Oracle Help Center for the following topics:

• How You Enable Access to HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader Tasks
• Access to Templates and Generated Spreadsheets

New Warning Message

Occasionally, errors occur after your data is successfully loaded. Now, a new warning message will communicate the problem, and your data set will have a warning status instead of an error status.

Data sets where all data was successfully loaded will no longer be marked in error.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Errors can occur when updating the HCM Data Loader staging tables after the Oracle HCM Cloud changes have been made.

HCM Extract

HCM Extracts provide a method for extracting data from your HCM applications that can be used for interfacing data to another source or extracting data to integrate reporting across systems.

Retention Period for HCM Extracts Archive Data

All HCM Extracts generated archive data are retained for 90 days from the date the archives are created. Archives generated by full run extracts that are older than 90 days are automatically purged to improve the efficiency of extract runs.

Earlier, you were required to manually purge the older archives to improve the performance of the Extracts run. Now, archives that are older than 90 days are automatically purged.  

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

- The retention period of 90 days apply to all non-incremental user-defined extracts (full extracts) for the runs that are triggered after your 22A upgrade.

- If required, you must test and update queries or reports that directly access the pay_action_information archive table related to these extracts.

- You can remove the output files generated by these extracts that are stored in WebCenter Content using the 'Delete HCM Extract Documents' ESS Job.

- Files generated by Extracts that are stored in UCM (for WebCenter Content delivery options) are placed in hcm$/extracts$/export$. If there is an explicit reference to the UCM account in your scripts, then ensure that you update your scripts to refer to the new dDocAccount.

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations for HCM Common

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)

Controlled Availability for HCM Common

The following is a list of Controlled Availability features that are being offered by our Controlled Availability Program.

NOTE: These features are not generally available for all customers at this time. These are only available through the Controlled Availability Program and will require approval to become a part of the features program. To be a part of these programs you will be required to participate in testing and providing feedback. Some programs may require other participation as well.

Not to worry if you don't have to time to be a part of these early stage programs. You can uptake this feature when it is generally available for all customers. When these features are available for all customers you will see the features under their product headings as usual.

We invite you all to browse through the list of features to see if there are any features you are interested in implementing in advance of the features scheduled release. The table below will provide information on signing up for features. Please sign up soon, as these programs have limited availability and some are designed for specific types of customers.

The table below gives you a brief description of the features available and how to sign up. Some features are bigger than others, so for more information there may be a What's New describing the feature in more detail below this table.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas as you participate the Controlled Availability programs!

Product	Feature Name	Feature Description	Type of Customer Needed to Test	How to Sign Up	Controlled Availability Release	Is the Program Still Open?
Across All HCM Products	Oracle Search-Based Global Search	New Global Search for HCM provides faster person search experience and introduces new person search capabilities. It is based on Oracle Search Person Index Updates (feature below), a dedicated search platform for Oracle Cloud.	It is dependent on the Oracle Search for HCM feature below.	See the following My Oracle Support Document on how to apply: Fusion Global HR: How to Apply for Oracle Search-Based Global Search Under Controlled Availability (Doc ID 2743208.1)	Revised 21A - 22A	Closed
Across All HCM Products	Oracle Search for HCM	Oracle Search is a dedicated search engine available in your Human Capital Management Cloud environments. It is based on Oracle Search Person Index Updates (feature below), a dedicated search platform for Oracle Cloud.	Is dependent on Oracle Search-Based Global Search above or Connections that can be found in the 21A Global HR What's New under Controlled Availability Features.	Customers cannot request Oracle Search as a standalone feature. It has to be requested as via specific Oracle Search-dependent feature like Connections (In 21A Global HR What's New Under Controlled Availability Features or Oracle Search-based Global Search (In the 21A HCM Common What's New under Controlled Availability Features: Fusion Global HR: How to Apply for Connections Under Controlled Availability (Doc ID 2743183.1) Fusion Global HR: How to Apply for Oracle Search-Based Global Search Under Controlled Availability (Doc ID 2743208.1)	Revised 21A - 22A	Closed
Across All HCM Products	Oracle Search Person Index Updates	Oracle Search person index is optimized for better performance. This feature is needed for the Oracle Search-dependent features, see Oracle Search for HCM above. Controlled availability customers using HCM Oracle Search features (Connections, Oracle Search-based Global Search, Succession Organization Chart) are required to rebuild the index.	Use of HCM Oracle Search features (Connections, Oracle Search-based Global Search, Succession Organization Chart).	Only customers using Oracle Search features (Connections, Oracle Search-based Global Search, Succession Organization Chart).	21C - 22A	Closed