Oracle Talent Management Cloud · Oracle Talent Management Cloud . Release 13 (updates 18A – 18C)...

Oracle Talent Management Cloud Release 13 (updates 18A – 18C)

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DOCUMENT HISTORY ······························································································································································································· 8

UPDATE 18C ······························································································································································································· 8

Revision History ························································································································································································ 8

Overview ······································································································································································································· 8

Talent Management ············································································································································································ 9

Career and Succession ······································································································································································· 10

Talent Review ······················································································································································································ 10

HDL Support for Oracle Talent Review Meeting Objects ···························································································· 10

Succession Management ······························································································································································ 10

Succession Plan Access Changes ······································································································································ 10

Ability to Delete A Succession Plan ···································································································································· 10

Succession Plan Type List of Values Changes ·············································································································· 10

HDL Support for New Talent Pool and Succession Plan Detail Descriptive Flexfields ··································· 11

Performance ······························································································································································································ 11

Goal Management ············································································································································································· 11

Verifying Person Eligibility in Goal Mass Assignment Tools ······················································································ 11

Support for Approval Delegation ·········································································································································· 11

New Asynchronous Purge Process ····································································································································· 11

Support for Claiming Role-Based Approval Tasks ········································································································ 11

Performance Management ···························································································································································· 11

Check-Ins ······················································································································································································ 12

HR Specialist Landing Page for Performance ················································································································· 12

Mass Print Performance Documents ·································································································································· 12

Mass Create Performance Documents When Running Eligibility Batch Process ············································· 12

Data Loader Support for Performance Actions ··············································································································· 12

Performance Data Integrity Check Process ····················································································································· 12

Recruiting ··································································································································································································· 12

Recruiting ······························································································································································································ 12

Candidate Search Archiving ·················································································································································· 13

Third Party Resume Parsing ·················································································································································· 13

Job Requisitions in Workforce Modeling ··························································································································· 13

Content Builder for Candidate Experience ······················································································································· 13

HR Optimization ······················································································································································································ 13

Transactional Business Intelligence for Talent Management ····················································································· 13

Goals ··································································································································································································· 13

New CLOB Attribute - Goals Subject Areas ····················································································································· 13

Learn ··································································································································································································· 13

Learning Subject Area - 5 Star Rating ······························································································································· 14

New Dimension in Learning Subject Area - Learning Plans ······················································································ 14

Performance ····················································································································································································· 14

New Subject Area: Workforce Performance - Performance Check-In Real Time ············································· 14

AUGUST QUARTERLY MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 18B ···································································································· 14

Revision History ······················································································································································································ 14

Overview ····································································································································································································· 14

Learning and Development ······························································································································································· 15

Learning Cloud ··················································································································································································· 16

Access Control ················································································································································································· 16

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Create Learning Item Access Group from a Community Membership ·································································· 16

Approvals ··························································································································································································· 16

Price Details in Learning Request Notification ················································································································ 16

Learner Self-Service ······································································································································································ 16

Complete Required Evaluation When Instructor-Led Activity is Not Complete ·················································· 16

Offering Link More Prominent to Learner ·························································································································· 16

Deep Link Support for the Web ············································································································································ 16

Manage Learning Items ································································································································································ 16

Enable Request Form ······························································································································································ 16

Associate Attachments to an Activity ·································································································································· 16

Configure Default Advanced Assignment Rule Values at Course Level ······························································· 17

Configure Default Offering Attributes at the Course Level ························································································· 17

Configure Learner Defaults at System Level ··················································································································· 17

Enhanced Offering Definition ················································································································································· 17

Set Course Assignment Initial Status Value ···················································································································· 17

Manage Learners ············································································································································································ 17

Identify Course Assignments Without Offering Assignments ···················································································· 17

Search Assignments Using Request Details ··················································································································· 17

HCM Mobile Application ······························································································································································· 17

Deep Link Support for Native Mobile ·································································································································· 17

Offline Learning for Native Mobile ······································································································································· 18

Native Mobile Account Selection ·········································································································································· 18

General ······························································································································································································· 18

Performance Improvements ··················································································································································· 18

JULY MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 18B ········································································································································· 18


Overview ····································································································································································································· 19


Learning Cloud ··················································································································································································· 20

Virtual Classroom Support ·························································································································································· 20

WebEx Virtual Classroom Integration ································································································································ 20

Skillsoft Integration ········································································································································································· 20

Skillsoft Content Integration ··················································································································································· 20

Waitlist ································································································································································································ 21

Waitlisting ······················································································································································································ 21

Override Maximum Capacity ················································································································································· 21

Manually Processing a Waitlisted Learner ······················································································································· 21

Prerequisites ····················································································································································································· 21

Skills and Qualification Prerequisites for Courses and Specializations ································································· 21

Expire Learning Assignments Pending Prerequisites ·································································································· 21

Waive Prerequisites ·································································································································································· 21

Assessments ···················································································································································································· 21

Support Assessment as a Learning Activity ····················································································································· 21

Alerts ··································································································································································································· 21

Support of Alerts ········································································································································································· 22

Access Control ················································································································································································· 22

Define Instructors Who Can Teach Offerings ·················································································································· 22

Approvals ··························································································································································································· 22

Approve Self-Service Withdrawal from Catalog Items ································································································· 22

Disable Self-Service Learning Request Form ················································································································· 22

Enhanced Request Approvals with Self-Service Price ································································································ 22

Manage Catalog ·············································································································································································· 22

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Add Courses and Specializations to Communities ········································································································ 22

Catalog Item Translation Editor ············································································································································ 22

Manage Self-Service Content by the Administrator ······································································································ 23

Manage Content Items ································································································································································· 23

Support Deletion of Content Items ······································································································································ 23

View Content Item Import Errors ·········································································································································· 23

Use Privileges to Access Content Items REST Endpoint ··························································································· 23

Learner Self-Service ······································································································································································ 23

Hide Recommendations ·························································································································································· 23

Contextual Learning ······································································································································································· 23

Direct Links to Catalog Items ················································································································································· 23

Enhanced Contextual Learning Functionality ·················································································································· 23

Manage Learning Items ································································································································································ 24

Flexfield Support on Learning Items ··································································································································· 24

Default Learning Assignment Attributes ···························································································································· 24

Enable Assignment Summary Metrics ······························································································································· 24

Associate Attachments to an Offering ································································································································ 24

Bulk Create Offering Activities ·············································································································································· 24

New Course Management Data Security ·························································································································· 24

Enhance Offering Activities Management ························································································································· 24

Select Learner Criteria ·································································································································································· 24

Enhance Learner Selection ···················································································································································· 24

Manage Learners ············································································································································································ 25

Mass Action Support ································································································································································· 25

Bypass Approve and Bypass Reject Multiple Learners ······························································································· 25

Approve Previously Rejected Learning Requests ········································································································· 25

Change Learning Assignment Type Between Voluntary and Required ································································ 25

Enhance Required and Voluntary Assignments ············································································································· 25

Person Number Support in Manage Learners ················································································································ 25

Support Learning Assignments Not Meeting Completion Criteria ··········································································· 25

Undo Withdrawn Assignments ·············································································································································· 25

Create Assignments in Request Approved Status ········································································································ 25

Enhanced Learning Request ················································································································································· 26

Training Resource ·········································································································································································· 26

Enhance Training Resource ·················································································································································· 26

Manage Training Suppliers ···················································································································································· 26

Employee Self Service ·································································································································································· 26

Complete an Optional Learning Evaluation at any Time ····························································································· 26

Enhanced Look and Feel of Learner Self-Service ········································································································· 26

New Learning Activity View ···················································································································································· 26

Rate Learning Items Using a 5-Star System ··················································································································· 27

Show Ranking in Search Results ········································································································································· 27

Support Quick Actions ······························································································································································ 27

Enhance Catalog Search ························································································································································ 27

Manager Self-Service ···································································································································································· 27

Enhanced My Team's Assignments View ························································································································· 27

Enhance HCM Data Loader for Oracle Learning Cloud ······························································································ 27

HDL Support for Learning Outcomes and Prerequisites ····························································································· 28

REST ··································································································································································································· 28

Enhanced REST Services ······················································································································································ 28

General ······························································································································································································· 28

Remove Flash Requirement ·················································································································································· 28

UPDATE 18B ····························································································································································································· 28

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Talent Management ·········································································································································································· 30

Performance Goals and Documents Integration with Mass Legal Employer Change Process ···················· 30

Configurable In-App Notifications for Talent Management Based on Reports ··················································· 30

Notes Resource Catalog Component in Talent Management ·················································································· 30



Super User for Succession Management ························································································································· 31

Flexible Data Security for Succession Candidates and Incumbents ······································································ 31

Talent Review ······················································································································································································ 31

Talent Review Dashboard Redesigned ····························································································································· 31

Delete or Reopen Completed Talent Review Meetings ······························································································· 31

Increased Size of Talent Review Descriptive Flexfields ······························································································ 31

Ability to Configure Visibility Options for Meeting Notes ····························································································· 31

Questionnaire ······················································································································································································ 31

Extended Set of Person Search Fields When Assigning Owner of Questions, Templates, and Questionnaires ············································································································································································ 32

Performance Management ································································································································································· 32

Goal Management ············································································································································································· 32

New Attribute for Goal Object - Long Description ·········································································································· 38


Check-Ins ······················································································································································································ 32

Extended Set of Person Search Fields in Human Resource Specialist Administrative Tasks ····················· 32

Recruiting ··································································································································································································· 32

Recruiting ······························································································································································································ 33

Hiring ······························································································································································································· 33

Candidate Relationship Management ································································································································ 33

Candidate Experience ······························································································································································ 33

HR Optimization ······················································································································································································ 33

Talent Management Transactional Business Intelligence ···························································································· 33

Learn ··································································································································································································· 33

ADF Labels in Learning Management Real Time ·········································································································· 34

Specialist Videos - Learning Management Real Time ································································································· 34

Learning Record Cost to Learner - Learning Management Real Time ·································································· 34

DFF's on Learning Requests - Learning Management Real Time ·········································································· 34

Recruiting ··························································································································································································· 34

New Subject Area - Recruiting Events Real Time ········································································································· 34

New Subject Area - Recruiting Real Time ························································································································ 34

New Subject Area - Sourcing Real Time ··························································································································· 34

Talent Review ·················································································································································································· 34

New Dimension - Member Details in Talent Pools Real Time Subject Area ······················································· 35

AUGUST QUARTERLY MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 18A ···································································································· 35


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Learning Cloud ··················································································································································································· 36

Select Learner Criteria ·································································································································································· 36

Enable Learner Selection by Workforce Structure Hierarchy ···················································································· 36

MAY MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 18A ·········································································································································· 37

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Goal Management ············································································································································································· 38

New Attribute for Goal Object - Long Description ·········································································································· 38

MARCH MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 18A ···································································································································· 38


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Talent Review ······················································································································································································ 39

Create an Offering Assignment When Editing Course Assignment ········································································ 39


Learning Cloud ··················································································································································································· 39

Create a Direct Link to Learning Item ································································································································· 39

UPDATE 18A ····························································································································································································· 39


Overview ····································································································································································································· 40


Career Development ········································································································································································ 41

Extended Set of Person Search Fields in Administrative Tools ··············································································· 41


Succession and Talent Pool Information on Succession Planning Page ····························································· 41

Increased Size of Succession Plan and Candidate Descriptive Flexfields ·························································· 41

Talent Pool Descriptive Flexfields ········································································································································ 41

Profile Management ········································································································································································· 42

Ability to Configure Visibility Options for Anytime Feedback Notes ········································································ 42

Configurable eMail Notifications for Anytime Feedback Based on Reports ························································ 42

Questionnaire ······················································································································································································ 42

Translation Editor in Questionnaire ····································································································································· 42


Goal Management ············································································································································································· 42

Full HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader Support ·················································································································· 42


Deep Links to Performance Documents from Manager and Worker Notifications ············································ 43

Resend Standard and Critical Alerts ··································································································································· 43

Additional Audit Attributes ······················································································································································· 43

Support for Purging Transient ESS Data ·························································································································· 43

HR Optimization ······················································································································································································ 43

Transactional Business Intelligence for Talent Management ····················································································· 43

Career Development ····································································································································································· 43

New Subject Area for Workforce Profiles - Feedback Notes by Recipient Real Time ····································· 43

Enhance Workforce Performance Subject Areas to Report on Anytime Templates ········································ 44

New Attributes to Goal Management Subject Areas ···································································································· 44

Talent Review and Succession Management ······················································································································ 44

New Dimension - Potential Assessment in Talent Review Real Time Subject Area. ······································· 44

New DFF - Talent Pools Real Time Subject Area ········································································································· 44

New DFF - Succession Management Subject Areas ··································································································· 45

Learn ··································································································································································································· 45

Enhanced Subject Area for Learning - Expected Training Hours for a Course ·················································· 45

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Enhanced Subject Area for Learning - Offering Activities and Assignment Tasks ············································ 45

New Dimensions in Learning Subject Area for Learning Requests and Non-Catalog Items ························· 45

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DOCUMENT HISTORY

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

Date Update Version Notes

07 SEP 2018 Update 18C Delivered new features in update 18C.

27 JUL 2018 August Quarterly Maintenance Pack for 18BDelivered new features in August Quarterly Maintenance Pack for 18B.

27 JUL 2018 July Maintenance Pack for 18BRevised July Maintenance Pack for 18B. Features were also included in the August Quarterly Maintenance Pack.

27 APR 2018 Update 18B Revised update 18B.

27 JUL 2018 August Quarterly Maintenance Pack for 18ADelivered new features in August Quarterly Maintenance Pack for 18A.

27 APR 2018 May Maintenance Pack for 18ADelivered new features in May Maintenance Pack for 18A.

23 FEB 2018 March Maintenance Pack for 18ADelivered new features in March Maintenance Pack for 18A.

30 MAR 2018 Update 18A Revised update 18A.

UPDATE 18C

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

07 SEP 2018 Created initial document.

OVERVIEW

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

Release Updates (18A, 18B and 18C)Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

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It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal. If you are on Update 18A, you will only have features that are in 18A or the Monthlies for 18A, you will not have 18B features until you receive the 18B update. You can however read ahead on future release so you can make plans for when you will receive the next update.

If you are upgrading from Release 12, you should read all features up through the Release Update that you will receive in the upgrade, this can also be found in Cloud Portal.

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

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

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

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

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

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

Additional Optional Reading:

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

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

DISCLAIMER

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

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

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CAREER AND SUCCESSION

TALENT REVIEW

Oracle Talent Review is an analytic product enabling your organization to review and evaluate data from the profile, performance, goals, career development, and compensation management solutions.

HDL SUPPORT FOR ORACLE TALENT REVIEW MEETING OBJECTS

Streamline the mass upload of talent review meeting configuration by using the new HCM data loader. Decrease the time it takes to enter or update large numbers of review meetings into Fusion Talent Review. Reduce the likelihood of errors that can occur when manually entering the data.

SUCCESSION MANAGEMENT

Oracle Succession Management helps to create succession plans to replace key personnel. Succession plans identify workers who are ready now, or can develop the necessary skills, for jobs and positions that aren't currently vacant, insuring, a smooth transition and help you to manage candidate development.

SUCCESSION PLAN ACCESS CHANGES

Automate access to succession plans with the new method to control who has access to which plans. Access to non-private public succession plans is no longer restricted only to the plan owners. From this release, public plan access is dependent upon who is the named or inferred incumbent of the plan. Users who have data security access to an employee and Manage Succession Plans privileges can access plans in which the employee is either the incumbent or holds the job or position for which the succession plan is created.

ABILITY TO DELETE A SUCCESSION PLAN

Manage your succession plans better with the ability to delete a succession plan. Now you can delete unwanted succession plans if you have access to the plans. You can delete only one plan at time.

SUCCESSION PLAN TYPE LIST OF VALUES CHANGES

Control the order of plans types that appear in the succession plan type drop-down list. You now have the option to change the order in which plan types appear to the user by changing the ordering in the plan type lookup configuration.

The job family and job profile plan types have been deprecated. You can choose from one of the other three plan type options: incumbent, job, or position.

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HDL SUPPORT FOR NEW TALENT POOL AND SUCCESSION PLAN DETAIL DESCRIPTIVE FLEXFIELDS

Extend the use of HCM Data Loaders for mass uploading succession plans and talent pools by supplying succession plan and talent pools descriptive flex field data. You can now load content into these descriptive flex fields while using HCM Data Loader.

PERFORMANCE

GOAL MANAGEMENT

Oracle Goal Management enables you to transform business objectives into goals across various organization levels, providing a clear line of sight from managers to employees. Business leaders can communicate high-level initiatives which managers can translate into goals for their employees.

VERIFYING PERSON ELIGIBILITY IN GOAL MASS ASSIGNMENT TOOLS

Check if a person would be eligible for inclusion in a goal plan, goal plan set, and a mass assign process before or after running the goal assignment process. Use the new action Check Person Eligibility to quickly verify eligibility of a person or identify reason(s) of why the person does not meet the specified eligibility criteria.

SUPPORT FOR APPROVAL DELEGATION

Delegate the goal approval tasks by using security role delegation in work area. In addition to My Accountreceiving access to employee goals, proxy users can now also perform goal approval tasks of the delegator on the employee's page and in the application.Spotlight Worklist

NEW ASYNCHRONOUS PURGE PROCESS

Delete temporary goal assignment records by using the new process, Purge Goal Temporary Records. Unlike the Purge Goal Mass Request Data process, this new process is asynchronous and does not have any run time constraints.

SUPPORT FOR CLAIMING ROLE-BASED APPROVAL TASKS

Use the Worklist role-based task claim functionality in goal approval transactions. If a user is granted an HCM security role configured in the approval rule as the approver, the user can now claim the approval task in the approval notification and then perform approval actions in Worklist and in Goal Management applications.

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Oracle Performance Management supports features and functions for measuring and reporting worker performance.

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CHECK-INS

Create discussion topics for both development goals and performance goals in a check-in document. If configured in the check in template, discussion topics can be automatically created in a check-in document. HR can now be granted the ability to add a check-in for a worker and manager.

HR SPECIALIST LANDING PAGE FOR PERFORMANCE

Simplify navigation for HR Specialists that need access to workers’ performance documents or perform administrative tasks using a dedicated landing page. HR Specialists will now be directed to the Search My

page instead of the page when navigating to Organization Performance Documents My Evaluations from Performance My Client Groups

MASS PRINT PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTS

Expedite the process for HR Specialists to print multiple performance documents using the Mass Print Performance Documents admin functionality. Save a file of the data to Oracle UCM or open it to view the individual PDF's or XML data.

MASS CREATE PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTS WHEN RUNNING ELIGIBILITY BATCH PROCESS

Streamline the performance evaluation process for workers and managers by mass creating performance documents. Avoid unnecessary reviews of the performance document manager and dates before navigating to the performance document. An option to create eligible performance documents is available in the HR task Manage Eligibility Batch Process

DATA LOADER SUPPORT FOR PERFORMANCE ACTIONS

Streamline mass actions for performance documents using HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader or HCM Data Loader. You can now mass create, complete, cancel or delete performance documents for employees. You can also mass select participants for the manage participant feedback task to provide feedback for workers created performance documents.

PERFORMANCE DATA INTEGRITY CHECK PROCESS

Identify easily and resolve data integrity errors with the new scheduled process Performance Data Integrity Check. Issues with worker and manager assignment data or performance document and task statuses can be resolved by customers directly.

RECRUITING

RECRUITING

Oracle Recruiting Cloud provides tools for hiring managers and recruiters to source and nurture candidates, create and manage job requisitions, screen and select candidates, create and manage job offers, and onboard new employees into the organization. It also provides career sites for employees and external candidates to search, discover and apply to jobs using a frictionless application process.

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CANDIDATE SEARCH ARCHIVING

Use candidate search archiving to track candidate searches ran by recruiters. Search result archiving supports requirements from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).

THIRD PARTY RESUME PARSING

Enable candidates to parse their resume using customer preferred parsing tools. When candidates upload their resume, a call is made to the resume parsing partner’s web service and the data returned by the partner is used to populate the candidates’ job application.

JOB REQUISITIONS IN WORKFORCE MODELING

Use Workforce Modeling to create models including job requisitions. Include existing job requisitions or create new job requisitions. View, edit, and move job requisitions within the workforce model hierarchy. Implement a workforce model to create or update job requisitions within Hiring.

CONTENT BUILDER FOR CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

Increase external candidate engagement by creating custom content HTML pages with the Content Builder for Candidate Experience. Administrators can build HTML pages using content widgets in a WYSIWYG editor. Content can be styled directly to integrate with the career site appearance and to provide an integrated experience to candidates. Two designed page templates are available to provide a quick starting point. Content can be saved in a draft state or published immediately.

HR OPTIMIZATION

TRANSACTIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR TALENT MANAGEMENT

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. 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.

GOALS

NEW CLOB ATTRIBUTE - GOALS SUBJECT AREAS

Enhance your reporting with the new attribute added to the goals subject areas that is based on a CLOB column. This attribute is used to report on the description in the respective dimensions.

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LEARNING SUBJECT AREA - 5 STAR RATING

Enhance your reporting on learning with the ability to report on the five star ratings provided to the learning items. A new dimension 'Rating' is added to the subject area. The Five Star Rating feature allows the learner to show their opinion of a learning item.

NEW DIMENSION IN LEARNING SUBJECT AREA - LEARNING PLANS

Enhance your reporting on learning with the inclusion of learning plans and plan items in learning management subject area. As part of this enhancement a new dimension named Learning Planning is added. This new dimension has sub folders under it to report on the learning plans, plan profiles, and plan cost details.

PERFORMANCE

NEW SUBJECT AREA: WORKFORCE PERFORMANCE - PERFORMANCE CHECK-IN REAL TIME

Enhance your reporting on the manager and worker performance appraisal process with the new functionality named Check-Ins. A new subject area has been added to report on this functionality. This subject area provides real time information on the Check-Ins done by the manager and workers in a review period, to monitor the progress and provide guidance on an ongoing basis to support active performance management within the organization.

This subject area can be used to report on the meetings between manager and worker, the templates used to create the check-ins, the details within the check-ins like performance and development goals, questionnaire, general topics and notes related to each of these items.

AUGUST QUARTERLY MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 18B

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

27 JUL 2018 Created initial document.

OVERVIEW

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

Release Updates (18A, 18B and 18C)Optional Monthly Maintenance PacksQuarterly Mandatory Maintenance Packs (delivered in February, May, August and November). All features that show in the Monthly Maintenance Packs will be included in the next Quarterly Mandatory Maintenance Pack, so no need to request the monthly maintenance packs.

LEARN

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It is important for you to know what Release Update you environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal. If you are on Update 18A, you will only have features that are in 18A or the Monthly and Quarterly updates for 18A, you will not have 18B features until you receive the 18B update. You can however read ahead on future release so you can make plans for when you will receive the next update.

If you are upgrading from Release 12, you should read all features up through the Release Update that you will receive in the upgrade. This can also be found in Cloud Portal.










DISCLAIMER



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LEARNING CLOUD

Oracle Learning Cloud enables you to make a transformational shift in learning delivery. Subject matter experts in your organization can easily publish videos and assemble tutorials to deliver on-demand and social learning. Collaboration features encourage continuous community feedback.

ACCESS CONTROL

CREATE LEARNING ITEM ACCESS GROUP FROM A COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP

Create a learning item access group from a community membership. The Administrator can search and select a community and that community membership will then be used to define the access group for a learning item.

APPROVALS

PRICE DETAILS IN LEARNING REQUEST NOTIFICATION

Enhance the learning request notification so that the notification contains price details if the learning item is configured with self-service price amounts.

LEARNER SELF-SERVICE

COMPLETE REQUIRED EVALUATION WHEN INSTRUCTOR-LED ACTIVITY IS NOT COMPLETE

Allow learners to complete a required evaluation when the current system date is greater than the last instructor-led activity end date on the offering, and even if the instructor-led activities have not been marked as complete.

OFFERING LINK MORE PROMINENT TO LEARNER

Enhance the Learner self-service view of a course by making the View All Offerings link more prominent.

DEEP LINK SUPPORT FOR THE WEB

Configure a deep link to a learning item.

MANAGE LEARNING ITEMS

ENABLE REQUEST FORM

Enable or disable the request form for assignments created by the Manager and the Learner.

ASSOCIATE ATTACHMENTS TO AN ACTIVITY

Associate attachments to an activity so that the Administrator can download and review the information in these attachments.

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

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CONFIGURE DEFAULT ADVANCED ASSIGNMENT RULE VALUES AT COURSE LEVEL

Set default values for assignment expiration and renewals so that these defaults appear when course assignments are being created.

CONFIGURE DEFAULT OFFERING ATTRIBUTES AT THE COURSE LEVEL

Use default offering attributes at the course level. When offerings are created, these default values are used to streamline the offering creation process. Offering price defaults and minimum and maximum offering capacity defaults can be defined at the course level.

CONFIGURE LEARNER DEFAULTS AT SYSTEM LEVEL

Configure learning assignment default values, learner selection criteria default values, and summary metrics at the system level. When creating a course, the course default values can override the system default values. The purpose of the system default values is to streamline the user experience for the Administrator to easily create assignments, search for assignment data, and configure how to view assignment counts.

ENHANCED OFFERING DEFINITION

Specify the offering start date, offering end date, primary instructor, and primary location. Offerings can have many activities associated to them. These activities can start and end at different times. Each activity can also have different instructors and locations. The Administrator needs these primary fields at the offering level so they can be presented to the Learner in the case of self-service.

SET COURSE ASSIGNMENT INITIAL STATUS VALUE

Use the enhanced course assignment flow to choose the status of the assignment during the creation process. When creating a required or voluntary assignment, the Administrator can set the initial assignment status to Active, Pending Active, and Request Approved.

MANAGE LEARNERS

IDENTIFY COURSE ASSIGNMENTS WITHOUT OFFERING ASSIGNMENTS

Use the enhanced manage learners functionality to search and view course assignments that do not have offering assignments.

SEARCH ASSIGNMENTS USING REQUEST DETAILS

Search for learner assignments using request detail information. The Administrator can also make these request detail fields available in the search results table.

HCM MOBILE APPLICATION

DEEP LINK SUPPORT FOR NATIVE MOBILE

Use deep links to get a web view to a specific URL within the HCM mobile iOS or Android application.

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OFFLINE LEARNING FOR NATIVE MOBILE

Use offline learning in the mobile application. The Learner can consume current learning, learning suggested to them, and past learning. Currently, learning is the only capability that can be utilized in the offline mode.

NATIVE MOBILE ACCOUNT SELECTION

Use the enhanced native mobile account access flows for single accounts and multiple accounts on iOS and Android. Users now have to enable a setting to add multiple “accounts” / URLs.

GENERAL

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Enhance your use of Oracle Learning Cloud with performance improvements done in the following areas:

Self-service search of learning items.Selection of learners in the manager self-service.ESS job to rebuild indexes.

JULY MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 18B

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

27 JUL 2018 Learning Cloud: Direct Links to Catalog ItemsUpdated document. Revised feature information.

27 JUL 2018Learning Cloud: Enable Assignment Summary Metrics

Updated document. Revised feature information.

27 JUL 2018Learning Cloud: Enhance HCM Data Loader for Oracle Learning Cloud


27 JUL 2018 Learning Cloud: Enhance Learner SelectionUpdated document. Revised feature information.

27 JUL 2018 Learning Cloud: Enhance Training ResourceUpdated document. Revised feature information.

27 JUL 2018Learning Cloud: Enhanced Contextual Learning Functionality


27 JUL 2018Learning Cloud: Enhanced My Team's Assignments View


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Date Feature Notes

27 JUL 2018 Learning Cloud: Enhanced REST Services

Delivered new feature in the July Monthly Maintenance Pack for 18B, which was also included in the August Quarterly Maintenance Pack.

27 JUL 2018Learning Cloud: New Course Management Data Security

Update document. Revised feature information.

27 JUL 2018Learning Cloud: Support Assessment as a Learning Activity

Update document. Revised feature information.

27 JUL 2018 Learning Cloud: Support of AlertsUpdate document. Revised feature information.

29 JUN 2018 Created initial document.

OVERVIEW











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DISCLAIMER




LEARNING CLOUD


VIRTUAL CLASSROOM SUPPORT

WEBEX VIRTUAL CLASSROOM INTEGRATION

Streamline the WebEx Meeting Center and WebEx Training Center meeting creation and update process for the Administrator by integrating Oracle Learning Cloud to WebEx. Meetings in WebEx are automatically created or updated from Oracle Learning Cloud for the Instructor (Meeting Host) and Learner (Attendee) when Virtual Classroom activities are managed by the Administrator.

SKILLSOFT INTEGRATION

SKILLSOFT CONTENT INTEGRATION

Streamline the learning item creation process for the Administrator by integrating Skillsoft content to Oracle Learning Cloud. Automatic creation of courses, offerings, activities, and content occurs when bulk import or single import is initiated by the Administrator.

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WAITLIST

WAITLISTING

Allow self-service users to join the waitlist of an offering when it is already full. Waitlists are automatically processed by the system. When seats become available, the first in, first out clearing method is used. Offerings requiring that self-service users obtain an enrollment approval must first be approved before the system places the learner on the waitlist.

OVERRIDE MAXIMUM CAPACITY

Increase the configured offering capacity while creating an assignment to satisfy the selected recipients of a learning assignment. This allows the Administrator to guarantee seats for the assignment recipients even if there are already other people on the waitlist.

MANUALLY PROCESSING A WAITLISTED LEARNER

Activate a waitlisted assignment and optionally choose to increase the offering capacity, as an Administrator. This action overrides the system automatic processing and recalculates the waitlist position for the remaining people on the waitlist. Additionally, administrators can withdraw waitlisted assignments and move active assignments onto the waitlist.

PREREQUISITES

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATION PREREQUISITES FOR COURSES AND SPECIALIZATIONS

Configure courses and specializations with prerequisite skills and qualifications. This prevents learners from engaging with a learning item until prerequisites are met. The Administrator and managers can view learning assignments blocked by missing prerequisites. Additionally, Administrators can unblock assignments missing prerequisites if they choose.

EXPIRE LEARNING ASSIGNMENTS PENDING PREREQUISITES

Expire learning assignments after a set number of days when prerequisites are missing.

WAIVE PREREQUISITES

Choose to waive prerequisites during assignment creation or on existing learning assignments blocked by prerequisites.

ASSESSMENTS

SUPPORT ASSESSMENT AS A LEARNING ACTIVITY

Support assessments so that a learner can be measured on the knowledge and skills that have been learned. This ensures that the offering is achieving the learning outcomes of a course.

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SUPPORT OF ALERTS

Notify users of important learning events using new alerts.

Examples of new alerts:

Customer-defined alerts initiated by the Administrator when viewing assignments.Alert to recommend a learning item to a Learner.Alert to a Learner when the Administrator updates an instructor-led activity.Alert to an Instructor when the Administrator updates an instructor-led activity.Alert to remind an Instructor that an instructor-led activity start date is approaching.

ACCESS CONTROL

DEFINE INSTRUCTORS WHO CAN TEACH OFFERINGS

Configure instructors who can be selected to teach offerings within a specific course.

APPROVALS

APPROVE SELF-SERVICE WITHDRAWAL FROM CATALOG ITEMS

Configure the approval process when self-service users attempt to withdraw from a course, offering, or specialization.

DISABLE SELF-SERVICE LEARNING REQUEST FORM

Option to disable the learning request form, when approvals are required without the additional request data.

ENHANCED REQUEST APPROVALS WITH SELF-SERVICE PRICE

Use self-service price or self-service price currency in learning request approval rules. This provides the ability to route approvals to different approvers based on currency or price.

MANAGE CATALOG

ADD COURSES AND SPECIALIZATIONS TO COMMUNITIES

Add courses and specializations to community catalogs from the administrator course and specialization details pages.

CATALOG ITEM TRANSLATION EDITOR

Use the translation editor to translate the title and short description of courses, offerings, offering activities, and specializations. This allows the Administrator to provide translations without having to sign out and sign in in a different language.

ALERTS

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MANAGE SELF-SERVICE CONTENT BY THE ADMINISTRATOR

Manage self-service videos, tutorials and self-service communities created by employees and managers via the self-service functionality. The Administrator can delete self-service videos, tutorials and manage self-service communities.

MANAGE CONTENT ITEMS

SUPPORT DELETION OF CONTENT ITEMS

Delete SCORM content, videos, PDF documents, and web pages used in self-paced learning. When this occurs, a message indicating that content is not available will be displayed to the learner when they access an activity backed by the deleted content. The activity cannot be automatically transitioned to a completed state, the administrator can manually change the activity status via manage activities.

VIEW CONTENT ITEM IMPORT ERRORS

Enhance resource management by viewing errors during the import of SCORM content, HACP courses, videos, and PDF documents. This allows the Administrator to troubleshoot import issues.

USE PRIVILEGES TO ACCESS CONTENT ITEMS REST ENDPOINT

Use privileges to access the Learning Content Items REST endpoint. Two new privileges provide read-only or read-write access to the REST service and another for the ATOM feed.

Use REST Service – eLearning ContentUse REST Service – eLearning Content Read OnlyUse ATOM Feed – Learn Workspace

LEARNER SELF-SERVICE

HIDE RECOMMENDATIONS

Allow learners to hide a recommendation they received.

CONTEXTUAL LEARNING

DIRECT LINKS TO CATALOG ITEMS

Support direct access to the self-service and administrator views of catalog courses, offerings, and specializations. The Administrator can obtain these direct links from the Learning Item Number link when viewing learning items, and share them with others. An HTML code snippet is also available to embed the self-service details page of an item into other applications or web pages. Learners can access these direct links from the learning item details page action button.

ENHANCED CONTEXTUAL LEARNING FUNCTIONALITY

Enhanced contextual learning functionality so that the activity player can be directed to a specific activity or the evaluation step in the activity player. This also includes enhancing the web plugin to be directed to a specific activity or evaluation step in the activity player.

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MANAGE LEARNING ITEMS

FLEXFIELD SUPPORT ON LEARNING ITEMS

Support learning item and specialization level flexfields.

DEFAULT LEARNING ASSIGNMENT ATTRIBUTES

Streamline the assignment creation process by using configurable default assignment details.

ENABLE ASSIGNMENT SUMMARY METRICS

Enable assignment summary metrics on pages where assignment records are displayed. Add learning assignment default values and learner selection criteria default values.

ASSOCIATE ATTACHMENTS TO AN OFFERING

Associate attachments to an offering so that administrators can download and review the information in these attachments.

BULK CREATE OFFERING ACTIVITIES

Enhance instructor-led offerings to support the creation of multiple activities using a daily, weekly, or monthly cadence. This functionality helps streamline the activity creation process for the Administrator.

NEW COURSE MANAGEMENT DATA SECURITY

Control for which courses the Administrator can create offerings. When the Administrator creates an offering and chooses an offering, data security is enforced.

ENHANCE OFFERING ACTIVITIES MANAGEMENT

Mark offering activities as complete, exempted or incomplete using a completion date. This allows the Administrator to better manage offering assignments.

SELECT LEARNER CRITERIA

ENHANCE LEARNER SELECTION

Use the enhanced learner selection capabilities when creating an assignment. This functionality streamlines the assignment creation process by supporting additional search mechanisms to find learners.

The Administrator can search learners in the following ways:

Using worker attributes.Based on system person type and manager name attributes. Using department or organization hierarchies.Based on assignment attributes.In the case of a course recommendation assignment, on the assignment status of another learning item where the learners are not already registered on an offering.Based on assignment status. It provides the ability to choose request status detail values (Requested, Request Approved, Request Rejected).

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MANAGE LEARNERS

MASS ACTION SUPPORT

Set the status of assignment records to active, bypass approval, bypass reject and send an alert based on multiple selections from the Learners assignments page.

BYPASS APPROVE AND BYPASS REJECT MULTIPLE LEARNERS

Select multiple learners and perform the Bypass Approve and Bypass Reject actions in bulk.

APPROVE PREVIOUSLY REJECTED LEARNING REQUESTS

Approve learning requests previously rejected. This allows the Administrator to take corrective action on existing requests if needed.

CHANGE LEARNING ASSIGNMENT TYPE BETWEEN VOLUNTARY AND REQUIRED

Change the learning assignment from required learning to voluntary learning, or vice versa. This allows the Administrator to perform corrective action instead of withdrawing the assignment and creating a new one.

ENHANCE REQUIRED AND VOLUNTARY ASSIGNMENTS

Allow only one active assignment at a time per learner. Simultaneous required and voluntary assignments on the same learning item are no longer supported. A required assignment has higher priority over a voluntary assignment and as such a learner receiving a required learning assignment will replace a voluntary assignment if one exists. Additionally, course and offering assignments have been updated to follow the course and offering relationship. As such, a course assignment will always exist when a learner is assigned an offering. For every course assignment, a learner may have one or more related offering assignments, but only one can be active or completed at any given moment.

PERSON NUMBER SUPPORT IN MANAGE LEARNERS

Enhance tables with a new column displaying the HCM person number of assignment recipients. This functionality helps to uniquely identify people.

SUPPORT LEARNING ASSIGNMENTS NOT MEETING COMPLETION CRITERIA

Capture a learner's attempt to complete a learning item without achieving the completion criteria.

UNDO WITHDRAWN ASSIGNMENTS

Reactivate learning assignments previously withdrawn. This allows the Administrator to take corrective action if needed.

CREATE ASSIGNMENTS IN REQUEST APPROVED STATUS

Allow the Administrator to create an assignment in a request approved status.

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ENHANCED LEARNING REQUEST

Include learning request attributes on all learning assignment records, even if the assignment did not originate from a learning request. This allows the Administrator to fill in additional request details either during the assignment creation or while editing an assignment record.

TRAINING RESOURCE

ENHANCE TRAINING RESOURCE

Use the enhanced classroom and instructor training resources.

The classroom training resource has the following enhancements:

Make the classroom resource name an active link. When the link is clicked, the classroom details page appears and displays information about the classroom and the offerings that the classroom is scheduled on.Ability for the Administrator to create external locations versus using locations already defined in HCM Cloud.Show capacity column when searching for classrooms on an offering activity.Use of attachments available to the Learner or Administrator.On the instructor-led training creation and edition screens, the Administrator can select classrooms and instructors based on a given location.

The instructor training resource has the following enhancements:

Instructor resource with standalone search.Show the schedule and history of offerings taught by the instructor in the manage instructor resource view.Use of flexfields in the instructor resource page.

MANAGE TRAINING SUPPLIERS

Link training suppliers to instructors and classrooms. This helps administrators find instructors and classrooms by training supplier.

EMPLOYEE SELF SERVICE

COMPLETE AN OPTIONAL LEARNING EVALUATION AT ANY TIME

Complete the optional learning evaluation at any time no matter the completion status on other activities.

ENHANCED LOOK AND FEEL OF LEARNER SELF-SERVICE

Use the enhanced look and feel of the learner self-service pages such as course details page, specialization details page, video details page, profile page, learning catalog page, community details page, tutorial creation page, activity player, SCORM player, assessment player, and video player.

NEW LEARNING ACTIVITY VIEW

View all learning activities of a particular offering in a single listing.

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RATE LEARNING ITEMS USING A 5-STAR SYSTEM

Rate courses, offerings, videos, and tutorials using a 5-star rating system.

SHOW RANKING IN SEARCH RESULTS

Show relevancy ranking in search results. Relevancy is displayed as follows for each line item in the search results: Search Relevance: Low, Search Relevance: Medium, Search Relevance: High.

SUPPORT QUICK ACTIONS

Support quick actions so that the Learner and Manager can quickly publish videos, request noncatalog learnings, and request noncatalog learnings for My Team.

ENHANCE CATALOG SEARCH

Enhance learner self service search capabilities with options to search by delivery mode and language.

MANAGER SELF-SERVICE

ENHANCED MY TEAM'S ASSIGNMENTS VIEW

Use the enhanced My Team's Assignments view.

View all learning assignments created for your team.Filter assignments using a variety of filters.Click on the name of a learner to view learner's learning profile. Export your team assignments to Microsoft Excel.

ENHANCE HCM DATA LOADER FOR ORACLE LEARNING CLOUD

Use these enhanced HCM Data Loader objects:

Learning Record: Support of midstream assignments.Learning Record Support for OfferingsLearning Record Support for SpecializationsLearning Record Support for TutorialsLearning Record Support for VideosAbility to upload learning records with an initiative ID.Course (including flexfields and default access as per learning setup).Offering (including learning evaluation enablement and override, and including flexfields and default access as per learning setup).Instructor Led Activity: Add custom virtual classroom URL.Classroom ReservationInstructor Reservation on PersonAdhoc ResourceSelf-Paced Activity: Including the support of assessments.Course Offering Pricing DefaultsOffering Custom PricingCourse Translation

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Offering TranslationOffering ILT Activity TranslationOffering Self-Paced Activity TranslationClassroom Resource (including flexfields)Classroom Resource TranslationSpecialization (including flexfields)Specialization SectionSpecialization Section ActivitySpecialization TranslationSpecialization Section TranslationSupport for prerequisites and learning outcomes on coursesSupport for prerequisites and learning outcomes on specializationsOffering Instructor Led Training Activity Instructor Reservation on a Learning Instructor ResourceInstructor Resource (including flexfields)

HDL SUPPORT FOR LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PREREQUISITES

Associate learning outcomes and prerequisites to a course or specialization.

REST

ENHANCED REST SERVICES

Use these new REST services:

Get learner assignment and activity details.Manage Content Items task supports assessments and disabling of auto-complete for web links and PDFs.

GENERAL

REMOVE FLASH REQUIREMENT

Remove the Browser Flash requirements for playing videos.

UPDATE 18B

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

27 APR 2018Goal Management: New Attribute for Goal Object - Long Description

Updated document. Feature delivered in update 18B.

06 APR 2018 Created initial document.

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DISCLAIMER

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

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TALENT MANAGEMENT

PERFORMANCE GOALS AND DOCUMENTS INTEGRATION WITH MASS LEGAL EMPLOYER CHANGE PROCESS

Enhance the bulk transfer of workers from one legal employer to another by including performance goals and documents in the Global HR Mass Legal Employer Change Process. Select whether to move all the performance goals and documents from the primary assignment of the source work relationship to the new assignment for the destination work relationship, or only those performance goals and documents associated to specific review periods.

CONFIGURABLE IN-APP NOTIFICATIONS FOR TALENT MANAGEMENT BASED ON REPORTS

Configure in-app notifications for Talent Management based on Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher reports as per your organization requirements. Use the Oracle BI Publisher tool to configure report templates. This applies to the following:

Profile ManagementGoal ManagementPerformance ManagementCareer Development Talent Review

NOTES RESOURCE CATALOG COMPONENT IN TALENT MANAGEMENT

Enhance Talent Management application pages using the Notes Resource Catalog component for persons and objects. Create and share notes about employees similar to the Anytime Feedback feature in employee's Person Spotlight and Performance Document.



Oracle Fusion Succession Management helps to create succession plans to replace key personnel. Succession plans identify workers who are ready now, or can develop the necessary skills, for jobs and positions that aren't currently vacant, ensuring, a smooth transition and help you to manage candidate development.

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SUPER USER FOR SUCCESSION MANAGEMENT

Leverage the ability to create a succession management super user and access all succession plans in your organization. The super user can make updates to any plan, public or private. Additionally, you can configure the super user role to report on all plans in OTBI.

FLEXIBLE DATA SECURITY FOR SUCCESSION CANDIDATES AND INCUMBENTS

Enhance the succession planning process by allowing users to select candidates outside of their normal data security profile. You can support your business process requirements by independently configuring the candidate and incumbent searches to allow or not allow users to search outside their data security profile.

TALENT REVIEW

Oracle Fusion Talent Review is an analytic product enabling your organization to review and evaluate data from the profile, performance, goals, career development, and compensation management solutions.

TALENT REVIEW DASHBOARD REDESIGNED

Improve your user experience with the updated talent review dashboard. We have moved the actions to convenient menus and have made the dashboard easier to use. We have implemented popular enhancements such as including worker pictures and providing more information about the worker. The enhanced dashboard also provides full page views of succession plans, talent pools, and analytics that are associated with the meeting.

DELETE OR REOPEN COMPLETED TALENT REVIEW MEETINGS

Improve the maintenance of talent review meetings by using the delete meeting and reopen meeting features. The delete meeting feature allows you to delete a completed meeting. The reopen completed meeting feature allows you to reopen a meeting that has been submitted. Both features provide you with more administrative options to assist with maintaining your talent review meetings.

INCREASED SIZE OF TALENT REVIEW DESCRIPTIVE FLEXFIELDS

Leverage the increased size of user-defined flexfields (DFFs) by including more information about talent review meeting configuration. We have increased column size of the DFFs to 2,000 characters to enable you to capture more information.

ABILITY TO CONFIGURE VISIBILITY OPTIONS FOR MEETING NOTES

Control visibility options for talent review meeting notes with the new Manage Feedback Visibility task in the Setup and Maintenance work area. Using the task, you can now override the existing defaults by excluding visibility options and setting a new default value.

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EXTENDED SET OF PERSON SEARCH FIELDS WHEN ASSIGNING OWNER OF QUESTIONS, TEMPLATES, AND QUESTIONNAIRES

Use the extended set of person-related fields for searching and assigning the owner of questions, templates, and questionnaires.


GOAL MANAGEMENT

NEW ATTRIBUTE FOR GOAL OBJECT - LONG DESCRIPTION

Use the new attribute of the goal object, Long Description, to store more content than the existing Description attribute. The data type of the new attribute is Character Large OBjects (CLOB). It can store up to 2 gigabytes of data.


Oracle Fusion Performance Management supports features and functions for measuring and reporting worker performance.

CHECK-INS

Encourage employees and managers to have ongoing, meaningful discussions and to provide feedback throughout the year in a Check-in Document that has the same look and feel on your desktop and mobile devices. These newly designed pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. You can include a predefined questionnaire for the worker and manager, add freeform discussion topics or specify performance goals as discussion topics.

EXTENDED SET OF PERSON SEARCH FIELDS IN HUMAN RESOURCE SPECIALIST ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS

Facilitate quicker searches in administrative tasks for Human Resource Specialists using an extended set of person search fields, including person number.

QUESTIONNAIRE

Survey employees with our Questionnaires.

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RECRUITING

Oracle Recruiting Cloud (ORC) provides tools for hiring managers and recruiters to source and nurture candidates, create and manage job requisitions, screen and select candidates, create and manage job offers, and onboard new employees into the organization. It also provides career sites for employees and external candidates to search, discover and apply to jobs using a frictionless application process.

HIRING

Simplify and automate the complexities of hiring with comprehensive end-to-end functionalities from job requisition management, job board distribution, approval workflows, candidate selection, electronic job offer distribution, and seamless candidate to new hire workflow. It leverages the power of the complete HCM suite to deliver deep insights and easy access to information about your talent through all stages of employment. Work structures, security roles, data security, and configuration tools are unified across the platform to deliver an efficient and consistent user experience.

CANDIDATE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Leverage Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) features - candidate pools, email campaigns and candidate search - to provide robust sourcing and to empower recruiters with AI matching to make the best data-driven recruiting decisions. Targeted CRM campaigns can be used to communicate with candidate pools and market open job requisitions to both internal and external candidates, which drives proactive engagement and helps build a talent pipeline.

CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE

Enable organizations to keep the candidate experience at the center of the recruiting process by leveraging innovative technologies such as chatbots, and modern, mobile-friendly design templates to provide candidates, both external and internal, with a compelling consumer-like experience. A persistent search bar while exploring jobs and geo-location awareness helps puts the job search at the forefront for each job seeker. The entire candidate experience is fully mobile responsive to support a frictionless application process and incorporates multi-media in the site content and job descriptions to keep the candidate engaged.

HR OPTIMIZATION

TALENT MANAGEMENT TRANSACTIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Oracle Fusion 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.

RECRUITING

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ADF LABELS IN LEARNING MANAGEMENT REAL TIME

Use enhanced column labels in the Workforce Learning - Learning Management Real Time subject area to get names from the ADF Labels instead of the existing custom values for the labels.

SPECIALIST VIDEOS - LEARNING MANAGEMENT REAL TIME

Enhance your reporting on Learning Management Real Time subject area with the inclusion of the new learning item type ORA_CONTENT_VIDEO. This enhancement allows you to report on specialist videos based classes.

LEARNING RECORD COST TO LEARNER - LEARNING MANAGEMENT REAL TIME

Enhance your reporting on Learning with the inclusion of the attributes to report on the cost involved for the learner to enroll for a learning event. Each learning record may have an associated cost. The cost is broken into a "cost to learner" which will be constructed from a series of price components.

DFF'S ON LEARNING REQUESTS - LEARNING MANAGEMENT REAL TIME

Enhance your reporting on Learning Management Real Time subject area with the addition of the DFF's to report on learning requests. The DFF's have been exposed under the following folders:

Assignment Profile Requests Learning Record Requests

RECRUITING

NEW SUBJECT AREA - RECRUITING EVENTS REAL TIME

Manage key historic metrics of your recruiting process using the “Recruiting - Recruiting Events Real Time” subject area. You can report on various phases and states of the main recruiting objects such as: job requisitions, job applications, candidate pools using this subject area.

NEW SUBJECT AREA - RECRUITING REAL TIME

Manage the recruiting process in your organization using the “Recruiting - Recruiting Real Time” subject area. You can report on job requisitions created by managers and recruiters, job offers, candidate sources, and candidate information such as personal details, education and work experience, and previous employers. Analyze the candidate hiring timeframe using key metrics such as “Time since job application creation”, “Number of job applications”, “Job offer acceptance rate”.

NEW SUBJECT AREA - SOURCING REAL TIME

Manage recruiting campaign metrics of your recruiting process using the “Recruiting – Sourcing Real Time” subject area. You can report on campaigns, their goals, teams, and various counts.

LEARN

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NEW DIMENSION - MEMBER DETAILS IN TALENT POOLS REAL TIME SUBJECT AREA

Manage reporting on the descriptive flex fields related to the talent pool members with the addition of a new dimension in the Workforce Succession Management - Talent Pools Real Time subject area. A new folder named Member Details is created and the DFF attributes is exposed in this along with other attributes like pool member id, member status, created by and created date.

AUGUST QUARTERLY MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 18A

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

27 JUL 2018 Created initial document.

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TALENT REVIEW

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LEARNING CLOUD


SELECT LEARNER CRITERIA

ENABLE LEARNER SELECTION BY WORKFORCE STRUCTURE HIERARCHY

Enhance the manage setup to include the capability to define the workforce structure hierarchy, per the Areas of Responsibilities, and to use it when selecting learners for an assignment. This allows the Administrator to choose a work structure top level item and then the number of hierarchy levels below. It also allows the Administrator to determine if they want to include the people at the top level work structure. This configuration is then used by the Administrator when selecting learners for an assignment and use a workforce structure hierarchy like an Organization or Department.

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MAY MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 18A

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

27 APR 2018 Created initial document.

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GOAL MANAGEMENT

Using Oracle Fusion Goal Management, you can transform business objectives into goals across various organization levels, providing a clear line of sight from managers to employees. Business leaders can communicate high-level initiatives which managers can translate into goals for their employees.

NEW ATTRIBUTE FOR GOAL OBJECT - LONG DESCRIPTION

Use the new attribute of the goal object, Long Description, to store more content than the existing Description attribute. The data type of the new attribute is Character Large OBjects (CLOB). It can store up to 2 gigabytes of data.

MARCH MAINTENANCE PACK FOR 18A

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

23 FEB 2018 Created initial document.

OVERVIEW

This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update.

DISCLAIMER

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

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TALENT REVIEW

CREATE AN OFFERING ASSIGNMENT WHEN EDITING COURSE ASSIGNMENT

View and add offering assignments when you are editing an assignment at the course level. This allows you to quickly and easily sign a learner up for an offering if they were not already signed up as part of the course assignment.


LEARNING CLOUD

CREATE A DIRECT LINK TO LEARNING ITEM

Use Page Composer to display a link to a learning item. You can then copy and paste this link to an email message or notification. Recipients can use the link to get direct access to the learning item from the email or notification.

UPDATE 18A

REVISION HISTORY


Date Feature Notes

30 MAR 2018Goal Management: Support for Purging Transient ESS Data

Updated document. Revised feature description.

12 JAN 2018 Created initial document.

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CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Oracle Fusion Career Development provides tools for workers and managers to manage their career interests and development plans. These tools include recommendations on roles based on workers’ qualifications, comparisons to target roles and required development needs for workers. You can establish development goals and manage development progress, by managing the roles of interest for the worker and comprehensive development plan for workers.

You can now manage your near and long-term career development strategies using a development plan. Based on your role permissions, you can create and manage your development goals within your development plan. You can tag goals with Development Intents. Development Intents are tags that allow you to organize and track your goal towards future development.

EXTENDED SET OF PERSON SEARCH FIELDS IN ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS

Use the extended set of person-related fields for searching development goals data in all the administrative pages. By default, the Advanced search mode is disabled. Use Page Composer to enable the Advanced search mode.


Oracle Fusion Succession Management helps to create succession plans to replace key personnel. Succession plans identify workers who are ready now, or can develop the necessary skills, for jobs and positions that aren't currently vacant, ensuring, a smooth transition and help you to manage candidate development.

SUCCESSION AND TALENT POOL INFORMATION ON SUCCESSION PLANNING PAGE

Simplify your succession information search by viewing succession and talent pool information on one page. We have moved the succession candidate and talent pool membership information from the Career Planning page to the Succession Planning page for one consolidated view.

INCREASED SIZE OF SUCCESSION PLAN AND CANDIDATE DESCRIPTIVE FLEXFIELDS

Leverage the increased size of user-defined descriptive flexfields (DFFs) by including more information about succession plans or succession candidates. We have increased the column size of the DFFs to 2,000 characters to support the ability to capture more information.

TALENT POOL DESCRIPTIVE FLEXFIELDS

Capture additional information about talent pools and talent pool members in the newly supported user-defined descriptive flexfields (DFFs). Now you can enter more information on the pool and member levels by adding your own DFFs. These DFFs appear on the Enter Details and Select Members pages. The HRT_POOLS_B DFF appears on the Enter Details page. The HRT_POOL_MEMBERS DFF appears on the Select Members page.


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PROFILE MANAGEMENT

Oracle Fusion Profile Management provides a common foundation for the talent suite of products and other Oracle Cloud applications to retrieve, insert, and update talent profile information. Profile Management also supports the HR specialists, line managers, matrix managers, and employees in performing critical HR talent functions. Managing people and job profiles, career planning functions, managing, and tracking talent data can be also done through Profile Management.

ABILITY TO CONFIGURE VISIBILITY OPTIONS FOR ANYTIME FEEDBACK NOTES

Control visibility options for Anytime Feedback notes with the new Manage Feedback Visibility task in the Setup and Maintenance work area. Using the task, you can now override the existing defaults by excluding visibility options and setting a new default value.

CONFIGURABLE EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS FOR ANYTIME FEEDBACK BASED ON REPORTS

Tailor notifications related to Anytime Feedback notes using Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher as it fits your organization. Using the BI Publisher tool, you can now customize report templates used for the manager and employee emails.

QUESTIONNAIRE

TRANSLATION EDITOR IN QUESTIONNAIRE

Simplify the translation of your questionnaire data using the translation editor. Using the translation editor, you can translate text-based data for more than one language at a time without having to sign out of your current session.


GOAL MANAGEMENT

Using Oracle Fusion Goal Management, you can transform business objectives into goals across various organization levels, providing a clear line of sight from managers to employees. Business leaders can communicate high-level initiatives which managers can translate into goals for their employees.

FULL HCM SPREADSHEET DATA LOADER SUPPORT

Leverage the HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader tool to upload goal data. The Goal object hierarchy now supports user keys, allowing you to implement all goal uploading scenarios using HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader.


Oracle Fusion Performance Management supports features and functions for measuring and reporting worker performance.

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DEEP LINKS TO PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTS FROM MANAGER AND WORKER NOTIFICATIONS

Simplify the navigation to required actions by using deep links direct to the performance document in the notifications sent to managers and workers, instead of navigating to the Performance overview pages.

RESEND STANDARD AND CRITICAL ALERTS

Improve employee completion of performance evaluation tasks by resending standard and critical alert notifications, even after the task due date has passed. Select which tasks to enable the repeat alerts for in the template and only enable them on days that repeat alerts should be sent to avoid excessive notifications. Alerts will not be sent to employees who have completed the task.

ADDITIONAL AUDIT ATTRIBUTES

Increase visibility into changes to Performance data using additional audit attributes. Track changes to the performance document and task statuses and who performed those changes. Audit details for participants requested to provide feedback.

SUPPORT FOR PURGING TRANSIENT ESS DATA

Reduce consumption of database storage by using the new process, Purge Goal Mass Request Data. You can schedule the process to run periodically to purge the transient data in the application.

HR OPTIMIZATION

TRANSACTIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR TALENT MANAGEMENT

Oracle Fusion 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.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

NEW SUBJECT AREA FOR WORKFORCE PROFILES - FEEDBACK NOTES BY RECIPIENT REAL TIME

Enhance your reporting capability with the addition of a new subject area to report on notes and kudos provided to the workers. The occasions of providing these notes can be during the talent review meeting, feedback on the worker, or any general public kudos to the worker. These notes and kudos can be provided by the managers, peers, direct/indirect reports and so on.

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ENHANCE WORKFORCE PERFORMANCE SUBJECT AREAS TO REPORT ON ANYTIME TEMPLATES

Enhance your reporting on workforce performance with the addition of a new template that are created by the performance administrators and used by managers to evaluate the workers. A new type of performance template named 'Anytime' is introduced in Fusion Performance Management module. Using the Anytime template, manager, workers and matrix managers can create anytime performance documents on as needed basis to achieve real time performance outcomes aligned to better business results.

As part of this, the following enhancements are done:

Performance Document Details dimension is added in all Workforce Performance Subject Areas if they were not available earlier.New attribute added in Performance Template Dimension : Template Type

NEW ATTRIBUTES TO GOAL MANAGEMENT SUBJECT AREAS

Enhance your reporting on goals with the addition of new attributes that provides the information on the reference goal from which the worker goal is created, if the reference exists. As part of this two new attributes are added to the following subject areas.

Workforce Goals - Goal Alignments Real TimeWorkforce Goals - Goal Status Overview Real TimeWorkforce Goals - Goal Tasks Real TimeWorkforce Goals - Target Outcomes Real Time

Organization Goals, Manager Goals, and Colleague Goals are stored as regular goals in the goals schema. Library Goals are stored as content items in profiles.The worker goals can be created from any of these sources. The following attributes provides details of the source goal for the worker goals

Reference Goal Name Reference Item Name

TALENT REVIEW AND SUCCESSION MANAGEMENT

NEW DIMENSION - POTENTIAL ASSESSMENT IN TALENT REVIEW REAL TIME SUBJECT AREA.

Enhance your reporting on Talent Review Real Time subject area with the addition of the new potential assessment dimension to report on the questions and responses provided by the worker's manager while preparing for the talent review meeting of the worker. A new sub folder named 'Potential Assessment' is added under the existing Manager Assessed Potential folder. Few of the key attributes in this dimension includes:

Potential Assessment QuestionPotential Assessment RespondentPotential Assessment ResponsePotential Assessment Question Score

NEW DFF - TALENT POOLS REAL TIME SUBJECT AREA

Enhance your reporting on employee talent pools with the addition of the descriptive flex field HRT_POOLS_B under the Talent Pool details folder in Talent Pools Real Time subject area.

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For example:If we create a segment 'TP_1', it gets exposed as 'HRT_POOLS_B_TP_1' under the folder 'Talent Pool Details' (after deployment of the dff 'Succession Plan Details' and bi extender run)

NEW DFF - SUCCESSION MANAGEMENT SUBJECT AREAS

Enhance your reporting on succession plans with the addition of the descriptive flexfield HRM_PLANS under the succession plan details folder across all the succession planning subject areas.

"Workforce Succession Management - Incumbent Plans Real Time""Workforce Succession Management - Job Plans Real Time""Workforce Succession Management - Plan Candidates Real Time""Workforce Succession Management - Position Plans Real Time"

For example: If you create a segment named 'DFF_1', it displays as 'HRM_PLANS_DFF_1' in the folder 'Succession Plan Details' (after deployment of the DFF 'Succession Plan Details' and BI extender run).

LEARN

ENHANCED SUBJECT AREA FOR LEARNING - EXPECTED TRAINING HOURS FOR A COURSE

Report on minimum and maximum training hours specified for a learning course with the enhanced Learning Subject Area. A new sub folder 'Course Specific Details' has been added under Learning Items, it includes the following attributes:

Minimum Training HoursMaximum Training Hours.

ENHANCED SUBJECT AREA FOR LEARNING - OFFERING ACTIVITIES AND ASSIGNMENT TASKS

Use the modified Class specific information to eliminate the contents directly under the classes. Classes were enhanced to have Activities under them. Each activity has a type, a mandatory flag, a completion type etc.., and optionally content. We have now made the following changes to the subject area:

Removed the attributes "Class Specific Details"."Content Name", "Class Specific Details"."Content Identifier" .Added new folders:

Offering Activities - Provides information about Offering Activities.Assignment Tasks - For each offering that is assigned to a learner, there will be activities to complete. Each activity that needs to be completed by a learner is tracked through Assignment Tasks.

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A new learning item type to report on the Non-Catalog item is added. This is to report on learning items that are not in the learning catalog that were workers wish to learn.

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NEW DIMENSIONS IN LEARNING SUBJECT AREA FOR LEARNING REQUESTS AND NON-CATALOG ITEMS

Enhance your reporting on Learning, where users other than learners have requested learning for others, such as a manager may choose to request learning for for a person on their team or the entire team. New folders have been added:

Assignment Profile Requests - Provides information about requests for learning itemsLearning Record Requests - Provides information about individual learning requests

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