How You Associate a User Name with a Data Upload

For some object components, you can review the object history to see who last updated the object. This topic explains how to specify which user name appears in the object history when you upload data using HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader.

Setting Template Security

When you create a spreadsheet template, you select a value for the Upload Data As field in the Template Security section of the Define page. This value determines what appears in an object's history when data is uploaded from spreadsheets generated from the template.

When you create a spreadsheet template for an object that doesn't use data security in the application, or the application data security is available for spreadsheet loading:

• You can select either Session User or Elevated User in the Upload Data As field. When you select Session User, the user name of the signed-in user who uploaded the data appears in the object history. If you select Elevated User, then the user name is always FUSION_APPS_HCM_ESS_LOADER_APPID. For objects that don't use data security, or where data security is available for spreadsheet bulk data loading, Upload Data As is set to Session User by default.

When you create a spreadsheet template for an object that uses data security in the application, but that data security isn't available yet for spreadsheet loading:

• Upload Data As is set to Elevated User and can't be changed. The user name in object history is always FUSION_APPS_HCM_ESS_LOADER_APPID.

• It isn't possible to share such templates with other roles. Only users who have an administrator role can upload data from a spreadsheet for objects that use data security in the application where that data security isn't available for spreadsheet data loading.