November Maintenance Pack for 20C

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 OCT 2020			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 (20A, 20B, 20C, and 20D)
• 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.

This document outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in Oracle HCM Cloud. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.

In addition to this document you will also want to review the 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 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 Talent and Compensation products.

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.

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Feature Summary

Human Resources

Human Capital Management for Poland

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

Additional Value Is Made Available in the Contract Region

Use the Years lookup value, which is now available, as a unit of measure for the Initial Duration of contract.

With this enhancement you can now track the years.

Steps to Enable

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

Human Capital Management for Russia

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

Additional Value Is Made Available in the Contract Region

The Years lookup value is now available as a unit of measure for the Initial Duration of a contract.

With this enhancement you can now track the years.

Steps to Enable

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

October Maintenance Pack for 20C

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 SEP 2020			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 (20A, 20B, 20C, and 20D)
• 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.

This document outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in Oracle HCM Cloud. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.

In addition to this document you will also want to review the 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 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 Talent and Compensation products.

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.

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We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com. Indicate you are inquiring or providing feedback regarding the HCM Cloud What’s New for Release 13 in the body or title of the email.

Feature Summary

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.

New Actions When Converting a Pending Worker

You can now specify an action other than Hire or Add Contingent Worker when converting a pending worker to an employee or a contingent worker respectively.

You can  now select from one of these actions in case of conversion of a pending worker to an employee.

• Rehire an Employee
• Add Employee Work Relationship
• Hire

Actions Available When Converting Pending Worker to an Employee

You can select from one of these actions in case of conversion of a pending worker to a contingent worker.

• Renew Contingent Worker
• Add Contingent Work Relationship
• Add Contingent Worker

Actions Available When Converting Pending Worker to a Contingent Worker

A pending worker may not always be a new hire. There may be cases where the pending worker has left the organization and rejoining into a different department or rejoining after leaving the organization for higher studies . In such a case "hire" or "add contingent worker actions may not be appropriate. Now, you can select the most appropriate action when converting a pending worker.

Steps to Enable

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

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 Supports Seniority Dates V3

Define and manage the seniority of workers using Seniority Dates version 3. You can define seniority rules in all the levels such as person, work relationship, and assignment. 

Use the SeniorityDetails section in ADP Global Payroll Interface to report Seniority Dates version 3.

If you’re already reporting it 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.

In accordance with Oracle Global Human Resources, Global Payroll Interface now supports and reports Seniority Dates version 3. You can now identify the rules and the seniority dates that you want to interface over to your payroll partner.

Steps to Enable

Here's how you can identify the seniority rules or dates that you want to send to your payroll partner:

1. Search for and select Lookups in My Client Groups.

2. On the Manage Common Lookups page, search for the lookup type ORA_HRY_INT_SENIORITY_RULES.

3. For every seniority date rule that you want to include in the interface, create a new lookup code and select the Enabled check box,

• Lookup Code: Any code that you can use to identify the rule
• Start Date: Enter an appropriate date
• End Date: Enter an appropriate date
• Meaning: Enter the lookup code that you used while creating this seniority rule in ORA_PER_SENIORITY_ITEMS. 

4. Click Save.

NOTE: If there are changes to the data that affect seniority rules, run the Recalculate Seniority process before you run the payroll interface. You can find the Recalculate Seniority button when you search for a person on the Seniority Dates page.

Key Resources

For more information about Seniority Dates, see these resources:

• Seniority Dates in Implementing Global Human Resources guide in the Oracle Help Center

• Comparison between Different Seniority Dates Versions (2414630.1)

• Troubleshooting Seniority Dates - Frequently Asked Questions (2676772.1)

• Calculating Seniority Dates Using Fast Formula (2370526.1)

• Common Use Cases Configured Using V3 Seniority Dates (2476188.1)

• Enabling Enterprise and Legal Employer Seniority Dates During Hire (2432162.1)

• Seniority Changes in V3 Seniority Dates (2446329.1)

For more information, see this help topic in the guide located in the Oracle Help Center.

• Implementing Global Payroll Interface

  • Generate Baseline Extract

ADP Global Payroll Supports Brazil Position and Job CBO

Use these attributes in the Brazil Legislative Data section of the ADP Global Payroll Interface to interface with ADP Global Payroll:

• JobDetails

  • PositionCBOOccupation

  • JobCBOOccupation

Brazil Occupation Codes

If you're already reporting these attributes to ADP and wish to report only the changes in the next incremental run, execute a baseline extraction after this feature is functional. You can perform regular extractions after the baseline extraction is completed.

You can use these legislative information to process Brazilian payroll.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

For more information, see this help topic in the Implementing Global Payroll Interface guide located in the Oracle Help Center.

• Generate Baseline Extract

Human Capital Management for Poland

September Maintenance Pack for 20C

Revision History

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

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
28 AUG 2020			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 (20A, 20B, 20C, and 20D)
• 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.

This document outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in Oracle HCM Cloud. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.

In addition to this document you will also want to review the 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 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 Talent and Compensation products.

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.

GIVE US FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com. Indicate you are inquiring or providing feedback regarding the HCM Cloud What’s New for Release 13 in the body or title of the email.

Feature Summary

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.

Action Label Changed for Employment Flows

We have rephrased the label for the action to make it more user friendly on various responsive employment flows. For example, What's the action name? is now changed to What's the way to transfer?. The label for the reason code on the Add Contingent Worker, Add Nonworker, and Mass Legal Employer Change flows have also been rephrased to use a conversational label. Additionally, the label for the start date on the Add Contingent Worker, Add Nonworker, Add Pending Worker, and Hire an Employee flows is rephrased to use a conversational label.

Fields for Start Date, Action, and Action Reason, Renamed on the Add a Contingent Worker Flow

This table lists all the changes:

Flow	Attribute Label Before 20C	Attribute Label as of 20C
Change Manager	What's the way to change the manager?	What's the way to change the manager?
Change Location	What's the way to change the location?	What's the way to change the location?
Change Working Hours	What's the action name?	What's the way to change the working hours?
Promote	What's the way to promote?	What's the way to promote?
Transfer	What's the action name?	What's the way to transfer?
Change Legal Employer	Action	What's the way to change the legal employer?
Add Assignment	What's the action name?	What's the way to add the assignment?
Change Assignment	What's the action name?	What's the way to change the assignment?
Local and Global Transfer	Action	What's the way to transfer the person?
Create Work Relationship	Action	What's the way to create the work relationship?
Add a Contingent Worker	Action Code	What's the way to add a contingent worker?
Add a Nonworker	Action Code	What's the way to add a nonworker?
Add a Pending Worker	Action Code	What's the way to add the pending worker?
Convert Pending Worker	Action	What's the way to convert a pending worker?
Hire an Employee	Action Code	What's the way to hire an employee?
Manage Directs/Direct Reports	What's the action name?	What's the way to make these changes?
Resignation	What's the action name?	What's the way to submit the resignation?
Termination	What's the action name?	What's the way to terminate the employee?
Mass Legal Employer Change	Action	What's the way to change the legal employer?
Add a Contingent Worker	Reason Code	Why are you adding a contingent worker?
Add a Nonworker	Reason Code	Why are you adding a nonworker?
Mass Legal Employer Change	Why are you making these changes?	Why are you changing the legal employer?
Add a Contingent Worker	Start Date	What's the way to add a contingent worker?
Add a Nonworker	Start Date	What's the way to add a nonworker?
Add a Pending Worker	Start Date	What's the way to add the pending worker?
Hire an Employee	Start Date	What's the way to hire an employee?

This feature brings you more user friendly language on various responsive employment flows.

Steps to Enable

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

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 Reports General Ledger Cost Center Description for Departments

While reporting employee assignment details, you can also report the description of General Ledger cost centers mapped to assignment departments through ADP Global Payroll Interface. 

Cost Center Description

NOTE: If you are already reporting it to ADP and want to report only the changes to the description in the next incremental run, execute a baseline extraction. Perform the baseline extraction after this feature is functional. Do regular data changes and extractions after the baseline extraction is complete.

You can display the cost center description along with the cost center code on an employee's payslip to make it more informative.

Steps to Enable

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

Update 20C

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 Human Resources/Change Legal Employer	Enhanced Data Copy Options During a Legal Employer Change	Updated document. Revised feature information.
18 DEC 2020	Global Human Resources/Actions Framework	Single Action Reason for Multiple Actions	Updated document. Revised feature information.
25 SEP 2020	Global Human Resources/Actions Framework	Country-Specific Action and Action Reasons	Updated document. Revised feature information.
25 SEP 2020	Global Human Resources/Actions Framework	Role-Specific Action and Action Reasons	Updated document. Revised feature information.
25 SEP 2020	Global Human Resources/Change Legal Employer	Legal Employer and Action Reason Fields Added to Employment Info Page	Updated document. Revised feature information.
25 SEP 2020	Global Human Resources	NID Uniqueness Validation	Updated document. Revised feature information.
25 SEP 2020	Global Human Resources	HCM Digital Assistant - New Features	Updated document. Removed feature from update 20C.
28 AUG 2020	Global Human Resources/Actions Framework	Role-Specific Action and Action Reasons	Updated document. Revised feature information.
31 JUL 2020	OTBI/Human Resources	New Attributes in Transaction Administration Real Time Subject Area	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20C.
31 JUL 2020	Global Human Resources	NID Uniqueness Validation	Updated document. Revised feature information.
31 JUL 2020	Health and Safety	Migrate Health and Safety Notes	Updated document. Revised feature information.
31 JUL 2020	Health and Safety	Show or Hide Events Page in Employee Self-Service	Updated document. Revised feature information.
26 JUN 2020	Global Human Resources/Actions Framework	Country-Specific Action and Action Reasons	Updated document. Revised feature information.
26 JUN 2020	Health and Safety	Application Generated Case Number Displays on Ill or Injured Person Page	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20C.
26 JUN 2020	Health and Safety	Capture Details for Notified Person and Notification Date	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20C.
26 JUN 2020	Health and Safety	Capture Return to Work Attributes	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20C.
26 JUN 2020	Health and Safety	Migrate Health and Safety Notes	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20C.
26 JUN 2020	Health and Safety	Page Composer to Customize Health and Safety Pages	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20C.
26 JUN 2020	Health and Safety	Show or Hide Events Page in Employee Self-Service	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20C.
26 JUN 2020	Health and Safety	Sorting Incidents and Related Incidents	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20C.
26 JUN 2020	HCM Transactional Business Intelligence/Health and Safety	OTBI Support for Reporting on DFFs in Incident Details and Action Pages	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20C.
26 JUN 2020	HCM Transactional Business Intelligence/Health and Safety	Support for OTBI Reporting on Incident Investigation Questions and Responses	Updated document. Delivered feature in update 20C.
26 JUN 2020	Global Human Resources/Actions Framework	Country-Specific Assignment Statuses	Updated document. Removed feature from update 20C.
05 JUN 2020			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 (20A, 20B, 20C, and 20D)
• 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.

This document outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in Oracle HCM Cloud. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you.

In addition to this document you will also want to review the 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 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 Talent and Compensation products.

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.

GIVE US FEEDBACK

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback at oracle_fusion_applications_help_ww_grp@oracle.com. Indicate you are inquiring or providing feedback regarding the HCM Cloud What’s New for Release 13 in the body or title of the email.

Feature Summary

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.

NID Uniqueness Validation

A new profile option, National Identifier Uniqueness Validation Mode is added to check the uniqueness of national identifier (NID) and thereby reduce the number of duplicate person records created in a mobile-responsive page. The application checks every new or changed national ID on pages where NID can be entered or changed, if it exists in the Oracle Fusion database when the profile option is set to Error or Warning. However, this check doesn't happen with Oracle Recruiting applicants.

You can select any one of these profile option values:

• NONE - Check for NID uniqueness is turned off. This is the default value.
• WARNING - Check for NID uniqueness is done every time you add or modify any of the 3 NID field segments. If any duplicate is found, then application shows a warning message, but you can continue with the entered NID.
• ERROR - Check for NID uniqueness is done every time you add or modify any of the 3 NID field segments. If any duplicate is found, then application shows an error message, and user can't continue with the entered NID. You can either cancel the transaction, change the NID record and continue, or blank the NID record.

If the profile option is set to Error, by default, the NID is validated based on the NID number only, If you want to verify the NID based on the NID Country-Type-ID, then you need to change the enterprise setting for Person Creation Duplicate Check to one of the choices that include NID Country-Type-ID, rather than simple National ID (which is National ID only).

Select an Option that Includes NID Country-Type-ID

You can prevent creation of duplicate NIDs by setting the profile option.

Steps to Enable

You need to set the National Identifier Uniqueness Validation Mode profile option to use this feature.

Here's what you need to do to set the profile value.

1. Navigate to Setup & Maintenance > Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
2. Enter ORA_PER_NID_UNIQUENESS as the profile option code.
3. In the In the ORA_PER_UNIQUENESS: Profile Values section, select a profile value.
4. Click Save and Close.

Select a Profile Value

Tips And Considerations

• NID Uniqueness check is an additional feature that can be used with duplicate match, or without it. If you're using duplicate match and NID uniqueness, and the profile option is set to ERROR, then duplicate match won't find any duplicates based on NID. This is because the application won't allow creation of any duplicate NID records.

Key Resources

For more information, you can refer to the following topic in the Implementing Global Human Resources guide:

• Chapter 9, Person, How National Identifiers Are Validated

Ability to Change Contact Start Date

If you’re an HR Specialist, you can now change a contact’s start date on the Family and Emergency Contacts page. As an HR Specialist, you can now complete all your administrative tasks using the responsive pages. This feature isn’t available for an employee or contingent worker while viewing their contacts’ information. 

My Contacts Change Start Date Menu Option

Here’s how you can change the contact’s start date.

1. On the Family and Emergency Contacts page, select the contact whose start date you want to change.
2. Select Change Start Date from the Actions list.
3. Enter a new start date on the Change Start Date page.
4. Save your changes.

Change Start Date

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• If the contact is only a contact and not a co-worker or shared contact, and the new start date is a past date, then all effective-dated objects, such as relationship, name, address, visa or permit, and legislative information, will be synchronized with the new start date. 
• If a contact is only a contact and not a co-worker or shared contact and has effective-dated changes to their effective-dated objects that is after the new start date, then the effective-dated object dates will be synchronized with the new start date. 
• If a contact is only a contact and not a co-worker or shared contact and has effective-dated changes to their effective-dated objects that is before the new start date, then an error message will be shown and you won't be able to make the change. You need to remove the effective-dated changes before the start date can be changed. 
• If a contact is only a contact and not a co-worker or shared contact and an effective-dated object start date starts after the original start date of the contact, then the effective-start date will not be synchronized.
• If the contact is a co-worker, then changing the start date to a future date will simply change the relationship start date and not change any of the co-worker's effective dated details. 
• If the contact is a co-worker, then changing the start date to a prior date will simply change the relationship start date and not change any of the co-worker's effective dated details. The new start date can't be before the actual start of the co-worker's original start date. 
• If the contact is a contact of another Employee or Contingent Worker, then changing the start date to a future date will simply change the relationship start date and not change any of the contact's effective dated details.
• If the contact is a contact of another Employee or Contingent Worker, then changing the start date to a prior date will simply change the relationship start date and not change any of the co-worker's effective dated details. The new start date can't be before the actual start of the co-worker's original start date.

New Parameter for Synchronize Person Records Process

A new parameter, Batch Mode, was added to the Synchronize Person Records process to improve the performance. If the batch mode is set to Yes, the process will raise a single SOA event for all person changes made for the date range provided. If set to No, the process will raise an individual SOA event for each person change made for the date range provided.

Here’s a list of changes that are captured as part of this process.

• Hire an Employee
• Add a Contingent Worker
• Create or Update Work Email
• Create or Update Work Phone
• Change a Person's Name
• Change in Work Relationship
• Change in Assignment

This change is the first step so that consuming products or customers who are using the ChangedPersonDetails event can take the necessary steps to update their processes and use the new BatchChangedPersonDetails event. When the parameter is set to No, the ChangedPersonDetails event is raised and when the parameter is set to Yes, the BatchChangedPersonDetails event is raised. Because both events are supported and potentially raised, consuming products or customers must keep their existing logic while updating their logic for the new event. This parameter will be set to Yes by default in a future release and hidden out of the box so that the performance of the process is maximized. So, it is important that you analyze your processes and modify them so that in the future they are not broken when the parameter is set to Yes by default.

The details of the process are stored in the following 2 tables: PER_EVENT_PROCESS_STAGE and PER_EVENT_PROCESS_STAGE_DETAIL with all the people's records created with a batch id when the process is run with Batch Mode set to Yes. The details of the table will be deleted by default after 7 days. The profile option ORA_PER_BULK_SYNC_PER_DETAILS_PURGE_DAYS is used to set the number of days before the details are purged from the table. If you would like to increase or decrease the purge data period, you can change the profile value.

Uptake Steps:

• Consumer has to listen to BatchChangedPersonDetails Event. 
• The new event will pass a BatchId in the payload. All the personId's tagged to BatchId should be fetched from per_event_process_stage_detail table. 

  Please find below query to get list of all person_ids in the given bulk event.

  Select person_id from per_event_process_stage_detail Where event_process_stage_id =           (select distinct event_process_stage_id from per_event_process_stage where BULK_FLAG=’Y’            and event_process_stage_id=:pBatchId);

• The Person records should be processed similar to that of FoundationPartiesSyncProcessComposite, but should try to process all records in bulk (rather than calling our Person Service multiple times).
• Below are the formats of the event definition and the structure of the payload with which the Bulk Event is raised

  • Event Definition File

    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <definitions xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/events/edl" targetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/hcm/people/core/batchChangedPersonsDetailsComposite"> <schema-import namespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/hcm/people/core/batchChangedPersonsDetailsComposite" location="xsd/BatchChangedPersonDetails.xsd"/> <event-definition name="BatchChangedPersonDetails"> <content xmlns:ns0="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/hcm/people/core/batchChangedPersonDetailsComposite" element="ns0:BatchInformation"/> </event-definition> </definitions>

  • XML Schema Definition

    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/hcm/people/core/bacthChangedPersonDetailsComposite" targetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/apps/hcm/people/core/batchChangedPersonDetailsComposite"  elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xsd:element name="BatchInformation"> <xsd:annotation> <xsd:documentation>BatchInformation</xsd:documentation> </xsd:annotation> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="BatchId"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element name="newValue" type="StringValue"/> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> <xsd:complexType name="StringValue"> <xsd:attribute name="value" type="xsd:string"/> </xsd:complexType> <xsd:complexType name="LongValue"> <xsd:attribute name="value" type="xsd:long"/> </xsd:complexType> <xsd:complexType name="DateValue"> <xsd:attribute name="value" type="xsd:date"/> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:schema>

Steps to Enable

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

Support for Additional Person Info in Transaction Design Studio

You can now configure the Additional Person Info page using the Transaction Design Studio (TDS) for the:

• Person Extensible Flexfield (EFF) page to be displayed in the Info Group list of values.
• Context to be displayed on the page, if there are multiple contexts defined for each page.

The supported TDS parameters are Role Name and Country.

The legislation from the person's current active work relationship will be used by the TDS Country parameter to determine if the rule applies to the person. To simplify the user experience, Oracle has delivered TDS rules based on the Country parameter for the Oracle-delivered Person EFFs. So, only those person EFF pages or contexts that apply to the person based on their active work relationships will be displayed. For example, if a person only has an active work relationship in Italy, then only the Italian Oracle-delivered person EFF page and contexts will be displayed and all other Oracle-delivered person EFFs won't be displayed in the Info Group list of values. If you have defined your own person EFF pages and contexts, they will be displayed by default.

You can search for people with a terminated work relationship using the advanced search. Search for the terminated worker and provide the effective-as-of date when the person was active to see the person EFF pages and contexts that are associated with that country. It is also possible that you haven’t created any customer-specific person EFF pages and the selected person doesn’t have an active work relationship in a country that matches a delivered rule, the page may be null. This is the expected behavior.

TDS does not support hiding specific segments of a person EFF. The Additional Person Info page is displayed only for the HR professional roles out-of-the-box and that’s why the parameter “When is this rule applied?” isn't currently displayed.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• This feature is for the responsive pages, if you have not moved to the responsive page this feature will not be available. For more information about enabling the responsive pages, please see the following document on My Oracle Support: HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information (Document ID 2399671.1).

Key Resources

For more information, you can refer to these additional resources.

• Transaction Design Studio – What It Is and How It Works (Document ID 2504404.1) 
• Implementing Global Human Resources guide, Chapter 38 - Other Setup and Maintenance Tasks: HCM Experience Design Studio
• Implementing Global Human Resources guide, Chapter 10 Employment:  Add Additional Content to the Guided Flow for Promote Action

Context-Based Personalization for Workforce Structures EFF Using HCM Experience Design Studio

You can now configure the EFF contexts for workforce structures in the HCM Experience Design Studio. You can show or hide the sections.

Show or Hide the Sections

You can configure to selectively show or hide the extensible flexfield (EFF) contexts in the Additional Info and Legislative Info sections for workforce structures.

Contexts in the Additional Info Section

Contexts in the Legislative Info Section

Steps to Enable

Here's how you show or hide the sections and the related EFF contexts in the HCM Experience Design Studio.

1. Activate a sandbox.
2. Click Transaction Design Studio in the HCM Experience Design Studio.
3. Select a workforce structures-related action (create job, create location, and so on).
4. Click Add to create a rule.
5. Enter the required rule details.
6. In the Show or Hide Regions section, ensure that the Additional Info and Legislative Info sections are set to Visible
7. In the Page Attributes section, select Additional Info and configure the attributes, then select Legislative Info and configure the legislative attributes.
8. Click Save and Close.

Position Management: Create Recruiting Requisition

You can create a requisition (Oracle Recruiting) using the Create Requisition action on the Position Details page.

Create Requisition from Position

When you create a requisition, values from the currently-viewed position and the associated requisition template will be defaulted into the requisition pages.

Default Values from Position in Requisition

Steps to Enable

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

Role Information

You require the Hiring Manager role or a Recruiter role to create a requisition from the Position Details page.

Profiles in Job Details

Profiles help in identifying the qualifications and skills required for a job. You can now associate profiles with a job on the Job Details page. You can either associate an existing profile or end-date the relationship of a currently associated profile.

Associate Profiles When You Create a Job

You can also create a new profile using the Create Profile action on the Job Details page. Once you save the new profile, use the update or correct actions to associate the new profile.

Create Job Profile Action on the Job Details Page

Steps to Enable

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

Tips And Considerations

• You need to migrate to the Enhanced Talent Profile to use this feature. For information on how to do that see the Talent Management What's New and the feature: Enhanced Talent Profiles Replaces Classic Profile Management.

Key Resources

For more information, refer the following:

• Implementing Global Human Resources guide, Chapter 13 : Workforce Profiles
• Using Enhanced Talent Profile on My Oracle Support: Upgrading Oracle Fusion Profile Management (Document ID 2421964.1)

Role Information

The Create Profile action is secured by this functional privilege.

Functional Privilege Name	Role
Create Position Profile HRT_CREATE_POSITION_PROFILE	Workforce Structures Management Duty, Line Manager

New Locations V2 REST Resource

You can use the new locationsV2 REST resource to create and manage locations in Oracle HCM Cloud. Using this resource, you can retrieve, create, and manage locations and related addresses and flexfields data.

Steps to Enable

Review the REST service definition in the REST API guides, available from the Oracle Help Center > your apps service area of interest > REST API. If you're new to Oracle's REST services you may want to begin with the Quick Start section.

Key Resources

For more information about the locationsV2 resource, see the REST API for Oracle HCM Cloud guide on the Oracle Help Center.

Role Information

To facilitate the management of related information, all the function security privileges and data security policies required to secure the locationsV2 REST resource are delivered through aggregate privileges.

Privilege	Method	Assigned To Job Role
ORA_PER_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_LOCATIONS Use REST Service - Locations	GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE, and DESCRIBE	Human Capital Management Integration Specialist ORA_HRC_HUMAN_CAPITAL_MANAGEMENT_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST
ORA_PER_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_LOCATIONS_RO Use REST Service - Locations Read Only	DESCRIBE, GET	Human Capital Management Integration Specialist ORA_HRC_HUMAN_CAPITAL_MANAGEMENT_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST

Additionally, you must have access to the relevant REST API LOV resources to provide related attributes in the POST or PATCH request payloads. For more information about the locationsV2 security, see the Authorize section in the REST API for Oracle HCM Cloud guide on the Oracle Help Center.

Change Legal Employer

Legal Employer and Action Reason Fields Added to Employment Info Page

We have improved the user experience of the Employment Info flow with the addition of the Legal Employer and Action Reason fields. These fields are now available in the Employment History and Future Actions sections of the Employment Info page.

Legal Employer and Action Reason Fields in the Employment History

Steps to Enable

The action reason field is hidden out-of-the-box. To enable this field in the Employment Info flow, you must use the HCM Experience Design Studio.

To display the assignment history across legal employer changes on the Employment Info responsive page, you need to enable the ORA_PER_EMPL_DISPLAY_GT_HISTORY profile option. For more information about enabling this profile option, see the Steps to Enable section in the HCM Global Human Resources release 20B what's new feature: View Assignment History Across Legal Employer Changes

Tips And Considerations

The Legal Employer field will only be displayed in case of a global transfer.

Key Resources

For more information, you can refer to these additional resources:

• Transaction Design Studio – What It Is and How It Works (Document ID 2504404.1) in My Oracle Support

• Implementing Global Human Resources guide, Chapter 38 - Other Setup and Maintenance Tasks: HCM Experience Design Studio in Oracle Help Center

Enhanced Data Copy Options During a Legal Employer Change

We have improved the data copy options for users using the Local and Global Transfer flow. Users can now copy these kinds of data from the source to the destination country during a legal employer change:

• Personal Details: Name, national identifiers, correspondence language, and birth details.
• Contact Info: Phones and addresses.
• Legislative Info: Gender, marital status, ethnicity, and religion.
• Other Info: Passport, visas and permits, and citizenship.
• Benefits: You can choose the life event for global transfer and transfer the benefits balance to the worker's new assignment.
• Payroll data: You can now copy third-party payment methods and calculation cards, such as tax withholding cards during a transfer between legal employers (global transfer) within the same legislative data group. Each country’s legislation determines the calculation cards and components that are copied. If any field is blank during a transfer within the same LDG, the payroll values will be copied from the source assignment.

Questionnaire Page

Personal Details Section

Benefits Section

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• The Contact Info, Other Info, and Benefits sections are hidden out-of-the-box. To enable these sections in the local and global transfer flow, you must use the Transaction Design Studio.

• The Personal Details and Legislative Info sections are not displayed on the questionnaire page. These sections only appear if there is a change in the legislation of the person’s work relationship. The reason is that a new name and legislation record are automatically created based on the destination legislation. The Biographical Info and National Identifier regions are included because some applications such as Payroll or Benefits may require this information and including the regions during the transfer process reduces additional navigation.

• Legislative information such as a person’s marital status, ethnicity, religion, or gender, will be copied to the destination legislation if the lookup codes are the same as the source legislation. If they are not the same, the field will be blank and you can select from the destination country’s valid list of values.

• The citizenship details have been added to the Other Info section along with passport, visa, and permit information because some national identifier validations require a citizenship record to be present. If there is existing data for these objects, the data will be displayed. If no data exists, you can enter the data as part of the transfer process.

• When you select the Contact Info and Other Info sections from the questionnaire page, the sections are displayed. If there is existing data for these objects, the data will be displayed. If no data exists, you can enter the data as part of the transfer process.

• A line manager performing the transfer process may not have the necessary privileges to view or manage a person’s Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as address, phone, email, national identifier, or visa and permit. In this case, a message will be displayed noting that the user doesn't have access to the data and they can’t add any additional information related to the PII. This prevents inappropriate access to the PII data and prevents conflicts of primary records from being created.

• When the user selects the Benefits section from the questionnaire page, the section is displayed only in the case of global transfer.

Key Resources

For more information about HCM Experience Design Studio and Transaction Design Studio, see this document on My Oracle Support:

• Transaction Design Studio – What It Is and How It Works (Document 2504404.1)

Move Future Termination to New Work Relationship Created from Legal Employer Change

We have made it easier for users by automatically moving the future termination record to the destination work relationship during a legal employer change.

This feature is supported when you do a legal employer change using these processes:

• Local and Global Transfer
• Responsive Mass Legal Employer Change
• REST API

Before Global Transfer

After Global Transfer

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

When a person with a future termination is transferred to a new legal employer, all termination-related fields (for example, Rehire Recommendation and Notification Date) are copied from the source to the destination work relationship. The destination assignment is also made inactive as of the future termination date.

NOTE: The future-dated inactive assignment and termination details of the source work relationship are deleted when you do the global transfer.

Compact Guided Process for Mass Legal Employer Change

We have now made it easier to change the legal employer for a set of workers using the new responsive Mass Legal Employer Change process. This compact guided process allows users to do a permanent legal employer change for a group of workers together. All the source assignment data and salary information is copied from the source assignment of the source work relationship to the destination work relationship for all the selected workers. You can also select workers from different legal employers to be transferred to the same destination legal employer.

On the Override Assignment Values section, you can provide specific values for certain assignment attributes. These specific values will be applied to all the selected workers and will override the corresponding values on the worker's source assignment.

After you submit the process, you can monitor the progress of the scheduled job from the Mass Legal Employer Change dashboard. You can create a supplemental batch for workers with errors after the errors are fixed at the source.

Landing Page for the Mass Legal Employer Change Process

Enter Values in Different Sections When Creating the Process

Steps to Enable

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

Key Resources

For more information, refer to the Using Global Human Resources Guide on Oracle Help Center for the following topics:

• Mass Legal Employer Change
• Mass Legal Employer Change Statuses
• Create a Mass Legal Employer Change

Role Information

The Mass Legal Employer Change page is secured by this aggregate privilege.

Privilege Name and Code	Job Role Name
Perform Worker Mass Legal Employer Change ORA_PER_PERFORM_WORKER_MASS_LE_CHANGE	Human Resource Specialist

Data Copy Options During a Mass Legal Employer Change

We have improved the data copy options for users. Users can now copy these kinds of data from the source to the destination assignment during a mass legal employer change:

• Assignment extensible flexfield (EFF) contexts: By default, all EFF contexts are copied, however, you can choose which contexts you don’t want to copy to the worker's new assignment.

• Payroll data: You can now copy payroll, overtime period, time card required, personal payment methods, person costing overrides, and recurring element entries as of the date of transfer within the legislative data group (LDG). Copy third-party payment methods and calculation cards, such as tax withholding cards during a transfer between legal employers (global transfer) within the same legislative data group. Each country’s legislation determines the calculation cards and components that are copied. If any field is blank during a transfer within the same LDG, the payroll values will be copied from the source assignment.

• Benefits: You can choose the life event for global transfer and transfer benefits balance to the worker's new assignment.

Copy New Kinds of Data

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

For more information, see the following resources:

• 20C Workforce Rewards > Global Payroll What's New feature: Copy Calculation Cards and Third-Party Payment Methods during a Legal Employer Change
• 20C Workforce Rewards >Global Payroll What's New feature: Copy Payroll Information During a Mass Legal Employer Change

Actions Framework

Setup Pages for Actions, Action Reasons, and Assignment Statuses Available Only in Responsive Pages from Update 20C

We now allow access to these setup pages only from the responsive pages in the application:

• Configure Actions
• Action Reasons
• Assignment Statuses

You can access these setup pages from Quick Actions under My Client Groups.

Quick Actions on Home Page

Steps to Enable

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

Tips And Considerations

• This feature is for the responsive pages, if you have not moved to the responsive page this feature will not be available. For more information about enabling the responsive pages, please see the following document on My Oracle Support: HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information (Document ID 2399671.1).

Key Resources

For more information, refer to the Implementing Global Human Resources Guide on Oracle Help Center for the following topics:

• How Action Components Work Together
• Action and Action Reason Flexfields
• How You Set Up Assignment Statuses

Role Information

The responsive Configure Actions setup page is secured by this functional privilege.

Functional Privilege Name	Role
Configure Employment Settings PER_MANAGE_ACTIONS_AND_REASONS_PRIV	Human Capital Management Application Administrator Compensation Administrator

The responsive Action Reasons setup page is secured by this functional privilege.

Functional Privilege Name	Role
Configure Employment Settings PER_MANAGE_ACTIONS_AND_REASONS_PRIV	Human Capital Management Application Administrator Compensation Administrator

The responsive Assignment Statuses setup page is secured by this functional privilege.

Functional Privilege Name	Role
Manage Assignment Status Type PER_MANAGE_ASSIGNMENT_STATUS_TYPE_PRIV	Human Capital Management Application Administrator

Country-Specific Action and Action Reasons

You can now make action and action reasons country-specific on responsive employment pages. Select the countries that are applicable for the action and action reasons. After this mapping, responsive employment pages will display actions and action reasons that are applicable for the worker’s legal employer country.

Display of Action Based on Country

Display of Action Reason Based on Country

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• This feature will not replace your existing application behavior, but if you want to leverage the feature, you have to make the necessary configuration changes.
• To make the action or action reason global, retain the default blank value and don’t make any selection in the Country field. The blank value signifies that the action or action reason is applicable for all countries.
• You can create an action reason by using the Action Reasons UI and associate it with the action when creating or editing an action.
• There is no option to create an action reason while creating an action.
• The country of the action reason must match with any one of the countries of the action.
• It's recommended to have at least one active action code within each action type that's applicable for all countries.

Earlier to release 20C, the Resignation action was hard coded as the default in the Termination and Resignation pages. Starting release 20C, the defaulting logic for the Termination and Resignation action is changed as follows: Search for the first Voluntary termination action which doesn't have any role or country associated with it, and default that action.

NOTE:

• Due to this change in the defaulting logic, it may be possible that the defaulted action is not always Resignation.

• There is a fix in release 20D to ensure that the selected default action is first in the alphabetical order of action names. Additionally, the actions will be categorized as Voluntary termination action and not have any role or country associated with it.

Key Resources

For more information, refer to the Implementing Global Human Resources Guide on Oracle Help Center for the following topics:

• How Action Components Work Together
• Action and Action Reason Flexfields

Role-Specific Action and Action Reasons

You can now make action and action reasons role-specific on responsive employment pages. Select the roles that are applicable for the action and action reasons. After this mapping, responsive employment pages will display actions and action reasons that are applicable for the logged in user's roles.

Display of Action Based on Role

Display of Action Reason Based on Role

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• This feature is for the responsive pages, if you have not moved to the responsive page this feature will not be available. For more information about enabling the responsive pages, please see the following document on My Oracle Support: HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information (Document ID 2399671.1).
• This feature will not replace your existing application behavior, but if you want to leverage the feature, you have to make the necessary configuration changes.
• To make the action or action reason global, retain the default blank value and don’t make any selection in the Role field. The blank value signifies that the action or action reason is applicable for all roles.
• You can create an action reason by using the Action Reasons UI and associate it with the action when creating or editing an action.
• The role of the action reason must match with any one of the roles of the action.
• It's recommended to have at least one active action code within each action type that's applicable for all roles.

Earlier to release 20C, the Resignation action was hard coded as the default in the Termination and Resignation pages. Starting release 20C, the defaulting logic for the Termination and Resignation action is changed as follows: Search for the first Voluntary termination action which doesn't have any role or country associated with it, and default that action.

NOTE: 

• Due to this change in the defaulting logic, it may be possible that the defaulted action is not always Resignation.

• There is a fix in release 20D to ensure that the selected default action is first in the alphabetical order of action names. Additionally, the actions will be categorized as Voluntary termination action and not have any role or country associated with it.

Key Resources

For more information, refer to the Implementing Global Human Resources Guide on Oracle Help Center for the following topics:

• How Action Components Work Together
• Action and Action Reason Flexfields

Default Assignment Status Based on Action

You can now map a default assignment status for action codes related to employment action types. After this mapping, responsive employment pages will default the assignment status mapped to the selected action code.

Assignment Status Selected by Default

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• This feature will not replace your existing application behavior, but if you want to leverage the feature, you have to make the necessary configuration changes.
• To map an assignment status with the action, ensure that all countries associated with the assignment status matches the countries associated with the action.
• This feature is only applicable for action types related to employment. It is not applicable for action types related to compensation, workforce structures, recruiting, etc.
• For global transfer, global temporary assignment and temporary assignment, the default assignment status applies to the destination assignment.

Key Resources

For more information, refer to the Implementing Global Human Resources Guide on Oracle Help Center for the following topics:

• How Action Components Work Together
• Action and Action Reason Flexfields

Single Action Reason for Multiple Actions

We have enhanced the ability of users to create an action reason and associate it with multiple actions. This feature makes the action reason list as global and reduces the effort of creating multiple action reasons.

You can specify the code, name, and description when you create the action reason. You can no longer specify the action reason start date and end date. These are internally defaulted by the application as 1-Jan-1951 and 31-Dec-4712 respectively.

However, when you associate the action reason to an action, you can specify the period for which this association is valid by specifying the start date and end date.

Additionally, you can select the countries and roles for which this action reason association is applicable.

This feature makes the action reason list as global and reduces the effort of creating multiple action reasons.

Create an Action Reason

Fields When Creating an Action Reason

Associate the Action Reason with an Action

You can use the same action reason with multiple actions and configure it's usage with a specific action according to your business need.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

For more information, refer to the Implementing Global Human Resources Guide on Oracle Help Center for the following topics:

• How Action Components Work Together
• Action and Action Reason Flexfields

Client List of Values for Action in Offer Pages

We have improved the user experience with the new Action list of value (LOV). You can now get relevant action suggestions as you start typing in the LOV.

Action LOVs When Creating a Job Offer

This table lists the profile option for the Action client LOV. The profile option is delivered with a Site level value of N. Client LOVs use the "contains" logic and return results containing the characters you enter. You can optionally change this logic to "starts with" for individual LOVs to return results that start with the characters. To do so, change the Site level value of the corresponding profile option code from N to Y. Changing the Site level value changes the search logic for all instances of the LOV if it's used in more than one page.

Object	Profile Option Code
Action	PER_LOV_SEARCH_ACTIONS_STARTSWITH

Steps to Enable

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

Tips And Considerations

Since the Action LOV has been changed to REST-based LOV, there may be an impact on the Page Composer personalization, HCM Experience Design Studio and AutoComplete rules you may have. You must validate the impact on these rules after the update.

Key Resources

For more information about client LOVs, see the following resources:

• 18B HCM Common What's New feature: Faster Rendering of Values Using Client List of Values (LOV's)
• 18C HCM Common What's New feature: New Client LOVs
• HCM Security Upgrade Guide

Role Information

This table lists the security privileges and the roles that inherit them for each client LOV:

Object	Security Privilege Name and Code	Privilege Type	Job Role Name
Action	Use REST Service - Person Reference Data Lists of Values ORA_PER_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_PERSON_REFERENCE_DATA_LOVS	Aggregate	Employee Contingent Worker Line Manager HR Specialist

Employment

Route Employment Approvals Using Current Assignment Hierarchy

You can now configure your approval rules and route approvals using the current assignment hierarchy. The default routing uses the primary assignment hierarchy, but now you can route approvals to nonprimary assignment managers.

Route Approvals Using the Current Assignment Hierarchy

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

This feature will not replace your existing application behavior, but if you want to leverage the feature, you have to make the necessary configuration changes.

This feature is applicable only to employment related approvals.

Key Resources

For more information, refer to chapter 14 Notifications and Approvals in the Implementing Global Human Resources Guide on Oracle Help Center.

Context-Based Personalization for Assignment EFF Using HCM Experience Design Studio

We have improved the user experience for the Additional Assignment Info section on various responsive employment flows by using the HCM Experience Design Studio. You can configure to selectively show or hide the assignment extensible flexfield (EFF) contexts in this section based on your business rules.

When you select to edit the Additional Assignment Info, you now have the option to show or hide the Page (Info Group). You can also select to show or hide the Region (Context).

NOTE: The ability to show or hide segments in the assignment EFF is still not supported.

Edit Attributes for the Section

Show or Hide EFF Contexts

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

For more information about HCM Experience Design Studio and Transaction Design Studio, see this document on My Oracle Support:

• Transaction Design Studio – What It Is and How It Works (Document 2504404.1)

For more information, refer to the Implementing Global Human Resources Guide on Oracle Help Center for the following topic:

• HCM Experience Design Studio

HR Status Displayed in Business Title LOV for Multiple Assignments

We have improved the user experience with the display of the HR status alongside the business title for suspended and inactive assignments. For example, a worker may have two assignments, one active and the other inactive. In this case, the business title of the active assignment is displayed as Manager Information Systems and the inactive assignment as Management Consultant – Inactive.

HR Status Displayed for a Worker Next to Their Business Title

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

The HR status isn't displayed next to the business title if the assignment is active.

Primary Option Automatically Set During End Assignment Processes

We have made it easier for users to use the End Assignment and End Temporary Assignment processes. When you perform any of these two actions on the primary assignment, the application automatically makes the secondary assignment primary provided there are only two active assignments within the work relationship.

Ending an Assignment for the Primary Assignment

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

You can end the primary assignment, however, these conditions apply:

• If there is only one nonprimary assignment in the work relationship, the application automatically makes the nonprimary assignment as primary when ending the primary assignment.

• If there are more than one nonprimary assignments, the application doesn't allow you to end the primary assignment. You need to first make one of the nonprimary assignments as primary before ending the primary assignment.

The behavior of the application remains unchanged when you end a nonprimary assignment.

Cumulative Option Set to No During V1 to V3 Seniority Dates Migration

We have enhanced the process to migrate seniority dates from version 1 (V1) to version 3 (V3). During the process, the application now sets the Cumulative option for migrated V3 seniority dates to No.

Cumulative Option Set to No for V3 Seniority Dates

Steps to Enable

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

Checklists

Configure Checklist and Task Display Properties

Enhance user experience by configuring the display properties of sections and actions based on roles both at the checklist and task level. You use the Display Properties tab to configure the properties.

Hide Mark a Task Not Applicable for Task Performer

Not Applicable Action Hidden for Task Performer

Hide Other's Incomplete Tasks for Line Manager

Others' Incomplete Tasks Section Hidden for Line Manager

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• This feature will not replace your existing application behavior, but if you want to leverage the feature, you have to make the necessary configuration changes.
• It's possible to configure these properties either at the checklist level, task type level, or task level.
• If configuration changes are made after a checklist is allocated, the changes won't be reflected in already allocated checklists.
• Any change you make to the task display properties of the Mark a Task as Complete and Mark a Task as Not Applicable buttons will be visible only on the Task Details page. These changes won't be reflected in the task notification.

Sequence Checklist Tasks

You can now make use of the ability to configure the sequence of checklist tasks. The tasks are displayed in the specified sequence.

Configure Sequence in Task Setup

Task Sequence on the Employee Onboarding Home Page

Task Displays in Sequence on the Employee Progress Page

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• This feature will not replace your existing application behavior, but if you want to leverage the feature, you have to make the necessary configuration changes.

• This is set to No by default. It can be enabled by modifying the Order Tasks by Sequence checklist property in the Display Properties tab.

• Task sequence only controls the display of tasks, it doesn't restrict the task performer from performing the tasks in any order.

Enable Completion of Electronic Signature Only After Document Is Viewed

You can now control electronic signature task by ensuring users have viewed the document they need to sign. The Complete button on the task drill down page is enabled only after users click View Document at least once.

Complete Disabled for Electronic Signature Task

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• Control of the Complete button is applicable only when the task is accessed from the Task Details page. This doesn't prevent users from marking the task as complete from the task notification.

Enable Task Completion Only After Task Is Viewed

You can now streamline the completion of tasks by enabling Complete on the task drill down page only after users have visited the task at least once.

This enhancement is applicable to the following task types:

• Application
• External URL
• DocuSign
• I-9 Verification

Complete Disabled in an Application Task

Complete Disabled in a DocuSign Task

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• Control of the Complete button is applicable only when the task is accessed from the Task Details page. This doesn't prevent users from marking the task as complete from the task notification.

Improved Checklist Transaction Titles in Transaction Console

You can now take advantage of enhanced checklist transaction titles that make it easy to identify Checklist Action Composite and Employment Checklist Allocated Task Composite processes in the transaction Console.

• Process Name: Checklist Action Composite

Name: Checklist Action-<Action Name>-<Person Name>(<Person Number>)-<Action Occurence ID>

• Process Name: Employment Checklist Allocated Task Composite

Name: Checklist Task-<TASK NAME>-<Person Name>(<Person Number>)-<Checklist Name>-<Checklist Category>-<DML ACTION>

Employment Checklist Allocated Task Composite in Transaction Console

Checklist Action Composite in Transaction Console

Steps to Enable

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

Document Records

Improved User Experience in Document Record Approval Notifications

You can enhance user experience in document record approval notifications for in-progress transactions by providing consistent patterns, banners, and messages. 

After a document record transaction is submitted for approval, the initiator can view the submission directly from the Document Records user interface. When the user clicks on the banner message, they can additionally do the following:

• View the submitted document record details
• Track the progress of the approval
• Withdraw the submitted document record

Banner for Submitted Document Record

Notification Displayed Upon Clicking Banner Link

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• Approvers can't edit the document from the approval notification.
• Initiators need to withdraw the transaction and resubmit the revised transactions.

Simplify Document Record Approval When Approval Is Set to No

You can now simplify document record approval for document types which have approval required set to No. Auto-approval doesn't happen for such document records.

For users, the effects of this simplification are:

• The message stating that "We are submitting your changes for approval" is no longer displayed.
• Immediate creation of the document record, no delay.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

• If the approval required configuration for a specific document type is modified after document records have been submitted for that document type then any pending document record transactions will follow the previously set approval route for that person.

• Document Record transactions don't display in the Transaction Console if it was performed using the Document Records responsive page.

Control Document Records Access in BIP Reports

You can now control access to person and document record data in BIP reports using the new secured HR_DOR_SECURED_LIST_V view.

Until this update, document records related BIP reports had to be based on HR_DOCUMENTS_OF_RECORD table. This resulted in users, having access to run such reports, being able to run the report for all persons and for all document types.

The delivered Document Expiry Report has been modified to use this secured view. The condition restricting data display to any user for this report, introduced in 19D, has been removed.

Once you modify your custom document record reports to use this new secured view, person and document type security will be applied to the reported data.

Steps to Enable

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

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.

Mass Legal Employer Change Flow Available Only in Responsive Pages from Update 20C

Start using the new responsive Mass Legal Employer Change flow in update 20C. The responsive pages now replace the earlier classic pages for the Mass Legal Employer Change flow.

NOTE: From Update 20C onwards, the Mass Legal Employer Change flow will no longer be available on classic pages.

Steps to Enable

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

Access to Change Legal Employer Flow Ends in Update 20D

We announced in the 20B Whats New that you can’t access the Change Legal Employer flow in the application from update 20D onwards. We suggest you move quickly to start using and taking advantage of the responsive Local and Global transfer flow to change the legal employer of a worker.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

When using Oracle Recruiting Cloud, you can still start the Change Legal Employer flow from the job offer.

Allocate Checklists Available Only in Responsive Pages from 20D

Migrate to the Allocated Checklists responsive pages to leverage the enhanced features introduced in release 18C.

NOTE: From 20D onwards, allocated checklists in Classic UI will no longer be supported.

These are the benefits of moving to the Allocated Checklists responsive pages:

• Renders the page on any device (desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile phone, etc.) seamlessly, thereby providing a consistent user experience across devices.
• Simplifies the user experience by allowing display, search, and allocation of checklists of all categories.
• Prevents adhoc creation and duplication of checklists by users.
• Maintains data integrity of allocated checklist and task details, by restricting adhoc updates to names and descriptions of allocated checklists and tasks.
• Provides control over updates to checklist and task statuses by removing the ability to manually update checklist and task status to non-relevant status values.
• Allows modifying task performers by leveraging reassign task functionality.
• Allows ability to specify if comments and attachments are enabled for tasks and if those attachments need to be stored automatically in document records.

Steps to Enable

In order to enable you must enable the following profile option and should have enabled the HCM_RESPONSIVE_PAGES_ENABLED profile option.

Field	Value
Profile Option Code	PER_CHECKLIST_RESPONSIVE_ENABLED

To enable the profile option, navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area:

1. Search for and click the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
2. Search for and select the profile option.
3. Click to add a new Profile Value.
4. Select the Level as Site.
5. Enter a Y in the Profile Value field.
6. Click Save and Close.

When the profile option is enabled, the Allocated Checklists self-service actions will take the user to the new self-service flows and the classic flows will no longer be available.

Key Resources

For more information on creating and enabling the profile options, refer to the following document on My Oracle Support:

• HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information- (Document 2399671.1)

For information on Manage Allocated Checklists, refer to Manage Allocated Checklists Redesigned under Global Human Resources in the release 18C What's New.

Human Capital Management for Bahrain

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

Address Validation Changes

The address validation is now relaxed for Bahrain. You can enter data in both Address Line 1 and Post Office Box. Previously, data entry in both fields was prevented and triggered an error message.

In addition, in the Recruiting Candidate flows the address validation no longer requires you to enter data in either Address Line 1 or Post Office Box.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Expect this behavior when you have selected the address style to be Supplemental Taxation and Reporting Address.

Human Capital Management for China

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

Citizen Identification Number Validation and Worker Data Validation Report Work with User-Defined Gender Values

You can now create your own gender values in the SEX lookup type if the seeded values do not meet your business requirements. To enable you to do so, the lookup configuration level has been changed from System to User.

You can also create mappings between your values and the system-delivered values in the Gender of a person (System Lookup) table (ORA_PER_SEX lookup type). This enables the citizen identification number validation and Work Data Validation Report to work with the gender values that you created.

SEX Lookup Type on the Manage Common Lookups Page

Steps to Enable

Do these steps to create mappings between user-defined values and the system-delivered values:

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Extended Lookup Codes task.
2. On the Extended Lookup Codes page, in the Lookup Types section, select Gender of a person (System Lookup).
3. In the Gender of a person (System Lookup): Extended Lookup Codes section, click the Add icon.
4. Specify the required information in the Country, Lookup Code, Extended Code, and Extended Name fields.
5. Click Save.
6. Click Done.

Extended Lookup Codes Page

Hukou Type Is Optional for Mainland China Citizens

Previously, you were required to specify the Hukou type for a local citizen for whom the Expatriate field was set to No.

The Hukou Type field has now been made optional on the New Person and Person Management pages.

Hukou Type Field in the Legislative Information Section

Steps to Enable

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

Citizen Identification Number Is Not Required for a Mainland China Candidate

You can now simplify the way you enter data for mainland China candidates by making the citizen identification number optional, even when the Expatriate field is set to No.

Expatriate Field Set to No

Steps to Enable

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

China 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.

Only Chinese Additional Employee Information Is Available Ready-to-Use in Responsive Pages

You can take advantage of the improved usability of the Additional Person Info page that now shows only the Chinese Additional Employee Information section.

Chinese Additional Employee Information Section

The following sections have been hidden in the Additional Person Info page:

• Chinese Additional Personal Information
• Chinese Personal File Information
• Chinese Political Status Information
• Chinese Previous Military Service Information

Steps to Enable

Do these steps to show show a page or a region in the Addition Person Info Page:

1. Click Navigator > Configuration > Sandboxes to create and enter a sandbox with the HCM Experience Design Studio configuration option.
2. On the Home page, click My Client Groups > Quick Actions > Employment > HCM Experience Design Studio.
3. From the Action list, select Additional Person Info.
4. Do one of the following:

• In the Rules section, click Add to create your own rule.
• In the Delivered Rules section, click the Duplicate icon beside an existing rule to reuse it.

5. On the Edit Rule page, in the Basic Details section, do the following:

• In the Name field, enter a name for the rule.
• In the Description field, enter a description for the rule.

6. In the Page Attributes section, do the following:

• From the Page list, select a page that you want to make visible, and select the Visible check box.
• From the Region list, select a region that you want to make visible, and select the Visible check box.

7. Click Save and Close.

Tips And Considerations

• This feature is for the responsive pages, if you have not moved to the responsive page this feature will not be available. For more information about enabling the responsive pages, please see the following document on My Oracle Support: HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information (Document ID 2399671.1).

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.

Enhanced Postal Code Validation

The Czech postal code validation is enhanced to accept both the NNN NN and NNNNN formats, where N is a number.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

For more information, go to My Oracle Support for the following document:

• Oracle Fusion HCM: HCM Address Validation (Document ID 2140848.1)

Human Capital Management for Hong Kong

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

Hong Kong International Transfer Payment Type

A new payment type, International Transfer, has been added for Hong Kong. You can select this payment type when creating payment methods for international transfers.

International Transfer Payment Type

Steps to Enable

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

Worker Data Validation Report Update for Hong Kong

The Worker Data Validation Report now includes enhanced validation to get a list of employees with missing or invalid HR data. For Inland Revenue Department reports, the application runs a validation to verify the employee's gender and displays a message if the gender value is invalid.

You can use the report results to make the HR data complete and valid by adding the missing information or by correcting the faulty records.

NOTE: The accepted values for employee's gender are M or F in the IR56 forms.

Hong Kong Worker Data Validation Report Parameters

Sample Hong Kong Worker Data Validation Report

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Run this report from the Data Exchange work area, Payroll: Submit a Process or Report task.

You must specify the legal employer and the effective date to run the report. The effective date should not be prior to the hiring day for the targeted workers in the report.

Key Resources

For more information about this report, go to the Oracle Help Center and search for the following:

• Worker Data Validation Report

Human Capital Management for Iraq

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

Address Validation Changes and Uptake by the Worker Data Validation Report

These address validations are removed in the Recruiting Candidate flows:

• A value is required for at least one of the Post Office Box or Building Name and Number or Street Name fields
• A value is required for at least one of the Post Office Box or District fields

With this change, a candidate who has become a worker may have an invalid address. To ensure that the address data is valid, the validations that were removed are now delivered as part of the data validation report for Iraq.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Expect this behavior when you have selected the address style to be Supplemental Taxation and Reporting Address.

Run the worker data validation report from the Data Exchange work area, Payroll: Submit a Process or Report task. You must specify the legal employer and the effective date to run the report, which should not be prior to the hiring day for the targeted workers in the report.

Human Capital Management for Kuwait

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

Address Validation Changes

The address validations are now relaxed and you can now enter data in both Address Line 1 and Post Office Box. Previously, data entry in both of these fields was disabled, thus triggering an error message and preventing submission.

In addition, in the Recruiting Candidate flows, the address validation no longer requires you to enter data in either Address Line 1 or Post Office Box.

Steps to Enable

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

Human Capital Management for Morocco

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

Address Validation Changes and Uptake by the Worker Data Validation Report

The address validation is removed in the Recruiting Candidate flows: a value is required for at least one of the Post Office Box, Apartment Number or Mail Box Number, Building Number or Building Name, or Street Name fields.

With this change, a candidate who has become a worker may have an invalid address. To ensure that the address data is valid, the validation that was removed is now delivered as part of the data validation report for Morocco.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Expect this behavior when you have selected the address style to be Supplemental Taxation and Reporting Address.

Run the worker data validation report from the Data Exchange work area, Payroll: Submit a Process or Report task. You must specify the legal employer and the effective date to run the report, which should not be prior to the hiring day for the targeted workers in the report.

Human Capital Management for Oman

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

Address Validation Changes

The address validation is now relaxed for Oman. You can enter data in both Address Line 1 and Post Office Box. Previously, data entry in both fields was prevented and triggered an error message.

In addition, in the Recruiting Candidate flows the address validation no longer requires you to enter data in either Address Line 1 or Post Office Box.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Expect this behavior when you have selected the address style to be Supplemental Taxation and Reporting Address.

Human Capital Management for Qatar

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

Address Validation Changes

The address validations are now relaxed and you can now enter data in both Address Line 1 and Post Office Box. Previously, data entry in both of these fields was disabled, thus triggering an error message and preventing submission.

In addition, in the Recruiting Candidate flows, the address validation no longer requires you to enter data in either Address Line 1 or Post Office Box.

Steps to Enable

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

Human Capital Management for Saudi Arabia

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

Address Validation Changes

The address validations are now relaxed and you can now enter data in both Address Line 1 and Post Office Box. Previously, data entry in both of these fields was disabled, thus triggering an error message and preventing submission.

In addition, in the Recruiting Candidate flows, the address validation no longer requires you to enter data in either Address Line 1 or Post Office Box.

Steps to Enable

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

Human Capital Management for Sudan

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

Address Validation Changes and Uptake by the Worker Data Validation Report

These address validations are removed in the Recruiting Candidate flows:

• A value is required for at least one of the Post Office Box or Building Name and Number or Street Name fields
• A value is required for at least one of the Post Office Box or District fields

With this change, a candidate who has become a worker may have an invalid address. To ensure that the address data is valid, the validations that were removed are now delivered as part of the data validation report for Sudan.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Expect this behavior when you have selected the address style to be Supplemental Taxation and Reporting Address.

Run the worker data validation report from the Data Exchange work area, Payroll: Submit a Process or Report task. You must specify the legal employer and the effective date to run the report, which should not be prior to the hiring day for the targeted workers in the report.

Human Capital Management for United Arab Emirates

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

Address Validation Changes

The address validations are now relaxed and you can now enter data in both Address Line 1 and Post Office Box. Previously, data entry in both of these fields was disabled, thus triggering an error message and preventing submission.

In addition, in the Recruiting Candidate flows, the address validation no longer requires you to enter data in either Address Line 1 or Post Office Box.

Steps to Enable

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

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.

View Awards Achieved

People can use the newly added Awards History section of the My Profile page to keep track of all the awards they have won. Awards can be won for completing tasks, corporate goals or winning competitions. The Wellness profile page will provide details of the awards, such as the award status, source, the date it was awarded, and points balance.

My Profile Page

Steps to Enable

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

Customize Wellness Assessments

As an administrator, you can modify the Wellness assessments to either add or remove questions to meet the needs of your organization’s wellness programs and objectives. Once you update an assessment, it shows up in the Assessments page for people to take.

Steps to Enable

The feature is available out of the box. Here's how you can customize wellness assessments:

1. Click Navigator > Setup and Maintenance.
2. Search for Questionnaires and select it in the task list.
3. Select Employee Wellness as the subscriber.
4. Select the questionnaire you want to update and click Edit.

Questionnaires Page

5. Create a newer version of the questionnaire and click Save and Close.

Save and Close Option

Health and Safety

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

Application Generated Case Number Displays on Ill or Injured Person Page

An application-generated unique case number is now assigned to the record for each illness or injury event.

Incident Details Page > Events > Injured or Ill Person Details Page: Application-Generated Case Number in the Injured or Ill Person's Record

Steps to Enable

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

Capture Details for Notified Person and Notification Date

When an incident is reported, you, as an employee or professional user can track the person who was notified and when it was notified in the Incident Details region of the Report an Incident page.

Person Notified Details When the Professional User Is Reporting an Incident

Person Notified Details Specified by the Employee When Reporting an Incident. The new fields are: When did it happen?, Notification Time, Who was notified?

Steps to Enable

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

Capture Return to Work Attributes

As an employee or professional user, you now can capture a set of Return to Work attributes when reporting virus, illness or injury event.

1. In the Incident Details page>Injury or Illness Event Details, click the Injured or Ill Person Details region.
2. If you select the Lost Time check box, you can provide the Estimated Lost Time.
3. When you select the Absent from work for 1 or more days check box, you can provide the number of days the person was away from work and from when.
4. The Person has returned to work check box option when selected, enables you to provide related information:

• Return to Work Date
• Any job transfer or restrictions
• Type of Work After Returning list: select a value from the list 
• Number of Days on Transfer or Restriction
• Modified Duties or Restrictions: You can describe the revised duties or restrictions, if any.

NOTE: Each ill or injured person now has a unique case number assigned to their record. The Case Number for injured or ill person is automatically generated by the application and is displayed when you provide the details in the Injured or Ill Person Details region in the Event Details page. All the injury or illness event details are tracked in the Incident Events page. The issue case number helps you to track and report case the details.

Incidents Details Page > Illness or Injury Event Details > Injured Person Details

Return to Work Attributes When Specifying the Lost Time for an Injured or Ill Person

Steps to Enable

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

Migrate Health and Safety Notes

The Notes component in Workforce Health and Safety is used to add free-form text about an incident. You can migrate any existing notes from the Classic pages to the Responsive pages. When migrating from the classic pages to the responsive pages, use the Notes migration tool in order to access them in the responsive pages.

Steps to Enable

Use Case A for Upgrading from 20B to 20C: To Migrate Notes from the Classic Application Pages to the Responsive Application Pages

For example, when you upgrade the application from 20.04 (20B) to 20.07 (20C) you’ll switch from the Classic application to the Responsive application.

No action is required from customers. The notes will be migrated automatically during the 20C upgrade.

After upgrading to 20C, in case you aren't yet in responsive application and in the meantime,  notes are created for incidents, then you need to migrate notes by following the steps in use case B.

Use Case B: To Migrate Notes from 20C Classic Application Pages to Responsive Application Pages

Customers using the Classic application in 20C (20.07) and upgrade to Responsive application, and if there are Notes to incidents, and you can migrate the notes too. You need to have access to the Scheduled Processes work area to run the scheduled processes:

1. From Home>Tools>Scheduled Processes, open the Scheduled Processes work area.
2. Click Schedule New Process.
3. Search for select Migrate Notes Data from Classic pages to Responsive pages process.
4. Click OK and then schedule it as required and click Submit. After the process is complete and successful, verify the log file.

Use Case C: To Migrate Notes Back from the Responsive Application Pages to the Classic Application Pages.

For customers using the Responsive application pages and added Notes to incidents, when you decide to switch back to the Classic application, you can migrate your incident notes to the Classic application in 20B or 20C.

When in Update 20B (20.04):

1. Navigate from Home > Others > Setup and Maintenance work area > Workforce Deployment > Workforce Health and Safety Incidents functional area > go to the Manage Environment Health and Safety Attachment Address task.
2. In the Additional Configurations page, specify the Attachments email ID and click the Export All Notes button. After the export of notes, you'll get the message that the notes were synchronized between the classic and responsive user interfaces.
3. Click OK in the message window and then click Save and Close.

Migrate Notes Using the Manage Environment Health and Safety Attachment Address Task

Export All Notes

When in Update 20C (20.07):

You need to have access to the Scheduled Processes work area to run the scheduled processes.

1. From Home>Tools>Scheduled Processes, open the Scheduled Processes work area.
2. Click Schedule New Process.
3. Search for select Migrate Notes Data from Responsive page to Classic page process.
4. Click OK and then schedule it as required and click Submit. After the process is complete and successful, verify the log file.

(If you have migrated Responsive application pages to Classic application pages and now want to migrate back to the Responsive application pages then refer to use case A or B).

Page Composer to Customize Health and Safety Pages

As an administrator, you can now use Page Composer to configure and extend your Health and Safety application pages as per your organization needs. You can add images, customize text of fields, rearrange the fields, change the layout, and place some conditions on tasks flow.

For example:

• Modify the field names: The Summary field in the Events page can be modified as Event Summary
• Revise the field order on a page: You can change the field order the Summary and Date and Time fields
• Change the page layout: From Horizontal to Vertical layout for the section

Changing the Field Names, Field Order, Page Layout of an Illness Event

Fields Reordered in the Illness or Injury Event Details Region

Steps to Enable

See the Page Modification chapter in the Configuring and Extending Applications guide and customize the following:

• Modify the field names: The Summary field in the Events page can be modified as Event Summary: Select the respective PanelForm where you want to change the field name. Select the Summary panel and click Properties to change the name in the respective panel.
• Revise the field order on a page: You can change the field order by going to the PanelGroupLayout: Reorder the Summary field with Date and Time of Events field.
• Change the page layout: Change the page layout: Select the respective PanlGroupLayout and open the Component Properties> Display Options >Layout list> select one of the values (Horizontal, Vertical, Scroll) as required to set layout for the section.

Key Resources

For more information on personalizing pages, refer to these resources:

• Chapter 3, Page Modification in the Oracle Applications Cloud: Configuring and Extending Applications guide
• The Developer Relations Page Composer Oracle YouTube channel

Show or Hide Events Page in Employee Self-Service

As an administrator, you can show or hide the events page in the employee self-service flow based on how the profile option is setup. The HNS_KIOSK_SHOW_EVENTS profile option is enabled by default allowing an employee to create and specify the event types. If the profile option is set to N, then the employee will not find the events page and is directed straight to reporting the incident. This applies to the responsive application.

Various Event Tiles to Select When You Report an Incident: Profile Option by Default Is Set to Y

As the profile option is enabled by default in the application, you can change it. This feature helps an employee to report an incident quickly without having to specify the event types for the incident.

Events Page Is Not Shown When You Report an Incident: Profile Option Is Set to N

Steps to Enable

To hide the employee self-service (ESS) event selection page, you need to set the HNS_KIOSK_SHOW_EVENTS profile option to N:

1. From Home navigate to Others>Setup and Maintenance work area.
2. In the Tasks panel, search for the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
3. Click the task to open the Manage Administrator Profile Values page. 
4. Search for the Profile Option Code, HNS_KIOSK_SHOW_EVENTS  or Display Name, Employee Self-Service Events Page Enabled in the Workforce Health and Safety Incidents application.
5. Select the profile option and go to the Profile Values table. 
6. To hide the page where you select events when you report an incident in employee self-service, change the Profile Value from the Y to N.
7. Click Save and Close.

The various events tiles in the page when you report an incident in the employee self-service will now be hidden.

Profile Option to Hide or Display the Event Selection Page in ESS Flow

Sorting Incidents and Related Incidents

As a professional user, you can search for the incidents using any of the search filters or saved searches and then sort the listed incidents by:

• Incident Number (from highest to lowest)
• Incident Reported Date (from newest to oldest)
• Target Completion Date of Incident (from oldest to newest)
• Severity Levels of Incident, (from highest to lowest)
• Relevance (default sorting pattern)

The application’s default sorting of incidents in the Incidents work area are by these criteria:

• No owner incident list: the incident is not owned by anyone
• Earliest target completion date of the incident
• Owner incidents sorted by target completion date of the incident

Incidents List Page for the Professional User with Various Search Filters and Sort By Options

Adding Related Incidents to an Incident

1. From Home > My Client Groups > Safety Incidents, go to the Incidents work area.
2. Search for the incident and drill-down to the Incident Details page.
3. In the Related Incidents region, click Add to select and add incidents that are related to this incident.
4. Search for and select the incidents in the Incidents work area.
5. Click Save and Close to come back to the Incident Details page. The selected incidents are displayed in the Related Incidents region.

Add Related Incidents to the Incident in the Related Incidents Region

Searching for and Selecting the Incidents to Add Them as Related Incidents

Selected Incidents in the Related Incidents Region of the Incident Details Page

Steps to Enable

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

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.

Improved Workforce Modeling Approval Notification

From now on, you can use BI Publisher to personalize the Workforce Modeling approval notification. You can view the approval notification from the worklist.

Approval Notification for Workforce Modeling

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

For more information see the Configurable Workflow Notifications section in the Notifications and Approvals chapter in the Implementing Talent Management Base Guide on Oracle Help Center.

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.

Human Resources

Assignment Category in Position Dimension

Enhance your reporting on the Position dimension with the addition of the assignment category attributes related to the position. The following attributes have been added:

Subject Area	Folder	New Attributes
Position Real Time	Position Details	Assignment Category Code Assignment Category
<Other Subject Areas>	Position	Assignment Category Code Assignment Category

Steps to Enable

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

Questionnaire Dimension Enhancement to Checklist Subject Area

Enhance your reporting on the Checklist Real Time subject area with the addition of questionnaire dimension to the Checklist Real Time subject area.

Each worker assignment can answer several questionnaires as part of both their on-boarding and off-boarding checklist or any other checklist that you may set up. Each questionnaire consists of one or more questions and each question may have one or more responses. A questionnaire is allocated to an allocated checklist task for a worker assignment.

As part of this enhancement, a new folder named Checklist Questionnaire is added to the subject area.

NOTE: The following attributes related to Questionnaire that existed in the subject area have been removed: Checklist Task Details > Questionnaire Name • Checklist Task Details Identifiers > Questionnaire Identifier.

Steps to Enable

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

Changes to Assignment Event Metrics

Enhance your reporting on hire metrics of workers with the inclusion of additional action type codes in computing the metrics.

The following table lists the events that are used to compute the metric values:

Metric(s)	HR Action Type Codes
# of Hires Hire Headcount Hire FTE	EMPL_WR_EMP EMPL_ADD_EMP EMPL_REHIRE EMPL_ADD_CWK EMPL_WR_CWK EMPL_ADD_NWK EMPL_ADD_PWK EMPL_WR_NWK

The existing metrics that included a subset of these action type codes have been renamed as below:

Existing Metric(until Rel 20B)	Renamed As
# of Hires	# of Hires (Employee and Contingent)
Hire FTE	Hire FTE (Excluding Rehires
Hire Headcount	Hire Headcount (Excluding Rehires)

NOTE: When a Pending Worker is converted to an employee, the HCM Application uses the Action Type Code = EMPL_ADD_EMP. The same action type code is also used to end the Pending Assignment of the worker. Due to this, both the metrics # of Hires (Pending and Contingent) and Pending Hire Count will display value as 1. Customers have to apply a filter on Assignment Status = Active to fetch the correct values in the Pending Hire Count metric.

Steps to Enable

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

New Attributes in Transaction Administration Real Time Subject Area

The following columns have been added to the Human Capital Management - Transaction Administration Real Time subject area under the Transaction Details folder:

• Object ID
• Subject ID
• Approval Status
• Approval State

With this enhancement you can report on transaction approval records for worker assignments, goals, absences and so on.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

Sample examples are in the following customer connect posts:

• https://cloudcustomerconnect.oracle.com/posts/e1e548dc33
• https://cloudcustomerconnect.oracle.com/posts/f68828b277

Global HR OTBI 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.

Manager Attributes Hidden from Worker Dimension

The attributes related to the managers in the worker dimension has been removed. These attributes are already available for reporting using the Manager sub folder under the Worker dimension.

The list of attributes removed from the Worker dimension includes the following.

• Manager Name
• Manager Person Number
• Manager ID
• Manager User Name
• Manager Job Name
• Manager Position
• Manager Position Code
• Manager Location Name
• Manager Department Name
• Manager E-Mail Address
• Manager Type
• Manager Flag
• Manager Assignment Primary Flag
• Manager Assignment ID
• Manager Assignment Number

Steps to Enable

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

Health and Safety

OTBI Support for Reporting on DFFs in Incident Details and Action Pages

You can now use Oracle Transaction Business Intelligence (OTBI) reporting of descriptive flexfields (DFFs) for incident details and actions.

As a professional user, you can now report on Incident Details and Actions DFFs.

• Descriptive Flexfields for Incidents
• Descriptive Flexfields for Actions

Use the Environment Health and Safety Incidents Real Time folder in these subject areas to report on Incident Details and Actions:

Incident and Action DFFs for OTBI Reporting

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

See Descriptive Flexfields for Health and Safety in the Using Workforce Health and Safety Incidents guide in Oracle Help Center.

For details about creating and editing reports, see the Creating and Administering Analytics and Reports book (Oracle Help Center > Cloud Applications > Human Resources > Books > Creating and Administering Analytics and Reports for HCM).

Support for OTBI Reporting on Incident Investigation Questions and Responses

You can now use the OTBI subject area for reporting on investigation questions and responses.

Investigation Questionnaire Subject Area for OTBI Reports

Steps to Enable

Make the feature accessible by assigning or updating privileges and/or job roles. Details are provided in the Role section below.

Role Information

Environment Health and Safety: Transaction Analysis Duty, BI Author Role

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

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
Global HR	Access to Change Legal Employer Flow Ends in Update 20D	20D	Local and Global Transfer Guided Process	19A	Click links to see more detail.
Global HR	Mass Legal Employer Change Flow Available Only in Responsive Pages from Update 20C	20C	Mass Legal Employer Change	18A	Click links to see more detail.
Global HR	Allocate Checklists Available Only in Responsive Pages from 20D	20D	Manage Allocated Checklists Page Redesigned	18C	Click links to see more detail.
HR/OTBI	Manager Attributes Hidden from Worker Dimension	20C	None		Click link in the Removed Feature column to see more detail.

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

The new and redesigned 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, please begin transitioning to the HCM Responsive User Experience.

For information, video links and next steps, please see Document ID 2399671.1 - HCM Responsive User Experience Setup Information

Highlights of New User Interface:

We’ve taken the employee and manager self-service pages to the next level by redesigning them to look and behave the same on desktop and mobile devices. We’ve also changed the look and feel of the pages to provide a better experience for end users.

Pages and messages look more modern and use simpler, more conversational language so that you can more easily read and understand content across all devices. The pages are clutter-free and clean and display only those fields that are required to complete the task. You can personalize the pages and add more fields that are hidden by default. For most self-service tasks, you’re asked what you want to do, and the task is broken down into a series of steps based on your choice.

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KNOWN ISSUES / MONTHLY AND STATUTORY MAINTENANCE PACK

Oracle publishes a Known Issues document for every Update to make customers are aware of potential problems they could run into and the document provides workarounds if they are available.

Oracle also publishes Maintenance Pack and Statutory Maintenance Pack documentation of bugs that are fixed in the monthly or statutory patching.

To review these documents you must have access to My Oracle Support:

Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1)