Considerations for Review Periods

You can create review periods whenever you want to, and later associate them with goal plans, goal plan sets (if enabled), and performance documents.

These considerations apply for review periods:

• If a review period is in use, then you can't modify its start and end dates.
• You can set the status of a review period to active or inactive any time. The business objects already associated with a review period that you make inactive continue to use the review period. But HR specialists can’t see an inactive review period when creating a business object, such as a goal plan, goal plan set, or performance document.
• You can hide inactive review periods in all employees and managers responsive pages. You need to set the Display Inactive Review Periods (ORA_HRT_DISPLAY_INACTIVE_REVIEW_PERIODS) profile option to No. But remember that HR specialists will continue to see inactive review periods regardless of the profile option value.
• You can delete review periods that aren't in use.