Redwood: CKEditor Support for Goal Comments and Description Fields

If your administrator has enabled this feature, you can leverage CKEditor's styling options and enhance the content of these fields:

  • Success criteria
  • Goal long description
  • Goal progress notes
  • Goal comments

Edit Goal page with the Success criteria and Comments fields highlighted

CKEditor Options in Success criteria and Comments Fields

These features of CKEditor are available by default:

  • Styles formatting: Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough
  • Bulleted and Numbered lists
  • Text Alignment
  • Increasing and decreasing indent
  • Font family
  • Font style
  • Font size
  • Font color
  • Headings
  • Undo or Redo
  • Web resource linking

These features of CKEditor are hidden by default:

  • Font background color
  • Inline editing
  • Horizontal line
  • Superscript and subscript
  • General HTML Support

Enhance your goal descriptions and other goal text fields and make your goals clearer. Copy-paste text from word processor documents and easily specify your goal’s details.

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.

Use Visual Builder Studio to show the Long Description field. Click the Configure Fields and Region button on the Create/Edit Performance Goal Details and Create/Edit Development Goal Details pages. Create a regular form rule and set the Hidden property of the Long Description field to Visible. 

Use these page properties of the in Visual Builder Studio to specify the formatting options that you want to be available for your users:

  • Control Text Formatting Options for Success Criteria, Comments, and Long Description: Create/Edit Performance Goal Details and Create/Edit Development Goal Details pages
  • Control Text Formatting Options for Goal Progress: View Performance Goal Details and View Development Goal Details pages

The text formatting options include bold, underline, italic, strikethrough, alignment, bulletedList, numberedList, outdent, indent, fontFamily, heading, fontColor, fontBackgroundColor, fontSize, generalHtmlSupport, removeFormat, horizontalLine, superscript, subscript, link, undo, and redo. Use the comma as separator to display many options. Leave the page property blank to render only the default options.

Key Resources

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