Business Object Enhancements

Extend your data loading capabilities with these enhanced business objects:

NEW BUSINESS OBJECTS

Celebrate

Celebration (Celebration.dat)

Component Description
Celebration A structured record of acknowledgments within an organization, designed to capture both peer-to-peer recognitions and awards from management. It serves as a comprehensive repository for tracking and managing all forms of employee recognition, fostering a culture of appreciation and motivation.

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Global HR - Worker

Employment Action (EmploymentAction.dat)

Component Description
Employment Action An Employment Action is used to cancel work relationships and to record additional information about that action in extensible flexfields.
  • Employment Action Extra Information
 Employment Action Extra Information is used to record additional information about Employment Actions using extensible flexfields.

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Global Payroll - Calculation Information

Values Defined by Criteria (ValuesDefinedByCriteria.dat)

Component Description
Values Defined By Criteria A calculation value defined by criteria that defines how a value is calculated in payroll processing using range items, calculation types, and values that can be entered or overridden on calculation cards.
  • Criteria Details
 Defines the criteria, including the name and type, such as the location of an employee.
  • Literal Values for Criteria
 The value for the criteria. For example, when the criteria is based on an employee's location, the literal value could be New York City.
  • Value Details
 The definition of the value, including the name used to identify the value, such as Bonus.
  • Calculation Values
 The value for each criteria, including the type of calculation and the value, such as 500 USD.

The Values Defined By Criteria object hierarchy is supported by these new translation objects:

Translation Object Description

Values Defined by Criteria Translation (ValuesDefinedByCriteriaTranslation.dat)

 Translation records for Payroll Values Defined By Criteria.
Criteria Details Translation (CriteriaTranslation.dat) Translation records for Criteria Details
Value Details Translation (ValueDetailsTranslation.dat) Translation records for Value Details

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UPDATED BUSINESS OBJECTS

Recruiting

Candidate (Candidate.dat)

The Candidate object hierarchy has introduced a new component:

Component Description
Candidate Citizenship The state or nation to which the candidate belongs, is a native of, or a naturalized member.

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Payroll Localization - United States

Tax Withholding (TaxWithholding.dat)

This object has been restructured to provide new objects in the hierarchy for each change to a Tax Withholding component. For example, fields have been added, removed, labels updated, list of values changed, attribute default changes etc. 

Attributes previously on components such as Federal Taxes are moved to dated child components. For example, Federal Taxes Base, Federal Taxes 2020, and Federal Taxes 2023. This results in 160 new components to the object hierarchy.

Refer to the HCM Data Loader Enhancement for US Tax Withholding What's New in the Payroll for the United States area for more information. 

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Talent Management

Common Note (CommonNote.dat)

You can now create records with the common note object.

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Content Item (ContentItem.dat)

A new component has been added to the object hierarchy:

Component Description
Content Item Classification The classification for a content item, to maintain a targeted and relevant library of skills.

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BUSINESS OBJECTS WITH NEW ATTRIBUTES

Talent Management

Common Note (CommonNote.dat)

Component New Attributes
Common Note
  • AuthorId
  • AuthorPersonNumber
  • NoteCode
  • ObjectId
  • WorkerPersonNumber

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Content Item (ContentItem.dat)

Components New Attributes
Content Item
  • DomainCode

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Talent Management

Talent Review Meeting (TalentReviewMeeting.dat)

Component New Attributes
Talent Review Meeting
  • CalendarInvitationDetails
  • EnableCalendarInvite
  • MeetingLocation
  • MeetingStartDate
  • MeetingEndDate

Workforce Management

Workload Plan (WorkloadPlan.dat)

Component New Attributes
Workload Plan
  • MondayFlag
  • TuesdayFlag
  • WednesdayFlag
  • ThursdayFlag
  • FridayFlag
  • SaturdayFlag
  • SundayFlag

Use the View Business Objects task to review and download the latest business object information.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

Additional guidelines and examples are available in the HCM Data Loader Business Objects guide.