Day: October 3, 2024

Oracle HCM Alerts Composer Quick Start

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Hello community,

Long time no see. I was very busy with a couple of new projects.

I’m focusing on the Alerts Composer today. Many people have asked me to create custom notifications for employees, managers, and HR. The best way to do this is with the Alerts Composer.

Oracle Alerts Composer is a tool that lets users create and manage alerts in the Oracle HCM Cloud. Alerts are triggered by specific business events or system conditions, such as data changes or thresholds met. Alerts can be set up to notify users or take action when certain criteria are met.

It has these key features:

  • Event Alerts: Alerts are triggered by data changes or system events.
  • Resource Alerts: Resource Alerts use Oracle HCM Cloud REST API resources. You can change how notifications are triggered by defining filters on resource attributes if you have the right access.
  • Customizable conditions: Users can define conditions for when an alert should be triggered.
  • Flexible notifications: Alerts can be sent via email, workflows.
  • Users can set up periodic alerts to run at scheduled intervals.

Oracle Alerts Composer helps organizations monitor key business processes, automate notifications, and ensure timely responses to critical events.

Let’s go through a simple scenario: Is it possible to create a notification via Alerts Composer when an employee updates their phone number?

Here’s how to set up an alert for phone number changes:

  • Create a resource alert with a “workers” resource.
  • Add a filter.
  • Create a schedule. You can play with a Frequency parameter. Set Stop Duplicate Messages to Yes to avoid sending the same notification multiple times.

This is it.

You can test your alert in a simulation mode first.

easy-peasy 🤓

One thing to keep in mind is that there is one downside that makes it harder to achieve more flexibility. You can’t use custom representative types to send notifications to HR AoRs. Only the following standard types are currently supported: HR Representative, Payroll Representative, and Union Representative.

Hope this helps.

Volodymyr