Redwood Experience for Areas of Responsibility

Enrich the user experience with the new Areas of Responsibility page developed using the Redwood toolset. The page is built from the ground up using Visual Builder Studio (VBS) to give you a unique experience of Oracle applications.

You can navigate to the new Areas of Responsibility page from Quick Actions pane under the My Client Groups section, Workforce Structures subsection. By default, when you select a user, the new page only lists the active responsibilities assigned to that specific user.

Active Assigned Areas of Responsibility

The new Areas of Responsibility page includes improved keyword search and filtering where:

• Users can filter a worker's responsibilities by responsibility status, start and end dates, usage, and responsibility type.

• Keyword search can also find responsibilities using the partial name for limited scope attributes such as location. 

The new page also enables users to do these things:

• Create a responsibility from scratch.

• Create a responsibility with defaults from a predefined Responsibility Template.

• Reassign one or more AORs from one user to another, effective immediately.

• Delete one or more AORs.

• Identify responsibilities that are active or inactive based on their associated status badge in the search results.

• View responsibilities that cause the person's name to appear as a representative which means when Include or Exclude badges appear under from work contacts.

• View approval status of the corresponding responsibility when Approvals are enabled.

The enhancements on the new Areas of Responsibility page include:

• New faceted searches by responsibility type and usage, from and to date ranges, and responsibility status. 

• Default listing of active areas of responsibility.

• Mark as Inactive option that enables you to inactivate or activate a single responsibility from the responsibility list actions menu.

• Inactive responsibilities are no longer reassigned.
• For human resource specialists, the default behavior is to view seven of the scope attributes which you can change using HCM Experience Design Studio. It’s recommended that you define the attributes on a responsibility template, and they’ll appear automatically on the AOR at the person level.

The Assigned Areas of Responsibility page includes the Add button to create a new responsibility.

1. Click Add.
2. A dialog box appears.
3. Select Add from Template and click Continue.

Add a Responsibility in the Assigned Areas of Responsibility page

After you select the template you plan on using, this defaults to the Basic Info and Responsibility Scope defined in the template.

Add the relevant details and click Submit.

Create responsibility from template

If you prefer to create a new responsibility from scratch, use the Create responsibility option, fill in the appropriate fields, and click Submit. 

Create responsibility from scratch

The new page is built using the Redwood toolset and offers better performance. You can take advantage of the cohesiveness through the application with the new page.

Steps to Enable

In order to work with the new Maintain Areas of Responsibility page, you must first enable the ORA_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED profile option. In addition, check if the ORA_PER_AOR_REDWOOD_ENABLED profile option is also enabled. By default, the profile option is delivered as disabled. If you want to use the Redwood Maintain Areas of Responsibility page, you need to set the profile option to Yes.

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

1. Search for and click the Manage Administrator Profile Values task.
2. Search for and select the profile option:
3. Select the Level as Site.
4. Enter Yes in the Profile Value field.
5. Click Save and Close.

Tips And Considerations

• You can skip using the Visual Builder Studio to customize the user interface if you're using the Responsibility Template to create AORs.
• OTBI analytics are not on the Redwood Areas of Responsibility page.
• Oracle Search is required for person search.
• Many LOVs on this page are case-sensitive, except for template name LOV which is case-insensitive.
• If you have any prior Page Composer modifications, they’ll need to be redefined in the HCM Experience Design Studio's Business Rules. 
• If approvals are enabled for the Manage Areas of Responsibility page, comments, and attachments will be visible to the end-users. 
• Buttons for Reassign and Delete will be enabled only after selecting one or more responsibilities. 
• The responsive Areas of responsibility page will be deprecated in a future release.
• Use Visual Builder Studio to change the scope attribute for hide and show behavior for users with roles other than the Human Resource Specialist job role.
• Users with the Human Resource Specialist job role will be able to view only a limited number of scope attributes displayed out of the box. Customers can copy the seeded business rule and modify it for their personalization requirements.
• The Human Resource Analyst job role gets read-only access to the new Areas of Responsibility page. 

Key Resources

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

• Areas of Responsibility, Using Global Human Resources guide.

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, refer to this feature announcement on the Oracle Help Center.

• Extending HCM Redwood Pages Using Visual Builder Studio (VBS).

Access Requirements

You must be granted the Human Resource Specialist, or Human Resource Analyst function privilege to work on Areas of Responsibility.