What's New for October '19

With this enhancement, the accessibility of the Universal Profile Bio: About page is improved. The following updates are made when using the Edit button in the Summary, Interests, and Subjects sections of the Universal Profile Bio: About page:

1. The Edit button can be activated in the following ways:
   1. Select the button.
   2. Tab to the button and press the Enter key.
   3. Tab to the button and press the Spacebar key.
2. When the Edit button is selected, the page maintains visual focus on the section that is being edited.
3. Support for screen readers (e.g., JAWS, Nvidia) is added when editing these sections. For example, a screen reader will announce when a section is expanded or collapsed.

With this enhancement, the default Login page and "Forgot Password" pages include the following updates:

• The Cornerstone logo is updated to match the latest logo design.
• The button colors are updated to match the logo.
• The font used on the pages is updated to "Roboto" to match the application's font style
• The pages are designed to be mobile responsive so that they can be easily viewed and utilized on a smaller screen size.

This functionality is targeted to be available in Stage portals on 8 October 2019.

With this enhancement, additional Inline Help resources will be available in the following areas:

• Training Removal Tool

This functionality is not available during UAT.

Older versions of jQuery may contain vulnerabilities that would allow the application to be compromised or unduly influenced. Therefore, Cornerstone will be upgrading its jQuery library from version 1.7 to 3.4 in the future, date yet to be determined. Cornerstone's upgrade of its jQuery library only updates standard core pages of the application. Custom code that clients have utilized will not be upgraded by Cornerstone as a result of this effort and thereby may contain vulnerabilities and errors produced by older versions of jQuery.

Understanding the potential impact a jQuery library upgrade can have on clients’ customizations, Cornerstone has built a validation tool that will generate a report to help clients test the versions of jQuery used in their custom code in their portals. Once initiated, this back-end process scans through custom jQuery entered on custom developed areas of the application and generates a report of errors which identify potential fixes that need to be implemented. This tool is a guideline for identification purposes only. It does not guarantee that all potential errors will be identified nor does it handle any of the updating of the jQuery versioning. Cornerstone will not be able to provide support on fixing custom code and recommends that impacted clients consult with a qualified engineer to review all custom code to ensure compatibility with jQuery version 3.4 before Cornerstone updates its jQuery library.

Administrators can run the tool and the logged in user will receive an emailed report of findings. If using the tool in Stage or Pilot environments, the emailed report will bypass dead box settings. Depending on the number of custom scripts in a portal, the report may take up to 24 hours to complete.

This functionality is not available at the start of UAT. It is available in Stage portals as of the 16 October 2019 patch.

Previously, Online Help content was organized by role and then by product suite.

With this enhancement, the table of contents is restructured to align with Cornerstone’s product suites and features. Now, all information related to a product feature is grouped in the same area of the Table of Contents. In addition, the interface is modernized to improve the experience of using Online Help.

This functionality is not available during UAT.

With this enhancement, the Partner Access Administration page has been enhanced to improve the usability of the tool and provide a more intuitive workflow. New enhancements include:

• Ability to send a reset password email to the partner user - This was released with the 20 September 2019 patch.
• Ability to modify the partner's expiry date - This was released with the 20 September 2019 patch.
• Modification History for each partner user - This was released with the 20 September 2019 patch.
• Ability to re-enable inactive partner users - This was released with the 20 September 2019 patch.
• Ability to set the language for Partner users - This is targeted to be available in Stage portals with the 8 October 2019 patch, and it is being released to production portals with the October 2019 release.
• Partner Case Management - Partners will no longer be able to use the old case management system as of 2 December 2019. This is targeted to be released with the 15 November 2019 patch.
• Partner Deactivation Email - This is targeted to be released with the 15 November 2019 patch.

Note: This functionality was previously made available as part of the 16 August 2019 patch release.

With this enhancement, organizations can now add their Reporting 2.0 charts to dashboards using a new Publish to Dashboards toggle. This toggle appears on the Report Properties flyout.

Note: This functionality was previously made available as part of the 16 August 2019 patch release.

With this enhancement, the following changes have been made regarding migrated custom reports:

1. Organizations can now move migrated custom reports out of the Imported Custom Reports folder to create the organization you prefer.
2. When a custom report is imported, the fields in the imported report do not display section prefixes by default unless the report contains multiple fields with the same name (e.g., User First Name from User section and from Manager section).
3. The Show Field Prefixes toggle in the Report Properties flyout is now available for imported custom reports. This toggle enables organizations to easily identify the report section associated with each field.
   1. If the imported custom report contains multiple fields with the same name, this toggle is on (field prefixes are displayed), and it cannot be changed. This ensures that you can distinguish all fields. This is existing behavior for Reporting 2.0 reports.
   2. If the imported custom report does not contain multiple fields with the same name, this toggle is off by default and can be changed.
4. For imported custom reports that were imported prior to this enhancement, the Show Field Prefixes toggle is now available when editing the report, and it is in the On position by default. If the report does not contain multiple fields with the same name, then this toggle can be switched to the Off position.

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 October '19 release:

• Custom Column Headers
• Multi-Module Reporting
• Usability Enhancements
• Additional Fields - Connect
• Additional Fields - Succession

The Point-in-Time Headcount feature enables administrators to retrieve and export employee records for a specified date. The exported historical data can be used to analyze how the organization changed over time or to compare past employee data with the most current employee data.

This functionality is not available at the start of UAT.

With this enhancement, the ability to select granular scopes is now available, allowing organizations to control the methods and endpoints an application can access through Cornerstone's APIs using the OAuth 2.0 API credentials. A "scope" is a mechanism in OAuth 2.0 which is used to limit an external application's access.

This enhancement will be made available with a post-release patch.

Cornerstone’s legacy Proxy Enrollment API, available as part of Cornerstone API, is scheduled for deprecation. It is being replaced by the new Learning Assignment API.

The Proxy Enrollment API will be made unavailable entirely with the October '20 Release.

A new Learning Assignment Tool public API will be made available via the Edge Marketplace. This public API offers flexibility when a custom solution for the Learning Assignment Tool is required by an organization. With the new Learning Assignment API, users can enjoy many of the same features that exist in the Learning Assignment Tool user interface.

This API is targeted for the Nov 15, 2019 patch.

See Recruiting Features.

See Recruiting Features.

The new Kronos Workforce Dimensions Employee Dashboard Tile integration in Edge automatically creates a Cornerstone tile on organizations' Workforce Dimensions tenant. This tile provides learners with basic information about their Cornerstone training that is past due, assigned, in progress, and completed. It also allows learners to be redirected to their Cornerstone transcript if the learner has an active Cornerstone session.

See Recruiting Features.

With this enhancement, administrators can synchronize LinkedIn Learning subjects to LinkedIn Learning courses using Edge. Once an administrator enables subject synchronization using Edge, relevant subjects are automatically populated to the Subject Management page in the Learning Management System (LMS) and are added to existing and future LinkedIn Learning courses.

See Recruiting Features.

See Recruiting Features.

With this enhancement, the following training equivalency enhancements have been made to the system:

• Following this enhancement, learning administrators can retroactively apply training equivalencies and language equivalencies to user transcripts directly from the Course Catalog to trigger training items in pre-completion statuses to move to a Completed Equivalent status when applicable.
• Also with this enhancement, learning administrators can set a training item as "Version Equivalent" to the prior active version directly from Course Console.

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.

Activating the new Content Uploader and Online Course Versioning functionality remains optional until a future date in 2020. When Course Publisher is retired, it will no longer be accessible in the system.

With this enhancement, when a training inside a certification is versioned and a user has not activated the previous version, the certification displays the lowest active version. This ensures the user can access and complete the training that is required for their certification.

This functionality was released with the 20 September 2019 patch.

Clients with large external communities can now instantaneously engage partners, temp workers, and external users with the ability to self-register and take Cornerstone training content within Force.com.

This functionality is not available at the start of UAT.

Multiple SSO configurations are supported within the CFS product. Previously CFS only supported a single SSO configuration for their Salesforce to Cornerstone SSO. With the release of Self-Registration Support, it is necessary to also provide support for multiple SSO configurations. This will allow for users to self-register in Salesforce and automatically create a user ID in Cornerstone no matter what SSO configuration is used.

This functionality is not available at the start of UAT.

Clients can use their Cornerstone for Salesforce (CFS) integration to surface learning data from within Salesforce using new Training View components. Transcript data and Salesforce data can be used to run joint reports and create dashboards, all without having to leave Salesforce. This enhancement may remove the need for outbound data feeds for some clients by centralizing reporting where they work – in Salesforce.

This functionality is not available at the start of UAT.

With this enhancement, the Cornerstone Learn app provides biometric support for Single Sign-on (SSO) on iOS devices. After a user signs in to the Cornerstone Learn app with SSO, they are prompted to associate the biometric information that they have on their phone to their login. This enhancement closes a key gap in functionality as it relates to logging into the iOS app.

This functionality was released with the 6 September 2019 patch.

With this enhancement, the Cornerstone Learn app provides biometric support for credential-based login and Single Sign-on (SSO) on Android devices.

This functionality is targeted for the 4 October 2019 patch.

With this enhancement, the existing Price Visible field in Content Request Preferences is respected in the Cornerstone Learn app.

This functionality was released with the 6 September 2019 patch.

With this enhancement, organizations can now configure a login message to display in Cornerstone Learn. Mobile login messages are configured using the same Login Messages page as the existing traditional login message, but they are created exclusively for use with the Cornerstone Learn app.

This functionality is targeted for the 4 October 2019 patch.

With this enhancement, organizations have the ability to upload banner images that are optimized for smaller screen sizes. Organizations can upload mobile-optimized banner images for portrait orientation, which is generally displayed on mobile phones, and landscape orientation, which is generally displayed on tablets.

This functionality is not available during UAT. The Mobile (Portrait) and Mobile (Landscape) fields are visible in Learner Home Preferences at the start of UAT, but this enhancement also requires the app update, which is not available until the October '19 Release.

The new Kronos Workforce Dimensions Employee Dashboard Tile integration in Edge automatically creates a Cornerstone tile on organizations' Workforce Dimensions tenant. This tile provides learners with basic information about their Cornerstone training that is past due, assigned, in progress, and completed. It also allows learners to be redirected to their Cornerstone transcript if the learner has an active Cornerstone session.

With this enhancement, it is possible to activate and inactivate training in bulk via the Course Catalog.

Cornerstone’s legacy Proxy Enrollment API, available as part of Cornerstone API, is scheduled for deprecation. It is being replaced by the new Learning Assignment API.

The Proxy Enrollment API will be made unavailable entirely with the October '20 Release.

Cornerstone is deprecating Volunteer Management functionality with the February ’20 release, and has ended support for Volunteer Management. Once deprecated, access to the Volunteer Management user interface, including reporting, will no longer be available in client portals.

A new Learning Assignment Tool public API will be made available via the Edge Marketplace. This public API offers flexibility when a custom solution for the Learning Assignment Tool is required by an organization. With the new Learning Assignment API, users can enjoy many of the same features that exist in the Learning Assignment Tool user interface.

This API is targeted for the Nov 15, 2019 patch.

With this enhancement, when the administrator views the assignment history of the assignment, and a learner no longer meets the criteria of the assignment, the Removed from Assignment tag displays to the right of the learner’s name. If the learner was assigned the same training by another assignment, and the learner was removed from that other assignment, the Removed from Assignment tag appears in the Occurrence flyout and displays at the occurrence level.

In addition, the Associated Date field from the Transcript History section of the Assignment Summary page has been relocated to the Occurence flyout.

With the February 2019 release, a redesigned Learning Details page was released as an Early Adopter enhancement. With the October 2019 release, the Learning Details page is generally available, and the following additional enhancements have been made to this feature:

• Enhanced page design for all training types
• More metadata available on Learning Details page
• Curriculum structure now displays on Learning Details page for curricula
• Additional training actions available
• View Prerequisite section added
• View Pre-work section added
• View Post-work section added
• Ratings and Reviews section added
• Related Learning section added
• Ability to view the contents of curricula from the Learning Details page
• Session details are now available in a new Session flyout, accessible from the event's Learning Details page
• Available on Mobile field displays for online courses
• A new Edit Training link is available to administrators, allowing them to edit the training in the Course Catalog
• Administrators can enable and disable the Learning Details page for specific training types via Learning Details Preferences

Following this enhancement, administrators can add a link to the Level 1 evaluation into the training completion email that is sent to users after they have completed training. This enables administrators to provide an additional external trigger to bring learners back into the system and potentially increase evaluation response rates.

This enhancement will be available with the October 1st Stage deployment.

With this enhancement, administrators can synchronize LinkedIn Learning subjects to LinkedIn Learning courses using Edge. Once an administrator enables subject synchronization using Edge, relevant subjects are automatically populated to the Subject Management page in the Learning Management System (LMS) and are added to existing and future LinkedIn Learning courses.

With this enhancement, the Process Responses button on the Waitlists page for sessions has been updated to the Update Order and Process Responses button. When the Update Order and Process Responses button is clicked, any waitlist responses are processed, and any updates made to the waitlist order are also applied simultaneously. This allows administrators to complete both actions with one click, which saves time and prevents confusion.

This enhancement is targeted to be available in Stage with the October 10 deployment, and will be available in Production with the Oct 2019 release.

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

This functionality is targeted to be available in Stage portals on 1 October 2019.

With this enhancement, the Remove from Transcript? field and the Archive from Transcript? fields automatically convert null values into a value of False. This allows users to filter these fields effectively by True and False values.

Not available at the start of UAT. Targeted to be available in Stage with the October 16 deployment.

With this enhancement, the entire curriculum, including its child training, remains intact when removed via the Training Removal Tool, Learning Assignment Tool, or by manual transcript removal. This preserves the structure of the removed curriculum and eliminates the need for transcript cleanup. Upon reassignment, the intact curriculum moves to the Active tab of the user's transcript.

The following enhancements are now included in the Check-Ins tool:

• Email Notification - Administrations can configure the system to send an email of check-in activities to specific users, OUs, or to all users in the organization.
• Check-Ins Template Enhancements - Administrators can lock and localize templates.
• Check-Ins Reporting 2.0 - Administrators can build and view reports about check-ins usable by Organizational Unit. This functionality is not available at the start of UAT and is targeted for the October 1, 2019 Stage deployment.
• A Development Plan option - End-users can view development plans, objections, actions, and learning courses.
• Blank Template - A blank check-in template is provided which allows users to create a template from scratch.
• A Modification History Page - Users can track changes made to a template.

The Compensation Tool is updated to include new currency types. Additionally, administrators can view or edit currency details and set the default portal currency.

This enhancement is targeted for the Dec 6, 2019 patch.

Development Plan have been enhanced to improve usability.

For administrators, new enhancements include: 

• A new option that allows managers to cancel development plans for their subordinates.
• The option to filter recommended training by individual competencies.

For end-users, new enhancements include:

• Auto-refresh of learning object (LO) secondary actions.
  • This was released with the 20 September 2019 patch.
• URLs in the Description section of a development plan now open in a new tab.

This enhancement will make it easier for Goal Approvers to approve or deny goals created in their organizations.

New enhancements include:

• Goal Approvals from Team goals and Universal Profile Snapshot.
• Goal Approvals in the Email Digest. This feature is not available during UAT and is targeted for a post-release patch.

This functionality was previously made available as part of the 20 September 2019 patch release.

A-Check Global’s background screening integration with Cornerstone provides an effective resource to help organizations make well-informed hiring decisions—all within the convenience of the hiring management system you already use. A-Check Global provides employment, education, criminal, and other background checks that are required during the hiring process.

This functionality was released with the 6 September 2019 patch release.

The Choice Screening Background Check integration in Edge allows Cornerstone Recruiting clients with a Choice Screening account to seamlessly background check applicants all from within Recruiting.

This functionality was previously made available as part of the 20 September 2019 patch release.

Employment Background Investigations (EBI) provides screening services that are fast, accurate, compliant, and secure.

the new Internal Career Site feature lets administrators upload a custom search banner, and configure job search filters by Grade OU, Division OU, and requisition custom fields. On the Internal Career Site Preferences pages, administrations can configure the end-user site to display position OU details, competency information, recommend learning by competency assessment, and recommended learning by position OU. Additionally, administrators can enable users to apply for a position through LinkedIn, and create a development plan. Recruiting clients can self-enable this functionality in Feature Activation Preferences.

This functionality is targeted to be available for testing in Stage portals on 10 October 2019.

This functionality was previously made available as part of the 6 September 2019 patch release.

With this enhancement, job seekers receive up-to-date search results with improved performance of the job search engine. Jobs posted to Mobile-Friendly Career Sites are now visible to applicants soon after a recruiter publishes the posting.

This functionality was previously made available as part of the 20 September 2019 patch release.

The Sterling ScreeningDirect Background Check integration provides a pre-built integration between Sterling’s ScreeningDirect platform and Cornerstone’s Recruiting platform.