Update 19D

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	Feature	Notes
25 MAR 2022	Global Human Resources: Minor Reorder of Fields in Termination and Resignation Pages	Removed feature, as it was never delivered.
27 NOV 2019	Global Human Resources: Seniority Dates Moves from V2 to V3 in Update 20B	Updated document. Revised feature information.
27 NOV 2019	Human Resources for Australia: My Personal Payment Methods Field Changes	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 NOV 2019	Workforce Health and Safety Incidents: Descriptive Flexfields	Updated document. Revised feature information.
25 OCT 2019	Global Human Resources: Additional Content Region in Manager Self-Service Transactions	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
25 OCT 2019	Global Human Resources: Manage Security of Document Expiration Report	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
25 OCT 2019	Global Human Resources for the US: Enhanced Ethnicity and Race Self-Identification	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
25 OCT 2019	Health and Safety: Descriptive Flexfields	Updated document. Revised feature information.
27 SEP 2019	Global Human Resources: Additional Parameter for V3 Seniority Calculation Process	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Global Human Resources: Person Extensible Flexfields (EFF) in Additional Person Info Page	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Global Human Resources: Minor Reorder of Fields in Termination and Resignation Pages	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Global Human Resources: Retained Grade Context Added in Assignment Extensible Flexfield	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Global Payroll Interface: Maintain Global Payroll Local Data in ADP Payroll from HCM Cloud	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19D.
27 SEP 2019	Global Human Resources: Assignment Extensible Flexfields (EFF) in Additional Assignment Info Page	Updated document. Revised feature information.
06 SEP 2019		Created initial document.

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:

• Release Updates (19A, 19B, 19C, and 19D)
• 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.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
• Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):

• Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
• Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
• Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)

Additional Optional Reading:

• Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.

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Human Resources

Global Human Resources

Oracle Global Human Resources enables your organization to plan, manage and optimize all workforce segments using flexible and extensible best practices to realize extraordinary gains while insuring compliance and increasing total workforce engagement.

I-9 Integration with HireRight for Onboarding

Integrate with external service provider HireRight for I-9 employment eligibility evaluation and verification during onboarding.

Add Checklist Task to Calendar

Download a checklist task as an .ics file and import it into your calendar to effectively manage assigned tasks.

Mark Onboarding Task Completion

Mark an onboarding task as Complete only from the task drill down page, as the Complete button isn’t available anymore on the task cards on the Onboarding home page.

Configure Non Enterprise Onboarding Checklists for Multiple Actions and Action Reasons

Configure a single non-enterprise onboarding checklist for multiple employment actions. Additionally, you can configure checklists to be allocated for a combination of an action and an action reason.

Configure Non Enterprise Onboarding Checklists for Person Related Events

Configure a non-enterprise onboarding checklist for specific person life events such as change in marital status, update in person's name, address, ethnicity, etc.

View Deferred Allocated Checklists

View checklists and tasks that are yet to be allocated (in Pending status) in the Allocated Checklists for Managers and HR Specialists in the new mobile responsive user experience.

Simplification for Checklists Translation

Utilize the multi-language feature for simplifying the translations of checklists and tasks setup from Checklist Templates setup task.

Document Records Approval Process Enhancements

Optimize the approval process by configuring approval rules for Document Records based on these conditions:

• Workers' assignment attributes
• Role of the requestor
• Different actions (such as add or delete)

The notification titles are also enhanced to be more informative. Additionally, you have the ability to manage document records for pending workers, future hires, and terminated workers.

Public Document Delivery Preferences REST API

Use the public Document Delivery Preferences REST API to retrieve the document delivery preference for a person based on the system document type.

Add Document Record Responsive Page Simplified

Simplify document creation on the responsive UI, with the technical document code now hidden out of the box.

Quick Action for Create Work Relationship Flow

Simplify the navigation for the Create Work Relationship flow on the responsive pages. You can now access this flow from the Quick Actions menu on the My Client Groups or My Team tab of the application home page.

Set Assignment as Primary in Add Assignment Flow

Set the new assignment being added as primary when you're using the Add Assignment responsive flow.

Payroll Section in Change Legal Employer and Local and Global Transfer Flows

Enhance the ability of users to enter payroll information in the newly added Payroll section of the Change Legal Employer and Local and Global Transfer responsive page flows.

Enhanced Areas of Responsibility Lookups

Use the responsive List of Values (LOVs) that have been added to the following Areas of Responsibility Scope attributes:

• Payroll Reporting Unit
• Tax Reporting Unit
• Top Department
• Top Department Hierarchy Tree Nodes
• Top Organization
• Top Organization Hierarchy Tree Nodes
• Top Position
• Top Position Hierarchy Tree Nodes
• Recruiting Hierarchy Locations
• Recruiting Organizations

Extensible Flexfields in Workforce Structures Responsive Pages

Enhance the ability of users to manage the additional information (extensible flexfield (EFF)) for the workforce structures responsive pages.

HR Specialists can now manage customer defined EFFs as well as legislative EFFs (if defined by localizations) in the following pages:

• Position Details
• Job Details
• Location Details

Line Managers can manage them in Request a New Position and Request a Position Change.

Assignment Extensible Flexfields (EFF) in Additional Assignment Info Page

Enhance the ability of users to manage and view the additional assignment information (assignment extensible flexfield) with the following improvements:

• A new quick action named Additional Assignment Info has been added to view and manage the assignment extensible flexfields.
• Line managers can view the additional assignment information of their direct reports.
• Employees can view their own additional assignment information.
• Dedicated security privilege available for managing additional assignment information.

These enhancements will provide a holistic view of the assignment extensible flexfields for employees, line managers, and HR specialists.

Retained Grade Context Added in Assignment Extensible Flexfield

Enhance the ability of users to manage retained grades by using the new context for the assignment extensible flexfield.

In certain organizations, an employee is entitled to retain the grade held immediately before the action that provides entitlement to grade retention. The grade can be retained for a fixed time beginning on the date the employee is placed in the lower-graded position, unless grade retention is terminated. You can now use the new context to capture this retained grade data.

Additional Parameter for V3 Seniority Calculation Process

Enhance the Calculate Seniority Dates process with the addition of the Include Complete Assignment History parameter. You can use this parameter to do a complete refresh of the V3 seniority dates for the selected population.

Person Extensible Flexfields (EFF) in Additional Person Info Page

Enhance the ability of users to manage the additional person information (person extensible flexfield (EFF)) with these additions:

• A new quick action, Additional Person Info has been added to manage person extensible flexfields.   
• HR specialists can manage the additional person information of people in their person security profile.   
• HR analysts can only view the additional person information of people in their person security profile.    

These enhancements will provide a holistic view of the additional person extensible flexfield for HR specialists and HR analysts.

Additional Content Region in Manager Self-Service Transactions

Add your own personalized content to a new additional content region for manager self-service transactions. For transactions that support the additional content region such as Promote, Transfer, and Change Assignment use the Transaction Design Studio to enable the region in your transaction and make it required or optional. You can then use ADF page composer to add the content you want such as a video, company policies or links to internal documents.

Manage Security of Document Expiration Report

Make it easier to manage who can view the data in the Document Expiration BI Publisher report. This report is now secured by a condition that will restrict it from displaying any data for any user. If you want to grant access to this report’s data to users, a copy of this report needs to be created by removing the condition.

Global HR Redesigned User Experience

Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. Clutter-free pages, with clean lines and just the essential fields, can be personalized to suit.

New Job Details Quick Action

Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned Job pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. You can do these tasks using the responsive pages.

• Launch the Job Details quick action to manage jobs.
• Launch Add a Job guided process from the Search Job page.
• Update, correct, or create duplicate jobs.
• View historical information about a job to compare old and new values.

New Location Details Quick Action

Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned Location pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. You can do these tasks using the responsive pages.

• Launch the Location Details quick action to manage locations.
• Launch Add a Location guided process from the Search Locations page.
• Update, correct, or create duplicate locations.
• View historical information about a location to compare old and new values.

Global HR 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.

Seniority Dates Moves from V2 to V3 in Update 20B

Migrate to version 3 (V3) of the seniority dates feature to leverage the enhanced features introduced in release 17D. These are the key features available only in V3:

• Display of seniority dates in the Employment Info page for employees, line managers, and HR specialists.
• Fast formulas for your complex seniority calculations.
• Ability to load seniority date adjustments using HCM Data Loader.
• OTBI support.

NOTE: The V1 seniority dates feature will continue to be supported. Only the V2 seniority dates feature is being decommissioned and not supported from release 20B onwards.

Human Capital Management for Australia

Oracle HRMS (Australia) supports country specific features and functions for Australia. It enables users to follow Australia’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

My Personal Payment Methods Field Changes

Improve usability and ease of data entry of Australian bank accounts. The label, Bank State Branch, has been renamed to BSB, which is the more commonly used term in Australia. The Australian bank accounts now display these ready-to-use fields: Account Number, Account Holder, and BSB. You can configure the application to display the hidden fields.

Human Capital Management for Austria

Oracle HRMS (Austria) supports country specific features and functions for Austria. It enables users to follow Austria’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Added Value for Gender

Use Austria's new ‘Not specified’ gender value that is added to comply with local legislative requirements.

Human Capital Management for Brazil

Oracle HRMS (Brazil) supports country specific features and functions for Brazil. It enables users to follow Brazil’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Brazil Worker Data Validation Report

Increase legislative compliance by using the Worker Data Validation report to verify data for Brazil. The report shows a warning message if the employee's city of birth, state of birth, country of birth, marital status, highest education level, citizenship, or ethnicity are not entered.

Human Capital Management for Czech Republic

Oracle HRMS (Czech Republic) supports country specific features and functions for the Czech Republic. It enables users to follow the Czech Republic’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

National Identifier Cross Validation

Validate the Czech national identifier personal identification number against the person's gender and date of birth. A warning message is triggered if the validation fails.

Human Capital Management for Germany

Oracle Fusion HRMS (Germany) supports country specific features and functions for Germany. It enables users to follow Germany’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Disability Self-Disclosure

Enable employees to self-disclose a severe disability to the HR and upload their disability certificate. The HR can then enhance the information as basis for disability reporting or annual leave calculation.

Human Capital Management for New Zealand

Oracle HRMS (New Zealand) supports country specific features and functions for New Zealand. It enables users to follow New Zealand’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Added Value for Gender

Use New Zealand's new ‘Gender Diverse’ gender value that is added to comply with local legislative requirements.

Human Capital Management for Singapore

Oracle Fusion HRMS (Singapore) supports country specific features and functions for Singapore. It enables users to follow Singapore’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Legal Name in Singapore Name Style Is Made Optional

Relax the person name validations in the legislative reporting process by allowing Legal Name to be an optional attribute in the Singapore name style.

Human Capital Management for United Kingdom

Oracle Fusion HRMS (UK) supports country specific features and functions for the United Kingdom. It enables users to follow the UK’s business practices and comply with its statutory requirements.

Improved FTE Calculation for GB Legislation

Enhance the FTE work measure by expanding its automatic calculation logic to include the Standard Working Hours Override field. If this field is populated, the application uses this hierarchy to derive standard working hours for an employee for the GB legislation: Standard Working Hours Override > Position > Department > Legal Employer > Enterprise.

Human Capital Management for United States

Enhanced Ethnicity and Race Self-Identification

Enhance your Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) reporting through the addition of two employee self-identification ethnicity and race fields. The person is now prompted to identify if they are of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity. If they are not, they are prompted to select their race.

Global Payroll Interface

Oracle Global Payroll Interface supports features to send personal payroll information to third-party payroll providers and then to import processed payroll data into Oracle Global HR. You can copy and modify predefined extract definitions to meet the requirements of your third-party payroll provider. Before extracting data, payroll coordinators can optionally run the Calculate Gross Earnings process to calculate periodic values to validate gross earnings calculations. If you import processed payroll data or payslips from your third-party payroll provider, the data is available for further reporting and analysis.

Maintain Global Payroll Local Data in ADP Payroll from HCM Cloud

Navigate seamlessly to the Global Payroll Local Data in ADP for maintaining payroll data from HCM Cloud. The HCM Cloud secures access to create and maintain the payroll data using this integration. 

Workforce Health and Safety Incidents

Oracle Health and Safety supports corporate initiatives to track and improve health and safety in the workplace.

Descriptive Flexfields

Make use of Workforce Health and Safety's new descriptive flexfields (DFF's).

Request an Ergonomic Assessment

Send a notification to the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) manager to request an ergonomic evaluation from the ergonomic event using Area of Responsibility.

Capture Analytical Details for Incident Investigations

Use the new incident investigation fields to help you figure out the root cause of incidents.

Worklife Solutions

Employee Wellness

Oracle Employee Wellness supports corporate initiatives to improve employee fitness and health through the use of opt-in wellness features. This application integrates with popular fitness tracking services to simplify and automate the acquisition of exercise data from a wide range of devices.

Employee Wellness Redesigned User Experience

Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. Clutter-free pages, with clean lines and just the essential fields, can be personalized to suit.

Design Studio Support for Responsive Wellness Pages

Configure responsive Wellness pages, such as profile and teams, using HCM Experience Design Studio.

Workforce Directory Management

Oracle Workforce Directory Management allows you to find colleagues and view organization charts.

Improved My Team Performance

Enhance the performance of the My Team page with the reduction in the number of direct reports displayed on the page. The number of direct reports display is now reduced from 10 to 7 to increase the page performance.

Workforce Reputation Management

Oracle Workforce Reputation Management harnesses social networks to help organizations discover, mobilize, and retain talent. This functionality provides insight into workers' social reputation and influence while also monitoring workers' social media usage compliance and mitigating social media risk.

Workforce Reputation Redesigned User Experience

Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. Clutter-free pages, with clean lines and just the essential fields, can be personalized to suit.

Design Studio Support for Responsive Personal Brand Pages

Configure responsive pages, such as employee Skill and Endorsement pages, using HCM Experience Design Studio.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Oracle Corporate Social Responsibility represents a corporation's initiatives to take responsibility for its effects on the environment and social well-being. Corporate social responsibility is increasingly becoming a decisive factor in HR processes to recruit, retain, and motivate the most qualified employees.

Oracle Volunteering enables organizations to promote corporate social responsibility initiatives by creating service opportunities for employees to engage and get involved in causes that are most important to each individual.

Corporate Responsibility Redesigned User Experience

Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. Clutter-free pages, with clean lines and just the essential fields, can be personalized to suit.

Volunteering Administration Redesigned

Increase user satisfaction with the new self-service admin pages that have the same look and feel on a desktop or a mobile device. The redesigned admin pages are responsive, easy to use, and clutter-free with a modern look and conversational language. The redesigned pages are:

• Projects
• Organizations
• Feedback
• Settings

Design Studio Support for Responsive Volunteering Pages

Configure responsive pages, such as Volunteering Projects, Profile, and Teams, using HCM Experience Design Studio.

HR Optimizations

HCM Transactional Business Intelligence

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.

Security

New Security Subject Area

Improve your reporting in OTBI by using the new subject area that allows you to report on the security setup in the cloud application. Security - Roles & Privileges Real Time is designed to make reporting of Roles, Role Objects, and Role Users easier for OTBI users. You can create and run ad-hoc security reports for needed security review and audit purposes. The subject area has details related to roles, inherited roles, inherited by roles, data security policies, function security policies, and the users set up in the application. 

The subject area also has metrics including number of roles, number of users, and so on that can be used to understand the quantum of security built into the organization apart from the actual security details.

Human Resources

New Subject Area - Eligible Jobs

Enhance your reporting with the addition of the Workforce Management - Eligible Jobs Real Time subject area that allows you to report on all the eligible jobs that have been setup for workers.  Eligible jobs can be given to workers for a specified period and pay rate.  

User Person Type Attribute in Assignment Event Subject Area

Improve your reporting on historical data of workers with the addition of the User Person Type attribute to Workforce Management - Assignment Event Real Time subject area.

New Years of Service Metrics in Work Relationship Subject Area

Enhance your reporting on worker's years of service metrics with the addition of a new set of columns that cater exclusively to the non-primary work relationship (if any) of the workers. The existing years of service metrics will continue displaying the values based on the primary work relationship.

The metrics added under the Work Relationship fact folder include the following:

• Days Service (Non-Primary Work Relationship) 
• Months Service (Non-Primary Work Relationship) 
• Years Service (Non-Primary Work Relationship)

Grade Dimension Changes

Enhance your reporting on the grade dimension across all subject areas with the inclusion of attributes related to grade step and grade ladder:

• Grade Step - A new sub folder under the grade dimension provides attributes for grade steps 1 to 10
• Grade Ladder - New attributes added to this folder include:
  • Status
  • Grade Ladder Group
  • Salary Adjustment Type
  • Salary Updates.Currency
  • Salary Updates.Frequency
  • Salary Updates.Annualization Factor
• Action Reason' column is added in the Grade dimension
• The following attributes are renamed:
  •  "Set Identifier" to "Grade Set Identifier" 
  • "Set Name" to "Grade Set Name"
• The following columns in the Grade dimension are hidden:
  • "Grade"."Grade Type" 
  • "Grade"."Starting Step"
• "Grade Rate.Sequence" from the "Grade Rate" dimension folder in "Workforce Management - Grade Rate" SA is hidden

                    

Seniority Dates Enhancement

Enhance your reporting on seniority dates with the addition of new dimensions that support the seniority dates enhancements in Global Human Resources. You can now report on assignment level and work relationship level seniority. The following subject areas have been enhanced to report on the seniority dates related to enterprise, grade, department or any other entity.

• Worker Assignment Real Time
• Worker Assignment Event Real Time
• Work Relationship Real Time

Date Effective EFF's

Enhance your reporting on the following set of EFF's to render the data based on the effective date set in the report. If no effective date is set then it will return data as of the current date.

• PER_ASSIGNMENT_EIT_EFF
• PER_JOBS_EIT_EFF
• PER_LOCATION_INFORMATION_EFF
• PER_LOCATION_LEG_EFF
• PER_PERSON_EIT_EFF
• PER_POSITIONS_EIT_EFF

Assignment EFF in Assignment Event Real Time

Enhance your reporting on the Assignment Event Real Time subject area with the addition of Assignment EFF named PER_ASSIGNMENT_EIT_EFF to the Assignment Event Details dimension. This will enable you to report on the EFF historical values corresponding to the assignment events effective start and end dates.