In several discussions on Oracle Customer Connect, one recurring requirement has stood out—clients often want to assign a journey task to an employee’s L2 (second level) manager. Oracle HCM does not provide a direct way to configure this out of the box. However, there is a practical workaround to meet this need. In this blog post, let us see the steps to make it happen.

Prior to the 25B release, the Job Offer Expiration Date functioned purely as an FYI field with no system-enforced behaviour. However, starting with the 25B release, this field now actively governs candidate actions, aligning its functionality with its intended purpose. In this blog, lets explore how can we enable this feature.

In HR systems, those built on Oracle HCM, Journeys or Assigned Checklists help guide employees through tasks like onboarding, training, or offboarding. But what happens when a journey is no longer relevant? Maybe a task needs to be removed—or perhaps an employee has left the organization, and all their active assigned checklists must go. This blog explores different scenarios and how to handle them using HCM Data Loader (HDL).

Are you looking to assign journeys to employees in bulk using HCM Data Loader (HDL)? Whether you are configuring person journeys or monitoring learning task completion, it is crucial to understand how checklist data functions when loaded through HDL. In this blog, we will explore two methods of allocating journeys via HDL—one that triggers notifications and another that does not.

Are you spending hours configuring and testing journeys in lower instances, tweaking display settings, adjusting notifications, and adding tasks? Once your setup in development or staging is complete, the real challenge often begins when it is time to migrate everything to production. This blog resolves these issues and migrates your journeys within seconds. It is a simple setup of a profile option and you are done.

What is the difference between Reassign and Delegate in approval delegations?

Do you want to know who has set up vacation and delegation rules in the system? Oracle offers a built-in report to help you with this. The Employee Vacation and Delegation Rules Report provides details on the rules employees have established to reassign or delegate workflow tasks. This report is available as a scheduled process. If an employee is on vacation, the report will show whether they’ve set up a rule to delegate or reassign tasks, along with the name of the person who will be handling those tasks in their absence.

Oracle has a predefined “Session timeouts” that automatically signs you out of an application after a certain period of inactivity. This helps protect your account from unauthorized access if you forget to log out or leave your session open on a public or shared device.

Is your organization looking to capture candidate feedback during interviews or other phases of the recruitment process? This guide will help you understand how to configure an effective feedback system that enhances your recruitment strategy. By gathering insights from candidates at various touchpoints—whether during interviews, after assessment stages, or following job offers—you can refine your hiring processes, improve candidate experiences, and strengthen your employer brand. Let us walk through the steps to set up a feedback system that benefits both your organization and your future talent pool.

Did you know you can use profile options to define default formats for values like date, time, number, currency, and time zone for all users?

Did you know that Oracle offers an efficient tool for comparing roles? You can analyse two roles side by side to pinpoint their differences and similarities. This feature supports various role types, including job roles, abstract roles, HCM data roles, duty roles, and aggregate privileges, allowing you to compare roles within the same category or across different categories.

Did you know Oracle provides an efficient way to compare users to quickly identify discrepancies in their access permissions? This is in addition to compare roles feature provided by Oracle. By examining both direct and inherited roles, you can easily identify any missing permissions and assign them as needed, ensuring all users have the correct access levels. This process helps maintain security and consistency across your system.

Did you know that Oracle offers a feature to enhance user assistance on its pages? By default, help icons that open help windows are visible to users. You have the ability to manage the visibility of these icons, determining whether they appear every time users sign in across any page that includes them. You can easily enable or disable help icons for all users by adjusting the default settings.

Did you know that Oracle offers a convenient way to view the privileges, roles, and users assigned to a role without having to navigate through multiple clicks? You can choose between two formats for role visibility: Tabular and Graphical. Personally, I prefer the Tabular format for its clarity and ease of use.

Did you know that you can customize role preferences in the Oracle system? This allows you to set both prefixes and suffixes when copying role names, as well as choose the default view for roles in the security console, whether as a graph or a table.

Did you know that P2T and T2T refreshes are now available as a self-service option? That is right - if your pods are migrated to OCI NextGen, you will be able to refresh an environment on your own.

Oracle provides a set of predefined notification templates for all enabled user categories. Users within these categories automatically receive notifications about changes to their accounts and passwords. You can also create custom templates for any user category. You can decide which notifications to use for each category and disable any unnecessary ones. This guide introduces the predefined notification templates and explains how to enable or disable notifications.

Did you know that you can set up a banner message on your cloud instance to share important information with your users? This message will appear in the global header.

Whenever a new user is created, they were automatically assigned to the default category. You can edit the user account and update the user category. You can assign a user to only one category. If you were creating new users using Security Console, you can also assign a user category at the time of creation itself.

Oracle provide a way to specify the default format of usernames for the user category. This guide details the available formats. You can set the required format using Security Console in tools.

Oracle offers a comprehensive method to configure password policies for each user category within the system. In this blog, we explore the various options available for setting up these policies.

Did you know that Oracle provides a feature to help you identify the necessary roles and privileges for accessing specific work areas? The "Simulate Navigator" tool allows you to see how access is assigned to different work areas and tasks, making it easier to manage and understand access control within the system.

Often, we send the "Request More Information" (RMI) flow to candidates to gather additional details as they move through the hiring process. However, once candidates submit the RMI flow, recruiters are not notified. This blog is designed to address this gap, ensuring recruiters are promptly informed when candidates provide the requested information.

Users receive notifications for the workflow task through various in-app interfaces like bell icon, things to finish, and via email. The scheduled process called “Synchronize Notifications in Global Header” ensures that all in-app notification interfaces are updated to reflect the latest task status.

When crafting approval rules, there often arises a need to automatically approve or reject transactions under specific conditions. While setting up auto approval is relatively straightforward, configuring auto rejection within the transaction console can pose challenges. This blog aims to clarifies the steps needed to implement auto rejection functionality.

Did you know that it is possible to customize the approval delegation notifications to suit your business requirements. This customization process does require some familiarity with SQL and RTF.

When an employee or administrator sets up an approval delegation through the "Roles and Delegations" page, you have the option to configure a notification to be triggered. As administrators, enable FYI notifications for approval delegations to inform the delegated persons about newly assigned delegations or any changes made to existing ones.

In the earlier post, we explored setting up delegation rules with "Roles and Delegations." But what if you prefer setting up a single delegation for all your approvals instead of selecting categories individually? In that case, you can utilize vacation rules configured through "BPM Worklist".

Did you know that users can setup delegation rules for approvals whenever they are going on vacation. Users have the option to assign approval tasks to others for a defined period. Administrators also have the authority to setup delegation rules on user’s behalf to assign managers approval responsibilities to someone else.

In this blog post, we will explore how a member of the hiring team can generate and send interview invitations to candidates utilizing the "Hiring team managed" interview schedule.

The first step in setting up an interview involves having the “Interview Schedule Template” prepared and accessible to recruiters or hiring managers. Crafting interview schedule templates can significantly streamline the process for recruiters and hiring managers when arranging interviews for job openings. These templates can include details such as frequently used conference rooms or locations, as well as pertinent URLs and dial-in information, ultimately saving time and effort of users.

Oracle Recruiting cloud provides flexibility to schedule interviews on behalf of candidates or you can invite candidates to schedule their own interviews at the date and time that work best for them. Providing candidates a selection of available slots provides them with a sense of ownership as they have the autonomy to choose from the provided options for scheduling interviews.

Using transaction console, you can resubmit approval transactions that are stuck due to a server-related issue or transactions that have unfixable errors. The resubmitted transaction will be re-evaluated and assigned accordingly. This feature saves your time to recreate the transaction and submit it again.

You can configure approval reminders within the BPM worklist, ensuring timely notifications are dispatched to the designated approver.

The list of enhancements introduced in 24A update for opportunity marketplace.

The collection of enhancements or announcements slated for introduction in the 24A update for journeys.

Utilize the Oracle HCM Cloud mobile application to conveniently access HCM cloud functionalities on your mobile device.

You can migrate approval rules from one environment to another using export and import functionality of SOA composer.

By simulating a rule, you can evaluate a particular transaction based on the rule settings. This approach eliminates the need to recreate or resubmit transactions again and again. You can simulate approval rules to test the approval routing of a pending, in-progress, or failed transaction.

A step-by-step guide to host public images or videos which can be used in career sites.

Utilize job segmentation configurations to manage the visibility of jobs within the Opportunity Marketplace, determining which jobs are accessible to specific internal users and employees in the list of job requisitions.

Introducing the convenience of a single-click cancel and redraft offer, streamlining the process and saving valuable time for recruiters.

Introducing the Approval Application in 24A – Seamless, Speedy, and Designed for User Ease!

The most awaited feature of journeys has arrived! This enhanced feature of using “Configure Completion Criteria feature” allows you to set rules based on data from supported application objects. For instance, you can create rules to verify that a new employee has submitted the necessary data before marking their journey task as finished.