What's New for October '20

With this enhancement, the Goals API for Careers and Performance is updated with the ability to Cancel Goals.

This enhancement applies to the Goals API when used with Careers and Performance.

This functionality was released with the 25 September 2020 patch.

With this enhancement, when creating a campaign, users can define how many days to keep a recurrence open.

This functionality was released with the 25 September 2020 patch.

With this enhancement, users can filter the dashboard to display responses by date, in periods that do not end in the current date.

This functionality was released with the 25 September 2020 patch.

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• Pink University
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With the October '20 Release, the following new partner is available, a la carte:

• Bookboon

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Cornerstone will be deprecating the legacy reporting solution "Custom Reports" with the July ’21 Release. With Reporting 2.0, users can execute the same business reporting operations as they've done in Custom Reports in addition to Reporting 2.0's rich suite of new features and functionality.

This deprecation was first announced as part of the May '20 release.

With this enhancement, the Curriculum and Test loads for Edge Import now support recurrence. A new Recurrence field is now available for these loads, and this field is optional. This field enables organizations to set the recurrence settings for curricula and tests.

This functionality was released with the 11 September 2020 patch.

As of the 11 September 2020 patch, the following is no longer an acceptable value for the Recurrence field in for Edge Import Learning Loads because it is not a valid standalone recurrence setting:

• 4 - Allow subsequent instances of training to be approved based on original approval. Leave unmarked to apply approval workflow for every request.
  • This change impacts all Learning loads which support the Recurrence field: Material, Test, Online Course, Video, Curriculum.

In addition, many other enhancements are available with the October '20 release, including UAT. These enhancements impact Learning Object loads and Transcript loads.

The following enhancements have been made to Transcript data loads:

• Update Transcript Using Registration Number - For training that supports recurrence or multiple completions, organizations may now choose to update transcript records using Registration Number or Registration Date. This functionality was released with the 11 September 2020 patch.
• Increased Transcript Load Row Limit Increased - With the October '20 Release, the row limit is increased to one million records in Production and Stage environments. A load file with one million records may take one to two days to process. Please consider the load processing time before creating the import file.
• Remove Post Processing Step from Transcript Load Workflow - After the October ’20 Release, when a transcript file is uploaded for import, the load status experience for Transcript loads is Queued > Loading > Complete.

Employee API v2 was introduced in the 21 August 2020 patch as an Early Adopter in conjunction with the Generally Available (GA) announcement of the OU API.

With the introduction of the following enhancements in the October '20 Release, the Employee API v2 is Generally Available:

• Search by OU
• Update using GUID

The Reporting 2.0 Permissions Enablement Tool was released to Stage portals as part of the 11 September 2020 patch release.

As part of the October '20 release, the Reporting 2.0 Permissions Enablement Tool is now released in Production and Pilot portals.

The following smaller enhancements for the October '20 release are intended to improve the user experience for Reporting 2.0:

• Publish Imported Report to Dashboard
• Auto-Enable Report Schedule for Imported Reports

The following smaller enhancements were made for the 11 September 2020 patch release and are available now:

• Added Support for Checklist Custom Fields
• Improved Hierarchy Formatting for Exports
• Time Value When Filtering Date/Time Fields
• Expand/Collapse Levels in Summarized Reports
• Automatically Run Report When Report Viewer Opens
• Full Field and Report Name Displays on Hover

Impacting only clients using Reporting API, Replicated Data Warehouse (RDW), 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.

Documentation that describes RTDW views and fields used in Custom Reports are updated and available in the RTDW Documentation for Reporting API, RDW, and Data Exporter Community. Join and follow the community to be notified of new posts and of upcoming changes occurring in this release and future deprecations scheduled in future releases.

These changes and deprecated objects will be reflected in stage on 13 October 2020 and in production with the release on 30 October 2020.

This functionality is available in Stage and Pilot portals with the October '20 Release.

Prior to skills profiles, many organizations faced challenges in setting up, maintaining, and scaling organizational competencies, investing hundreds of hours defining the relevant skills for each job in their organization while employees had to manually add skills to their Universal Profile. Getting employees to fill out their Universal Profile with skills and competencies was often a struggle. Gathering feedback on skills was laborious and administrator-driven. There was a need for an accurate way to identify the talent landscape.

With the Capabilities Library and Skills Profiles:

• Organizations have access to over 53,000 skills that they may be used in their portal.
• Cornerstone's AI-powered Skills Engine automatically imports skills into the Capabilities Library. (Administrators have the ability to screen skills before they are published for employees to see.)
• Cornerstone's AI-powered Skills Engine automatically associates relevant skills to each employee job title using data collected from over 250 million profiles worldwide, across all industries and organization sizes.
• Employees can declare which skills they currently have, which skills they want to further develop, and which ones they would like to ignore. (Employees are given a jump start with automatically suggested skills they can declare and the ability to view full skill descriptions.)
• Employees can also self-rate their proficiency, interest, and enjoyment for specific skills, and receive skill proficiency ratings from their peers.
• Organizations can continue to use their internally defined skills and competencies in addition to the skills from Cornerstone's Taxonomy.
• Organizations should experience a faster implementation time to get their capabilities library up and running.

With this enhancement, administrators and instructors can now add users to a roster in bulk via an Excel spreadsheet. This functionality is especially valuable for allowing instructors to quickly add unregistered walk-in user to the roster.

With this enhancement, improvements have been made to the end user's online course launching experience. Users can expect a faster, smoother, and more reliable course launching experience. This enhancement includes backend enhancements and the following updates:

• Up to 2.4x faster online course launching speed
• Up to 2.5x faster online course downloading speed
• Broader offline support for downloaded online courses
• Simplified course player architecture which will reduce bugs that previously arose from the complexity of the existing player
• Support for Table of Contents for SCORM 2004 courses

With this enhancement, the iOS version of the Learn app can launch AICC courses in the device's external browser instead of via a single web view. In many cases, this external browser will be Safari or Chrome. This added flexibility allows the Learn app to seamlessly launch many more courses, which may open in multiple windows or tabs.

This enhancement has been delayed to a post-release patch.

With this enhancement, users of the Learn app can also download mobile-enabled materials that have been configured for offline use. These downloaded material training items can then be launched offline and consumed, and users can mark them complete once the internet connection is restored.

With this enhancement, five training push notifications have been enabled for both the Android and iOS versions of the Cornerstone Learn app, along with deeplinking capabilities which take the user to the relevant application area upon tapping the notification banner. The following push notifications are included in this enhancement:

• Training is Assigned
• Training is Due
• Training is Approved
• Training is Denied
• Training is Requested

With this user experience (UX) enhancement, the Learn app has been updated to include the following features:

A circular user profile icon will be implemented in the upper right-hand corner of the top app bar, replacing the Search icon. Settings, Log Out, Forget Me, and QR Code functionality will reside under this new user profile.

The Transcript, Downloads, and Approvals links will be migrated from the navigation drawer to tappable icons within a fixed bottom navigation bar. Additionally, this bottom navigation bar will contain a Home icon and a Search icon, allowing all the main Learn app features to be easily accessible from any app page with a single tap.

The navigation drawer will be renamed “Links,” and repositioned to the right side of the top app bar. It will continue to house any configured custom links, as well as the Give Feedback link.

This enhancement will be made available during a post-release patch. More details about these app updates will be made available in Release Notes at that time. This enhancement is not available during UAT.

With this user experience (UX) enhancement, the Learn app has been updated to include the following features:

• A circular user profile icon will be implemented in the upper right-hand corner of the top app bar, replacing the Search icon. Settings, Log Out, Forget Me, and QR Code functionality will reside under this new user profile.
• The Search icon will be migrated to the second position of the bottom navigation bar.
• Formerly a fixture of the bottom navigation bar, Settings will be migrated to the newly added user profile. It will exist as a link, and when the link is tapped, it will display all Learn app settings.

This enhancement will be made available during a post-release patch. More details about these app updates will be made available in Release Notes at that time. This enhancement is not available during UAT.

With the February 2020 release, numerous curriculum versioning enhancements were made available via self-activation in Production portals.

With the October 2020 release, all portals that have not manually activated these curriculum versioning enhancements will be auto-upgraded. It is strongly recommended that your organization test these enhancements in Stage prior to the auto-upgrade in October 2020.

With the October ’20 Release, Cornerstone is ending support for Browse for Training and support for defects related to Browse for Training will stop at this time.

With the April ’21 Release, the deprecation of Browse for Training will be complete, and Browse for Training will no longer be accessible in all portal. Organizations are encouraged to adopt the machine learning-powered Learner Home and Learning Search pages as soon as possible.

During the August '20 Release, Cornerstone upgraded jQuery from v1.7 to v3.4.1 to enhance security and resolve known vulnerabilities. As part of this enhancement, Compatibility Mode for IE7 and IE8 is being deprecated.

• With the October 2020 release, jQuery will be automatically upgraded to v3.4.1 in Stage and Pilot portals. Options for IE7 and IE8 will be removed.
• With the February 2021 release, jQuery will be automatically upgraded to v3.4.1 in Production portals. The functionality will be deprecated completely, meaning that courses with IE7 and IE8 Compatibility Mode will be migrated to a “None" value.

With an upcoming October '20 release patch, the expansion of the Learning Assessments open beta continues with the addition of the following features:

• An assessment publishing workflow
• Assignment of assessments via the Learning Assignment Tool (LAT)
• Transcript support for assessments

Learning Assessment functionality is currently only available in Stage portals.

These new features will be made available in a post-release patch.

With the October 2020 release, the following enhancements have been made to the redesigned Learning Details page:

• Ability to Control Data Display (made available with the Sept 11 patch)
• Price Visible Preference Moved to Learning Details Preferences
• Primary Actions for Training with Recurrence
• Badge Display

With this enhancement, the Price and Training Units visibility setting has been moved from the Content Requesting Preferences page to the new Page Display section of the Learning Details Preferences page. This setting still controls price visibility on both the legacy and redesigned Learning Details pages. In addition, an Only Display when Value is Greater than Zero sub-option is available, allowing administrators to determine whether a price displays for training items with no cost.

With this enhancement, the Goals API is updated with the ability to Cancel Goals.

This enhancement applies to the Goals API when used with Careers and Performance.

This functionality was released with the 25 September 2020 patch.

Prior to this enhancement, a user may have experienced a long load time when accessing the Applicant Profile Summary tab for a candidate in a child requisition whose parent requisition had a large number of candidates. This delay was the result of an extra check that was done to determine whether to display the Parent Requisition on the Summary tab. This check was done so the title of the parent requisition would only display if the user had access to the parent requisition.

As this data is not sensitive, Cornerstone has removed the access check so that the parent requisition title is displayed in all cases, which should improve the performance of the page. The parent requisition is not a clickable link so the existing functionality to prevent users without access from seeing the parent requisition will still be in place.

Beginning in September 2020, Cornerstone will begin back-end optimizations to improve recruiting searches. No changes to job search features should be observed by administrators or end-users. Search querying should match the existing experience. Searches will yield the same results; however, the order in which results are displayed may change due to improved relevance scoring.

Cornerstone's new Candidate APIs provide the ability to get a requisition's full application workflow, including prescreening and compliance questions, disclaimers, notes, and attachments, and then create an application and candidate in your Cornerstone portal. Applications can be posted in a complete or incomplete status. If incomplete, recruiters can invite candidates to finish their application within Cornerstones.

As part of this Early Adopter release, Cornerstone is introducing two new endpoints:

• Get Application Workflow - This endpoint retrieves a requisition’s full application workflow, including action items that were previously irretrievable via the legacy Job Application API like Prescreening questions, compliance questions, disclaimers, and notes.
• Post Candidate and application - This endpoint posts a candidate and application to your Cornerstone portal.

This enhancement is available in a post-release patch.

With the April ’21 Release, the Hiring Manager Shortlist will be deprecated in all portals. Hiring Manager Shortlist is an opt-in/by request-only feature that automatically shares candidates with hiring managers when the candidate enters the "In Review" status.

With this enhancement, jobs can now be referred and tracked on the internal career site.

With this enhancement, a new APPLICANT.SCHEDULE.SUMMARY.NO.JOB.TITLE email tag is added to the Interview Scheduling Notification - Applicant email. When included in the email, the message does not display the job title of any of the interviewers but still includes the interview details. This allows recruiters to provide their applicants all the necessary information about the interview without displaying sensitive data about the interviewers.

This feature was previously released in the 11 September 2020 patch.