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 JUL 2023 | HCM Data Loader | Failing Schedules for Maintaining Stage Table Data are now Cancelled | Updated document. Revised feature information. |
| 02 JUN 2023 | Created initial document. |
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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Column Definitions:
Report = New or modified, Oracle-delivered, ready to run reports.
UI or Process-Based: Small Scale = These UI or process-based features are typically comprised of minor field, validation, or program changes. Therefore, the potential impact to users is minimal.
UI or Process-Based: Larger Scale* = These UI or process-based features have more complex designs. Therefore, the potential impact to users is higher.
Features Delivered Disabled = Action is needed BEFORE these features can be used by END USERS. These features are delivered disabled and you choose if and when to enable them. For example, a) new or expanded BI subject areas need to first be incorporated into reports, b) Integration is required to utilize new web services, or c) features must be assigned to user roles before they can be accessed.
| Ready for Use by End Users Reports plus Small Scale UI or Process-Based new features will have minimal user impact after an update. Therefore, customer acceptance testing should focus on the Larger Scale UI or Process-Based* new features. |
Customer Must Take Action before Use by End Users Not disruptive as action is required to make these features ready to use. As you selectively choose to leverage, you set your test and roll out timing. |
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Simplified Security Configuration to Provide HCM Data Loader Functionality |
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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.
Use Exclusions for Person Security Profile
Previously, it was mandatory to secure by area of responsibility to use HCM Exclusions. You can now create person security profiles to view all workers and specify exclusions, without securing them by areas of responsibility.
Securing Using Person Security Profile
Person security profile HCM Data Loader (HDL) and Functional Setup Manager (FSM) export/import capability have also been updated to support the view all capability.
This feature will make the person data access security implementation easier and reduce the need for custom criteria SQL.
It is a good implementation best practice option.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
- Candidates and people without assignments are automatically excluded, i.e., no contacts will appear.
- When migrating data through FSM export/import process, while child objects can be added during this process, deletion of child objects from the target environment won't be performed.
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If assignment-level security is enabled, and a person has multiple assignments with one assignment excluded based on the HCM exclusion rule, then that assignment won't appear. However, if assignment-level security is disabled and you're operating with person-based security having access to at least one assignment, then all assignments will appear.
Key Resources
For more information on person security profiles and creating exclusion rules, refer to these topics of the Person Security Profiles chapter in the Securing HCM guide on the Oracle Help Center:
• Create an HCM Exclusion Rule
• How can I exclude some records from a person security profile?
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.
Use the new User Entity Details page to search and filter user entity details. You can use a keyword or user entity and its associated attributes to search for the user entity details.
User Entity Details Search Page
To search the user entity details:
- Click Navigator > My Client Groups > Data Exchange.
- In the Data Exchange work area, click View User Entity Details.
- On the User Entity Details page, use a keyword or user entity and its associated attributes to search for the user entity details.
- In the user entity search results, click the user entity link to:
- View the database items available in a user entity.
- Validate user entities for use with root data groups.
- Review the type of user entity, for example, single row, multiple rows, historic, or effective dated.
- Review the SQL query the user entity uses.
- Calculate the number of rows in a data set.
- Review the contexts used and set by the user entity.
User Entity Details Search Results
NOTE: If the new user entity is delivered after applying the release patch, then you need to update the user entity information by manually running the user entity data dictionary process.
To submit the user entity data dictionary process:
- Click Navigator > Tools > Scheduled Processes.
- On the Scheduled Processes Overview page, click Schedule New Process.
- Leave the type as Job, select the Generate User Entity Data Dictionary process, and click OK.
User Entity Data Dictionary Scheduled Process
- In the Process Details dialog box, select the report mode:
- Select No to update the new user entity information.
- Select Yes if you want to view the route, database item, and user entity details in a report.
- Define the schedule, output, and notifications for the process set, as you would do for any scheduled process.
- Set any other options and click Submit.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Key Resources
Refer to the Best Practices for Viewing User Entity Details chapter within the HCM Extracts guide located in the Oracle Help Center.
Extract Definitions Page Enhancements
You can now create and manage extract definitions with the reorganized menus. The new Extract Definitions page encourages you to use templates to create extract definitions.
The predefined templates help you to quickly set up extracts. These templates enable you to define your extracts by choosing from a comprehensive list of attributes.
Create Extract Definition Menu
The task menu of the user interface is reorganized based on the priority of the task to manage the extract definitions.
Extract Definition Task Menu
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Extract Diagnostics Reports Enhancement
The new Extract diagnostic report is available in HTML format making it easy to read and navigate between different sections of the report. The report gives well-structured and detailed information on both runtime and design-time diagnostics.
You can get information on design recommendations to improve the extract design and performance. You can also run diagnostics for a specific HCM Extracts run to identify the phase-wise timing and recommendations to improve the process time for the subsequent runs.
The sections of the extract report are:
Runtime diagnostics report
- Recommendations
- Basic Information - extract definition, the data group
- Configuration Parameters
- Extract Parameters
- Processed Data Summary
- Process Error Details
- Overall Timing Summary Explained
- Ongoing ESS Job History Details
Design-time diagnostics report
- Extract Definition Information Section
- Extract Diagnostics Report Section
- Execution Plan
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Key Resources
Refer to the HCM Extracts Process Diagnostics Report chapter within the HCM Extracts guide located in the Oracle Help Center.
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.
Failing Schedules for Maintaining Stage Table Data are now Cancelled
To maintain an optimal performance of the HCM Data Loader (HDL), the staging tables are purged of the old data using custom schedules created by the users or schedules are automatically created by the HDL.
In this enhancement, the Cancel Failing HCM Data Loader Schedules post process is automatically submitted after processing a data set if there have been 5 or more instances of failed Delete Stage Table Data process when the schedule was:
- Created by a user who no longer exists in the system.
- Created by a user whose permissions to run the process that maintains the staging tables were revoked.
This post process deletes such failing schedules and all the waiting processes and raises a warning against the data set to indicate that the failing schedule has been canceled.
Automatic purging of failed schedules ensures the removal of orphaned failed schedules, thereby maintaining optimum performance without user intervention.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
After deleting the failing schedules, when the HCM Data Loader loads a file, it evaluates if schedules exist to maintain the stage tables. If not, it creates and submits a new schedule.
Key Resources
For more information on maintaining stage tables, see: Overview of Maintaining the Stage Tables
Simplified Security Configuration to Provide HCM Data Loader Functionality
The newly introduced HCM Data Load duty role provides access to HCM Data Loader (HDL) functionality, making it easier to create custom roles to provide HCM Data Loader functionality.
The HCM Data Load duty role is granted this access:
| Privilege | Access to |
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| Review HCM Data Loader Business Objects |
View Business Objects task |
| Generate HCM Data Loader Templates |
The ability to generate HDL template files |
| Import and Load HCM Data |
Import and Load Data task |
| Transfer HCM file from UCM and import into stage |
The process that transfers data from the UCM to the HDL staging tables. |
| Load HCM Data |
The process that validates and loads data to (or rollbacks data from) the application tables. |
| Review Attribute Values of HCM Business Objects in Stage Tables |
The ability to review attribute values within the Import and Load Data task. |
| Delete HCM Data Loader Stage Data |
The Delete Stage Table Data task and process |
| Manage Data Exchange Work Area |
The Data Exchange work area |
Additionally, you'll need to grant access to the Oracle WebCenter Content server (UCM) folders that HCM Data Loader uses.
Customers can easily create custom roles for accessing HDL so that the users are provided granular access to the tools needed to fulfill their roles.
Steps to Enable
To enable this access, edit your custom role to add the following duty role:
| Name | Code |
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| HCM Data Load |
ORA_HRC_HCM_DATA_LOAD_DUTY |
To grant access to the Oracle WebCenter Content server folders used to upload staging files and to generate template and error files.
Grant your custom role the following role hierarchies:
| Role Hierarchy | Code |
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| Download data from Human Capital Management file based Export |
HCM_DATALOADER_EXPORT_RWD |
| Upload data for Human Capital Management file based import |
HCM_DATALOADER_IMPORT_RWD |
Tips And Considerations
Avoid granting the Human Capital Management Integration Specialist job role to users who only need HDL functionality. This powerful job role grants access to many more features your users may not need.
Extend your data loading capabilities with these new and enhanced business objects:
NEW BUSINESS OBJECTS
Benefits
| Business Object | Description |
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| Benefits Standard Rate | Rates determine costs for purchasing benefits coverage, such as life or heath insurance. |
| Close Enrollment Certification Action Items | Update the received or denied date to close Benefits enrollment action items. |
| Variable Rate Profile | Vary standard rates with variable rate profiles that specify eligibility criteria, calculation method, and how the calculation affects the associated standard rate. |
Global HR - Checklists
| Business Object | Description |
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| Checklist Mass Allocation | A configuration that initiates the mass assignment of journeys. |
| Checklist Mass Allocation Translation | Translations for Checklist Mass Allocation. |
Talent Management
| Business Object | Description |
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| Skills Assignment | Assigns core skills to one or many assignees. |
| Talent Pool Security Profile | A security profile that includes the criteria defined to secure public talent pools. |
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PRODUCT AREA CHANGES
The product area has been updated for this object to help identify objects that bulk-load security related data:
| Business Object | Previous Product Area | New Product Area |
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| Job Requisition Security Profile | Recruiting | Recruiting - Security |
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ENHANCED BUSINESS OBJECTS
These objects have introduced new attributes.
Absence Management
| Business Object | Component | New Attributes |
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| Absence Entry | Absence Entry |
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Global HR - Document Records
| Business Object | Component | New Attributes |
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| Document Type | Document Type |
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Global HR - Person
| Business Object | Component | New Attributes |
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| Areas of Responsibility | Areas of Responsibility | Usage |
Global HR - Security
| Business Object | Component | New Attributes |
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| Person Security Profile | Person Security Profile |
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Global Payroll - Costing
| Business Object | Component | Updates |
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| Cost Allocation Account | Cost Allocation Account | The SourceSubType attribute is validated by lookup type ORA_PAY_COST_SUB_SOURCE_TYPE which has been updated; the meaning for the lookup code BOTH has changed. This will impact integrations that supply the meaning, rather than the lookup code for this attribute. |
Global Payroll - Elements
| Business Object | Component | Updates |
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| Payroll Element Definition | Payroll Element Definition | The ExpeditedMode attribute is validated by lookup type ORA_PAY_ELEMENT_EXPEDITE_MODE which has been updated; the meaning for the lookup code BOTH has changed. This will impact integrations that supply the meaning, rather than than the lookup code for this attribute. |
Recruiting
| Business Object | Component | Updates |
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| Candidate Job Application | Questionnaire Response Participant | New attribute:
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| Job Offer |
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You can now update DFF segments, comments, attachments and Offer Team (Collaborators) when the job offer has the following state:
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Extend your bulk-loading capabilities with these new and extended objects available with HCM Data Loader and HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
Tips And Considerations
If you've assigned access to define HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader templates for the Recruiting product area, review whether your role should now also be granted access to the new Recruiting - Security product area. Refer to the Manage Spreadsheet Business Object Access help topic for more information.
Key Resources
Use the View Business Objects task to review and download the latest business object information.
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.
Audit HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader Template Role Assignments
You can now enable the audit of HSDL template role configuration using Manage Audit Policies and review changes using the Audit Reports task found in the Tools area.
To do this:
- Select the HSDL Template Roles to be audited on the Configure Business Object Attributes page in the Manage Audit Policies page under the Setup and Maintenance task.
- To view the changes done to the HSDL Template Roles, click Audit Reports under Tools:
Review the changes to the role configurations and types of access for the HSDL templates, and once enabled, you can view these changes in the existing audit reports.
Steps to Enable
- Perform the Manage Audit Policies task in the Setup and Maintenance work area.
- Select Audit Level as Auditing for Oracle Fusion Applications.
- Click on Configure Business Object Attributes.
- Select the product as HCM Common Architecture.
- Select and check the HSDL Template Roles node under HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader in the hierarchy.
- Click Create under the HSDL Template Attributes: Audited Attributes
- In the Select and Add Audit Attributes dialog, check the following:
- Roll Back Data Set
- Save Data Set
- Upload Data Set
- View All Data Sets
- Manage Template
- Create Data Set
- Click OK.
- Click Save.
Key Resources
For more information review the Audit Configuration for Business Object Attributes topic in the Implementing Applications guide.
You can now search for a business object using a searchable list of values to create a new template or filter from existing templates.
The Business Object Search is implemented in the following pages:
- Create Template in Spreadsheet Templates
- Click on the Spreadsheet Templates task under HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader in the Data Exchange work area.
- Click Create.
- Click on the Business Object drop down on the Create Template dialog.
- Click Search at the bottom of the business objects list.
- The Search and Select: Business Object window provides two free-text fields for Product Area and Business Object to support wild card searching.
- Show Filters in Run Spreadsheet Data Loader
- Click on the Run Spreadsheet Data Loader task under HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader in the Data Exchange work area.
- Click Show Filters.
- Click on the Business Object drop down on the Filters dialog.
- Click Search at the bottom of the business objects list.
- The Search and Select: Business Object window provides two free-text fields for Product Area and Business Object to support wild card searching.
- Show Filters in Spreadsheet Templates
- Click on the Spreadsheet Templates task under HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader in the Data Exchange work area.
- Click Show Filters.
- Click on the Business Object drop down on the Filters dialog.
- Click Search at the bottom of the business objects list.
- The Search and Select: Business Object window provides two free-text fields for Product Area and Business Object to support wild card searching.
Customers can easily find the business object to create a template or search for existing templates.
Steps to Enable
You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.
This section covers features used across all HCM Applications.
Autocomplete Rules for HCM Experience Design Studio Enhancements
Enhance your users' experience authoring new rules in Autocomplete Rules for HCM Experience Design Studio with this additional capability for Global HR: New Autocomplete delivered rule "SA Default Hijri Date Based on Date of Birth" for Saudi Arabia to populate the Hijri Date of Birth when the Date of Birth is entered when a person is added to the application. This rule uses an Oracle standard function that is based on the Umm al-Qura calendar.
This feature helps in ensuring accurate and consistent data by validating the user-entered values and allows your organizations to adjust quickly with HR compliance without relying on new release updates.
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). Please review and follow the instructions provided in the My Oracle Support document, Enabling Oracle HCM Cloud Autocomplete Rules (Document ID 2767655.1) to get access.
Key Resources
For additional information on Autocomplete Rules for HCM applications, refer these What's New features in Update 23C:
- Global Human Resources: Autocomplete Rules for Person Business Object
Access Requirements
You must be granted the Human Capital Management Application Administrator role to work in a sandbox.
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 |
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| None 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? |
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| Across All HCM Products |
Get News Feed Suggestions On Your Next Likely Actions | Get suggestions on your next likely actions in your news feed layout. This feature is currently in Controlled Availability and is available in Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, Financials, Project Management, and Procurement. Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms predict and suggest the actions each user is most likely to take during a session. The algorithms use historic navigation behavior and patterns of each user and users like them to determine which navigation target they’re most likely to visit. |
All Newsfeed Customers |
23A | Closed, Discontinuing |