November Maintenance Pack for 21D

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
29 OCT 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 (21A, 21B, 21C, and 21D)
• 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

Learning

Learning

Oracle Learning Cloud is a skills driven learning platform that enables employees, teams and organizations to develop the most relevant set of skills. Oracle Learning combines informal and formal learning, from internal catalog and external learning sources into a single platform to provide learners with a single, unified learning experience.

Learner Experience

Completion Certificates

Learners and managers can now download a certificate of completion in PDF format for course, specialization, and legacy item learning assignments in Completed or Bypass Completed status. Certificate templates are provided for specialization completions and course and legacy item completions. Administrators can customize these templates individually.

In the learning self-service, you can enable the access of completion certificate on the enrollment details page.

Accessing Completion Certificate Action on Enrollment Details

Steps to Enable

To use this feature, you must complete the following steps. Details are provided below.

1. Grant privileges to the administrators to manage the completion certificate templates.
2. Grant privileges to the self-service users to access the Print Certificate action on enrollment details.
3. Customize the certificate templates.
4. Select the completion certificate to be used.

1.  Administrator privileges to manage completion certificate templates

The following pre-existing privileges are present in the Learning Specialist role.

1. To create and modify certificate templates
   • Role Name: BI Author Role
   • Role Code: BIAuthor
2. To configure Completion Certificates in Learning Setup
   • Privilege Name: Manage Learning Setup
   • Privilege Code: WLF_MANAGE_LEARNING_SETUP

The following new functional privilege has been added to the Learning Specialist role.

1. Populate list of values in Certificate Title LOV
   • Privilege Name: Use REST Service - Learning Administrator Lists of Values
   • Privilege Code: WLF_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_LEARNING_ADMINISTRATOR_LOVS_PRIV

2. Self-service user privileges to access the Print Certificate action on enrollment details

The following set of new functional privileges and roles have been added to the employee abstract role.

1. Enables the print certificate action in self-service
   1. Privilege Name: Print Learning Completion Certificate
   2. Privilege Code: WLF_PRINT_COMPLETION_CERTIFICATE_PRIV
2. Provides access to the certificate template
   1. Role Name: Print Learning Completion Certificate
   2. Role Code: WLF_PRINT_COMPLETION_CERTIFICATE_PRIV_OBI

NOTE: If custom roles have been configured, then these new privileges and roles must be granted to the them.

3. Customize Certificate Templates

To customize, add or delete fields to a template, users must access BI Publisher through the /xmlpserver URL (for example, https://hostname.com/xmlpserver).

When you login to /xmlpserver, there are two standard templates one, for courses and legacy items, and the other for specializations are available in the following BI Publisher folders:

• Shared Folders/Human Capital Management/Learning/Certificates/Course
• Shared Folders/Human Capital Management/Learning/Certificates/Specialization

You can use the 'Customize' action on the certificate report to create a similar folder structure under the "Custom" folder. You can modify the copy of the report created here.

Select the certificate report that needs to be customized, right-click and choose Customize.

Customize Templates

The custom templates will be available in the folder paths below. These are fixed paths that must not be modified.

• Shared Folders/Custom/Human Capital Management/Learning/Certificates/Course
• Shared Folders/Custom/Human Capital Management/Learning/Certificates/Specialization

To further customize the templates, refer to the Key Resources section for the link to Customize report functionality.

4. Select the completion certificate to be used

You can set the certificate defaults for courses and specializations by navigating to My Client Groups > Learning > Setup > Configure Catalog Defaults > Completion Certificate Defaults

Choose from the following two values in the Certificate Selection dropdown:

• No Certificate: It is the default setting that indicates that the completion certificates will be disabled in the system.
• Certificate: When selected, the Certificate Title dropdown is displayed with a list certificate templates available for use. Selecting a specific certificate title displays the respective Preview and Description fields.

Administrator Setting up Completion Certificate Defaults

Tips And Considerations

• Whenever a learner accesses the completion certificate, he will always see the latest certificate template that the administrator has configured in the setup.

• If the administrator has not configured the certificate template in the setup, then the print action will not show up in the UI for the learner, even when the learner has been granted all the privileges.

• Links to completion certificates are not yet supported in resource alerts. It will be added in a later release.

Key Resources

Customize report functionality is explained in the BIP Server documentation below.

• Customizing Completion Template (MOS Document ID: 2813934.1)
• Fusion Middleware Report Designer's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher the Using Custom Feature section

Role Information

See Steps to Enable.

Learning 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.

eLearning Player Version Removal Notice

Note in Update 22C, the eLearning player version that existed before 21A in Oracle Learning will be no longer be supported. Only the new eLearning player version released in 21A will be available.

Customers who aren't yet on the latest version should start preparing for the transition.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/tutorial/cloud/r13/wn/talent/releases/21A/21A-talent-mgmt-wn.htm#F17365

Key Resources

For information on the new player please see 21A What's New:

• New eLearning Player is Now Available via Profile Option

Recommendation Event Alert Removal Notice

Note that in the Update 22B, the recommendation event alerts feature will no longer be supported. Notifying learners of recommendations requires the use of resource alerts similar to notifying learners of new learning assignments.

Customers wanting to send notifications of their new recommendations must create a resource alert using the recommendation resource.

Configure Alerts

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

Below is the customer connect post with a resource alert definition template that customers can use in place of the current feature.

https://cloudcustomerconnect.oracle.com/posts/988fe29ebc

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations for Learning

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
Learning	eLearning Player Version Removal Notice	22C	New eLearning Player is Now Available via Profile Option	21A
Learning	Recommendation Event Alert Removal Notice	22B			Notifying learners of recommendations requires the use of resource alerts similar to notifying learners of new learning assignments.

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ORACLE DECOMMISSIONED THE HCM CLASSIC SIMPLIFIED USER INTERFACE IN UPDATE 20B

The HCM Responsive User Experience has been available and promoted as our standard since Update 18B. If you are still using the older HCM Classic Simplified User Interface, you must transition to the HCM Responsive User Experience, as these older pages will no longer be supported.

For consolidated information on generic setup information you can refer to My Oracle Support Document ID 2399671.1- HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information.

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KNOWN ISSUES / MONTHLY AND STATUTORY MAINTENANCE PACK

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 Learning

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?
Learning	Learning Planning	Learning Planning allows learning departments to identify and disposition learner training needs, culminating in a set of learning assignments. Learning Plans may or may not be executed at some future date; a non-executed plan is sometimes referred to as a simulation.	Customers must be: Live with HCM	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	19D	Yes
Learning	Administrator Faceted Person Search	The 'Search Person' tab under Add Person action used in Assign, Initiative, and Access Groups has been enhanced.	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21B	Yes
Learning	Offering and Specialization Activity Completion Sequencing (formally Sequencing and Completion Criteria for Activities Within a Specialization with increased scope)	Enforce the order in which learners must complete offering or specialization activities, and which activities are required to be completed or can optionally be completed by learners. -Ability to define which activities are optional or required in offerings or specializations -Ability to set the order in which a learner completes offerings or specializations -Added support for sections in offerings -Enhanced support for system-wide default evaluation -Updated user experience for admins when managing activity definitions for offerings and specializations	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21C	Yes
Learning	Learning Initiatives Background Processing Changes	New scheduled process to expand and reconcile learning initiatives independently from recommendation initiatives and access groups. This new process simplifies the task of scheduling background processes for learning initiative reconciliation because it performs the tasks of both the current ‘Evaluate Person IDs for Assignment Rule’ and ‘Reconcile Dynamic Assignments’ scheduled processes, but only for required and voluntary learning initiatives. Customers no longer need to coordinate the execution timing of these processes as they are coordinated by the ‘Process Learning Records’ process itself. This process also replaces the ’Generate a List of People from Analysis Report’ process which is currently submitted upon creation or editing required and voluntary learning initiatives.	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages Approved for participation in the Offering and Specialization Activity Completion Sequencing controlled availability program.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21C	Yes
Learning	Apply Learning Initiative Renewal Rule Changes to Existing Learning Records	Change the renewal frequency or renewal period for all learners participating in a learning initiative. Administrators can now change these rules on the initiative and choose to apply them to all existing learning records in addition to new records to be created.	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages Approved for participation in the Offering and Specialization Activity Completion Sequencing controlled availability program.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21C	Yes
Learning	Zoom Virtual Classroom Provider	Use the Zoom Integration with Oracle Learning Cloud. When you enable this integration, you can create and update Zoom web conferencing events directly in Oracle Learning Cloud. Instructors (hosts) and learners (attendees) can access training using web conferencing links located within offerings.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21D Nov	Yes
Learning	New Learner Experience	The new learner experience provides a faster learning catalog search engine for learners that includes higher relevancy search results in addition to a more natural browsing and filtering ability using quick filter chips that doesn’t first require the learner to enter a search term. The learner’s current learning and transcript pages are also redesigned into a single page pre-filtered on current learning. Filter chips and search also allow the learner to quickly access specific assignments or their entire learning history. Required assignments show prominently and visually differentiated for easy identification. Learning Recommendations are accessible from the What to Learn page with a richer, more visual experience that facilitates the learner’s engagement with learning items they have been recommended	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21D Nov	Yes
Learning	Re-assigning Learning to Completed Learners (This feature is replacing the Option to Not Auto-complete Learning controlled availability feature)	Administrators can choose to exempt learners in the target audience who have already completed the learning item, or to require them to re-take the learning, instead of the system automatically completing those assignments. A system-wide default behavior can be set, which controls the outcome when managers assign learning in self-service, and when learning assignments are created by learning communities.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details. This feature is dependent on Offering and sequencing activity completion sequencing controlled availability program.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21D Nov	Yes
Learning	Observation Checklists	An Observation Checklist activity provides the ability for someone to confirm the learner has obtained the necessary knowledge from the training before their assignment is completed. An observation checklist is a new content item that supports self-assessment in addition to an observer assessment. It is based on a questionnaire similar to assessments. Scoring of the checklist is optional. Once the Learner has finished the training, a worklist notification is sent to the observer who must complete the questionnaire and submit.	Using Responsive pages Newsfeed enabled. Refer to the document called Migrating Oracle Learning Cloud to the Responsive User Experience on My Oracle Support (Doc ID 2649721.1) for complete details. This feature is dependent on Offering and sequencing activity completion sequencing controlled availability program.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21D Nov	Yes

Learning Controlled Availability

Features under this heading are under the Controlled Availability Program. The Controlled Availability Program is a program for early testing and feedback of features, before they are included into the product line. You must request and be accepted into the Controlled Availability Programs to use these features. Please see the What's New for more information on being part of these programs.

NOTE: These features are not generally available to customers, customers must be approved to use these features. When these features are generally available to all customers they will be announced under their product area headings.

New Learner Experience

The new learner experience is built on Oracle Search providing a new learning catalog search experience to learners with intuitive filtering capabilities. 

The learner’s current learning and transcript pages are converted into a single page, pre-filtered based on their current learning items. Filtering and search provides the learner with ready access to specific assignments or their entire learning history. Required assignments are shown distinctly and prominently for easy identification. Learning Recommendations from the What to Learn page is presented in a rich, visually appealing format to facilitate learner engagement.

New Learner Experience

Steps to Enable

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

This feature is only available through the Controlled Availability Program at this time, which requires approval to join. If approved, you will be required to participate in testing and to provide feedback.

Observation Checklists

An observation checklist is a new learning content item that allows a learner to be observed and have their performance rated by another individual called the observer.

It validates if the learner has achieved the course objectives before completing the training. In addition, the observation checklist also supports an optional self-assessment checklist where the learner also rates themselves against the various areas of learning. 

The observer will receive a worklist notification once a learner has finished the training. They can open the observation checklist and answer the questionnaire and submit their results.

Steps to Enable

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

This feature is only available through the Controlled Availability Program at this time, which requires approval to join. If approved, you will be required to participate in testing and provide feedback.

Re-assigning Learning to Completed Learners

Administrators can now control how learners in the target audience of an assignment having existing course or offerings completions are managed and choose to either exempt them from the new assignment or require them to retake the training.

This feature replaces the course and offering auto-completion rules and provides control over the desired outcome, and applies to the assignments created by administrators, managers in self-service, learning communities and learning initiatives.

Steps to Enable

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

This feature is only available through the Controlled Availability Program at this time, which requires approval to join. If approved, you will be required to participate in testing and provide feedback.

Zoom Virtual Classroom Provider

Create and update Zoom web conferencing events directly by enabling Zoom integration with Oracle Learning Cloud.

Instructors (hosts) and learners (attendees) can now access training using web conferencing links located within offerings.

Steps to Enable

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

This feature is only available through the Controlled Availability Program at this time, which requires approval to join.

Update 21D

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
28 JAN 2022	HCM Common Architecture	Enhancements to Approvals and Notifications	Updated document. Revised feature information.
24 NOV 2021	Learning / Learner Experience	Display Activity Classroom Title in Self-Service	Updated document. Revised feature information.
25 SEP 2021	Learning / Approvals	Learning Assignment Withdrawal Transactions in Transaction Console	Updated document. Revised feature information.
03 SEP 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 (21A, 21B, 21C, and 21D)
• 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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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.

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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

Learning

Learning

Oracle Learning Cloud is a skills driven learning platform that enables employees, teams and organizations to develop the most relevant set of skills. Oracle Learning combines informal and formal learning, from internal catalog and external learning sources into a single platform to provide learners with a single, unified learning experience.

Approvals

Enhancements to Learning Request Approval Workflow

Take note of the enhancements that have been made to the approval history for admin, manager, and learner actions for learning requests. This change occurs when a learner submits a learning request, and it's routed for approval, but the approver has yet to take action on the approval request. If a learning administrator uses the Change Status > Bypass and Approve, or Bypass and Reject actions to either approve or reject a learning request on behalf of the approver, then:

• The learning request is updated based on whether the administrator's selected Bypass and Approve or Bypass and Reject.
• The approval task in the original approver's worklist is removed, because the administrator has handled the request for the approver.
• The learning request approval notifications contain the approval history, and are updated based on the administrator's actions.

An approval notification is sent to a manager when a learner submits a learning request:

Approval Notification to Manager

The approval notification is updated when an Administrator uses the Bypass and Approve or Bypass and Reject actions.

Approval Notification Updated Based on Administrator Action

When the learning request is withdrawn or cancelled by a self-service user, the corresponding approval process will be terminated, and any pending approval tasks will be removed.

Learner Cancelling the Enrollment While it is in Approval Work Flow

The approval notification that was sent to manager gets updated when a learner cancels the enrollment.

Notification Updated Based on User Action

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Approval transactions that were started before this release will inherit the new behavior.

Learning Assignment Withdrawal Transactions in Transaction Console

Take note that Learning Assignment Withdrawal transactions now appear in the Transactions Summary section of the Transaction Console. 

Transaction Manager Transactions Summary

Learning administrators must now use the Bypass and Approve action instead of the withdraw action to withdraw learning assignments in Withdraw Pending Approval status. The Withdraw action can still be used for learning assignments in other statuses such as Not Started or In Progress. Learning administrators can also use the Bypass and Reject action to reject the withdrawal request, which will return the learning assignment to its previous Not Started or In Progress status.

Administrator Options in Withdrawal Scenario

Learning administrators can still use Manage Activities, and Mark Activities Complete mass action on assignments in Withdraw Pending Approval status.

Manage Activities and Mark Activities Complete

When manager initiates withdrawals, notifications are sent to both manger and learner. Deeplink to the learning item from the BIP notification follows functional and data security privileges.

Steps to Enable

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

Administrator Experience

Additional Metrics for Manage Learners

View additional metric totals in the Learner Results area of the Learning Assignments pages for courses, offerings, and specializations, and external learning.

Example of New Metrics Count

With this enhancement, the assignment metrics now include the count of assignments in:

• Bypass Completed - Course, specialization, or external noncatalog completions. 
• Completed Pending Approval - External noncatalog completion requests submitted by self-service users that are pending approval.
• Completion Request Rejected - External noncatalog completion requests submitted by self-service users that have been rejected.
• No Offering Selected - Active course assignments where the learner does not yet have a primary selected offering they can begin.

Steps to Enable

To configure the new options:

1. Navigate to My Client Groups > Learning > Configure Learner Defaults.
2. Scroll down to the Summary Metrics section.
3. Click Edit.
4. Click Summary, and then select Assignment Status.

New Summary Metrics

5. Select the metrics you want to use.

Select or Remove Multiple Access Groups for Learning Item

Select multiple global access groups at a time to add them to, or remove them from courses, offerings, and specializations. This enhancement makes it faster and easier for admins to manage the global access groups associated with learning items, because you can add or remove global access groups in a single step, rather than adding them one at a time as in previous releases.

To add multiple global access groups at once:

1. Navigate to My Client Groups > Learning.
2. Under Learning Catalog, click either Course, Offering, or Specialization.
3. Click Learners.
4. Click Access Groups.
5. Click Add Access Group.
6. Click Select Global Access Group.
7. Search for the appropriate access groups.
8. In the Search Results area, select multiple global access groups.

Select Multiple Access Groups from the Search Results List

9. Click Submit. 

• A new confirmation message displays to let you know that the groups you've selected are added as the lowest priority if you've already got access groups selected for this learning item. (The priority within the selected global access groups is the order in which you selected them from the search results.)

New Confirmation Message

10. Click OK to close the message.
11. (Optional) If you need to manage the order of priority order for the groups you've just added, click Manage Group Priorities on the course, offering or specialization page.

Manage Group Priorities

12. Select a global access group and use the buttons on the left side of the Group Priorities window to change their order.
13. Click Save.

To remove multiple global access groups at once:

1. Select all of the global access groups you want to remove from the learning item.

Remove Global Access Groups

2. Click Remove.
3. Click Yes to confirm that you want to remove the Global Access Groups from the learning item.

Steps to Enable

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

Learner Experience

Translation Support for eLearning Player

Take note of the translation support that has been added to the eLearning Course Player that was added added as part of Update 21A. The Save and Close buttons on the player, the table of contents labels that aren't driven by the content, and any messages displayed to users are now shown in the logged-in user's set language preference.

The Save and Close buttons on the player, the table of contents labels that aren't driven by the content, and any messages displayed to users are now shown in the logged-in user's set language preference.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

• For more information about the eLearning Player, refer to the 21A Talent Management What's New feature ELearning Player is Now Available Via Profile Option.

Record External Learning through Mobile from Any Webpage

Use your iOS or Android mobile device's native share capability to record external learning, or register external learning into HCM Learning. The app automatically fills in the URL of the resource being shared, and if possible whatever other data it can parse (typically from a webpage). This gives users of the HCM Cloud Mobile app a quick way to launch the Record External Learning, or Register External Learning capabilities. Prior to this release you had to open the app for Fusion HCM, navigate to the pages to perform this action, and then manually type the information in.

Now, when you open the Share action on either your iOS or Android device (from a web browser), the HCM Cloud Mobile app icon is available in the list of apps you can share to.

HCM Cloud Mobile App is Now Available for Sharing Content

After clicking the Share button and logging in, you are presented with a form in which to record the external learning information. This form is pre-populated with data from the content you are sharing, but you can change the values if you want to. You can also add additional information if needed.

Record the External Learning Information in This Form

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• The main location to share from is a mobile web browser app. Other share locations are possible, but will likely result in sharing a resource that has no relevance to HCM Learning (a photo for example).

Self-Service Learning Catalog Search Usability Improvement

Take note of some new enhancements to self-service catalog searches on the My Learning page that improve learners' search experience:

• You can automatically append wildcard characters to the end of learners' catalog searches on the My Learning page.
• You can specify the minimum number of characters required for search (1-5) per language.

The search field on the Self-Service landing page has been enhanced so that search queries are resubmitted if the initial response returned no results in the auto suggestions drop-down. For example, you type "cour" and get no results, because there's no learning item that contains the word "cour" in its title.

No suggestions to Display

However if you continue typing to complete the term "course", another search is performed for the term "course." Prior to this release, the secondary searching didn't happen.

Suggestions Found When Typing Continued

Notice that matching terms are no longer highlighted in the results auto-suggestions.

Steps to Enable

New Self-Service Catalog Search Options

To enable these options:

1. Navigate to My Client Groups > Learning.
2. Under Setup, click Configure Catalog Search Tuning.
3. Click Edit.

To specify the minimum number of characters required for search:

1. Select the Override the default 3 character minimum search string requirement checkbox.
2. Select the number of characters you want, from 1 to 5.
3. Click Save and Close.

To automatically append a wildcard to the end of learners' catalog searches on the My Learning page.

1. Select the Automatically append the wildcard to the end of the search term when searching against the title check box to automatically append an asterisk (*) to the end of search strings. Using this option allows users to search on variations of a particular word or root word. For example, a user could type "cal" and receive matches for "California" and "calendar." (Prior to this enhancement they would not match.) The word "Ocala" wouldn't be returned, because wildcards only return results for anything that appears after the search string.

Tips And Considerations

Be aware that enabling the wildcard configuration may increase response time when learners are searching the learning catalog as more results may be found.

Key Resources

• Refer to the 21A February What's New documentation for the Search Functionality Modifications feature for additional information on the search functionality.

Display Activity Classroom Title in Self-Service

Enable Classroom Title on the self-service catalog and enrollment details pages, when you add an Instructor-Led Training Activities to an Offering, using Transaction Design Studio (TDS). This enhancement lets you use the classroom title to display a room number, or some other specific location information that is not captured in a street address. 

Classroom Title Displays Here

Steps to Enable

Enable the Classroom Title display via HCM Transaction Design Studio. 

To enable in the completion status section of enrollment details page for an activity:

1. Select Learning Self-Service Completion Details from the action drop-down list.
2. Click Add Rule.
3. Set the Classroom Title attribute to Visible.

To enable in the enrollment activity details page:

1. Select Learning Self-Service Activity Details from the action drop-down list.
2. Click Add Rule.
3. Set Classroom Title attribute to Visible.

To enable pre-enrollment on the course offering catalog details page:

1. Select Learning Self-Service View Offering Details from the action drop-down list.
2. Click Add Rule.
3. Set the Classroom Title attribute to Visible.

Learning Records

Time of Day Displayed for Withdrawal Dates

Take note that the withdrawn date values shown in the learning self-service and the learning administration areas will now also display the time the learning item withdrawal occurred. The time will always be displayed in universal time (UTC). For example: 02/12/21 09:00 UTC. Previously, only the withdrawn date was shown.

Time of Day Displayed for Withdrawals

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Records created prior to this release that have a withdrawn date will be updated with the time of the withdrawal.

External Providers

Skillsoft Integration Enhancements

Use the new enhancements for the Skillsoft Integration, which include performance improvements that make Skillsoft imports significantly faster than before.

On the Import External Content page, the Language drop-down list now displays all languages for which assets are available. The Import All button has been renamed to Import Entire Catalog. Clicking this imports the entire catalog for a provider.

Changes on the Import External Content Page

Prior to 21D, Skillsoft courses were loaded by a process called Load and Synchronize Skillsoft Course Data. Now, Skillsoft courses are loaded via the generic Load and Synchronize External Course Data process. This process is already used to load LinkedIn content. 

Load and Synchronize External Course Data

If you synchronized Skillsoft courses using the external provider integration prior to this release, you can now use the force reload option to enhance your existing Skillsoft courses with their thumbnails from Skillsoft. To force reload the thumbnails, use the Load and Synchronize External Course Data job (Tools > Scheduled Process > Schedule New Process).

Force Reload

Steps to Enable

If you scheduled the Load and Synchronize Skillsoft Course Data job prior to this release, you must cancel that process and are now required to schedule the Load and Synchronize External Course Data process.

Tips And Considerations

• You will see an error message when Load and Synchronize Skillsoft Course Data runs, this is expected as it is no longer used.

• Ingestion Mode is no longer supported option. It's not possible to create content items only using import. Import will always result in the course and an offering being created.

• If the Import External Learning Content job is invoked directly, it will lead to a failure. This job must no longer be invoked directly or via scheduled process page. It is internally invoked when a specialist clicks on import or import all

• If you manually add a branding image to a course that is managed by the Skillsoft provider integration, synchronizing from the provider won't overwrite the image you have added, even if you perform the force reload steps.

• This feature applies only to the courses that are managed by the content provider integrations.

Key Resources

Refer to the following resources for more information:

• The Talent Management What's New for Update 21C's feature Support for Skillsoft and LinkedIn Course Thumbnail Images for more details on this process.
• Background Processing chapter in the Implementing Learning guide.

Transactional Business Intelligence for Learning

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.

New Dimensions in Learning Records Real Time Subject Area

Use the additional columns that have been added to the Learning Records Subject Area under:

• Assigner Information/Assigner Person Details
• Assigned Learning Item Information
• Completion Details
• Offering Completion Details

Assigner Person Details

Additional columns have been added to the Learning Records Real Time Subject Area under different folders. The additional columns are listed below.

Column Name	Folder Location
Assigner Attribution Lookup Code Description	/Root/Assigner Information
Assignment Status	/Root/Assigner Information/Assigner Person Details
Business Unit	/Root/Assigner Information/Assigner Person Details
Department	/Root/Assigner Information/Assigner Person Details
Job	/Root/Assigner Information/Assigner Person Details
Legal Employer	/Root/Assigner Information/Assigner Person Details
Line Manager	/Root/Assigner Information/Assigner Person Details
Line Manager Number	/Root/Assigner Information/Assigner Person Details
Line Manager Primary Email Address	/Root/Assigner Information/Assigner Person Details
Location Name	/Root/Assigner Information/Assigner Person Details
Position	/Root/Assigner Information/Assigner Person Details
Worker Type	/Root/Assigner Information/Assigner Person Details
Assigner Attribution Lookup Code Description	/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigner Information
Assignment Status	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigner Information/Offering Assigner Person Details
Business Unit	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigner Information/Offering Assigner Person Details
Department	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigner Information/Offering Assigner Person Details
Job	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigner Information/Offering Assigner Person Details
Legal Employer	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigner Information/Offering Assigner Person Details
Line Manager	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigner Information/Offering Assigner Person Details
Line Manager Number	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigner Information/Offering Assigner Person Details
Line Manager Primary Email Address	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigner Information/Offering Assigner Person Details
Location Name	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigner Information/Offering Assigner Person Details
Position	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigner Information/Offering Assigner Person Details
Worker Type	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Assigner Information/Offering Assigner Person Details

Learning Item Related Information

Additional columns have been added to the Learning Records Real Time Subject Area under different folders. The additional columns are listed below.

Column Name	Folder Location
Assigned Learning Item Type	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information
Learning Item CPE Type Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information
Assignment Status	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Learning Item Publisher Person Details
Business Unit	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Learning Item Publisher Person Details
Department	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Learning Item Publisher Person Details
Job	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Learning Item Publisher Person Details
Legal Employer	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Learning Item Publisher Person Details
Line Manager	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Learning Item Publisher Person Details
Line Manager Primary Email Address	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Learning Item Publisher Person Details
Location Name	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Learning Item Publisher Person Details
Position	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Learning Item Publisher Person Details

Completion Details

Additional columns have been added to the Learning Records Real Time Subject Area under different folders. The additional columns are listed below.

Column Name	Folder Location
Activity Short Description	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learning Activity Information
Activity Description	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learning Activity Information
Activity Effort Units	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learning Activity Information
Activity Effort Units Description	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learning Activity Information
Activity Completion Description	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learning Activity Information
Activity Section Description	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learning Activity Section Information
Virtual Classroom Join Link	/Completion Information/Completion Details/ILT Activity Details
elearn Type Description	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Self Paced Activity Details
Activity Attempt Status Description	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learner Activity Attempt Information
Activity Attempt Locked	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learner Activity Attempt Information
Activity Section Attempt Locked	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learner Activity Attempt Information
Activity Section Attempt Status	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learner Activity Attempt Information
Activity Section Attempt Status Description	/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learner Activity Attempt Information

Selected Offering Completion Details

Additional columns have been added to the Learning Records Real Time Subject Area under different folders. The additional columns are listed below.

Column Name	Folder Location
Offering Activity Information
Activity ID	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Activity Number	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Activity Position	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Activity Title	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Activity Type	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Activity Type Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Activity Short Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Activity Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Expected Effort	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Activity Effort Units	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Activity Effort Units Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Learner Can Mark Activity Complete	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Passing Score	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Questionnaire ID	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Questionnaire Number	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Activity Completion Requirement	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Activity Completion Requirement Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Information
Offering Activity Section Information
Activity Section ID	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/ Offering Activity Section Information/
Activity Section Number	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/ Offering Activity Section Information/
Activity Section Title	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/ Offering Activity Section Information/
Activity Section Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/ Offering Activity Section Information/
Activity Section Position	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/ Offering Activity Section Information/
Activity Section Required Activities	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/ Offering Activity Section Information/
Offering Activity Attempt Information
Activity Attempt ID	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Attempt Number	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Attempt Locked	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Attempt Status	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Attempt Status Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Section Attempt Locked	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Section Attempt Status	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Section Attempt Status Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Section Attempt Completion Progress	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Attempt Started Date	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Attempt Completed Date	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Actual Effort	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Actual Effort Units	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Actual Effort Units Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Attempt Actual Score	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Total Attempts	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Attempt Exempted Date	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Attempt Exempted Reason Code	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Activity Attempt Exempted Reason Code Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/ Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/
Offering ILT Activity Information
Activity Date	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information
Activity Start Time	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information
Activity End Time	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information
Activity Time Zone	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information
Virtual Classroom Join Link	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information
Offering Classrooms
Classroom Number	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Classroom Title	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Location Name	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Location Address Line 1	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Location Address Line 2	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Location Address Line 3	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Location City	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Location Country	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Location ZIP Code	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Contact Person Number	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Contact Person Display Name	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Contact Person Primary Phone Number	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Contact Person Primary Email Address	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Primary Classroom	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Primary Classroom Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Classrooms
Offering Instructors
Instructor Number	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Instructors
Instructor	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Instructors
Instructor Person Number	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Instructors
Instructor Primary Phone Number	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Instructors
Instructor Primary Email Address	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Instructors
Primary Instructor	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Instructors
Primary Instructor Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering ILT Activity Information/Offering Instructors
Offering Self Paced Activity Information
eLearning ID	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Self Paced Activity Information
eLearning Number	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Self Paced Activity Information
eLearning Title	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Self Paced Activity Information
eLearning Type	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Self Paced Activity Information
eLearning Type Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Self Paced Activity Information
eLearning Attempts Allowed	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Self Paced Activity Information
eLearning Time Per Attempt	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Self Paced Activity Information
eLearning Time Per Attempt Units	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Self Paced Activity Information
eLearning Mark Completion on Open	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Self Paced Activity Information
eLearning Hide Actual Score	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Self Paced Activity Information
eLearning Disable Review For Passed Attempts	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Self Paced Activity Information
eLearning Disable Content Review	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Self Paced Activity Information

Other Additional Attributes

Additional columns have been added to the Learning Records Real Time Subject Area under different folders. The additional columns are listed below.

Column Name	Folder Location
Status Change Type	/Root/Post-Active Details
Status Change Type Description	/Root/Post-Active Details
Status Change Type	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Post-Active Details
Status Change Type Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/Offering Post-Active Details
Enrollment Sub type Description	/Root/General Information
Enrollment Sub Type Description	/Root/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course offerings/
Validity Period Option	/Validity-Expiration and Renewals Information

Label Changes for Existing Attributes

The following are label changes for existing sequencing attributes.

NOTE: These attributes are related to the Activity Sequencing functionality, which is currently in controlled availability as part of the early adopter program. See the Update 21C Talent Management What's New for the feature called Offering and Specialization Activity Completion Sequencing for details.

Old Label	New Label	Folder Name
Activity Attempt Status Description	Activity Predecessor Attempt Status Description	/Root/Completion Information/Completion Details/Activity Sequencing Details/Activity Completion Predecessor
Activity Attempt Locked Description	Activity Predecessor Attempt Locked Description	/Root/Completion Information/Completion Details/Activity Sequencing Details/Activity Completion Predecessor
Activity Title	Activity Predecessor Title	/Root/Completion Information/Completion Details/Activity Sequencing Details/Activity Completion Predecessor
Activity Number	Activity Predecessor Number	/Root/Completion Information/Completion Details/Activity Sequencing Details/Activity Completion Predecessor
Activity Attempt Status	Activity Predecessor Attempt Status	/Root/Completion Information/Completion Details/Activity Sequencing Details/Activity Completion Predecessor
Activity Attempt Locked	Activity Predecessor Attempt Locked	/Root/Completion Information/Completion Details/Activity Sequencing Details/Activity Completion Predecessor
Activity Section Attempt Status Description	Activity Section Predecessor Attempt Status Description	/Root/Completion Information/Completion Details/Activity Sequencing Details/Activity Section Completion Predecessor
Activity Section Attempt Locked Description	Activity Section Predecessor Attempt Locked Description	/Root/Completion Information/Completion Details/Activity Sequencing Details/Activity Section Completion Predecessor
Activity Section Title	Activity Section Predecessor Title	/Root/Completion Information/Completion Details/Activity Sequencing Details/Activity Section Completion Predecessor
Activity Section Number	Activity Section Predecessor Number	/Root/Completion Information/Completion Details/Activity Sequencing Details/Activity Section Completion Predecessor
Activity Section Attempt Status	Activity Section Predecessor Attempt Status	/Root/Completion Information/Completion Details/Activity Sequencing Details/Activity Section Completion Predecessor
Activity Section Attempt Locked	Activity Section Predecessor Attempt Locked	/Root/Completion Information/Completion Details/Activity Sequencing Details/Activity Section Completion Predecessor

Steps to Enable

Leverage new subject area(s) by adding to existing reports or using in new reports. For details about creating and editing reports, see the Creating and Administering Analytics and Reports book (available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > Books > Administration).

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations for Learning

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
Learning/ OTBI	Learning Management Subject Area	TBD	Learning Record Subject Area is now Generally Available	21A March/ 21B	Customers should replace any reporting using the Learning Management subjects with the Learning Record subject area.

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ORACLE DECOMMISSIONED THE HCM CLASSIC SIMPLIFIED USER INTERFACE IN UPDATE 20B

The HCM Responsive User Experience has been available and promoted as our standard since Update 18B. If you are still using the older HCM Classic Simplified User Interface, you must transition to the HCM Responsive User Experience, as these older pages will no longer be supported.

For consolidated information on generic setup information you can refer to My Oracle Support Document ID 2399671.1- HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information.

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KNOWN ISSUES / MONTHLY AND STATUTORY MAINTENANCE PACK

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 Learning

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?
Learning Cloud	Learning Planning	Learning Planning allows learning departments to identify and disposition learner training needs, culminating in a set of learning assignments. Learning Plans may or may not be executed at some future date; a non-executed plan is sometimes referred to as a simulation.	Customers must be: Live with HCM	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	19D	Yes
Learning Cloud	Administrator Faceted Person Search	The 'Search Person' tab under Add Person action used in Assign, Initiative, and Access Groups has been enhanced.	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21B	Yes
Learning Cloud	Offering and Specialization Activity Completion Sequencing (formally Sequencing and Completion Criteria for Activities Within a Specialization with increased scope)	Enforce the order in which learners must complete offering or specialization activities, and which activities are required to be completed or can optionally be completed by learners. -Ability to define which activities are optional or required in offerings or specializations -Ability to set the order in which a learner completes offerings or specializations -Added support for sections in offerings -Enhanced support for system-wide default evaluation -Updated user experience for admins when managing activity definitions for offerings and specializations	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21C	Yes
Learning Cloud	Learning Initiatives Background Processing Changes	New scheduled process to expand and reconcile learning initiatives independently from recommendation initiatives and access groups. This new process simplifies the task of scheduling background processes for learning initiative reconciliation because it performs the tasks of both the current ‘Evaluate Person IDs for Assignment Rule’ and ‘Reconcile Dynamic Assignments’ scheduled processes, but only for required and voluntary learning initiatives. Customers no longer need to coordinate the execution timing of these processes as they are coordinated by the ‘Process Learning Records’ process itself. This process also replaces the ’Generate a List of People from Analysis Report’ process which is currently submitted upon creation or editing required and voluntary learning initiatives.	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages Approved for participation in the Offering and Specialization Activity Completion Sequencing controlled availability program.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21C	Yes
Learning Cloud	Apply Learning Initiative Renewal Rule Changes to Existing Learning Records	Change the renewal frequency or renewal period for all learners participating in a learning initiative. Administrators can now change these rules on the initiative and choose to apply them to all existing learning records in addition to new records to be created.	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages Approved for participation in the Offering and Specialization Activity Completion Sequencing controlled availability program.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21C	Yes
Learning Cloud	Option Skip Learning Assignment Creation Instead of Auto-Completing	Choose to not create learning records, instead of having them created in a completed status, for learners who have already successfully completed a learning item. Administrators can control the outcome of assignment creation with this new option. A new option in the advanced rules step of the admin assignment creation flow allows administrators to choose between skipping assignment creation or creating and auto-completing the assignment when recipients already have a completion, and they are not expired. The default behavior will be to skip assignment creation, and when the creation is skipped, administrators will be able to review skipped assignments using the Skipped Assignments page (refer to 21B WN entry) This option is also supported in initiative creation screens as well. Existing initiatives are not updated and will continue to auto-complete records unless the initiative is modified, and the new option is selected.	Customers must be: Live with HCM Using Responsive pages Approved for participation in the Offering and Specialization Activity Completion Sequencing controlled availability program.	You will need to log a Service Request (SR) in My Oracle Support to request to be part of this program.	21C	Yes