Changes in 5.5.0 (July 2019, v7405)
Green items are new features.
1. Manual post-install step (required since October 2018):
- Applies to all customers. Please ensure that you have scheduled the License Management concurrent program to run on a daily basis. Failure to do so may result in users getting blocked from accessing the application. Please refer to this article for more information.
2. Manual post-install step (required since April 2017):
- Applies to Self Service HR customers. A change in the use of Google Maps service means that an API key is now required to show maps. A new XXAS: Google Maps API Key profile option has now been delivered to allow the setting of the google maps API key. Please refer to this article for more information.
Platform:
- This patch includes Applaud version 5, which has been released under General Availability since June 2019 and in public beta prior to that. You may use this in your production systems. See here to learn more about the many improvements.
- Improved the display of the global search and in-list search so that the user can clear text & cancel the search; also tweaked the transitions and animations
- Forms can now contain steppers: a series of steps where each one contains it's own set of fields
- The search for the assignment list block can now be configured off with a &pAllowSearch=N parameter.
- You can now specify the alpha transparency of a block by adding a &pTransparency= that accepts a value between 1 (opaque, default) and 0 (fully transparent). For example, 0.5 gives 50% transparency.
- Date picker restrictions are now enforced when manually typing in the date
- Refresh-on-change events are now end-user blocking by default (this was incorrectly reverted in the June patch)
- Fixes an issue in the Faceted Search Crawler when job or other work structure data exceeds 255 bytes.
- Ensures that the text color for advert blocks is honored
- Corrects an issue where hyperlink colors in the theme are not respected in HTML blocks
- Improved the display of multirow fields in a form when it has many columns
- Resolves an issue when connecting to certain hosts on a MDM-packaged native app
- The bulk selection label on notifications has been changed from "n notifications" to "n items."
- Removed the old OAF-based absence calendar from the seeded Applaud responsibilities
- Fixes an issue where the password 'eye' reveal icon and keychain icon overlap in Safari
- Allows the burger bar to be more easily pressed when it has a badge on it
- Replaced hard-coded English text on the vacation rules page with translated equivalents
- Corrects a "ORA-00001: unique constraint (APPLSYS.FND_MENU_ENTRIES_U1) violated" error when running autosetup
- Auto-close the soft keyboard when running a search
- Ensure that the back button uses the page label, not its Id
- Ensure that refresh-on-change fires when the value of date fields is copy/pasted
- Ensures that when a change is made, only the page is refreshed not the entire app
- Fixes an issue with the month names when using the date picker in Arabic
- Ensures that no results search text is only shown when the search has finished executing
- Corrects the position of an anchored page title when a page has no context header or subnav
- Improves the display of the SSO sign in pages when signing into SSO via the native app
- Fixes a race condition that caused performance issues for forms that have a refresh-on-change on a date field
- Resolves an issue where the form submit button isn't displayed in a single-block modal window when that page has other actions
- Corrects an issue with the default item display when resetting the sort order on lists
- Fixes an issue with delayed text rendering when typing in a text input for certain forms
- Fixes the display of quick links or mini-grid in a 2-column block on Internet Explorer
- Resolved an issue that prevented push notifications from working on Android on older builds
- Fixes an encoding issue when using special characters such as % in search inputs
- Tweaked the mouse cursor when hovering over read-only form fields in a list item
- Ensure that you can use the month and year drop-downs in the calendar date-picker on mobile
- Corrected the display of the selected state for subnav items that have children
- Darkened the text of the rich text editor so it matches all other inputs
- Search facet values are now in alphabetical order
- Fixed the date picker and calendar so that they correctly show in all supported languages
- Ensures the minimum date validations are respected in the end date field of a Date Range
Self Service HR:
- Special Information Types now display custom validation errors coded in FND_FLEX_PLSQL
- Fixes an issue where custom absence validation messages where getting shown as oops errors in the older 11i version of the workflow
- Corrects an issue where the payslip was picking up the wrong template when multiple templates exist for different languages
- Corrected the styling of inputs on the sort order and list select action so that they're consistent with all other form fields
- Fixed an issue that prevented Google Maps from showing on addresses
- Corrects an issue saving absence attachments when the absence auto-approves
- Resolves an issue with the labelling of some calendar entries after they've been changed
- Resolves the styling of calendar items using the 'positive' neutral color
- Fixed an issue where deselected items stopped showing after the selected ones were actioned
Time & Payments:
- A view is available to configure that shows the history of an individual log entry
- New PLSQL APIs are available to enable data feeds from external time-clock devices
- You can now use the Mass Time Edit screen when using Applaud Time & Payments connected to OTL
- Corrects an issue that prevented timecard submission through the timecards period block
- Fixes a time-entry issue for terminated employees
- Resolves an issue where timecard events sometimes disappear when switching between calendar views
- Resolves the styling of calendar items using the 'positive' neutral color
- Fixed an issue where deselected items stopped showing after the selected ones were actioned
Performance:
- Fixes an problem where autosaving is interrupting the entry of goal comments
Recruitment:
- Hides the applicant fields when at offer stage and instead promotes the Create Offer call-to-action
- The number of openings field on the vacancy was showing the incorrect number in some scenarios
- Fixes a performance issue that sometimes occurs when viewing previous offers
- Resolves an issue where the default recruiter was not getting set correctly