One of your ideas has been delivered from your suggestion.Redwood Experience for Create and Duplicate Departments

Enrich the user experience with the new Departments create and duplicate pages developed using the Redwood toolset. The pages are built from the ground up using Visual Builder Studio (VBS) to give you a unique experience of Oracle applications.

Create a Department

Here’s how you can create a department in Redwood: My Client Groups > Show More > Under the Workforce Structures section, click the Departments option.

On the Departments search page, click Add Department.

Departments Search Page

Departments Search Page

On the New Department page, enter the details as required and click Submit to create a new department.

New Department Page

New Department Page

Duplicate a Department

You can duplicate an existing department. On the Departments search page, search for and click the department that you want to duplicate. Click the Duplicate option in the Actions drop-down menu on the read-only department page.

Department Read-Only Page with Duplicate Action

Department Read-Only Page with Duplicate Action

A New Department page is displayed, with the status, department set, and location already copied from the existing department. The title, action reason, name, and attachments aren’t copied. Enter the other details as required and click Submit to create the duplicate department.

Duplicate Department Showing Copied Fields

Duplicate Department Showing Copied Fields

The new pages offer fewer clicks and better performance. By using these new pages or flows, you can take advantage of the cohesiveness through the application.

Steps to Enable

To use the Redwood Departments pages, you must first enable the following profile options. They're all disabled by default.

Profile Option

Set the profile value at Site level as

ORA_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED

                           Y

HRC_ELASTIC_SEARCH_ENABLED

                           Y

ORA_PER_ORACLE_SEARCH_DEPARTMENTSLOV_ENABLED

                           Y

ORA_PER_DEPARTMENTS_REDWOOD_ENABLED

                          Yes

To enable the profile options, navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area:

  1. Search for and click the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
  2. Search for and select each of the profile options listed in the table one by one.
  3. Select the Level as Site.
  4. In the Profile Value field, enter Yes or Y, whichever is applicable as described in the table.
  5. Click Save and Close.

After enabling the profile options, you must run the following processes from the Scheduled Processes page in the same order as listed in the table. Run each process only after the successful completion of the previous process.

Job Name

Parameter Name

Parameter Value

ESS job to create index definition and perform initial ingest to OSCS        

Index Name to Reingest

fa-hcm-organization

ESS job to create index definition and perform initial ingest to OSCS        

Index Name to Reingest

fa-hcm-acl

Compute Users ACL        

User Population

All users

If they are not scheduled yet, schedule the following processes to run regularly as described here.

Job Name

Parameter Name

Parameter Value

 Frequency

Compute Users ACL by Event

    

Every 15 - 60 minutes

Compute Users ACL

User Population

Logged in users

Every 30 - 120 minutes

NOTE: Refer to the What's New for Departments List of Values Enhanced by Oracle Search in Update 23B under HCM Common Features. When Oracle Search is enabled, the Departments List of Values (LoV) search is also automatically enabled.

Tips And Considerations

  • Guided journeys are supported.

  • If the Default Effective Start Date in the Workforce Structures Configuration at the enterprise is provided, this value is used for the effective start date while creating a new department. This doesn't apply when you are duplicating a department.

  • To receive notifications for any changes done in the departments Redwood pages, you need to reconfigure any previously customized BIP notifications for departments.  

  • To display the flexfields on the Redwood page, you need to refresh and deploy them again.

  • You can personalize the Redwood pages by using Visual Builder Studio (VBS). You need to personalize the Edit, Create, Duplicate, and read-only pages individually.

  • If you have personalized any of the existing ADF pages, you need to personalize them again in Redwood.

  • This feature will be implemented in future releases: 

    • Parameters for descriptive flexfields (DFF) and extensible flexfields (EFF).

Key Resources

For more information, refer to these resources on the Oracle Help Center.

  • Divisions, Departments, Worker Unions, Locations, and Trees chapter, Implementing Global Human Resources guide, Cloud Human Resources

For a listing of all profile options for the recreated pages across applications, see the following document in My Oracle Support:

  • HCM Redwood Pages with Profile Options – MOS Document - 2922407.1

For more information on extending Redwood pages in HCM, see the following feature in Update 23D:

Access Requirements

Access to the new Redwood Create and Duplicate Departments pages is controlled using the same security privileges that control access to the responsive Create and Duplicate Departments pages.

For information on existing security privileges, refer to this resource on the Oracle Help Center.

  • Security Reference for HCM guide, Cloud HCM