May Maintenance Pack for 22B

Revision History

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

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
29 APR 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

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

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

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

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HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our products better, please let us know. To enter an idea go to the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. In this document wherever you see the light bulb icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

____________________

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

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

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

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

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

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Feature Summary

HCM Common

HCM Common

This section covers features used across all HCM Applications.

Oracle Search-Based Global Search

Oracle Search-based Global Search provides faster person search experience and introduces new person search capabilities:

• Improved relevancy of results
  • Fuzzy person name search - search allows for simple mistakes and typos for up to 2 spelling differences
  • Name synonyms search - synonyms are defined for many English sounding names. You can search by different forms of the name
  • Fields boosting - primary search is by person name and person name matches are of highest relevancy

• Ability to search by more fields
  • Person Display Name
  • Person Number
  • Work Email Address
  • Business Title

Matches among the direct reports are grouped at the top of the results followed by other matching results.

Enhances your search experience with the new Oracle Search features with improved quality of person search results.

Steps to Enable

Use Manage Global Search Profile Options task in Setup and Maintenance page to review and configure the profile option as described below.

PROFILE OPTION CODE	PROFILE DISPLAY NAME	APPLICATION	MODULE	REQUIRED PROFILE LEVEL	REQUIRED PROFILE VALUE
FUSION_APPS_SEARCH_ENABLED	Global Search Enabled	Oracle Middleware Extensions for Applications	Oracle Middleware Extensions for Applications	Site	Yes

Use Manage Global Search Configurations task in Setup and Maintenance page to ensure that a Global Search configuration exists for HCM and is marked as enabled. Also, ensure that the following Suggestion Group is enabled in the Global Search configuration for HCM.

SHORT NAME	DISPLAY NAME	DESCRIPTION
HCM_PERSON_SEARCH	Oracle HCM Cloud Global Search for Person Action	This is the Global Search for HCM Person.

Use Manage Administrator Profile Values task in Setup and Maintenance page to review and configure correctly the profile options as described below.

PROFILE OPTION CODE	PROFILE DISPLAY NAME	APPLICATION	MODULE	REQUIRED PROFILE LEVEL	REQUIRED PROFILE VALUE
ORA_FND_SEARCH_EXT_ENABLED	Enable/Disable Search Ext Framework	Oracle Middleware Extensions for Applications	Oracle Middleware Extensions for Applications	Site	Yes
HRC_ELASTIC_SEARCH_ENABLED	HRC: Enable Elastic Search	HCM Common Architecture	Search Framework	Site	Y
PER_SEARCH_LOGIN_EVENT_PUB	PER: User Login Event Publication for Search	Global Human Resources	Security	Site	NONE

Use Tools > Scheduled Processes page to run the process below.

JOB NAME
ESS job to create index definition and perform initial ingest to OSCS

PARAMETER NAME	PARAMETER VALUE
Index Name to Reingest	fa-hcm-person

Tips And Considerations

Oracle Search-based Global Search returns all active employees, contingent workers, and nonworker assignments as of today's date. You can't restrict the search results based on the public person security profile definition.

Note that you need to run the initial data ingestion process at these times.

• After every release version upgrade
• After every P2T (production-to-test) process
• When you change the person name format and run the Apply Name Formats to Person Names, Keywords and LDAP job set

The following profile option impacts the search functionality:

Profile Option Name	Purpose	Default Value
PER_PERSON_INDEX_FUZZY_SEARCH_ENABLED	Enables fuzzy search on person names and allowing up to 2 spelling differences.	Y

Role And Privileges

You must be granted the FND_MANAGE_SCHEDULED_JOB_DEFINITION_PRIV function privilege to run the initial data ingestion process. This privilege is available in the ORA_FND_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB or ORA_FND_APPLICATION_DEVELOPER_JOB job roles by default.

Update 22B

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 OCT 2022	HCM Common Architecture	Enhancements to Approvals and Notifications	Updated document. Revised feature information.
29 APR 2022	HCM Common	Transaction Design Studio for HCM Experience Design Studio Enhancements	Updated document. Revised feature information.
29 APR 2022	HCM Spreadsheet Loader	Spreadsheet Template Design Changes	Updated document. Revised feature information.
25 MAR 2022	HCM Spreadsheet Loader	Secured Business Objects Now Available to Business Users	Updated document. Revised feature information.
04 MAR 2022			Created initial document.

Overview

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are being updated directly from 21D to 22B you should review the content of both 22A and 22B sections to ensure you see all the changes included in the update.

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

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

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

____________________

HAVE AN IDEA?

We’re here and we’re listening. If you have a suggestion on how to make our products better, please let us know. To enter an idea go to the Ideas Lab on Oracle Customer Connect. In this document wherever you see the light bulb icon after the feature name it means we delivered one of your ideas.

____________________

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

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

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

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

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

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Feature Summary

HCM Common

HCM Common

This section covers features used across all HCM Applications.

Autocomplete Rules for HCM Experience Design Studio Enhancements

Enhance the user experience authoring new rules in Autocomplete Rules for HCM Experience Design Studio with more capabilities for Global Human Resources, Goal Management, and Recruiting.

• Ensures accurate and consistent data by validating the user-entered values
• Allows your organizations to adjust quickly with HR compliance without relying on new releases

Steps to Enable

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

To enable Autocomplete Rules in the HCM Experience Design Studio, you need to log a Service Request (SR). Please review and follow the instructions provided in the My Oracle Support document, Enabling Oracle HCM Cloud Autocomplete Rules (Document ID 2767655.1) to get access.

Key Resources

For more information on Autocomplete Rules for HCM products, refer these What's New features in Update 22B:

• Global Human Resources
  • Autocomplete Rule for Person Legislative Information Business Object
  • Autocomplete Rule for Address Business Object
  • Autocomplete Support for When and Why Business Object When Creating or Editing a Job Offer
• Goal Management
  • Autocomplete Rules for Goal Management Business Objects
• Recruiting
  • Autocomplete Rules - When and Why Section for Job Offers

Role And Privileges

You must be granted the Human Capital Management Application Administrator role to work in a sandbox.

Transaction Design Studio for HCM Experience Design Studio Enhancements

Required Regions

Increase your data quality by ensuring that your users complete the required fields before submitting the transaction. In the example below, for the Hire an Employee flow the Payroll Details and Salary sections have been made mandatory.  When the user initiates the process, the behavior of the questionnaire remains the same. Payroll Details and Salary are not displayed as an option as they must be part of the guided process.

The feature is available for the following actions:

Release	Action
22A	Change Assignment
22A	Change Location
22A	Change Manager
22A	Change Working Hours
22A	Create Job
22A	Create Location
22A	Direct Reports
22A	Employment Start Dates
22A	Promote
22A	Request a New Position
22A	Request a Position Change
22A	Resignation
22A	Termination
22A	Transfer
22A	Work Relationship
21D	Add Assignment
21D	Add Contingent Worker
21D	Add Pending Worker
21D	Add a Nonworker
21D	Create Work Relationship
21D	Edit Pending Worker
21D	Hire an Employee
21D	Local and Global Transfer
21C	Recruiting - Create Job Requisition

Personalize the Save and Save and Close Actions in the Toolbar

Enhance the user experience by allowing your users to save their transactions at any point of time.

For example, a user is adding a new contractor and has already provided half of the required info. If they need to switch to another task, they can save their work, resume later where they left off. Out-of-the-box, the two buttons are hidden.

The feature has been extended to more actions.

Release	Action
22B	Administer Compensation
22B	Change Salary
22B	Individual Compensation
22B	Manage Personal Contributions
22B	Salary History
22A	Change Assignment
22A	Change Location
22A	Change Manager
22A	Change Working Hours
22A	Create Job
22A	Create Location
22A	Direct Reports
22A	Job Details
22A	Location Details
22A	Position Details
22A	Employment Start Dates
22A	Promote
22A	Request a New Position
22A	Request a Position Change
22A	Resignation
22A	Termination
22A	Transfer
22A	Work Relationship
21D	Add Assignment
21D	Add Contingent Worker
21D	Add Pending Worker
21D	Add a Nonworker
21D	Create Work Relationship
21D	Edit Pending Worker
21D	Hire an Employee
21D	Local and Global Transfer

How You Setup Warning or Error Message and Save Options

Both features are setup from the Page Attributes section of the action in the Transaction Design Studio.

Here are the steps to enable the warning or error display and the save options for the above actions.

1. Navigate to Home > My Client Groups > HCM Experience Design Studio.
2. Click Transaction Design Studio.
3. Select the action for which you want to configure these settings.
4. Click Add and add provide the required rule details.
5. Select Reference Info Regions from the Region list in the Page Attributes section.
6. Click the Edit icon to enable the attributes

• The two action buttons, Save and Save and Close, can be simply set using the 2 options. Select the options to make them visible.
• Out-of-the-box, the severity of the message is a warning.

7. Click Done.
8. Click Save and Close.

• Ensures accurate and consistent data by enforcing entry of the required fields for a specific process.
• Improves your user experience and reduces time spent setting up your solution by simplifying the personalization of HCM Cloud
• Streamlines your transactions and processes by allowing your users to save their work at any point of time and resume later where they left off.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

Required Regions

From this release onward:

• Users will get a warning message  if they have configured sections as required in the Transaction Design Studio.
• Users will get a warning message if they have not visited the mandatory sections in employment flows.

Save and Save and Close

A point to note is that rules will be evaluated for each attribute for active rules in the Transaction Design Studio.  If the same attribute is defined in multiple rule definitions, only the first in order of active rule attribute conditions are applied. For example, if you define:

• Rule 1: Generic rule where Save and Close is available unconditionally, but not Save.
• Rule 2: Save is available only for a specific legal employer

As a result, rule 1 is evaluated as the first rule in order of active rules and so the Save button won't be displayed for the legal employer selected in rule 2.

Key Resources

For additional information, refer to this feature in Update 21C - Required Sections During Job Requisition Creation

For more information, see the following help topics in the Oracle Help Center:

• How You Personalize the Save and Save and Close Actions in the Toolbar, Responsive User Experience Setup, Implementing Global Human Resources guide
• How You Configure Rules in the Transaction Design Studio, Responsive User Experience Setup, Implementing Global Human Resources guide

Role And Privileges

You must be granted the Human Capital Management Application Administrator role to enable a sandbox.

HCM Common 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.

HCM Data Loader Must Be Used For All Payroll Objects

In Update 22B, Oracle has decommissioned ALL objects enabled for the Payroll Batch Loader.  Payroll Batch Loader objects are NOT available for use in 22B or in subsequent HCM releases.

HCM Data Loader (HDL) is the tool for data loading and update tasks for 22B and going forward.

Oracle now supports a single, powerful loader for bulk loading and maintaining data. The data can be from any source. You can use HCM Data Loader for data migration, ongoing maintenance of HCM data, and coexistence scenarios, where core HR/Payroll data is uploaded regularly.

Steps to Enable

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

HCM Data Loader

HCM Data Loader provides a flexible and efficient method of bulk loading business object data for data-migration and on-going incremental updates to Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.

Business Object Enhancements

Extend your data loading capabilities with these new and enhanced business objects:

NEW BUSINESS OBJECTS

Global HR

Extended Object Hierarchy:

Business Object	Component	Description
Document Type	Document Type Attachment	Attachment files associated with a document type.

Recruiting

New Object Hierarchy:

Business Object	Description
Agent	An agent is associated with an agency, which is a third-party entity. Recruiters can invite agents to submit candidates to agency-enabled requisitions. Agents have access to an agency portal where they can perform several tasks, such as view talent, submit candidates for requisitions, create candidate profiles and view job applications of candidates the agency represents.

Extended Object Hierarchy:

Object Hierarchy	New Component	Description
Job Requisition	Staffing Agent	Agents that are invited to submit candidates for the job requisition.

NEW ROLL BACK SUPPORT

These objects now support the roll back of newly created records, you can't roll back updates or deletes.  Only records created since this enhancement can be rolled back.

• Payroll Absence Record
• Payroll Time Card

UPDATED BUSINESS OBJECTS

Absence Management

Business Object	Component	Removed Attributes
Absence Entry	Absence Entry	This attribute is no longer supported. Including it will cause your files and templates to fail: AbsenceCaseName

Compensation

Business Object	Component	New Attributes
Market Data Job List	Market Data Job List	PositionId MatchedPositionCode

Global HR - Checklists

Business Object	Component	New Attributes
Allocated Checklist	Allocated Checklist	Context ContextualAction SelfAssignedFlag
Allocated Checklist	Allocated Checklist Tasks	ActivationEligyPrfId ActivationEligyPrfName ActivityAction1Label ActivityAction2Label ActivityAction3Label ActivityAction4Label ActivityAction5Label AnalyticsPath CalendarActionLabel CompleteActionLabel DisplayOptions EnableTaskExpiry ExpiryDate ExpiryRelativeTo RejectActionLabel ReportParameters SaveActionLabel VideoType VideoURL
Allocated Checklist Task Translation	Allocated Checklist Task Translation	ActivityAction1Label ActivityAction2Label ActivityAction3Label ActivityAction4Label ActivityAction5Lavel CalendarActionLabel CompleteActionLabel RejectActionLabel SaveActionLabel
Checklist Template	Checklist Template	Context ContextualAction
Checklist Template	Tasks	ActivationEligyPrfId ActiviationEligyPrfName ActivityAction1Label ActivityAction2Label ActivityAction3Label ActivityAction4Label ActivityAction5Label AnalyticsPath CalendarActionLabel CompleteActionLabel DisplayOptions ExpirtyRelativeTo RejectActionLabel ReportParameters SaveActionLabel VideoType VideoURL
Checklist Task Translation	Checklist Task Translation	ActivityAction1Label ActivityAction2Label ActivityAction3Label ActivityAction4Label ActivityAction5Label CalendarActionLabel CompleteActionLabel RejectActionLabel SaveActionLabel
Task Library	Task Library	ActivationEligyPrfId ActivationEligyPrfName ActivityAction1Label ActivityAction2Label ActivityAction3Label ActivityAction4Label ActivityAction5Label AnalyticsPath CalendarActionLabel CompleteActionLabel DisplayOptions ExpiryRelativeTo RejectActionLabel ReportParameters SaveActionLabel VideoType VideoURL
Task Library Translation	Task Library Translation	ActivityAction1Label ActivityAction2Label ActivityAction3Label ActivityAction4Label ActivityAction5Label CalendarActionLabel CompleteActionLabel RejectActionLabel SaveActionLabel

Global HR - Person and Worker

Business Objects	Component	Decommissioned Attributes
Person Contact	Contact Address	Building Floor
Worker	Person Address	Building Floor

Global HR - Workforce Structures

Business Object	Component	New Attributes
Job	Job Evaluation	WorkingConditions
Position	Position Evaluation	WorkingConditions

Global Payroll

Object Functionality Changes

Business Object	Update
Element Entry With Costing	This object now supports update. You can provide date-effective updates, the same effective start date is used for the element entry and associated costing records.
External Bank Account	This object now supports integration keys to identify the external bank account and owner, along with the references to the bank, bank branch and the person who owns the bank account. CountryCode remains a required attribute, even when identifying the record with source keys. You can't identify external bank accounts that were created before this enhancement by source key, only those that have been created since this enhancement will have a source key associated with them.

Attribute Changes

Business Object	Component	Update
Electronic Income Withholding Orders	Electronic Income Withholding Orders	This attribute is no longer available: TimePeriodId
Payroll Interface Inbound Record	Payroll Interface Inbound Record	This attribute is no longer available: TimePeriodId
Payroll Time Card	Time Entry	New attributes: Segment1 through to Segment30 This object now supports update, previously you could only create and delete records.

Recruiting

Business Object	Component	Attributes Changes
Candidate	Candidate	New attributes: AddedByAgentEmailAddress AddedByAgentId AddedByAgentUsername AgentReferredDate CandPrefTimeZone RemoveFromAgencyPoolFlag
Candidate Job Application	Candidate Job Application	Decommissioned Attributes: RejectionReasonComments New attributes: MoveComments
Candidate Job Application	Questionnaire Response Participant	New attributes: FeedbackResponseFlag ParticipantId RespondentId RespondentPersonNumber
Candidate Job Application	Questionnaire Response	New attributes: FeedbackCompletionDate FeedbackResponseFlag ParticipantId RespondentId RespondentPersonNumber
Candidate Job Application	Question Response	New attributes: FeedbackResponseFlag ParticipantId RespondentId RespondentPersonNumber
Job Requisition	Job Requisition	New attributes: AgentDoNotExpireFlag AgentExpriationDate
Referral	Referral	New attributes: AgentReferredDate

Talent Management

Business Object	Component	New Attributes
Question	Question	InstructionsText
Questionnaire	Questionnaire Question	InstructionsText
Questionnaire Template	Template Question	InstructionsText
QuestionTranslation	Question Translation	InstructionsText

REMOVED BUSINESS OBJECTS

Recruiting

The following child components have now been removed having been replaced by BackgroundCheckScreeningPackageV2 in release 21B.

Business Object	Component	File Discriminator
Job Requisition	Background Check Screening Package	BackgroundCheckScreeningPackage
Job Requisition Template	Background Check Screening Package	BackgroundCheckScreeningPacakge

NOTE: If you include METADATA lines for these in your HCM Data Loader files, or attributes in your HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader templates, they will now fail.

Extend your bulk-loading capabilities with these new and extended objects available with HCM Data Loader and HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader.

Steps to Enable

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

Key Resources

Use the View Business Objects task to review and download the latest business object information.

HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader

HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader provides a flexible and efficient method of bulk loading business object data for data-migration and on-going incremental updates to Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.

Secured Business Objects Now Available to Business Users

You can now extend your business users' bulk-loading capabilities. Spreadsheets based on these objects now implement the user's data security and can be shared with business users:

Learning

• Global Access Group Relation

Your business users can bulk load data for this object using spreadsheets.

Steps to Enable

When creating a new spreadsheet template, the template security automatically defaults to the setting where data is uploaded as the session user. For existing templates based on these objects, you can update the template configuration and set the user type to session user.

Key Resources

For more information, see the following help topics in the HCM Data Loader guide located in the Oracle Help Center:

• HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader Template
• How You Associate a User Name with a Data Upload

Refer to the Oracle By Example tutorial available in the Oracle Learning Library:

• Configure HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader Security

Spreadsheet Template Design Changes

The Spreadsheet Templates task for defining bulk-loading spreadsheets has been enhanced:

Template Validation

The save and validation options have changed. You can now validate and save in one step. Alternatively, use the choice list to save without validation.

You can no longer save changes to active templates without first successfully validating them. Therefore for active templates only the Validate and Save option is available.

Automatically Selected Attributes

When you duplicate attributes for a child record, attributes from the parent record will be automatically added, if they haven't already been selected. This ensures that the child records are validated and loaded together.

Defining valid spreadsheet templates for bulk-data loading is now easier.

Steps to Enable

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

Tips And Considerations

When designing spreadsheet templates that will include attributes from more than one child record, or duplicated child records, always include the required attributes from the parent record first. As you add the child attributes, the parent-child relationships are configured for you; the template designer automatically adds the attributes that define the parent reference, defaulting their values and hiding them from the spreadsheet.

Key Resources

Refer to the HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader Templates chapter within the HCM Data Loader guide located in the Oracle Help Center.

HCM Common Architecture

This section covers features used across all HCM Applications.

Enhancements to Approvals and Notifications

Leverage these enhancements to the Transaction Console that are part of this release:

• Alerts enhancements
• Faceted filters on Test Approval Rules page

Alerts Enhancements

You can now send alerts to other users apart from the initiator for failed transactions. You can also select a different alert template for each user. This way you can send different messages to different users so that they can take appropriate action to correct the failed transaction.

You can send alerts for failed transactions in these ways:

• Send alerts on demand.
• Configure alerts for different approval rules.

Send Alerts on Demand

On the Transaction Summary tab, you can now select a failed transaction and then send alerts on demand.

1. Locate the row of the failed transaction for which you want to send an immediate alert.
2. Select the check box for that row.
3. From the Actions menu, select Alert Initiator on Error. You can see the Configure Alerts dialog box.

Alert Initiator on Error Action

4. To send an alert to the initiator:
   1. Select the Alert Initiator check box.
   2. From the adjacent list, select the alert template to use.
5. To send alerts to approvers:
   1. Select the Alert Approvers check box.
   2. From the adjacent list, select the alert template to use.
6. To send alerts to other users:
   1. Select the Alert Users check box.
   2. Click Add Row.
   3. Search for and select the user.
   4. Select the alert template to use.
   5. Repeat steps 6b to 6d for all users you want to add.
7. Click Save and Close.

Transaction Summary Tab - Configure Alerts Dialog Box

Configure Alerts for Approval Rules

On the Approval Rules tab, as administrators, you can configure alerts to send for failed transactions for each process type. When you do this, alerts are triggered when a transaction is marked as Failed in any of these scenarios:

• A user checks the details of a transaction that has underlying faults.
• A user refreshes the status of one or more transactions that have underlying faults.
• The scheduled process for refreshing the transactions changes the status of a transaction with underlying faults.

Here’s how you configure alerts:

1. Select the row of the transaction for which you want to configure alerts.
2. Click the Configure Alerts icon. You can see the Configure Alerts dialog box.

Approval Rules Tab – Configure Alerts Column

3. To send an alert to the initiator:

1. Select the Alert Initiator check box.
2. From the adjacent list, select the alert template to use.

4. To send alerts to other users:

1. Select the Alert Users check box.
2. Click Add Row.
3. Search for and select the user.
4. Select the alert template to use.
5. Repeat steps 4b to 4d for all users you want to add.

5. Click Save and Close.

Approval Rules Tab – Configure Alerts Dialog Box

Approvals Alert Template Variables in Transaction Console

You can now use any of the attributes listed in this table when you create new approval error alert templates for your organization.

Alert Template Attribute	Description
Initiator_UserName	User name of the approval initiator
Transaction_TransactionId	Unique identifier for the transaction
Transaction_ObjectName	Object name of the transaction
Transaction_ProcessName	Process name of the transaction
Transaction_ConsoleTransactionStatus	Console transaction status of the transaction
Transaction_TaskID	Unique identifier for the associated task
Transaction_TaskOutcome	Outcome of the associated task
Transaction_TaskStatus	Status of the associated task
Transaction_IssueDescription	Reason for the fault associated with the transaction
Transaction_IssueResolution	Steps to execute to fix the fault
Transaction_IssueTypeCode	Issue type code of the underlying fault
Transaction_FaultCode	Fault code of the underlying fault
Transaction_TaskHistory	A table showing all the stages the task has gone through
Transaction_Title	Title of the associated task
Transaction_Description	Transaction details table
Transaction_ErrorDetails	A table with the fault details of the transaction
Transaction_Recipient	User name of the recipient of the alert message NOTE: In all new approval error alert templates that you configure using the TAC_Error_Alert template in Alerts Composer, ensure that the ${Transaction_Recipient} attribute is set to the Worklist recipient for that template.

Faceted Filters on Test Approval Rules Page

Search for transactions easily in the Test Approval Rules page using the new faceted filters. You can filter the transactions based on these attributes:

• Status
• Name
• User who created the transaction
• Transaction period

Faceted Filters on Test Approval Rules Page

By leveraging these enhancements, you gain these advantages: 

• Send appropriate alert messages to various users so that they can resolve failed transactions.
• Locate easily the transactions that you want to test your approval rules on and modify your approval rules.

Steps to Enable

To leverage the approval alerts enhancement, you need to do these actions:

• Create the TAC_ALERT_CONFIG_FEATURE profile option and set it to true.
• Edit the TAC_Error_Alert alert in Alerts Composer, add templates, and enable the templates.

To create the TAC_ALERT_CONFIG_FEATURE profile option:

1. Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area.
2. Search for and select the Manage Profile Options task.
3. In the Search Results section, click New. You can see the Create Profile Option page.
4. Specify the values indicated in this table for the new profile option. 

Field	Value
Profile Option Code	TAC_ALERT_CONFIG_FEATURE
Profile Display Name	A suitable name to display such as Configure Alerts for Approval Rules Enabled
Application	Global Human Resources
Module	Global Human Resources

5. Click Save and Close.
6. On the Manage Profile Options page, select the Enabled and Updatable check boxes for the Site level.

7. Click Save and Close.

Key Resources

For more information on using alerts composer, see this chapter on the Oracle Help Center:

•  Alerts Composer in the Implementing Global Human Resources guide

Role And Privileges

This table shows the function security privilege that supports this feature and the predefined role that inherits this privilege.

Function Security Privilege Name and Code	Job Role Name
Test Approval Rules PER_TEST_APPROVAL_RULES_PRIV	Review HCM Approval Transactions as Administrator

If you’re using the predefined role, then no action is necessary. However, if you’re using custom versions of this role, you must add this aggregate privilege to your custom roles to use this feature. See the Release 13 Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Security Upgrade Guide on My Oracle Support (Document ID 2023523.1) for instructions about implementing new functions in existing roles.

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations for HCM Common

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
HCM Common	HCM Data Loader Must Be Used For All Payroll Objects	22B	HCM Data Loader

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KNOWN ISSUES / MAINTENANCE PACK SPREADSHEETS

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

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

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

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

Controlled Availability for HCM Common

The following is a list of Controlled Availability features that are being offered by our Controlled Availability Program.

NOTE: These features are not generally available for all customers at this time. These are only available through the Controlled Availability Program and will require approval to become a part of the features program. To be a part of these programs you will be required to participate in testing and providing feedback. Some programs may require other participation as well.

Not to worry if you don't have to time to be a part of these early stage programs. You can uptake this feature when it is generally available for all customers. When these features are available for all customers you will see the features under their product headings as usual.

We invite you all to browse through the list of features to see if there are any features you are interested in implementing in advance of the features scheduled release. The table below will provide information on signing up for features. Please sign up soon, as these programs have limited availability and some are designed for specific types of customers.

The table below gives you a brief description of the features available and how to sign up. Some features are bigger than others, so for more information there may be a What's New describing the feature in more detail below this table.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas as you participate the Controlled Availability programs!

Product	Feature Name	Feature Description	Type of Customer Needed to Test	How to Sign Up	Controlled Availability Release	Is the Program Still Open?
Across All HCM Products	Oracle Search for HCM	Oracle Search is a dedicated search engine available in your Human Capital Management Cloud environments. It is based on Oracle Search Person Index Updates (feature below), a dedicated search platform for Oracle Cloud.	Is dependent on Oracle Search-Based Global Search above or Connections that can be found in the 21A Global HR What's New under Controlled Availability Features.	Customers cannot request Oracle Search as a standalone feature. It has to be requested as via specific Oracle Search-dependent feature like Connections (In 21A Global HR What's New Under Controlled Availability Features or Oracle Search-based Global Search (In the 21A HCM Common What's New under Controlled Availability Features: Fusion Global HR: How to Apply for Connections Under Controlled Availability (Doc ID 2743183.1) Fusion Global HR: How to Apply for Oracle Search-Based Global Search Under Controlled Availability (Doc ID 2743208.1)	Revised 21A - 22A	Open
Across All HCM Products	Oracle Search Person Index Updates	Oracle Search person index is optimized for better performance. This feature is needed for the Oracle Search-dependent features, see Oracle Search for HCM above. Controlled availability customers using HCM Oracle Search features (Connections, Oracle Search-based Global Search, Succession Organization Chart) are required to rebuild the index.	Use of HCM Oracle Search features (Connections, Oracle Search-based Global Search, Succession Organization Chart).	Only customers using Oracle Search features (Connections, Oracle Search-based Global Search, Succession Organization Chart).	21C - 22A	Open