Overview of Using HCM Common Features

This guide is for anyone who's using HCM, which means you! Use it to learn how to do general tasks that apply to some or all product families. If you're looking for product-specific information, see the product-specific guides.

Some setup tasks are common and available within multiple offerings. The Application Extensions and other functional areas comprise these common setup and implementation tasks.

The following table lists the task lists within Workforce Deployment that are covered in other guides:

Task List	Guide
Define Batch Data Loads Define Extracts	Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM HCM Data Loading Business Objects Note: This guide also covers Oracle Taleo Recruiting Cloud Service Integration. Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM HCM Extracts
Define Security for Human Capital Management	Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM Securing HCM
Define Payroll Define Payroll Legislations	Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Resources Implementing Global Payroll
Define Absences	Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Resources Implementing Absence Management
Define Transactional Business Intelligence Configuration	Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM Administering Analytics and Reports for HCM

Introduction

Title	Contents
HCM Common Features Overview	An introduction to the common features in HCM.

Date Effectivity

Title	Contents
Date Effectivity	Describes how date-effectivity is used in HCM transactions and you can correct date-effective objects.

Responsive User Experience

Title	Contents
Responsive User Experience Setup	Using the HCM Design Studio and its components to tailor your user experience with responsive HCM pages.
Oracle Search Cloud Service Setup	Setup Oracle Search Global Search.

Geographies and Currencies

Title	Contents
Geographies for HCM	Managing geography structures, hierarchies, and validation, setting up geocoding, and importing geographies.
Currencies and Currency Rates	Managing currencies, conversion rate types, and daily rates.

Enterprise and Workforce Structures

Title	Contents
Enterprise Structures	An overview of the enterprise structures, modeling an enterprise structure in Oracle Fusion.
Legal Entities, Business Units, and Reference Data Sets	Managing reference data sets, legal jurisdictions and authorities, and legal entities for HCM.
Enterprise Structures Configurator (ESC)	Using the ESC workbench to create and manage an enterprise structure.
Divisions, Departments, Worker Unions, Locations, and Trees	Setting up divisions, disability organizations, cost centers, departments, locations, worker unions, and trees.
Jobs and Positions	Defining jobs, positions, and setting up position synchronization.
Grades, Grade Rates, and Grade Ladders	Defining grades and grades ladders.
Workforce Structures - Configuration Options	Profile options, flexfields, and lookups related to workforce structures.
Workforce Profiles	Using Profile Management to define rating models, content types and content items, talent profiles, content sections, and questionnaires.

Common Applications Configuration

Title	Contents
Workflow Notifications and Approvals	Defining approvals for HCM, managing approval rules, and understanding approver types and approval-rule attributes.
Application Toolkit Configuration	Configuring and securing HCM Cloud mobile features.
Help configuration	Understanding help features choices and help options, and creating help security groups.
Common Reference Objects	Defining application taxonomy and reference data sharing. Managing menu configurations, security and audit policies, Oracle social network objects, and messages.
Enterprise Scheduler Job Definitions and Job Sets	Managing scheduled processes, job definitions, and job sets
Audit Policies	Audit policies for HCM business objects.
Applications Core Configuration	Defining lookups, messages, document sequences, profile options, and attachments.
Trees Setup	Managing tree structures, tree labels, trees, and tree versions.
HCM Flexfields Setup	Configuring flexfields, managing and deploying flexfields, and managing value sets.
HCM Flexfields Maintenance	Managing descriptive flexfields, extensible flexfields, and key flexfields.

Common HCM Configuration

Title	Contents
HCM Cloud Mobile App	Configure the HCM mobile application.
Alerts Composer	Setting up alerts and notifications.
HCM Events	Define HCM event conditions.
HR Help Desk Configuration	Describes the tasks to set up and configure the HR Help Desk application.
Eligibility Profiles	Defining derived factors, user-defined criteria, and eligibility profiles.
Predictive Models for HCM	Running predictive models for HCM, creating and editing predictive attributes, and removing predictive models.

Payroll

Title	Contents
Process Configuration	Defining sets of processing parameters, primarily related to logging and performance, for flows such as a new hire flow, termination, or an extract or report.
Country Extensions and Address Rules	Defining the country extension, address style, and address validation settings for each country or territory in the enterprise.
Elements, Balances, and Formulas Task List	An overview of payroll relationships, the payroll employment model, payroll legislative groups, and object groups.
Organization Payment Methods	Creating accounts, setting up payment methods, and creating third parties and third-party payment methods.
Payroll Definitions	Creating and managing payroll definitions.
Payroll Elements	Maintaining elements and element eligibility, using element templates, and calculating gross earnings.
Fast Formulas	An overview of formulas, formula compilation errors and execution errors.
Rate Definitions	Creating and managing rate definitions.
Values Defined by Criteria	Managing and using values defined by criteria.

Compensation

Title	Contents
Base Pay	Understanding salary basis and how it works with salary information.
Individual Compensation Plans	Defining individual compensation plans, understanding plan access and actions, and tracking compensation against a budget.
Compensation History	Understanding compensation history categories, configuring summary table, and managing stock grants.

Others

Title	Contents
Other Setup and Maintenance Task	An overview of transactional business intelligence configuration and contextual addresses.
Moving Common Reference Objects	Understanding creating configuration packages and moving common reference objects.