Redwood Adoption Blog Series Part 3: Finalizing Your Redwood Transition – Rules, Roles, and Readiness

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Redwood Adoption Blog Series Part 3: Finalizing Your Redwood Transition – Rules, Roles, and Readiness

Welcome to part three of our three-part series exploring the transition to Oracle’s Redwood Experience, presented from the house of MIPRO’s Center of Excellence on Oracle Technologies. This series is designed to help Oracle Cloud customers understand Redwood, what changes during migration, and how to prepare for the shift successfully. Whether you are part of an implementation team, a system administrator, or a business user impacted by the change, these posts provide clarity and actionable insights.

This final installment highlights key back-end considerations to ensure a successful transition: validation rules, security roles, and your final preparation checklist.

Auto-Complete Rules: Retesting is Essential

What Are Auto-Complete Rules? Auto-complete rules are validation or defaulting rules created in HCM Experience Design Studio. They ensure users enter correct information before saving or submitting forms.

What Changes in Redwood?

Rules remain supported
Must be retested for compatibility
VBS Design Mode improves usability for editing

Example: Position Title Validation

Problem: Users entering special characters caused downstream issues
Solution: A validation rule using regular expressions blocked invalid entries
Result: Improved database integrity and user feedback

Severity:

Low to Moderate – Most rules can be migrated or rewritten easily, but validation is necessary

Custom Roles & Security Profiles: Redesigned Interfaces

What Are They? These define what users can see and do in Oracle Cloud Applications. Security Profiles control access to employee data, transactions, and configuration tools.

Custom Roles: Define user capabilities
Security Profiles: Define data access scope

What’s New in Redwood?

Redwood offers redesigned Data Roles and Security Profiles pages built in Visual Builder Studio. To use them, admins must enable two profile options:

Configuration interfaces rebuilt in VBS
Admins must enable:
- ORA_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED – turns on the Redwood PWA interface
- ORA_PER_HCM_DATA_ROLE_REDWOOD_ENABLED – enables Redwood experience for data roles

Benefits:

Centralized role management
Streamlined compliance auditing
Easier role modification

Impact:

Moderate — all custom roles and profiles should be audited

Redwood Readiness Checklist

Use this checklist to prepare for deployment:

Personalization & Layouts
Validation & Logic Rules
Security & Access Control
Testing & Launch Prep

Wrapping Up Your Redwood Journey

Redwood offers powerful advantages, but only with thoughtful planning and execution. Successfully transitioning to Redwood means more than enabling a new UI — it requires strategic adjustments across technical and operational layers. Each step demands planning and precision, from rebuilding personalization and retesting auto-complete rules to reconfiguring roles and validating access controls.