Financials 11i: Oracle HRMS Technical Foundation Human Resources

Course Overview

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, HRMS Forms Configurator, and FastFormula, which are critical to successful support, conversion, and implementation tasks when extensions are required.

Course Outline

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

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 and the generic Payroll Interface Kit

Extending validation with API User Hooks: hook conventions and restrictions

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

Extending HRMS with FastFormula Defining FastFormula functionscomponents

• Considerations for creating database items
• Examining the FastFormula Application Dictionary

Calling FastFormula from PL/SQL

• Setup
• Understanding formula requirements, framework, and engine calls and processes
• Designing formula calls

Financials 11i: Oracle HRMS Technical Foundation Human Resources / OF11-TF