Oracle Learn Cloud

What's New in Taleo Release 16B.1

August 2016

TABLE OF CONTENTS
REVISION HISTORY..................................................................................................................................................3
OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................................................4
RELEASE FEATURE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................................5
WIDGET PORTABILITY - BETA ...................................................................................................................................6
New Allowed Domains Menu Option ................................................................................................................................ 7
New Tab on Widgets .......................................................................................................................................................... 8
Pasting the Snippet Code Onto Another WebPage ............................................................................................................ 9

CREDIT VALUE IS NOW BASED ON USERS AND NOT EVENTS ........................................................................................... 10

UPDATE TO THE TRANSCRIPT WIDGET ....................................................................................................................... 11

REVISION HISTORY
This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All
updates are logged below, with the most recent updates at the top.
Date
19 AUG 2016

What's Changed

Notes
Initial Document Creation

OVERVIEW
This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality included in
Releases 16B.1 for Oracle Learn Cloud. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps
you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in
mind, and the resources available to help you.
IMPORTANT: Oracle Learn Cloud platform and general technology updates can affect complex or
custom LearnCenter pages. If you are using a custom CSS file, it is important to verify your site CSS with
each product release. Based on changes in the platform, there is a chance that you could see alignment
or positioning issues after a release due to the custom CSS used on your site. Often any updates that
your CSS requires are minor and easy to make. Contact Customer Support through My Oracle Support
for any additional information.
For Licensing Information, please refer to My Oracle Support DOC ID 1461788.1.
For the latest information on browser support, please refer to the Oracle Learn Cloud System
Requirements document; My Oracle Support DOC ID 1461788.1.

RELEASE FEATURE SUMMARY

Some of the new Release 16B features are automatically available to Users after the upgrade and some
require action from the User, the company administrator, or Oracle.
The table below offers a quick view of the actions required to enable each of the Release 16B features.

Action Required to Enable Feature

Feature

Automatically
Available

End User
Action
Required

Administrator
Action
Required

Oracle Service
Request
Required

Widget Portability
New Allowed Domains Menu Option
New Tab on Widgets
Pasting the Snippet Code onto another Webpage

Credit Value is Now Based on Users and not Events

Credit Value is Now Based on Users and not Events

Update to the Transcript Widget

Update to the Transcript Widget

WIDGET PORTABILITY - BETA

New for Oracle Learn Cloud Release 16B.1 is Widget Portability, which is currently being released as a
BETA feature. Widget Portability enables you to embed supported Widgets on external SSO-enabled
websites by placing a snippet of code on the hosting page. This means you can use LearnCenter Widgets
on your non-LearnCenter websites, Taleo Business Edition (TBE) sites, or internal intranet sites.
You must white list any web sites on which you plan to use Widgets using a new Allowed Domains
page in the root LearnCenter. White listing a website means you are telling LearnCenter that this
website is secure for use. Once placed on an external page, the look and feel of a Widget can be
customized to match that websites design by overwriting default LearnCenter CSS styles.
Currently, the following Widgets are supported for use with Widget Portability:

Learning Plans
Transcript
My Tasks

STEPS TO ENABLE

To enable this feature you must do the following:

1. Enable SSO for your LearnCenter.
2. Enter the appropriate domain information on the Allowed Domains page (root LearnCenter >
Integrations > Allowed Domains).
3. Copy the snippet of code from the appropriate Widgets Embed BETA tab.
4. Place the code on the appropriate external web page.
5. (Optional) Update the HTML code so that the Widget uses the hosting sites CSS.
TIPS AND CONSIDERATIONS

For this feature to work, you must enable the following items.
NOTE: This is information you will need to discuss or present to your IT personnel.
WIDGET PUBLISHING REQUIREMENTS

SSO must be enabled on the hosting website.

Hosting website domain must be listed on the Allowed Domains page (root LearnCenter >
Integrations Control Panel menu).
You must have the ability to embed a snippet of HTML code on the designated hosting
website.

WIDGET USE

Your Internet browser must allow pop-up windows (SSO authentication relies on pop-up
windows)
It is recommended that you use an Oracle-recommended, modern browser, such as
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, or the latest versions of Google Chrome or Mozilla
Firefox. You can use earlier versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers, but there
may be additional browser prompts that affect User Experience.

Refer to the Oracle Learn Cloud System Requirements document for a complete list of supported
browsers.
KEY RESOURCES

SSO topics in online help.

Widget topics in online help.
The instructions that follow in this Whats New document.
Your organizations IT Staff
Your organizations web designer.

NEW ALLOWED DOMAINS MENU OPTION

For the Widget Portability feature to work, you must white list the appropriate websites. There is a new
menu option on the Integrations Control Panel menu in the root LearnCenter called Allowed Domains
that enables you to do this.

Click this option to open the new Allowed Domains page.

To add a new allowed domain, type the full web address of the website, and then click Add Domain.
Notice that you can also delete domains from this list by clicking . All web pages residing under the
allowed domains will be accepted for use. The information you set here applies to all sub LearnCenters
of this root.
NEW TAB ON WIDGETS
There is a new tab on the Learning Plans, Transcript, and My Tasks Widgets that is used for obtaining a
snippet of code to place on the appropriate SSO-enabled (and allowed domain) webpage.

Notice the Widget Embedding Code section on this tab. It contains a snippet of code for you to copy
and paste onto the appropriate web page. This code becomes available for use once you have saved the
Widget for the first time (during Widget creation). Simply click to select the snippet, copy it to your
clipboard, and paste it to the appropriate web page location.
If you have not yet set up a LearnCenter for SSO, there will be no code here and a message displays
instead.

A similar warning message displays to alert you if you do not have an allowed domain saved on the
Allowed Domains page in the root LearnCenter (see above for details).
NOTE: This tab only tells you if you have any saved domains on the Allowed Domains page. It will not tell
you which domains are saved. You must visit the Allowed Domains page in the root LearnCenter to see a
list of all saved domains.
PASTING THE SNIPPET CODE ONTO ANOTHER WEBPAGE
To paste the snippet onto an SSO-enabled (and allowed domain) webpage, view the page in HTML
format and paste the snipped into the HTML body.
If you would like to override the LearnCenter CSS styles and use the web page CSS, you can do so. All
Learn Widget styles are visible in the HTML code, and are prefixed with learn-portability.

CREDIT VALUE IS NOW BASED ON USERS AND NOT EVENTS

The Credit value displayed on the Transcript Widget and the export documents has been changed. Prior
to Oracle Learn Cloud Release 16B.1, the Credit value was based on the Credits mapped to learning
events. All Credits mapped to a learning event were used, with the Credit values summed to get the
total value of Credits. This total was the Credits value. The Generate PDF with Credits export option
listed each Credit mapped to the learning event along with the Credit value. If a learning event included
multiple optional Credits, all were included in the sum.
Now, the Credit value is based only on the Credits mapped to the User for a completed learning event.
This includes earned automatic credits and only the optional Credits selected by the User. Previously,
the value incorrectly included all optional Credits in the calculation, whether they were selected by the
User or not.
For example, a Course may have an automatic Credit with a value of 10, and two optional Credits with
values of 2 and 5. With this update, if the User earns the automatic credit and selects the optional
Credit with the value of 2, the total earned Credit for the Course is calculated as 12. The Transcript
Widget now displays the earned Credit value of 12, and the Generate PDF with Credits export option
displays the two mapped Credits names and values. Prior to Oracle Learn Cloud Release 16B.1, the
Transcript Widget incorrectly included all the available Credits (10 + 5 + 2), displaying an earned Credit
value of 17, and the Generate PDF with Credits incorrectly listed all three Credit options and the total of
17.
VERY IMPORTANT: This change impacts Credits earned before Release 16B.1. This means the total
Credits displayed for a User may be different for post-16B.1 generated pages and Reports vs. pre-16B.1
pages and reports.

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UPDATE TO THE TRANSCRIPT WIDGET

A change has been made to the Content tab of the Transcript Widget. The start date option on this tab
has been made more flexible so that it supports the generation of transcript details that match fiscal
years and other reporting periods that do begin with January.

Prior to this release, you only had the option of selecting the Previous Year to Date and a Starting
month, or the Current Year to Date and a Starting month.

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Now, you can enter the Staring Year and the Starting Month.

Notice the new drop-down lists on the page.

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