Redwood: Private Goals

If your administrator has enabled the creation of private performance and development goals, you can create them. These private goals won’t be visible to others. If you are still planning your goal, you can create it as a private goal and later clear their private status.

To make a goal a private goal, select the Private goal checkbox.

New Goal page with the Private goal check box highlighted

Private Goal

You can easily identify the private goals by their Private label when you view the goals on the Performance or Development tab of your Goals Center.

Private label highlighted on the Performance tab of the My Goals page

Private Goal Indicator on the Performance Tab of the My Goals Page

When you view the goal details, you can easily identify that the goal is a private goal by its Private Goal label.

Private Goal Indicator highlighted on the header of the Goal Details page

Private Goal Indicator on the Goal Details Page

Private goals aren’t submitted for approval. They aren’t considered for the goal counts displayed on the Team Goals Center. Note that you can’t edit a nonprivate goal and make it private. When adding a shared goal, you can’t make the goal private.

These considerations apply to private performance goals:

  • You can’t add weights for private goals.
  • They aren’t considered when computing the total weight of goals in a goal plan.
  • They aren’t considered when determining the count of goals in a goal plan that has a maximum goals count or minimum goal count specified.
  • They aren’t included in the Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) reports of your HR specialists or managers.
  • You can do only these actions on a private goal:
    • Copy
    • Move
    • Extend
    • Cancel
    • Delete
  • You can’t do these actions on a private goal:
    • Share
    • Assign
    • Align
    • Request Feedback
  • You can clear the private setting of a goal. But if the goal plan enforces that the sum of the goal weights must be 100 and if the total weight of the goals in the goal plan is already 100, you won’t be allowed to do so if you specify a weight for the goal. You need to retain the goal weight as 0 if you want to make it nonprivate. After you make the goal nonprivate, if approvals are enabled, then the goal will be submitted for approval.

These considerations apply to private development goals:

  • You can do only these actions on a private goal:
    • Copy
    • Make Inactive
    • Delete
  • You can’t do these actions on a private goal:
    • Share
    • Assign
  • You can clear the private setting of a goal.

Streamline your goal setting process by allowing employees to create private goals that will enhance their performance.

Steps to Enable

To enable Redwood Goals Center, you need to enable the profile options indicated in the table.

Profile Option Code

Profile Option Display Name

 Value

ORA_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED

Enable VBCS Progressive Web Application User Interface

Y

ORA_HRA_PERFORMANCE_DOCUMENTS_AND_GOALS_REDWOOD_ENABLED

Enable Redwood Performance Documents and Goals Center

 Yes

NOTE: The Performance Document, Check-in, and Goals Center features are closely connected. So, the Redwood version of these pages can all be enabled or disabled only using the common ORA_HRA_PERFORMANCE_DOCUMENTS_AND_GOALS_REDWOOD_ENABLED profile option. These features can't be enabled individually.

For more information about setting profile option values, see the Set Profile Option Values topic in the Implementing Applications guide on Oracle Help Center.

To enable making a performance or development goal private, administrators need to configure the Private field in Visual Builder Studio and set its Hidden property to Visible.

Tips And Considerations

  • You can't add a private goal after a goal plan has the specified maximum number of goals.
  • You can’t upload a private goal using HCM Data Loader.
  • The Manage Private Goals approval subprocess in the transaction console won’t apply to private goals in Redwood Goals Center.

Key Resources

For more information on extending Redwood pages in HCM, refer to this guide on the Oracle Help Center: