What's New for August '19

Cornerstone is reversioning the Chinese Simplified language pack, and it will be available in a post-August '19 Release patch. It is not available during User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

This functionality is not available during UAT. It will be available in a post-release patch.

Cornerstone is reversioning the Japanese language pack, and it will be available in a post-August '19 Release patch. It is not available during User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

This functionality is not available during UAT. It will be available in a post-release patch.

With this release, the following enhancements are now included in the Partner Access Administration tool:

• Send a reset password email to the partner
• Re-enable inactive partners
• Modify the partner's expiry date
• Modification History for each partner

This functionality will be released with the September 20 patch. This functionality is not available during UAT.

Reporting 2.0 is the new reporting tool for standard and custom reports. The new tool must be self-enabled and is intended to provide you with a simplistic and intuitive way to build and use reports. Enabling does not impact Standard or Custom Reports. This is a powerful new engine that delivers a single application for creating reports.

The following features are available with the May '19 release:

• Dashboards
• Migration Tool
• Usability Enhancements

In 2017, Workday announced the deprecation of its Cornerstone Cloud Connect integration templates. Originally planned for March 2019, the retirement date has been extended to 13 July 2019.

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

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

Impacting only clients using Reporting API, Replicated Data Warehouse, and Data Exporter, the Real-Time Data Warehouse (RTDW) categories may be impacted, deprecated, or break applications, scripts, or functionalities that are based on earlier versions of RTDW objects.

The REST Transcript Search API provides clients, partners, and vendors the ability to retrieve transcript data from Cornerstone. With this enhancement, the following updates have been made to the Transcript Search API:

• An option to retrieve the parent learning object (LO) ID for a child LO using the API is available if the parent LO is present on the user's transcript.
• The option to increase the API's response page size to 1000 is available.

With this enhancement, an API for updating goal progress is now available, which can be used together with the API for creating goals and the API for updating goals to build a complete integration solution. The Update Goal Progress API supports updating progress on goals and goal tasks, as well as updating actual values in goal targets.

With this enhancement, Cornerstone now supports OAuth 2.0 client credential and authorization code flows for its public APIs. OAuth 2.0 is an industry-standard authentication and authorization protocol for APIs. Using this protocol reduces the time and effort needed by external developers to integrate with the Cornerstone system.

This enhancement is targeted for the July 16 Stage deployment. Production and Pilot are targeted for the July 19 patch.

The Edge Marketplace now provides a new Cornerstone for Salesforce (CFS) integration that surfaces content directly in Salesforce. Training is available when and where it's most valuable, and content can be distributed to a wider audience through Salesforce communities. All administration, including reporting, is still hosted in the Cornerstone portal.

This feature was released in June 2019.

With this enhancement, free trials can be initiated for integrations in any Pilot, Stage, or Demo portals without any time constraints. This allows organizations to fully test integrations in their test environments without limitation. If the integration meets their needs, the integration can then be purchased for use with their Production portal.

In addition, the Copy-From feature has been removed from Edge.

An Early Adopter Zoom Virtual Instructor-Led Training integration is available via the Edge Marketplace. The Zoom Virtual Instructor-Led Training (vILT) Integration allows clients and partners to seamlessly integrate with the Cornerstone Learning platform and connect end users to virtual meeting sessions, track attendance, and make scheduling tools available for instructors.

With this enhancement, the Allow Mobile Access setting can be configured in bulk for multiple training items at one time via the Course Catalog Batch Edit feature.

In 2020, Cornerstone will retire the Course Publisher, and all portals will be automatically upgraded to the Content Uploader with Online Course Versioning, which was made generally available during the October '17 release. The exact date of the automatic upgrade is yet to be determined, but is being announced far in advance to provide administrators with sufficient time to plan for the change.

With the Aug 2019 release, numerous enhancements have been made to Certifications functionality to make the user experience more intuitive. The following enhancements have been made to certifications:

• The Training Details page for certifications provides access to a new Manage action
• The Training Details page for certifications obeys availability settings, to ensure users do not request certifications that are not available to them, and also prevent managers from assigning certifications that are not available to the manager
• When a training item contained within a certification is versioned, and a user has not requested the previous version of the training or activated the previous version of training, the user's certification transcript displays the lowest active version (this enhancement has been delayed to a post-release patch)
• The following events and sessions enhancements have been made to certification behavior:

  • Events completed via Express Class count toward certification credit.

  • Previously, when an administrator updated the Session Completion date field for a learner via roster submission, this date was ignored by the certification when crediting the certification. With this enhancement, the date entered as the completion date is respected in the certification. Note: This Session Completion date will be the certification completion date when that event is the last training item in the certification structure.

The Edge Marketplace now provides a new Cornerstone for Salesforce (CFS) integration that surfaces content directly in Salesforce. Training is available when and where it's most valuable, and content can be distributed to a wider audience through Salesforce communities. All administration, including reporting, is still hosted in the Cornerstone portal.

This feature was released in June 2019.

With this enhancement, the login experience for the Cornerstone Learn app has been redesigned, allowing users to log into the app more quickly and easily. Administrators can configure a custom login message, and learners can configure a pin code for login, access support information, and use thumbprint functionality to log into the Android version of the app.

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

With this enhancement, administrators can make it possible for users to download training items from the Cornerstone Learn application and complete those training items when an internet connection is not available.

On September 14, 2019, a new PSD2 SCA regulation will be enforced in EMEA for certain transactions. This new requirement requires enhancements to the current CyberSource integration and usage of the 3D Secure protocol.

With this enhancement, the CyberSource integration has been updated to use 3D Secure 2.1 for credit card purchases.

With this enhancement, when users join a community, they will see a pop-up message confirming that they have joined the community.

This functionality is targeted for the 16 August 2019 patch.

With the Aug 2019 release, the following enhancements have been made to the Learning Assignment Tool:

• Training assigned by a learning assignment can be easily removed from user's transcripts after the assignment is made inactive
• Administrators can force standard learning assignments to stop processing
• The High User Count warning message for the Learning Assignment Tool can be configured and can display with up to two decimal points. (This enhancement will be release with the Aug 16th patch)

As part of an ongoing initiative to improve learning compliance, several compliance enhancements have been made to the Learning Management System with the Aug 2019 release. With this release, the following updates have been applied to the system:

• Training Removal Enhancements - The following updates have been made to the Training Removal Tool:
  • Fixed completion propagation to removed curricula
  • Training in a Completed status can now be removed using the Training Removal Tool
• Learning Assignment Tool - The following enhancements have been made to the Learning Assignment Tool:
  • Training contained within a learning assignment can be easily removed from user's transcripts
  • Administrators can force standard learning assignments to stop processing

  The Learning Assignment Tool enhancements are now available in Stage.

• Users can retain their Completed status when a test is reversioned, meaning they won't be required to retake the test to keep their training status for the newer version of the test
• Enhancements have been made to due date criteria for the material versioning process (This enhancement is now available in Stage)

• Pending Prior Training and Not Activated statuses added to the "Not Started" status group for material and online course versioning.

With this enhancement, administrators have access to a new Learning Search Preferences page. With Learning Search Preferences, the option to allow users to filter by modality when searching for training is available. With the August 2019 release, modality filtering is in an Early Adopter status, and when enabled, training items are mapped to non-configurable modalities such as Read, Watch, Attend, and Collections. In future releases, options for customization will be made available for this feature.

This enhancement is now available in Stage.

With this enhancement, a time stamp for the latest cluster compute now displays on the Machine Learning Preferences page. This provides administrators with more insight into cluster compute cycles.

With this enhancement, the Apply Previous Version Due Date option has been updated to Apply Previous Version Due Date Criteria. If the Apply Previous Version Due Date Criteria option is selected, the new version considers whether the previous material version was assigned via the Learning Assignment Tool with a due date relative to the date assigned. If the previous material version was assigned with a due date that was relative to the date the material was assigned, that relative due date is applied to the new version if the administrator selects this option during the material versioning process.

This enhancement is not available at the start of UAT. It is targeted for the July 16th Stage deployment.

The Offline Network Player (ONP) enables learners with limited internet connectivity to complete training. Prior to this enhancement, learners could not launch courses from their list of completed courses in the ONP.

With this enhancement, learners can re-launch courses they have already completed via the ONP, allowing them to review important information in the course without affecting their score or completion status.

With this enhancement, Reporting 2.0 now includes additional fields in the Posting New section when building a report using the "Connect Communities Report" data map.

This functionality is targeted for the 6 September 2019 patch.

Prior to this enhancement, if two or more sessions on the Events Calendar shared the same start time, they would be sorted randomly, as no secondary sorting criteria was configured.

With this enhancement, if two or more sessions share the same start time, they are sorted alphabetically on the Events Calendar page. Sorting sessions with the same start time in a meaningful way provides a more intuitive user experience.

Prior to this enhancement, creating a new version of any test would require all users who already had the test on their transcript to take the test again to receive a Completed status.

With this enhancement, when creating a new version of a test, the administrator can specify whether the new test version must be completed again by users, or whether the new test version will be considered a Completed Equivalent of the previous version, allowing users to retain their Completed status for the test without needing to compete it again.

This enhancement is targeted for July 18.

With the August 16th patch, the learner will be able to choose whether they are directed to their transcript or to the Learner Home page after viewing the Training Completion page, using new navigation buttons.

With this enhancement, the following enhancements have been made to the Training Removal Tool:

• Fixed completion propagation to removed curricula
• Training in a Completed status can now be removed using the Training Removal Tool

The REST Transcript Search API provides clients, partners, and vendors the ability to retrieve transcript data from Cornerstone. With this enhancement, the following updates have been made to the Transcript Search API:

• An option to retrieve the parent learning object (LO) ID for a child LO using the API is available if the parent LO is present on the user's transcript.
• The option to increase the API's response page size to 1000 is available.

During the May 2019 release, xAPI Package Support was made available in an Early Adopter status, allowing learning administrators to upload xAPI courses to their learning management systems (LMS) using the Content Uploader and Course Publisher tools. These courses can then be managed via the Course Catalog and Course Console, using the same Learning Management System (LMS) features provided to manage AICC and SCORM courses. Users can access xAPI courses from system search areas, launch xAPI courses on their transcripts, and view progress.

With the Aug 2019 release, xAPI Package Support is generally available, and the following additional features are available:

• The amount of time a user spent viewing an xAPI course is recorded in the Training Details page for the user and is also reportable
• Scaled score on the statements result section is supported in addition to row score

This functionality was previously announced in the May '19 release.

• With this enhancement, the Location field will now be a required field on the Start Onboarding page if there are onboarding tasks that include either Tracker I-9 or WOTC.
• With this enhancement, error messages are added so that if certain user record settings are causing an error when Start Onboarding is clicked from the Start Onboarding page, the recruiter can provide the error information to their system administrator to correct the issue.

Prior to this enhancement, it was possible to create and update goals via APIs, but it was not possible to update goal progress for those goals using APIs.

With this enhancement, an API for updating goal progress is now available, which can be used together with the API for creating goals and the API for updating goals to build a complete integration solution. The Update Goal Progress API supports updating progress on goals and goal tasks, as well as updating actual values in goal targets.

With this enhancement, administrators and recruiters with the new Ad Hoc Anonymization permission and permission to access a candidate's profile can anonymize a candidate directly from their profile, reducing the time to complete this action.

This functionality will be released with the August 16 patch. This functionality is not available during UAT.

With this enhancement, the Applicant Opt-Out option in Requisition and Applicant Preferences preferences now only applies to external applicants. Internal applicants can no longer select to opt-out of being considered for other positions. Internal applicants will always be searchable in Candidate Search and Search Candidates and can be invited to apply to other requisitions. This helps to ensure that employers can find internal applicants who may be a good fit for other positions in the organization.

• Enable Mobile-Friendly Candidate Experience for All Clients
• Self-Enablement Option Removed from Career Site Administration
• Deprecate "Enable Mobile Site" Option on Standard Career Sites

This functionality was previously made available in Stage portals on 29 May 2019 and in Production and Pilot portals on 14 June 2019.

With this enhancement, an option to add a Google Tag Manager ID has been added to the Mobile-Friendly Career Site Settings. Upon saving the career site settings, the ID will automatically get applied to the job search page and the job details pages in career sites, as well as application workflow pages.