Oracle US Federal HR supports the Nature of Action Codes issued by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The Navigator menu groups Nature of Actions (NOA) into families of related actions. The following table describes the family types.
Family Types
| Family type | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Enabled | Valid selections that appear on lists such as the Change Families list |
| Process Method | A NOAC can belong to only one Process Method family. OPM based process rules specify the type of information for each field: Non-Enterable (NE) AutoPopulated (AP) User Enterable (UE) Autopopulated User Enterable (APUE) |
| Request Information Type | A NOAC can belong to more than one Request Information type family. Extra Information accompanies a specific NOA. |
| Required fields | A NOAC can belong to only one Required family. The OPM requires data entry in specific fields before you can update the RPA. The application performs edit checks on these fields before updating the data to the database. |
| Update HR | A NOAC can belong to only one Update HR family. Business rules run against the data to determine if the data is consistent and passes the Central Data Personnel File edits. |
A NOAC is associated to a NOA family and inherits its family types, such as process methods. A NOAC may belong to more than one NOA family type. For example, the NOAC 827 (Retention Incentive) belongs to two NOA family types. It belongs to the Incentive family for Process Methods, and to the Retention Incentive Info family for Request Information Types and Required fields.
In this example, when you initiate a personnel action for a Retention Incentive, you choose the NOA family Incentives from the Navigator menu. The application generates an RPA and applies the Incentive process methods. When you enter the specific NOAC (827), the application applies the Retention Incentive Info Required fields and Request Information Types.