Enabling

Enterprise and
Legal
Employer
Seniority Dates
During Hire
Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management

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Table of Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................. 4

Solution........................................................................................................ 4

Configure the Flexfields ............................................................................... 5

Configure the Seniority Rules ...................................................................... 6

Define the Fast Formula .............................................................................. 8

Attach the Fast Formula ............................................................................ 11

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INTRODUCTION

Certain customers who use version 3 of the Seniority Dates functionality may need to enter the
enterprise and legal employer seniority dates as part of the hire process.

Here are the steps to enable enterprise and legal employer seniority during a hire.

SOLUTION
You use flexfields to record the seniority dates during the hire process. The following steps use the person descriptive flexfield
(DFF). However, you can use any flexfields that are available on the hire pages.

To enable the enterprise and legal employer seniority dates during a hire, do the following:

1. Configure the flexfields.

2. Configure the seniority rules.
3. Define the fast formula.
4. Attach the fast formula.

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CONFIGURE THE FLEXFI ELDS
For the purpose of this document, we use the following DFF and segments:

 Person descriptive flexfield: PER_PERSONS_DFF

 Segment to record the enterprise seniority date: ATTRIBUTE_DATE2
 Segment to record the legal employer seniority date: ATTRIBUTE_DATE3

Use the Manage Descriptive Flexfields task in the Setup and Maintenance work area to search and select the
PER_PERSONS_DFF flexfield code. Then, configure the ATTRIBUTE_DATE2 and ATTRIBUTE_DATE3 segments.

For more information about descriptive flexfields, see the following help topics:

 Descriptive Flexfields: Explained

 Managing Descriptive Flexfields: Points to Consider

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When the Person DFF is deployed, the ATTRIBUTE_DATE2 and ATTRIBUTE_DATE3 segments appear on the Hire page as
follows:

CONFIGURE THE SENIORITY RULES

Define the lookup values that will be used for the seniority rules configuration. Refer to the following screenshot:

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Configure the seniority rules without attaching any fast formula. Refer to the following screenshot:

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DEFINE THE FAST FORMULA
Define a fast formula to calculate the adjustment days using the data captured in the Person DFF.

The following flow chart illustrates the logic to be used when creating the fast formula:

Use the following database items (DBIs) to retrieve data from the Person flexfield segments that you configured earlier:

 PER_PER_BASIC_ATTRIBUTE_DATE2
 PER_PER_BASIC_ATTRIBUTE_DATE3

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Fast Formula Text

/****************************************************************************

* Formula Name: Seniority Date Defaulting

* Description: This is a sample formula, which has the logic for defaulting the Enterprise

* Seniority date and the Legal employer seniority date from the Person DFF

****************************************************************************/

/*DBI for the DFF segment configured for enterprise seniority date*/

Default for PER_PER_BASIC_ATTRIBUTE_DATE2 is '1900/01/01 00:00:00' (DATE)

/*DBI for the DFF segment configured for Legal employer seniority date*/

Default for PER_PER_BASIC_ATTRIBUTE_DATE3 is '1900/01/01 00:00:00' (DATE)

INPUTS ARE

SENIORITY_DATE_CODE (TEXT),

EFFECTIVE_START_DATE (DATE)

SENIORITY_ADJUST_IN_DAYS = 0

SENIORITY_ADJUST_COMMENT = ' '

EFF_DATE = EFFECTIVE_START_DATE

/*Lookup code for enterprise seniority date*/

If SENIORITY_DATE_CODE = 'ORA_ESD_P' then

If PER_PER_BASIC_ATTRIBUTE_DATE2 was not defaulted then

SENIORITY_ADJUST_IN_DAYS = Days_Between (EFFECTIVE_START_DATE , PER_PER_BASIC_ATTRIBUTE_DATE2)

SENIORITY_ADJUST_COMMENT = 'Enterprise Seniority Initial Adjustment'

Else

/*Lookup code for Legal employer seniority date*/

If SENIORITY_DATE_CODE = 'ORA_LESD_W' then

If PER_PER_BASIC_ATTRIBUTE_DATE3 was not defaulted then

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(

SENIORITY_ADJUST_IN_DAYS = Days_Between (EFFECTIVE_START_DATE , PER_PER_BASIC_ATTRIBUTE_DATE3)

SENIORITY_ADJUST_COMMENT = 'Legal Employer Seniority Initial Adjustment'

Return EFF_DATE , SENIORITY_ADJUST_COMMENT, SENIORITY_ADJUST_IN_DAYS

Important Notes

 This fast formula is a working example, which takes into consideration only the values in the flexfields. If there are other
considerations to be taken into account, you must modify this fast formula accordingly.
 It is expected that the values in these flexfields are entered only as part of the hire process and will not be updated by the
user thereafter. If these values are updated after the seniority dates calculation process is run for the first time, it will
impact the seniority dates values when the Calculate Seniority Dates process is run subsequently. Therefore, it is
advisable to make these flexfield segments read-only on all pages other than the hire pages by using page composer
personalization.

Create the “Employee Seniority Date Adjustment” fast formula. Refer to the following screenshot:

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ATTACH THE FAST FORMULA
Attach the fast formula that you created to the seniority rules that were configured earlier. Refer to the following screenshot:

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Enabling Enterprise and Legal Employer Seniority Dates During Hire
August 2018
Author: Aliasgar Khambhaty