Redwood Experience for Absence Entry

The absence entry page for Generic, Illness and Injury, and Childbirth/Placement type absences was re-created using the Redwood tool set available in Oracle Visual Builder Studio to improve the user experience by providing the same consistent functionality across Redwood pages.

Screen capture of the new Absence Redwood page

New Absence Redwood page

Here’s how you use the Redwood page for absence entry:

  1. On the Home page, click Me.
  2. Click Time and Absences.
  3. Click the Add Absence tile.

NOTE: Absences now uses workersAssignmentLOV to display active assignments as of the current system date.  When entering an absence, you'll only see the business titles that are effective as of the entry dates. The LOV will no longer show future dated assignments or future inactive assignments.

The new Redwood page for absence entry lets you experience Redwood’s high-fidelity interactions.

Steps to Enable

This page is turned off by default. If you want to enable this page, you will need to do so in the Profile Options. Here are the steps for changing the delivered Profile Options:

  1. Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area.
  2. Search for and click the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
  3. Search for and select the ORA_ANC_ADD_ABSENCE_VBCS_UI_ENABLED profile option.
  4. In the Level list, select Site.
  5. Enter Y in the Profile Value field.
  6. Click Save and Close.

Tips And Considerations

The new Redwood absence entry page currently doesn't support the following few features and they will be added in a future release:

  • Ability to enter repeating absences.

  • Display of absence entitlement for absences based on qualification plans.

  • Display of absence type plan balance details and projected balance details.

  • Leave agreement and payment request details.