🚀 Enhancing Workplace Collaboration with Oracle Fusion HCM Connections

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In today’s fast-paced digital workplace, staying connected and building meaningful professional relationships is more important than ever. Oracle Fusion HCM introduces Connections—a dynamic new directory feature designed to improve how employees discover, engage, and collaborate with one another across the organization.

🔍 What is Oracle Connections?

Connections is a modern, mobile-responsive feature that provides an intuitive way to search for colleagues, explore their profiles, and build networks within your company. It's designed to break down departmental silos and create a more transparent, engaged workforce.

With Oracle Connections, employees can:

  • Quickly search and find coworkers using powerful filters and Oracle Search.

  • View detailed profiles with information like work location and time zone to make scheduling easier.

  • Enhance their own profiles with skills, interests, and more to improve collaboration opportunities.

  • Use Favorites to mark key colleagues and grow a personal career network.

  • Explore assignments and expertise to identify common ground and collaboration opportunities.

  • See organizational structure through interactive org charts.

  • Give and receive feedback (depending on your role) to encourage recognition and continuous improvement.

🛠️ How to Set Up Oracle Connections

To enable Connections in Oracle HCM, a few steps are required:

✅ Prerequisites

  • Enable the Workforce Deployment offering.

  • Set the following profile options:

    • HCM_RESPONSIVE_PAGES_ENABLED = Y

    • HCM_CONNECTIONS_ENABLED = Y

🔎 Enable Oracle Search

Configure these settings to power the search capabilities in Connections:

  • ORA_FND_SEARCH_EXT_ENABLED (Enable External Search Framework)

  • HRC_ELASTIC_SEARCH_ENABLED (Enable Elastic Search for HCM)

Run the ESS job:

  • Job Name: ESS job to create index definition and perform initial ingest to OSCS

  • Index Names: fa-hcm-person, fa-hcm-profile-tag

    ⚙️ Key Profile Option Considerations

    To optimize Connections search behavior:

    Profile Option
    		Default
    PER_WORKER_SEARCHES_PERSON_NUMBER_SEARCH_ENABLED
    		N
    PER_PERSON_INDEX_FUZZY_SEARCH_ENABLED
    		Y
    PER_WORKER_SEARCHES_LEADING_EMAIL_SEARCH_ENABLED
    		Y
    PER_WORKER_SEARCHES_LEADING_EMAIL_LOCAL_PART_SEARCH_ENABLED
    		Y

    🛡️ Required Roles and Access

    To access Connections, ensure the following roles/privileges are assigned:

    Essential Privileges:

    • HCM Connections REST Services

    • ORA_HRT_REST_SERVICE_ACCESS_TALENT_PERSON_PROFILES

    Included in These Duty Roles:

    • ORA_HRC_HUMAN_CAPITAL_MANAGEMENT_INTEGRATION_SPECIALIST_JOB

    • ORA_HRT_ACCESS_SKILLS_CENTER

    • ORA_PER_CONNECTIONS_DUTY

    Abstract Roles with Access:

    • ORA_PER_CONTINGENT_WORKER_ABSTRACT

    • ORA_PER_EMPLOYEE_ABSTRACT

    To run ingestion jobs:

    • FND_MANAGE_SCHEDULED_JOB_DEFINITION_PRIV
      (via roles like ORA_FND_APPLICATION_ADMINISTRATOR_JOB or ORA_FND_APPLICATION_DEVELOPER_JOB)

    Don’t forget to regenerate data role grants after applying privileges!

My Activity Center:



Me -> Connections:




💡 Final Thoughts

Oracle Connections transforms the traditional employee directory into a powerful collaboration platform. Whether you're onboarding, leading cross-functional initiatives, or simply trying to find the right person to talk to—Connections ensures you're just a few clicks away from meaningful engagement.


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