HDL – Query to Extract Business Object Attributes List If you’ve ever worked with HCM Data Loader (HDL), you’ll know how useful the Business Objects reference page is in the UI — it shows you the Name, METADATA Attribute, Data Type, Key Type, Required, Lookup, and Description for every attribute of a business object (see…
Post refresh, the attachments from source environment gets copied to target environment. For data security, it is highly recommended to purge the attachments in lower environments. Oracle’s standard data masking feature doesn’t remove any attachments from the UCM. In order to overcome this problem, I have created a BIP report which will pull details of…
There are many legislative required attributes defined against location object in HCM. These attributes are setup as EFF in Oracle fusion. These EFF attributes are protected against any updates. One of the requirements is to bulk upload data against these EFF attributes and HDL can be used for this. Below is a sample HDL to…
For US legislation, Reporting Information calculation card is mandatory calculation card. CalculationCard.dat HDL is used to upload the Calculation Component Details: In this example, we will prepare a sample HDL file to upload “Corporate Officer” component value and set it to “Not a Corporate Officer”. To create a calculation component details, below three Metadata’s should…
Whenever doing mass upload of participants in a performance document, there may be a need to send a notification message to the participants. To load participants, you need to use PerfDocComplete -> Participant business object. However, if the data is loaded without using “Message” attribute in Participant business object, no message will be sent to…
gpg –import fusion-key_pub.asc gpg –cipher-algo AES-256 -r fusion-key –encrypt JobFamily_userKeys.zip ** You can use any other folder as well. Just you need to point to the right directory. Encrypted File Name – JobFamily_userKeys.zip.gpg
There are scenario’s where customers want to convert their non permanent staff to permanent staff in bulk or vice versa. In HCM terminology, this causes changes in system person type of a person. Let us take an example where a customer wants to hire all the contingent workers working in the company as permanent staff….
Sample file to upload/update/correct DFF values on department using User Keys:
Below is an example of updating assignment category using only user keys: If you want to use surrogate IDs/ integration keys, then you can check the below post:
Sample file to load licenses and certifications to employee profile: Sample useful queries: Query to get source system ID and owner details for existing profiles: Query to get profile id for a worker:
With the security concerns regarding access to Oracle HCM applications, I have seen many customers asking for a way to restrict access to a particular DEV/TEST environment having unmasked data. One option in such scenario’s is to keep only the admin user accounts active in the particular environment and deactivate all other user accounts. This…
In order to load person profile items, a person should have a profile code. There are two ways to create the profile code for a person record. It is advisable to load profile codes in bulk as part of data migration using HDL. But there are cases where a user will click on Talent Profile…
All recurring element entires are loaded/ created with an effective end date of 31-Dec-4712. But I have seen scenarios, where the business have requirements to end date an element entry as of a certain date. To achieve this in Bulk, one can use ElementEntry.dat HDL business object. Let us take an example, where an employee…
File for Grade Name change: File for Grade Step Name change: Save the files as Grade.dat and upload them.
There can multiple grades assigned as Valid grade at Position level or Job level. However, there is no direct way to end date the valid grades in bulk. You can end date a valid grade from responsive UI. But it will be a lot of manual effort. You can search for Position and then navigate…
To bulk upload items catalogs in HCM profiles, you can use ContentItem.dat. Each of the template have certain mandatory attributes like Context Name, Value Set Name or Value Set Id: S0, before you start preparing the file, you need to have below information handy: The values 3000122xxxxx aren’t valid for ContentItemValueSetId. You can get the…
In this article, I will talk about affect of using SET PURGE_FUTURE_CHANGES in HCM Data Loader file. HCM use date tracked functionality for most of the objects in HCM, be it work structures, worker or payroll related objects. I have seen many scenarios, where I had to go in past and make an update on…
Absence reasons can be loaded in BULK using AbsenceReason.dat. BaseName is a mandatory attribute in the file. If BaseName is not passed, user get below error: BaseName has to be provided in UPPER CASE concatenated with an underscore (_) and legislation code. Example: TEST ABSENCE REASON_US If the above format is not followed, HDL throws…
HCM Data Loader supports bulk uploading for Agents for Oracle recruiting cloud. Currently, there is no HDL support for loading Agencies. And idea is already submitted for same: https://community.oracle.com/customerconnect/discussion/666039/hcm-data-loader-support-for-loading-agencies-in-recruiting-cloud#latest Coming to Agents bulk upload, you can used below HDL:
There are scenarios when we want to delete a future dated row from an object. Please note that for objects like Positions/Locations etc which are date tracked, one can make use of HDL with SET command to delete the future dated row. Let us take an example, where we have below data on Position: Position…
