What's New for February '19

See Edge Integrate Features for more information.

In 2019, Cornerstone will remove the option to load Compensation data via the Data Load Wizard (DLW). The exact timing of this is yet to be determined but will be announced in advance to give clients time to plan. To load Compensation data, clients will need to use the new Edge Import Employee Salary Load tool which was made available in the August '18 Release to clients with Compensation or Cornerstone HR and Data Load Wizard (DLW).

Once the deprecation date is finalized, a message will be displayed to the DLW Salary Load interface, reminding clients of the upcoming deprecation date.

This enhancement was released with the 30 November 2018 patch.

With this enhancement, a new Question Mark icon is now available in the Options column when viewing the Marketing Communications page. Administrators can select this icon to view the modification history of the marketing email or template.

This functionality will be released in a post-release patch.

With this enhancement, partner access to configure or administer a portal is now controlled directly by the client administrator through the new Partner Access Control page. Partners who require administrator access to configure a portal now request the client to add them and will no longer be administered by Cornerstone.

In addition to smaller enhancements, the following highlighted features are available with the February '19 release:

• Compensation is now supported (support for Learning, Recruiting, Performance, Succession, and Extended Enterprise was introduced as part of previous releases). Compensation templates and converting the currency of Compensation fields is also supported.
• Dynamic Date Filters
• New "Target Achievement Percentage field for Goal reporting
• Report Delivery via FTP
• Usability Enhancements

In 2017, Workday announced the deprecation of its Cornerstone integration templates on March 9, 2019. Don't worry, we've got you covered.

Our Edge-ready integration, introduced in Fall 2018, replace existing functionality, including:

1. Core Data (Users & Organization Units) Inbound integration from Workday to Cornerstone
2. Completed Transcripts Outbound Integration from Cornerstone to Workday

We aren't going to stop with existing capabilities. We are going to make this integration even better and easier to use with additional planned enhancements.

This enhancement was released with the 4 January 2019 patch.

With this enhancement, when a form approver is reviewing a form that has updated values, they can see the current value next to the submitted value.

This enhancement is not available in Stage portals until 22 January 2019.

With this enhancement, for organizations using Effective Dating on the user record, a message is displayed on a form if a field value in a form will be overwritten by a future-dated change to the user record.

This enhancement was released with the 9 November 2018 patch.

Within Edge, changes have been made to the location and order of fields on the Settings page of the Assessment Connector integration.

This enhancement will be available in a post release patch.

The Job Application API delivers a seamless candidate experience with the ability to send job board application data to Cornerstone, enabling candidates to apply directly to requisitions using their information from job boards.

For organizations using ADP Workforce Now as their HCM and using the ADP Workforce Now Core Data Sync integration, the following enhancements have been made to the integration:

• Ability to map ADP WFN Position ID to Cornerstone’s User ID. (Targeted to be available with the 22 February patch)
• Delta Sync will process user records even if one record fails. (Available as of the 30 November patch)
• Delta Sync supports creating users with a future hire date. (Available as of the 30 November patch)
• Summary emails provide an audit log of what was synced: added, updated & failed. (Available as of the 30 November patch)

This enhancement is targeted for a post-release patch. As a result, it is not available in Stage portals during UAT.

With this enhancement, a new ADP Workforce Now Single Sign-On integration is now available from the Edge Marketplace. This enables organizations using ADP Workforce Now as their HCM to quickly purchase, configure, and enable single sign-on (SSO) from ADP WFN to Cornerstone.

With this enhancement, the Cornerstone system always displays integrated LinkedIn Learning content with its original language, along with the course duration time.

This enhancement was released with the 4 January 2019 patch.

The Ultimate Software's UltiPro Single Sign-On (SSO) integration allows organizations to provide a seamless experience to their employees via Single Sign-On (SSO). Simply set up an outbound data feed from UltiPro to Kronos or the UltiPro Core Data Inbound Integration and enable this integration to allow your employees to log in to Cornerstone from UltiPro.

With this enhancement, the SCORM 2004 Quiz Data custom report field section has been updated to report on training accessed both from web browsers and the Cornerstone Learn app.

With this enhancement, the Training Details page can be previewed for online courses in a Draft status from the following locations:

• Course Catalog
• Course Console

With this enhancement, users can activate and launch mobile-enabled training within a curriculum using the Cornerstone Learn app.

This functionality will be released with the Feb 22 patch.

Administrators will be able to customize the colors and logo of the Cornerstone Learn app. These customizations can be performed via Mobile Preferences.

Additional documentation will be made available with the Feb 22 2019 patch.

With this enhancement, tapping on a linked custom banner on the Learner Home page from within the Cornerstone Learn app navigates the user directly to the linked page without requiring the user to log in again.

This functionality was released with the Dec 14 2018 patch.

With the Dec 14 2018 patch, users can do the following with the Cornerstone Learn app:

• View child training items within a curriculum that is not on their transcript.
• Take action on child training within a curriculum even if the curriculum is not on their transcript.
• View the full curriculum structure, provided the training types are supported by the Cornerstone Learn app.

This functionality was released with the Jan 4 2019 patch.

With this enhancement, learners can view, request, launch, and save training from the following training carousels in the Cornerstone Learn app:

• Featured
• Required
• Suggested

With this enhancement, new Transaction fields are available for use in Custom Reporting. These new fields allow users to report on additional information related to extended enterprise purchases.

With this enhancement, the following enhancements have been made to Custom Reporting:

• A new Curriculum Training custom report allows administrators to report on curriculum attributes related to Curriculum Administration and the Course Catalog. This new report type is not currently supported by Reporting 2.0.
• Administrators are able to track the equivalent training item which triggered the Completed Equivalent status of another training item on the user's transcript. This enhancement is supported by Custom Reports and Reporting 2.0.
• Administrators can track the method by which a training item was delivered to a user’s transcript, using the new reporting field, "Transcript Delivery Method." This enhancement is supported by Custom Reports and Reporting 2.0.

With this enhancement, is it possible for Extended Enterprise portals to accept credit card payments for training from Discover cards via the Cybersource Payment Gateway.

With this enhancement, self-registered users can verify their own email addresses via an activation email that is sent to users after the self-registration submission, as configured by an administrator.

This functionality was released with the Nov 30 2018 patch.

With the Nov 30 2018 patch, when learners use filters on the Learning Search page, select a training item, and then return to the Learning Search page, their filter selections will persist.

With this enhancement, several new Learning Experience Platform features will be made available:

• Learning Search filters persist when the user navigates away from the page (released with the Nov 30 patch)
• The Machine Learning Platform training count parameter is updated from 200 to 500 (released with the Dec 14 patch)
• A new filter allows users to select and deselect all languages available in the Language filter
• The Transcript count widget persists on the Training sidebar of the Learner Home page even after assigned training is completed
• A new "All done!" message displays to users on the Learner Home page when they have completed all their assigned training

With this enhancement, the Cornerstone system always displays integrated LinkedIn Learning content with its original language, along with the course duration time.

Cornerstone’s curation team continually adds and refreshes course content by combining insights from nearly twenty years of learning and development expertise and the most in-demand, user-driven content recommendations informed by usage data and feedback from Cornerstone’s massive community of over 31 million learners.

The new subscriptions launching in February include the popular Content Anytime Essentials, covering critical professional skills, thematic subscriptions for Digital Transformation and Modern Compliance, as well as regional subscriptions for France, Germany and Spain.

In May 2019, Designations functionality, also referred to as Certifications 1.0, will be retired, and will no longer be available for use. Designations functionality was the first iteration of Certifications offered in the Cornerstone system, and most organizations have migrated to the current version of Certifications.

This retirement does NOT impact the current version of Certifications used in most portals. Only Designations (Certifications 1.0) is being retired.

This functionality was released in Oct 2018.

With the previous release (October 2018), administrators can add alternative text for an image or video within a test question.

With this enhancement, when a user successfully registers for training, the following message displays on the Training Details page or the redesigned Learning Details page, depending on whether or not the Learning Details page has been enabled in the portal:

You are registered for [Training Title]."

This functionality was released with the Dec 14 2018 patch.

Following the Dec 14 2018 patch, when a session with required pre-work is marked complete by the administrator submitting the roster, users' transcript statuses will display as Pending Pre-work. After completing the required pre-work, users will receive a Completed status for the session.

With this enhancement, the SCORM 2004 Quiz Data custom report field section has been updated to report on training accessed both from web browsers and the Cornerstone Learn app.

With this enhancement, users can activate and launch mobile-enabled training within a curriculum using the Cornerstone Learn app.

With this enhancement, tapping on a linked custom banner on the Learner Home page from within the Cornerstone Learn app navigates the user directly to the linked page without requiring the user to log in again.

This functionality was released with the Dec 14 2018 patch.

With the Dec 14 2018 patch, users can do the following with the Cornerstone Learn app:

• View child training items within a curriculum that is not on their transcript.
• Take action on child training within a curriculum even if the curriculum is not on their transcript.
• View the full curriculum structure, provided the training types are supported by the Cornerstone Learn app.

This functionality was released with the 9 November 2018 patch.

The following enhancements have been added to improve the usability of the Automated Goal Ratings functionality:

1. The page instructions on the Create Goal Rating Section page are enhanced to include the following additional information:
   • "To enable Automated Goal Ratings, open the Edit Rating Scale menu."
2. An Automated Goal Rating Status Indicator is added to the Rating Scale section when defining a Goal Ratings form section. The text displays either “Automated Goal Ratings: On” or “Automated Goal Ratings: Off.”

This functionality was released with the 14 December 2018 patch.

With this enhancement, goal contributors can see who owns their shared goals because the goal owner is now visible for shared goals from the My Goals, Team Goals, and Snapshot pages.

This enhancement was released as part of the 30 November 2018 Patch Release.

With this enhancement, an Invite to Apply link is added to the Applicant Profile page and only appears for candidates who apply with Apply with LinkedIn (With Apply Starters). This allows recruiters to invite candidates to apply to other jobs.

This enhancement was released as part of the 30 November 2018 Patch Release.

With this enhancement, additional tags are now available for applicant email triggers. The tags let you provide a greater level of detail about a user or job location within the email.

This enhancement was released as part of the 14 December 2018 Patch Release.

This enhancement fixes an issue that was preventing InMail and notes from LinkedIn from appearing in Cornerstone. In some cases, the email addresses of LinkedIn Recruiter System Connect users are not being passed from LinkedIn to Cornerstone. To address this issue, administrators will be able to manually identify which Cornerstone users should be associated with seats in LinkedIn Recruiter.

This enhancement will be available in a post release patch.

A new Add/Move to Requisition link will be added to the resume carousel on the Manage Candidates page. Clicking this link opens a flyout that will add or move the candidate whose resume was displayed on the resume carousel. There is also an option to Add/Move to Requisition in the More drop-down at the top of the Manage Candidates table. This link allows recruiters to select multiple candidates to add or move to a new requisition or requisitions.

This was announced as part of the October '18 release for the Manage Candidates (Early Adopter) Configurable Columns enhancement and became available with the 9 November 2018 Patch Release.

With this enhancement, you can save your filter settings as default so that the Manage Candidates page is always filtered by the jobs, candidate statuses, and applicant flags you want to view. This is especially helpful when viewing large volumes of candidates across multiple jobs.

With this enhancement, you can now create branched prescreening questions for application workflows. Branched prescreening questions enables you to show or hide follow-up questions based on a candidate’s answer to the previous question. For example, if a candidate answers “Have you worked at this organization before?” with “Yes,” then you can ask them follow-up questions such as “In what department?”, “What dates were you at the company?”, and more.

This enhancement was released as part of the 4 January 2019 Patch Release.

With this enhancement, the file size has been increased to 10 MB. This allows candidates to upload larger attachments to their applications.

With this enhancement, you can now mark most prescreening questions as Required or leave them as optional, with the exception of the Title and Instructions question type when configuring a mobile-friendly application. In addition, changes are made to the mobile-friendly application workflow user interface (UI) to improve usability.

This enhancement will be available in a post-release patch.

One-Click Apply with Stepstone delivers a seamless candidate experience with the ability to send job board application data to Cornerstone, enabling candidates to directly apply to requisitions using their information from job boards.

LinkedIn has sunset their current version of Apply with LinkedIn at the end of 2018. Clients who have a LinkedIn Recruiter contract, or a LinkedIn corporate account with active LinkedIn job slots, can leverage the new Apply with LinkedIn (With Apply Starters). The new Apply with LinkedIn (With Apply Starters) will only be supported on mobile friendly workflows.

For more information, see Apply with LinkedIn (With Apply Starters).