Oracle Release 12 Features

Features	Module	Release	Details
Allow Transition Initiator to Delete “Pending for Approval” Transactions	SSHR	R12	In Release 12, when a manager or employee submits a transaction for approval in Self- Service Human Resources, no further action is allowed by the initiator while the transaction is pending approval, preventing users from deleting inaccurate transactions. RUP2 introduces a new system profile that, when enabled, allows the initiator of a transaction to delete a transaction at any level in the approval chain while it is pending approval. This feature can be enabled using the new system profile HR:Enable Initiator to Delete a Pending-Approval Transaction. When the profile is set to “Yes,” the initiator of a transaction will be allowed to delete “Pending for Approval” transactions. When the profile is set to "No," the initiator will not be allowed to delete “Pending for Approval” Transactions.
Self-Service Change Pay Rate Functionality	SSHR	RUP2	In RUP2, Change Pay Rate functionality has been enhanced to: Allow multiple pay actions (Create/Update/Delete) as part of one transaction Support Salary Basis change (with option to restrict) Display Employee Pay Change History Propose future base salary changes Update future base salary (where payroll has not been processed) Delete one or more future base salary changes (where payroll has not been processed) Support Quintile, Quartile, Percentile, and Comparatio Display Annual Equivalent, Annual Full Time Equivalent, and Annualization Multiple Display Part time factor, Work Hours, Employee Local Currency, Last Payroll Run Display Peer Averages and Peer History (using secure view) Display amounts in user preferred currency
Look and Feel – “Swan” User Interface	AOL	R12	The new “Swan” user interface (UI) greatly improves the look and feel of the Oracle E-Business Suite, significantly enhancing usability and productivity. The “Swan” UI brings together some of the best UI concepts from Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards applications.
Proxy User	Oracle User Management	12.0.2	Oracle E-Business Suite now allows a user to specify a proxy who can act on their behalf. For example, an executive can designate an assistant as a proxy, allowing that assistant to create, edit or approve transactions on behalf of that executive.
Registration Process Enhancements	Oracle User Management	12.0.2	The Oracle User Management registration process functionality is enhanced to support the following features: • Registration processes for administrative actions (role assignment) can be defined separately from policies relating to self-service requests. • Specific business events or business logic can be invoked for each registration process, as required.
Java Cache Support	AOL	12.0.2	Changes in setup data are immediately visible in all Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) without those JVMs having to be restarted.
Flexfield Segment Additional Where Clause	AOL	12.0.2	An additional WHERE clause can be attached to a flexfield segment to enforce extra validation on that segment beyond the value set.
PL/SQL and Key Flexfield Validated Value Sets	AOL	12.0.2	Two new flexfield value set types are introduced: PL/SQL validated value sets are validated via a PL/SQL procedure, and Key flexfield validated value sets can declaratively reference a key flexfield combination.
Multi-Org Access Control	AOL	R12	In Release 12, Multi-Org Access Control (MOAC) allows a user to access data for different operating units (OUs) in a Multi-Org enabled instance without switching responsibilities. In transaction entry or inquiry user interfaces, a user can either choose an operating unit explicitly, or use another org-sensitive field to derive the operating unit context.
Oracle Applications Framework-Based Request Set Submission UI	AOL	12.0.2	An Oracle Applications Framework-based UI for request set submission is available in this release.
Service Interface	OAF	12.0.2	The service interface is a Java interface that is designed to support both web services and local Java APIs. The service interface provides consistent APIs and error handling behavior across the different application products. Included is support for the new Service Data Object standard to increase interoperability in a Service Oriented Architecture. Service data objects are used to represent business objects in a standardized manner. See the Oracle Integration Repository for more information on how to register and discover services, and optionally configure a service as a public Web service.
Service Tester	OAF	12.0.2	The service tester user interface is used to create unit and integration tests. The tests are recorded in documents as structured XML data. For integration testing, each test file can contain multiple test suites, and each test suite can have multiple test cases. As part of periodic system tests, service tests can be played back from either JDeveloper or from the operating system command line
“Swan” User Interface	OAF	12.0.2	As stated in Section 4, the new “Swan” user interface (UI) greatly improves the look and feel of the Oracle E-Business Suite, significantly enhancing usability and productivity.
Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 3 (10.1.3)	OAF	R12	Release 12 leverages Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 3 (10.1.3). This release of JDeveloper is a J2EE development environment with end-to-end support for modeling, R12 Applications Technology Release Content Document, Rev. 1.0 16 developing, and debugging applications and Web services. Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 3 (10.1.3) allows existing Oracle Application Framework applications and services to be extended, or entirely new applications and services to be built easily.
Personalization Administration	OAF	R12	Release 12 extends the existing command line personalization import/export capabilities with HTML pages included in the Functional Administrator responsibility. The Personalization Document Manager feature also allows you to replicate personalizations across database instances.
Custom Look-and-Feel	OAF	12.0.2	Custom Look-and-Feel (CLAF) gives you the ability to create new looks and feels (skins) to match your organization's web UI standards. You can create a new look and feel (LAF) that makes your E-Business Suite applications look like your corporate web site.Personalized SPEL Bindings SPEL (simple expression) bindings can be used to substitute or override the base SPEL bindings for rendered, required, and read-only properties.
Corporate Branding Image	OAF	12.0.2	Now you can change the corporate branding logo using a profile option: set the profile option "Corporate Branding Image for Oracle Applications" (FND_CORPORATE_BRANDING_IMAGE) to the name of an image file (GIF) that contains your corporate image.
Add More Types of Content to OA Framework Pages	OAF	12.0.2	Admin Personalization now supports the inclusion of more types of content in OA Framework pages. • Add new regions or extend existing regions into pages. • Include external JSP or HTML regions in existing pages. R12 Applications Technology Release Content Document, Rev. 1.0 17 • More item styles are supported for creating new items.
Checklists (Base R12)	Core HR	R12	Checklists allow a customer to set up checklists for common life event processes such as on boarding. Depending on the life event, a checklist is dynamically built (based on eligibility) to comprise a number of associated tasks with target completion dates and designated performers. This feature also integrates with Oracle Approvals Management (AME) to provide task approvals when required. This feature was first released in Human Resources Release 12.
Global Deployments functionality (Base R12)	Core HR	R12	Using the Global Deployments function, HR Professionals can transfer employees permanently or temporarily between business groups. (Temporary transfers are known in HRMS as secondments). Oracle HRMS automatically creates or updates employee in both source and destination business groups when user initiates the transfer. Similarly, R12 HRMS Release Content Document, Rev. 07 82 when a transfer ends, Oracle HRMS automatically updates records in both business groups again. Some setup tasks are necessary before first use of the Global Deployments function. This feature was first released in Human Resources Release 12.
Global People Management	Core HR	R12	This enhancement provide users the flexibility of querying and processing Employee records across business groups in People Management templates irrespective of the business group of the Employees, when using a responsibility with a Global Security profile. But Users should still be able to create new Employees in the current business group attached to the current responsibility. All the actions of the People Management templates will be performed considering the Business group of the Employee being processed, instead of the Business group of the current responsibility.
Use Enhanced Salary Pages	Core HR	RUP1	The Salary Administration form is enhanced and restyled. It is now available in web based forms and provides more functionality and data. There are 3 sub tabs that display ‘Salary History’, all you to ‘Compare to Similar Employees’ and view ‘Salary Market Data’.
Documents of Record	Core HR	FPK	Documents of Record allows the user the ability to define documents required to work within than legislation including work permits, visas, absence notes, passports This feature was first released in Oracle Human Resources Family Pack K.
Search for Terminated Employees (SSHR)	SSHR	FPJ	You can now search for ex-employees/terminated employees when using selected selfservice functions. This enables self-service users to query information for persons with the person type Ex-Employee.
Transaction History Enhancements	SSHR	R12	SSHR now provides comprehensive API' for SS transaction data archive and retrieval. The API's cater for both transaction data archive and approval routing history for all SS transactions in HRMS