Update 22A

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
06 DEC 2021			Created initial document.

Overview

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

• Release Updates (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)
• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

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

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Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

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

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

• Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1). These documents identify bug fixes and possible known issues. You will also need to review these documents based in the release update version you are currently on or will be moving to.

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

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Feature Summary

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.

Display Branding Image on Enrollment Details Page

You can now enable the branding images configured on courses and specializations to appear at the top of the self-service enrollment details page and provide learners with a richer user experience.

Displaying the branding image is enabled using HCM Experience Design Studio by setting the attribute Poster Image as visible on the enrollment details page.

Enrollment Details Page

Steps to Enable

To personalize enrollment details page for the poster image, follow these steps: 

Navigation: HCM Experience Design Studio

• Action Page: Learning Self-Service View Enrollment Details Section
• Region: Page Poster Header
• Attribute: Poster Image, Value: Visible

Learning Self-Service View Enrollment Details Section

Video Player Update

This new version of the video player resolves a few functional limitations with the previous version, most notably:

• Resolves issues where some videos did not resume correctly on Android devices.
• Resolves an issue where some videos did not always play to the end.

Steps to Enable

Here are the attribute values to set the profile option to enable the update - 

• Task: Manage Administrator Profile Values
  • Profile Option Code: ORA_WLF_JWPLAYER_VERSION
  • Profile Display Name: ORA_WLF_JWPLAYER_VERSION
  • Profile option value at the site level: 8/8206

Administrator Learning Item Details Page Update

The course, offering, and specialization definition pages have been updated with collapsible sections and consistent layouts that resemble the style of the self-service catalog details pages.

Course Details Page

Steps to Enable

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

Adding Learning Quick Actions in HCM Journeys

In Update 21C, the learning assignment activation and completion events were available as HCM Journeys workflow events. Beginning with this release, you can select the quick actions from learning self-service to automatically assign the learning tasks to build the HCM Journeys workflows.

The following set of learner and manager actions can be now defined as HCM Journeys tasks:

Learner Actions:

• Access Current Learning
• Access What to Learn
• Access View Transcript
• Access My Learning Communities
• Publish Video
• Author Learning Journey
• Record External Learning

Manager Actions:

• Assign Learning to My Team
• Record External Learning for My Team
• Search Learning Catalog

Steps to Enable

Enable Learner and Manager Actions in HCM Journeys

Navigation: Setting and Actions Menu > Setup and Maintenance > Task > Checklist Template > Create

1. Checklist Category: Learn

2. Save the checklist

3. Click on Tasks Tab > Add Task

For Learner Actions:

• Performer: Worker

• Task Type: Application Task

• Application Task: Current Learning, What to Learn, View Transcript, My Learning Communities, Publish Video, Author Learning Journey or Record External Learning

For Manager Actions:

• Performer = Line Manager

• Task Type = Application Task

• Application Task = Assign Learning to My Team, Record External Learning for My Team or Search Learning Catalog

Worker Application Tasks

Key Resources

For more details on HCM Journeys, refer to the Checklist documentation in the Implementing Global Human Resources Guide located on the Help Center.

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.

Assessments Questions and Responses

Take note that Learning Records subject area has been enhanced to include assessments questions and responses.

You can now use the new set of attributes to report on - 

• All questions and responses of a learner for a specific course
• Responses that are saved but not submitted (attempt is in progress)

Below are the details of the Assessments Questions and Responses attributes -

Folder Name	Column Name
Questionnaire Responses folder, available in Completion Details (/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learner Activity Attempt Information/Activity Content Attempts)  Selected Offering Completion Details (/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/Offering Activity Content Attempts)	Questionnaire Name
	Question Text
	Question Type
	Response
	Response Text
	Response List Long Text
	Response List Short Text
	Response Required
	Response Type
	Response Created Date Time
	Response Submitted Date Time
	Response Status

Steps to Enable

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

eLearning Content Attempts Completion Details

Report on learner’s attempt details for self-paced offering activities to understand how many tries learners have taken to complete an activity.

The Learner Attempt Information folder adds attributes to report the number of tries a learner took to complete an activity, the amount of time spent on the activity, the score, if applicable, and other attributes listed in the table below.

Folder Name	Column Name
Learner Attempt Information folder, available in Completion Details (/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learner Activity Attempt Information/Activity Content Attempts) Selected Offering Completion Details (/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/Offering Activity Content Attempts)	Attempt ID
	Last Attempt Status
	Last Attempt Status Description
	Attempt Start Date
	Last Attempt
	Actual Effort
	Actual Effort Units
	Score
	Attempt Position
	Attempted By Person Number
	Attempted By
	Latest Attempt

Steps to Enable

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

Observation Checklist Completion Details

Take a note that now you can report on observation checklist attempt details including questions and responses.

You can use the new set of attributes available to report on the activity details of the observer who is currently assigned the observation checklist task. For completed observation checklist activities, you can also report on the responses provided by either the learner or the observer.

Below are the details of Observation Checklists Questions and Responses attributes:

Folder Name	Column Name
Questionnaire Responses folder, available in Completion Details (/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learner Activity Attempt Information/Activity Content Attempts) Selected Offering Completion Details (/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Completion Information/Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information/Offering Activity Content Attempts)	Questionnaire Name
	Question Text
	Question Type
	Response
	Response Text
	Response List Long Text
	Response List Short Text
	Response Required
	Response Type
	Response Created Date Time
	Response Submitted Date Time
	Response Status

Below are the details of Observation Checklists Activity attributes:

NOTE: All the new attributes listed are related to the Observation Checklist functionality, which is currently in the “Controlled Availability Program.”

Folder Name	Column Name
/Completion Information/Completion Details/Learner Activity Attempt Information	Activity Attempt Assignee Person Number
	Activity Attempt Assignee
	Activity Attempt Assignee Type
/Assigned Learning Item Information/Selected Course Offerings/Offering Completion Information /Offering Completion Details/Offering Activity Attempt Information	Activity Attempt Assignee Person Number
	Activity Attempt Assignee
	Activity Attempt Assignee Type

Steps to Enable

If you are using the Observation Checklist Completion Details as part of the Controlled Availability Program, we would like you to log a Service Request on My Oracle Support, for us to track who's using and get your feedback.

Tips And Considerations

If observers haven't claimed the observer checklist task, then the assignee-related attributed would be displayed as null.

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.
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 / 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 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