Redwood Experience for Create and Duplicate Locations

Enrich the user experience with the new Locations 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 Location

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

On the Locations search page, click the Add Location button.

Locations Search Page in Redwood

Locations Search Page

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

New Location page in Redwood

New Location Page

Duplicate a Location

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

Location read-only page with Duplicate action in Redwood

Location Read-Only Page with Duplicate Action

A New Location page is displayed. The location set, additional info, and legislative info are copied from the existing location to the new one. The action reason, name, and attachments aren’t copied. Enter the other details as required and click Submit to create the duplicate location.

Duplicate Location page showing copied fields in Redwood

Duplicate Location Page Showing Copied Fields

Duplicate Location page Showing copied fields for Additional Info in Redwood

Duplicate Location Page Showing Copied Fields for Additional Info 

The new pages offer a fewer number of 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 Locations 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_LOCATIONSLOV_ENABLED

                           Y

ORA_PER_LOCATIONS_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-location

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 Locations List of Values Enhanced by Oracle Search in Update 23B under HCM Common Features. When Oracle Search is enabled, the Locations 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 location. This doesn't apply when you are duplicating a location.

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

  • 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 Locations pages is controlled using the same security privileges that control access to the responsive Create and Duplicate Locations pages.

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

  • Security Reference for HCM guide, Cloud HCM