11i Oracle HRMS Technical Foundation Human Resources

This course presents HRMS architecture, security features and fundamentals, including DateTrack. Participants will learn about the aspects of HRMS that can be configured and extended by technical implementers and support personnel. Also covered are HRMS features, such as User Hooks and HRMS Forms Configurator which are critical to successful support, conversion, and implementation tasks when extensions are required.

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Audience

• Project Manager

Course Topics Considering Applications and HRMS Architecture

• Identifying Oracle HRMS applications
• Identifying HRMS naming conventions
• Recognizing HRMS database objects
• Identifying legislative components, tables, and views in HRMS

Reviewing Applications security model and HRMS customer needs

• Restricting what people see
• Security capabilities
• Using security tools

Understanding DateTrack and dated entities

• DateTrack terminology
• DateTrack modes
• Controlling DateTrack access

Recognizing HRMSi and eBusiness Intelligence

• Main HRMSi components
• HRMS online transaction processing (OLTP)) and relational data
• HRMSi Discoverer workbooks and End User Layer
• Business Views
• Core HRMS setup for HRMSi reports
• Data Warehouse components of HRMSi

Identifying HRMS interfaces with Oracle Applications

• Recognizing shared entities
• Considering configuration options and HR development direction

Tracking personal data

• Following basic HRMS processes and data
• Relating people, work structures, and compensation

Examining structures for extending data: flexfields and other information types

• Key flexfields in HRMS
• Descriptive flexfields
• Other flexfields: protected, soft-coded legislative, developer
• SIT and EIT: where available and how to configure

Introducing performance topics, such as Cost-Based Optimizer Understanding HRMS globalization features

• Multiple language support
• Profiles in a global implementation
• Currency, including the Euro as a functional currency
• Language, localizations, applications, and character sets
• Business groups and data partitions

Identifying the HRMS Business process approach

• Understanding API parameters
• Processing with APIs

Running Data Pump and APIs

• Setting up Data Pump
• Examining Data Pump processes

Considering Mass Information eXchange (MIX) interface utilities

• Batch element entry (BEE)
• System data extract

Recognizing Application Technology group (ATG) data loading tools Discussing Payroll interfaces and the generic Payroll Interface Kit Understanding and using Application Data Exchange (ADE)

• Installing and configuring ADE
• Using ADE options and styles
• Running and troubleshooting ADE

Understanding extension restrictions Using Custom library with Oracle applications: Common and HRMS-specific event points Extending validation with API User Hooks: hook conventions and restrictions

• Implementing hooked code
• Registering user hooked code with the preprocessor

Extending HRMS Examining database item components

• Considerations for creating database items

Management templates & Extending HRMS security with the custom WHERE clause in security profiles Using Forms Configurator and People
Course Objectives

• Use HRMS extension features, such as APIs, User Hooks, Extra Information Types
• Use Mass Information Exchange features, such as Batch Element Entry, and consider the Data Extract as an interface option
• Describe basic Oracle HRMS architecture, including database objects, HRMS products and components, and security features
• Describe eBusiness Intelligence components and how they transform OLTP data
• Identify fundamental HRMS data and processes, including entities and their relations
• Identify where HRMS business rules can be configured or extended, including custom business rules, extra validation, and configured processes and entities
• Explain DateTrack features and their impact on users, data integrity, and extensions
• Discuss delivered configuration entities and features, including HRMS-specific flexfields
• Discuss delivered interface options, including the Generic Payroll Interface Kit
• Configure People Management templates with HRMS Forms Configurator
• Extend Security Profile definitions using a Custom WHERE clause
• Identify application data exchange (ADE) modes, options, and usage
• Identify basic HRMS data and processes, including the corresponding entities and relations
• Describe HRMS integration with other Oracle Applications, including Shared and Full installation considerations
• Use HRMS extension features, such Custom Library, and the Application Dictionary for Database Items and Formulas