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HCM Cloud Common New

Feature Summary
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pril Maintenance Pack for 21A

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and

new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Product Feature Notes

26 MAR 2021 Created initial document.

Overview

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

• Release Updates (21A, 21B, 21C, and 21D)

• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your

environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional

groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

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

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

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are

in your cloud service):

• Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)

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

Additional Optional Reading:

• Common Technologies and User Experience (This

documents the common features across all Cloud
applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found in Release Readiness

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

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements

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

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual

agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle
specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information.
Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

HCM Data Loader

HCM Data Loader provides a flexible and efficient method of bulk

loading business object data for data-migration and on-going
incremental updates to Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.

Business Object Enhancements

Extend your data loading capabilities with these extended business

objects:

Compensation

• Salary

Recruiting

• Job Requisition
• Job Requisition Template

March Maintenance Pack for 21A

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and

new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Product Feature Notes

26 MAR 2021 Created initial document.

Overview

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

• Release Updates (21A, 21B, 21C, and 21D)

• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your

environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional

groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains

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

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

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are

in your cloud service):

• Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)

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

Additional Optional Reading:

• Common Technologies and User Experience (This

documents the common features across all Cloud
applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found in Release Readiness

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

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements

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

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual

agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle
specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information.
Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

HCM Data Loader

HCM Data Loader provides a flexible and efficient method of bulk

loading business object data for data-migration and on-going
incremental updates to Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.

Business Object Enhancments

Roll back records created for the following Payroll business objects:
 • Costing Options
• Cost Allocation
• Cost Allocation Account
• Element Entry with Costing

Update 21A

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and

new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Product Feature Notes

This feature was not

26 HCM
Enhanced Rich Text delivered, so it has been
MAR Common
Editor removed from update
2021 Feature
21A.

29 Updated document.
Controlled Controlled Availability
JAN Revised feature
Availability Features
2021 information.

29 Updated document.
HCM Data Business Object
JAN Revised feature
Loader Enhancements
2021 information.

29 HCM Updated document.

Enhanced Rich Text
JAN Common Revised feature
Editor
2021 Features information.

18 HCM Updated document.

Enhanced Rich Text
DEC Common Delivered feature in
Editor
2020 Features update 21A.
18 HCM Secure Access for Updated document.
DEC Common Workers with Multiple Delivered feature in
2020 Features Assignments update 21A.

18 Updated document.
HCM Data Processed Source Files
DEC Delivered feature in
Loader Automatically Deleted
2020 update 21A.

18 Reduced Maximum Updated document.

HCM Data
DEC Days Retention for Delivered feature in
Loader
2020 Extended Data Sets update 21A.

04
Created initial
DEC
document.
2020

Overview

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

• Release Updates (21A, 21B, 21C, and 21D)

• Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update

It is important for you to know what Release Update your

environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.

Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional

groupings:

Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:

• HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains

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

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

Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are

in your cloud service):

• Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)

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

Additional Optional Reading:

• Common Technologies and User Experience (This

documents the common features across all Cloud
applications and is not specific to HCM)

NOTE: All of these documents can be found in Release Readiness

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

DISCLAIMER

The information contained in this document may include statements

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

This information may not be incorporated into any contractual

agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle
specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information.
Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information.

HCM Data Loader

HCM Data Loader provides a flexible and efficient method of bulk

loading business object data for data-migration and on-going
incremental updates to Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.

Visibility of Objects that Support Being Rolled Back

Identify which business objects support being rolled back. The View
Business Objects task and Overview spreadsheet, available from
this task, have been enhanced to include the roll back support
available for each object.

Business Object Enhancements

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

New Business Objects

Global Payroll

• Payroll Retro Component Usage

Business Object Hierarchy Changes for Global HR -

Checklists

The following object hierarchies have been extended to support the

bulk load of properties:

• Allocated Checklist
• Checklist Template
 • Task Library

Business Object Hierarchy Changes for Payroll

The Event Group Action component is now available in the Event

Group hierarchy and is decommissioned from the Event Action
hierarchy.

Business Object Hierarchy Changes for Recruiting

You can now bulk load:

• National identifiers for Candidates.

• Questionnaire responses for Candidate Job Applications

Business Objects With Attribute Changes

Absence Management

• Absence Entry

Compensation

• Salary Basis
• Salary

Global HR

• Document Record Delivery Preference

• Document Type
• Document Record
• Worker

Global Payroll

• Event Action
• Calculation Card
• Costing Options
• Cost Allocation
• Cost Allocation Account
 • Rate Definition

Recruiting

• Candidate
• Content Library
• Job Requisition Template

Talent Management

• Succession Plan
• Talent Review Meeting

Remove Person Information Enhancements

Check out the Remove Person Information feature now has the
following enhancements:

• We now have a separate privilege for the Report mode

(ORA_HRC_GENERATE_REMOVE_PERSON_INFORMATION_FILE).
Having this privilege alone grants the user access to the
Report mode only. The existing privilege,
ORA_HRC_REMOVE_PERSON_INFORMATION grants access
to both modes.
• Purge data from HDL staging tables for terminated
employees: When a terminated employee is purged, the
associated data rows from the integration object keymap
table will be purged as well. The integration object keymap
table contains the HCM Data Loader Source System Owner
and Source System ID objects. Both will be replaced by
generic values in order to purge any information that might
identify a specific person.
• Data obfuscation to support staggered disposal of person
data: We now support staggered disposal of data for a
terminated employee. For example, we allow for a purge of
Global HR data first while retaining the payroll data for a
longer time and purge payroll data at a later date in the
future using the same person number reference.
 • Data Obfuscation Support for Cancelled Workers: We have
added support for the deletion of workers with canceled
work relationships (rather than just terminated).

Reduced Maximum Days Retention for Extended Data Sets

Retain a data set for the purposes of roll back has been changed to 60
days.

Processed Source Files Automatically Deleted

Clean up your processed source files, files will now automatically be

deleted from the Oracle WebCenter Content server, once they have
expired.

HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader

HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader provides a flexible and efficient

method of bulk loading business object data for data-migration and
on-going incremental updates to Oracle Human Capital Management
Cloud.

Roll Back Spreadsheet Data

Roll back data loaded using HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader, for objects
that support being rolled back.

Secured Business Objects Now Available to Business Users

Extend your business user's bulk-loading capabilities for an object.

Spreadsheets based on these objects now implement the user's data
security and can be shared with business users.

Global Payroll

• Calculation Card

HCM Extract
HCM Extracts provide a method for extracting data from your HCM
applications that can be used for interfacing data to another source or
extracting data to integrate reporting across systems.

Purge HCM Extracts Archive Data Using Remove Person Information

Feature

Select the associated HCM Extracts archive data to be purged, when

you run the Remove Person Information process for an ex-employee.

Protect Oracle Delivered HCM Extracts from Edits

Make copies of Oracle delivered HCM Extracts and make changes to

the definition, including adding or updating parameters for these
extracts. You cannot edit the delivered extracts directly.

HCM Common Features

This section covers features used across all HCM Applications.

Hidden Attributes in Business Objects for Configure Business Objects

and Autocomplete Rules

Streamline the Configure Business Objects and Autocomplete Rules

tasks with some changes in the business objects and related attributes
- old business objects are removed and a few attributes are hidden in
the respective business objects. The attributes won't be available in
manual groovy in the Configure Business Objects and logic rules in
Autocomplete Rules pages. Hence, manual groovy and logic rules
must be reviewed for each impacted business object.

Secure Access for Workers with Multiple Assignments

Secure user access for workers by using assignment-level security, if

your organization allows them to have multiple concurrent
assignments. The current out-of-the-box behavior supports person-
based security access, which means a user having access to a person
has access to all assignments and personal information for that
person. The new assignment-level security restricts a user’s access to
a person’s assignment based on the user’s area of access. By enabling
a new assignment-level security profile option and regenerating your
data grants and security profiles, your organization opts into this
feature for your HCM Cloud implementation.

As stated in our initial release documentation for release 20D, this

feature offers a multi-phased implementation for HCM Cloud
customers. For this release, we have made enhancements to Absence
Management, Document Records, OTBI for Global Human Resources,
Performance Management and Payroll product areas. Expanding
assignment-level security continues to provide a broader and more
consistent user experience across HCM. The users will be restricted to
only those assignments to which they have access and not all
assignments of the person just because they can access that person.

HCM Common Architecture

This section covers architecture features used across all HCM

Applications.

Atom Feeds for Additional HCM Transactions

Subscribe to new Atom feeds that are added for additional Oracle
HCM Cloud transactions. Feeds are triggered when this information is
changed:

• Person's citizenship, correspondence language, country, or

region of birth
• Additional address elements
• Person's visa, email, and delivery preference details
• Disability information
• Assignment work measures and contract details

Controlled Availability

Controlled Availability Features

Features under this heading are under the Controlled Availability

Program. The Controlled Availability Program is a program for early
testing and feedback of features, before they are included into the
product line. You must request and be accepted into the Controlled
Availability Programs to use these features. Please see the What's
New for more information on being part of these programs.

NOTE: These features are not generally available to customers,

customers must be approved to use these features. When these
features are generally available to all customers they will be
announced under their product area headings.

Autocomplete Rules for HCM Experience Design Studio Enhancements

Enhance the user experience with new rule management capabilities

in Autocomplete Rules for HCM Experience Design Studio. These are
some of the new features that are added to the tool.

• Ability to translate error and warning messages in all Oracle

supported languages.
• Conversion of long decimal to function in use cases such as
where you want to default salary basis with the salary basis
stored in the job descriptive flexfield (DFF) for an employee.
• Structured list of business objects where business objects
and associated attributes are renamed to a more functional
and user-friendly name, and unused attributes and business
objects are removed.
• Support for list of values (LOVs) for most business objects
attributes in Autocomplete Rules.

Oracle Search-Based Global Search

Check out the new Global Search for HCM provides faster person
search experience and introduces new person search capabilities.

It is based on Oracle Search, a dedicated search platform for Oracle

Cloud.

Oracle Search for HCM

Take advantage of Oracle Search it is a dedicated search engine
available in your Human Capital Management Cloud environment.