Introduction

One of the most sought after feature by an Oracle HCM Cloud Consultant since the inception of Oracle Fusion has been “Defaulting specific business Attribute field” either with a constant value or via some derived logic based on the value of other fields. While a part of it was possible by making use of Descriptive Flexfields (DFF) and Extensive Flexfields (EFF) the same has now been extended to other fields too, thanks to “AutoComplete Rules” feature which generally available starting release 20A.

In this example, we will try to demonstrate how to default the “Home Email” / “Work Email” to a constant value using the same feature.

So, without much ado let’s get started.

Worked Out Example

As a first step we should ensure that we login to the application with a user having appropriate credentials (user having access to create Sandbox) and then we would need to create a sandbox.

Navigation is : Login To Application -> Navigator -> Configuration -> Sandbox

Once we click on Sandbox a new page will open where we can choose the different tools and create a sandbox (we will name it as “AH_AutoCompletionRules)

Next we will need to navigate to Home Page and Click on “HCM Experience Design Studio”

Once we click on the link (highlighted in yellow in above screen-shot)  new page will open and we should choose the “Autocomplete Rules” . There are different actions against which we can choose the AutoComplete Rules and they would appear on the drop-down list on the work area

Also there are different types of rules which can be created namely:

1. Add Business Object Defaulting Rule
2. Add Business Object Validation Rule
3. Add Business Object Field Validation Rules
4. Add Business Object Field Modification Rules

Creating Business Object Defaulting Rule

For this example we would choose “Person Email” and “Add Business Object Defaulting Rule”. Once we click on those a new page will appear. We would need to populate the following fields 

And this completes the rule creation part. 

Performing a “Hire An Employee” Action

In the next step, we will create a new employee and check whether the email address gets defaulted.

After populating the “When and Why” and “Personal Details” section when we navigate to “Communication Info” section we can see the below page

 If we select “Work Email” we can see the email value gets defaulted.

Similarly, if we select “Home Email” then there would be a defaulting action too

Summary

So, this is how we can make use of “Autocomplete Rules” to default values while performing different transactions within Oracle Fusion HCM Application. With this I have come to the end of this article and hope this was a good read. Thanks all for your time and have a great day ahead.

Ashish Harbhajanka

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