August Maintenance Pack for 21B

Revision History

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

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
27 AUG 2021			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 (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.

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 in Release Readiness under Human Capital Management or via the Oracle Help Center under Cloud Applications > Human Capital Management.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

Global 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.

Journeys Displayed Only When Assignee has Tasks to Perform

View only those journeys on the My Journeys page that have at least one task for the journey assignee to perform. If a journey doesn't have any tasks that the assignee needs to perform, it's not displayed.

July Maintenance Pack for 21B

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
30 JUL 2021			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 (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.

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 in Release Readiness under Human Capital Management or via the Oracle Help Center under Cloud Applications > Human Capital Management.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

Global 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.

Enhanced Advanced Person Search Results

Improve user experience with the additional information displayed about a person in the advanced search results.

June Maintenance Pack for 21B

Revision History

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

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
27 AUG 2021			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 (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.

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 in Release Readiness under Human Capital Management or via the Oracle Help Center under Cloud Applications > Human Capital Management.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

Global Human Resources

Human Capital Management for Mexico

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

CFDI Code for Geography Data

Stay compliant to Comprobante Fiscal Digital por Internet (CFDI) reporting with the CFDI Code now included as part of the existing Load Geographies for Mexico process. This process updates the user-created CFDI_CODE geography lookup with the Mexican state codes required for CFDI.

May Maintenance Pack for 21B

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
25 MAY 2021	Global Human Resources	Additional Application Tasks When Configuring Checklist Templates	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21C May Update.
30 APR 2021			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 (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.

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 in Release Readiness under Human Capital Management or via the Oracle Help Center under Cloud Applications > Human Capital Management.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

Global Human Resources

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.

Improve Worker LOV Search with Profile Setting

Experience better performance when searching for workers using the Worker LOV (List of Values) because the profile option PER_LOV_SEARCH_WORKERS_EXCLUDE_BUSINESS_TITLE has been set to yes out-of-the-box. 

Enable Task Completion in Journeys Only After Task Is Viewed

Streamline the completion of tasks in Journeys pages as the Done button for a task is enabled only after users have accessed the task at least once.

Additional Application Tasks When Configuring Checklist Templates

Simplify the configuration of checklist templates with the inclusion of additional application tasks for different task performers.

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 Fusion 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.

ADP Global Payroll Interface Supports Additional Bank Account Attributes

Use the additional attributes in the BankAccountDetails section to enhance the interface with ADP Global Payroll. If you have already reported these attributes to ADP and want to report only the changes in the next incremental run, do a baseline extraction after you apply this patch. Perform regular data changes and extractions after this baseline extraction is complete.

ADP Global Payroll Interface Supports German Contract Information for All Employment Models

Report German contract information for your employees in ADP Global Payroll Interface irrespective of the type of employment model you are using. If contract details aren’t available in the employment model, the new fields Contract Type and Projected End Date report contract information. If the contract details are already available in the employment model, the standard contract attributes under AssignmentData report contract information. If you have already reported these attributes to ADP and want to report only the changes in the next incremental run, do a baseline extraction after you apply this patch. Perform regular data changes and extractions after this baseline extraction is complete.

Human Capital Management for Romania

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

New values for the Contract Type and the Assignment Category

Use the two new Contract Type and Assignment Category values that are predefined for Romania: “Leased laborer contract with teleworking clause” and “Full-time according to GEO 132/2020”, respectively. These values are added to comply with local statutory reporting updates.

Update 21B

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
30 APR 2021	Global Payroll Interface / Replaced or Removed Features	Calculation to Gross for Global Payroll Interface Discontinued	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21B.
26 MAR 2021	Global Human Resources / Employment	Personalize Employment Quick Actions under My Team and My Client Groups Independent of Each Other	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21B.
26 MAR 202	Global Human Resources / Employment	Business Title Copied During Add Assignment and Local and Global Transfer	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21B.
26 MAR 202	OTBI	Attributes Renamed Across HCM OTBI Subject Areas	Updated document. Feature delivered in update 21B.
05 MAR 2021			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 (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.

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 in Release Readiness under Human Capital Management or via the Oracle Help Center under Cloud Applications > Human Capital Management.

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle’s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle’s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

Global Human Resources

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.

Person

Display Approval Details After Approval Completion

Enhance your employee, contingent worker, and HR professional experience with access to the details of the Change Personal Information and Person External Identifiers approvals after the transaction has been approved.

New Job Set for Person Name Format Changes

Simplify the process of running the necessary jobs after you change the person name format with the new job set Apply Name Formats to Person Names, Keywords and LDAP.  The new job set includes these jobs:

• Apply Name Formats to Person Names
• Send Personal Data for Multiple Users to LDAP
• Update Search Person Keywords

Sensitive Data Access Audit

Audit view-only access to sensitive data attributes in the Responsive pages. This feature enhances the existing extensive audit capabilities.

Employment

Personalize Employment Quick Actions under My Team and My Client Groups Independent of Each Other

Hide employment quick actions under the My Team tab without impacting the list of available employment actions in the Actions menu on the responsive Employment Info page.

Business Title Copied During Add Assignment and Local and Global Transfer

Enhance the user experience by automatically copying the business title from the source assignment when you add an assignment or do a global transfer or a global temporary assignment.

Document Records Plug-In Section for Responsive Employment Flows

Leverage the ability to add document records specific to a responsive employment business process by enabling the Document Records plug-in section. The document records added as part of the responsive employment flow can be accessed later from the person's document records page.

Last Updated By and Last Updated Date Fields Added to Employment Info Page

Enhance user experience with the addition of the Last Updated By and Last Updated Date fields in the Employment History and Future Actions sections of the responsive Employment Info page.

Switch the Primary Assignment Indicator in Responsive Change Assignment Flow

Enhance the ability of users to switch the primary assignment indicator in the responsive change assignment flow.

Control Defaulting of Business Title Based on Position or Job

Control whether the business title in responsive employment flows is defaulted from position or job, using the new profile option.

Control Defaulting of Effective Date in Employment Flows

Control whether effective date in responsive employment flows is not defaulted, using the new profile option.

Flexfield Parameters Supported for Assignment EFF

Ensure accuracy of data by now allowing users to use assignment attributes including assignment descriptive flexfields as flexfield parameters for assignment extensible flexfields.

Source Assignment Attributes Added To Add Assignment Approval Payload

Improve your ability to configure and route approvals using source assignment attributes while adding a new assignment.

Compensation Zone Attributes Added in Employment Notifications' Data Model

Improve the ability of users to add compensation zone attributes in employment notifications by leveraging the enhanced data model.

Retain Indicators for Synchronize from Position and Calculate FTE and Headcount Automatically During Employment Conversions

Enhance the ability of users to retain the Synchronize from Position and Calculate FTE and Headcount Automatically indicators in these employment conversion processes:

• Pending Worker to Employee or Contingent Worker conversion
• Oracle Recruiting Offer to Worker conversion

Read Only Access for Work Relationship Page

Enhance the user experience by now providing an option to view the responsive work relationship page as read only.

Edit Work Relationship Quick Action Renamed to Work Relationship

Take note that the Edit Work Relationship quick action is now renamed to Work Relationship in the application.

Person Number Added on Convert and Edit Pending Worker Pages

See that now person number now appears in the Personal Information region on Edit Pending Worker and Convert Pending Worker responsive pages.

Document Records

Preview Document Record Attachments Without Having To Download

Preview various attachment file formats easily for document records, without the need to download them. This is available for both the Reference Info attachments and the document record attachments.

Flexibility for Initiator to Edit Document Record Submitted for Approval

Provide the initiator of a document record transaction the flexibility to edit the submitted document record instead of withdrawing it.

Add Worker Identification Information in the Page Header of Document Records and Document Delivery Preferences Flows

Enhance usability of the page header in the document records and document delivery preferences flows by enabling worker identification information, such as person number, assignment number, and business title in the page header.

Enable Completion of Document Record Transactions When Initiator is Terminated

Leverage the enhanced functionality that allows completion of a document record transaction even if the initiator is terminated after submitting the document record transaction.

New Document Records Approval Payload to Retrieve Requestor Information

Make use of the new document records approval payload that allows you to create approval rules based on requestor's attributes irrespective of the requestor's assignment status.

Workforce Structures

Position Management: Ability to Save for Later

Benefit from the option to save the current transaction in the following pages:

• Request a New Position flow
• Request a Position Change flow
• Duplicate Position page
• Update Position page
• Correct Position page

You can use the Page Composer to enable the save option.

Integration Key Support For Loading Organization Tree Using HCM Data Loader

Improve the ability to identify a record using integration key enabled Organization Tree in HCM Data Loader. This becomes useful when the user doesn’t know the user keys that uniquely identifies a record. When providing an integration key value to identify a foreign object, you can provide the value to the foreign object surrogate ID attribute with a hint to indicate the key type used.

Integration Key Support For Loading Department Tree Using HCM Data Loader

Improved ability to identify a record using integration key enabled Department Tree in HCM Data Loader. This becomes useful when the user doesn’t know the user keys that uniquely identifies a record. When providing an integration key value to identify a foreign object, you can provide the value to the foreign object surrogate ID attribute with a hint to indicate the key type used.

Autocomplete

Autocomplete Rules for Person Phone Business Object

Improve user productivity and save time by using the delivered rules to add person phone validation such as validating the person phone number or area code format based on the phone type and the country code.

Autocomplete Rules for Employment Business Objects

Enhance the user experience to author new rules for the employment business objects with improved capabilities. These are the new features added to the employment business objects:

• Improve user productivity and save time by using the delivered rules to add validation and defaulting on employments flows. For example, you can validate these employment scenarios:
  • No change in location during a promotion.
  • Validating department based on the business unit.
  • Validate the effective date on the 1st or 16th of the future month.

• Get the grade step for a specific assignment using the new EMP_Groovy_GradeStepName and EMP_Groovy_GradeStepId HCM Param.

Autocomplete Rules for Workforce Structures Business Objects

Enhance the user experience by authoring new rules for workforce structure business objects with more capabilities. These are some of the new features added to the workforce structure business objects.

• Job business object added to Autocomplete Rules
• Some position attributes are exposed as Extensible Flexfield parameters
• Ability to define autocomplete rules on position business object using valid grades of the position
• Ability to define autocomplete rules on assignment business object using valid grades of jobs and positions
• Ability to define autocomplete rules on position business object using the parent position of a position
• Ability to define autocomplete rules on position business object using the new HCMParams Position Action Reason and Effective Date

Area of Responsibility

Configure Areas of Responsibility Page Header

Configure the Area of Responsibility (AOR) page header to add other attributes in addition to the person name. Using Page Composer, you can display the person number, assignment number and business title (assignment title). With these attributes now available on this page, you can also embed an OTBI analytic report.

Extending the Area of Responsibility (AOR) Representatives Limit

Expand AOR for Large organizations that sometimes have the need for a significant number of representatives that manage a worker, depending on the business' requirements and implementation approach. The service determining the representatives of the Current Worker or Requestor has been enhanced to accommodate over 500 representatives. This applies when the Representative option (when set to either Worker's Current or Requestor Representative) is used in a transaction's approval rule.

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.

Attribute Visibility Changes

Create an improved user experience by leveraging changes to the display of the following attributes. These changes are delivered as Transaction Design Studio rules to make the data capture better aligned with local cultural expectations and legislative requirements.

Action: Identification Info

• Show Driver's Licenses To Date

Action: Local and Global Transfer

• Show Country of Birth

Action: Personal Details

• Show Person Legislative Information Developer Attributes (Labor and Social Welfare Portfolio or CTPS details)
• Show Ethnicity
• Show Highest Education Level

Human Capital Management for Canada

Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management for Canada supports country-specific features and functions for Canada. It enables users to follow Canada's business practices and comply with statutory requirements.

Attribute Visibility Changes

Create an improved user experience by leveraging changes to the display of these attributes.

Actions: Local and Global Transfer, Mass Legal Employer Change

• Show “Copy balances to the new employment record” checkbox

These changes are delivered as Transaction Design Studio rules to make the data capture better aligned with local cultural expectations and legislative requirements.

Human Capital Management for China

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

Association Information is Auto-Created for New Hires Hired Using REST API

Streamline your hiring process by taking advantage of the automatically created tax reporting unit association and association details on the personal Deduction Information cards when hiring employees using the REST API.

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.

Country of Birth Update

Use the field Country of Birth in Person details for employees who you need to report to the health insurance and whose Social Insurance Number is unknown.

Action:

• Add Contingent Worker
• Add Pending Worker
• Add a NonWorker
• Create Work Relationship
• Edit Pending Worker
• Hire an Employee
• Local and Global Transfer

This attribute is now made visible for German employees, by default, and delivered as Transaction Design Studio (TDS) rule.

Human Capital Management for Mexico

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

Attribute Visibility Changes

Create an improved user experience by leveraging changes to the display of the following attributes:

Action: Termination, Reverse Termination

• show Work Relationship Legislative Information

Action: Local and Global Transfer

• show Overtime Period for Payroll, Time Card Required for Payroll, Overtime Period for Assignment, Time Card Required for Assignment
• show Country of Birth
• show Copy balances to the new employment record

These changes are delivered as Transaction Design Studio rules to make the data capture better aligned with local cultural expectations and legislative requirements.

Human Capital Management for Romania

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

Additional Field Added to the Romanian HCM Address Format

Use the new optional attribute 'Town or Commune' that's been added to the Romanian Supplemental Taxation and Reporting Address Style. The display order of the address attributes is also slightly changed to ensure a more intuitive mapping to Loqate geography data.

New Values for the Contract Type

Use the two new Contract Type values that are predefined for Romania: “Labor contract for disadvantaged young people” and “Labor contract with teleworking clause”. These values are added to comply with local statutory reporting updates.

New Values for the Work Permit

Use the two new Visa or Permit Categories values that are predefined for the Work Permit (PER_VISA_PERMIT_TYPE) lookup type: “Exception” and “Au pair worker”. These values are added to comply with local statutory reporting updates.

Human Capital Management for United States

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

Attribute Visibility Changes

Simplify performing legal employer transfers with easier access to the Copy balances to the new employment record checkbox.  This checkbox is now displayed automatically in the Payroll Details section of the Local and Global Transfer and Mass Legal Employer Change pages.  Prior to this release, this box was hidden and accessible only through changing the rule in Transaction Design Studio (TDS).

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 Fusion 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.

Oracle Payroll Connect for ADP Global Payroll

Integrate HCM Cloud with Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Global Payroll through Oracle Payroll Connect for ADP Global Payroll. This feature lets you convey new-hire transactions in HCM Cloud to ADP Global Payroll in real-time. You can also send updates and maintenance to this transaction to ADP in batch mode using HCM Extracts.

Oracle Payroll Connect for ADP Global Payroll enables you to configure and maintain the integration to ADP Global Payroll through:

• A simplified configuration page to define the data elements that you want to send to ADP Global Payroll in real-time and batch mode
• A status page to review the status of various transactions sent to ADP Global Payroll in both real-time and batch mode
• An embedded page from ADP Global Payroll to manage payroll information from within HCM Cloud

Global Payroll Interface 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.

Calculation to Gross for Global Payroll Interface Discontinued

Take note that the Calculation to Gross for the Global Payroll Interface has been discontinued. The complexity of the setup outweighed the necessity of providing a calculation to gross. You generally don't need to do a calculation on the HR application when you have already outsourced this part to a payroll provider. You can use additional features in Oracle HCM Cloud to achieve the same goals as the Calculation to Gross without running a separate process.

Worklife Solutions

Wellness

Oracle 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.

Connect to CrowdTwist for Points and Rewards

Engage and motivate wellness users with a reward program using Oracle CrowdTwist. You just need a one-time configuration with CrowdTwist to get started with creating and managing your reward program. Employees can earn points as they complete wellness tasks, goals, and competitions, and redeem them for rewards.

My Brand

Oracle My Brand 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.

Enhanced Mentor Profiles

Enhance mentor profiles and enable mentors to provide additional information about themselves. When employees look for a mentor, the enhanced mentor profile will allow them to know more about their potential mentor and help decide who to send their mentor request to.

Data Integrator

Leverage the Data Integrator tool that enables administrators to connect third-party data sources to Personal Brand, Wellness, and Volunteering. The tool streamlines and simplifies the traditional burden of integrating with third-party APIs.

Health and Safety

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

Health Survey

Configure the employee self-service incident report flow to include a health survey. This will enable users to select the appropriate survey to complete.

An incident created using this flow in the professional user interface will have the questionnaire display as read-only on the incident details page.

Workforce Directory Management

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

Improvements in My Team Page

Improve user experience of the My Team page in the following ways:

• Access to delegated teams is now provided via the assignment switcher, if you have been delegated a role from another manager, then you have access to that delegated team
• Vacancies can now be created for the My Team manager.  Create Vacancy action is now Vacancies which opens a page where vacancies can be created, changed or deleted
• Inconsistencies between My Team and the position drill down page and manage Positions in what are counted as incumbents are removed
• Counts of directs and totals for positions will represent positions, not incumbents
• Excluding positions via security will also exclude position incumbents in the position view, however, they will be displayed in assignment view

HR Optimizations

Workforce Modeling

Oracle Workforce Modeling provides an integrated solution supporting Oracle Global Human Resources and provides an easy to use, drag and drop interface that allows you to create reorganization proposals and assess their impact before they are even sent for approval. The intuitive interface and integration with Oracle Global Human Resources ensure that changes are accurately reflected and validated in the transactional system.

Improvement to Workforce Modeling

Refresh the manager hierarchy automatically in Workforce Modeling when you finally approve the model and applies it to the live application.

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.

Attributes Renamed Across HCM OTBI Subject Areas

Streamline your reporting on HCM OTBI subject areas with more meaningful attribute names across multiple subject areas.

Human Resources

Assignment Level Security changes to Documents of Record Real Time

Enhance your reporting on the subject area Documents of Record Real Time with the changes in the way the worker documents are rendered for line managers when the assignment level security is turned on.

Hidden Metrics in Assignment Event Real Time

Take notice that the following metrics are hidden from the Assignment Event folder. The equivalent metrics were added as part of Update 20C.

• # of Hires (Employee and Contingent)
• Hire Headcount (Excluding Rehires)
• Hire FTE (Excluding Rehires)

New Attributes and Flexfields in Documents of Record Real Time

Improve your reporting on Documents of Record Real Time subject area with the addition of attributes and flexfields.

New Attributes and Flexfields for Documents of Record Subject Area

Enhance your reporting on Workforce Management - Documents of Record Real Time with the addition of new attributes and flexfields.

Seniority Date Related Attributes Enhancement

Enhance your reporting on seniority dates dimension with the inclusion of multiple attributes.

Health and Safety

Risk Assessment in Incidents Real Time

Improve your reporting on Environment Health and Safety - Incidents Real Time with the addition of a new dimension that allows you to report on Risk Assessment of the incidents.

Flexfields Addition to Incidents Real Time

Enhance your reporting on Environment Health and Safety - Incidents Real Time with the inclusion of new flexfields for reporting.

HCM Integrations

Enhancements to HCM Integrations Subject Area

Enhance your reporting on HCM Integrations Real Time subject area with additional attributes and an enhanced security.

Controlled Availability

Controlled Availability Features

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.

Autoprovision Areas of Responsibility (AORs)

Expanding on Responsibility Templates, you can now automatically assign or remove representatives' responsibilities based on user-defined Responsibility Template Criteria.