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Let’s Talk Tech

Join our Cloud HCM Center of Excellence team for an exciting new series to talk about technology! You will get to
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and best practices.

Date Day Time Title

Ready for Redwood: Introducing Defaulting and Validations for Redwood with VB
5/24/24 Friday* 9.00 AM PT*
Express Mode in Cloud HCM
Ready for Redwood: Introducing Defaulting and Validations for Redwood with VB
6/4/24 Tuesday 9.00 AM UTC
Express Mode in Cloud HCM
6/14/24 Friday 9.00 AM PT Ready for Redwood: Personalization Helper Tool

6/28/24 Friday 9.00 AM PT Let's Talk Tech: HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader (HSDL) for Oracle Learning Use Cases

Also watch out for the repeat sessions in EMEA/APAC for all Redwood Topics

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Introducing Defaulting and
Validations for Redwood with
Express Mode in Cloud HCM
Hosted by Oracle Cloud HCM Center of Excellence Featured Speakers
- Product Development
Jagannath Vasudevan
Vice President, Product Management
Aarti Satyamurthy
HCM Cloud Services Director, HCM CoE

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Agenda
• Transitioning from Autocomplete Rules to Business Rules

• Business Rules Overview

• Demo – Introduction to Defaulting and Validation in

Business Rules

• Comparison – Autocomplete vs Business Rules

• Roadmap

• Takeaways

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Transitioning from Autocomplete
Rules to Business Rules

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 BUSINESS RULES IN EXPRESS MODE - DEFAULT AND VALIDATE FIELD VALUES (24B)

Will Autocomplete Rules Work in Redwood Pages?

Transitioning from Autocomplete Rules to Business Rules

✓ Starting 24B, for customers with approved autocomplete use cases:

• The validation rules with error from Autocompletes Rules will continue to work in the Redwood pages for Change Assignment
and Correct Employment Details pages. This should not require modification in existing rules.
• All rules for all other pages built on the underlying business objects for this page must be disabled when you enable the Redwood
page. Note that disabling rules on a business object will disable Autocomplete for both the Redwood and Responsive pages.
• Approval process for Autocomplete Rules stays unchanged in 24B.
• No use case submission for Redwood in 24B

✗ Defaulting and validation rules with warning won’t be supported.

• All rules for all other pages built on the underlying business objects for this page must be disabled when you enable the Redwood
page.
• Rule must be moved to Business Rules Express Mode.

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Business Rules Overview

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BUSINESS RULES IN EXPRESS MODE - DEFAULT AND VALIDATE FIELD VALUES (24B)

What’s New in 24B?

Business Rules in Express Mode

The new capabilities to default and validate field

values, enabled for a defined list of pages, help you
to:
• Ensure the quality and consistency of your
valuable HR data by validating your user
entries.
• Streamline your user experience and reduce
time to execute tasks by defaulting data
entries.
• Allow your organizations to adjust quickly with
HR compliance without relying on new release
updates.

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Introducing New Capability in Express Mode Business Rules

Control the display of regions and fields,
Express Mode in VB Studio default & validate field values, control UI
elements behavior on a Redwood page.

Configure Fields and Regions

Control the display of regions and fields,
default field values on a Redwood page.

Create rules per country, business unit, legal

employer, and many more criteria to
conditionally make regions and fields required
or optional, show or hide regions and field,
make fields read-only, and default field values.

Validate Fields Values

Conditionally validate field values (error and
warning) on a Redwood page.

Page Properties
Previously named constants.

Additional Person Info Redwood Page

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 Additional Person Info

BUSINESS RULES IN EXPRESS MODE - DEFAULT AND VALIDATE FIELD VALUES (24B)

Pages supported in 24B

You can now enhance your users' experience by authoring defaulting and validation
rules (error and warning) in Business Rules for a defined list of pages, regions, and
fields in Redwood pages:
Departments
• Additional Person Info
• Departments
• Change Assignment for the following regions only:
• When and Why

• Assignment

• Additional Assignment Info

• Salary

• Correct Employment Details for accessible from Employment Info supporting the
same capabilities and regions as for Change Assignment

Change Assignment and Correct Assignment Change

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 Demo
• Default Salary Basis based on Full Time or Part Time
• Validate Salary Basis based on Full Time or Part Time (from Autocomplete Rules)
• Validate (warning) Working Hours based on Full Time or Part Time

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Typical Use Cases Covered in 24B

Introducing New Capability in Express Mode

Change Assignment and Correct Assignment Details Additional Person Info (EFFs)
• When and Why Section • Default start date of a section with current application
date and prevent users from entering an earlier date.
• Default action reason based on action. • Default a segment based on another segment of the same
• Assignment Section context
• Validate the format of a segment to be alphanumeric and
• Default Regular or Temporary and Full Time or Part is exactly composed of 11 characters.
Time based on assignment category field.
• Additional Assignment Info (EFFs) Section Departments
• Default or validate Assignment EFF data against • Prevent special characters in the department name
existing data in the same single row EFF context.
• Default Internal Address Line based on DFF value
• Salary
• Enforce valid combinations of department name &
• Default or validate proposed salary basis based on Full department descriptive flexfield segments
Time or Part Time status or Salaried or Hourly value or
other assignment attributes.

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Introducing New Capability in Express Mode

From Business Rules, the 2 new features are visible under

Value Property in Configure Fields and Regions Validate Field Values

IMPORTANT: Though these 2 features are visible for all HCM Redwood pages in Business Rules, yet only the 4 pages listed
above are supported in this release.
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Not Intended to Solve These Use Cases

Default and Validation in Business Rules is not intended for

• Restricting values in a list of values
• Forcing a user to visit a region
• Scanning the full data base to check uniqueness. It’s always in the context of one person, position, job…

Default and Validation in Business Rules is temporarily not intended for

• Default and validate data in the backend (REST, HDL)

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Comparison
Autocomplete vs Business Rules

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Comparison – Autocomplete Rules vs Business Rules

Capability Autocomplete Rules Business Rules
A rule applies • At the object level • At the page level
• UI, REST, and integration • UI only

A single rule can • Impacts only one region at a time • Impacts multiple regions at a time
• Only validate or default a field value based • Both, control the display of a field
on the 4 rule types (make a field required, hidden, or
read-only) and default a value

Defaulting and validation • Based on events such as object creation, • When all the conditions are
rules trigger tabbing out of a field, and so on satisfied

Authoring conditions • Condition blocks • Nested Rules or condition blocks

using Advanced Expression

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Comparison – Rule design

In Autocomplete Rules, all conditions, In Business Rules, conditions for when a rule applies is included
whether simple or nested, are written as in the Conditions (1). These combine to return a simple true or
one block within the rule editor false. The remaining conditions that define the effect (2)
(Required, Hidden, Read Only, and so on) are linked to specific
fields.

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Roadmap

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 Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Roadmap

Business Rules in Express Mode

Update 24B Upcoming 24C Future (Long Term)
SUPPORTED HCM REDWOOD PAGES SUPPORTED HCM REDWOOD PAGES SUPPORTED HCM REDWOOD PAGES
• Additional Person Info • More pages to support defaulting and validation • 100% of the Redwood pages support full capabilities of
• Departments Business Rules
• Change Assignment BUSINESS RULES EXPRESS MODE
• Correct Assignment Details • Build simple to complex conditions or rule logic based on BUSINESS RULES EXPRESS MODE
fields outside of the page or indirect attributes like position • 100% of the Autocomplete Rules capabilities, and beyond,
BUSINESS RULES EXPRESS MODE name, job name,…, in Change Assignment including UI and integration
• Default and validate field values for supported fields including • Build complex conditions and rules logic to access multiple
descriptive and extensible flexfields records and/or cross data validation AUTOCOMPLETE RULES IN REDWOOD PAGES
• Build simple to complex conditions or rule logic based on • Enhance overall experience to author rules: select single value • Full transition to Business Rules
fields and direct attributes that are part of the page from list of values, use functions (without the need of JS)
• Access initial value (old/new in Autocomplete Rules)
• Functions for data transformation (substring, day of,…) using AUTOCOMPLETE RULES IN REDWOOD PAGES
JS (JavaScript) • Validation with error for all business objects
• Remaining HCM Params
AUTOCOMPLETE RULES IN REDWOOD PAGES
• Validation with error for some business objects in Change
Assignment and Correct Employment Details
• HCM Params for the supported pages in this release
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Takeaways
• Upcoming deep dive sessions – Stay tuned
• Connect on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect Visual Builder for HCM forum | Link
• 24C What’s New – published on Jun 7th

We recommend you refer to the following documentation:

• Express Mode in VB Studio (24B) for detailed instructions on using specific Business Rules in Express Mode features.
• Extending HCM Redwood Applications Using VB Studio (24B) for the details on what’s supported by HCM
• 24B What’s New Monthly Update under HCM Common - Default and Validate Field Values in HCM Redwood
Applications Using Business Rules in Express Mode

Note: No approval process will be required in 24B for Business Rules as long as implementation guidelines are strictly followed.

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