Redwood Absences: unable to restrict Absence Plan Administration access for Timekeeper

Summary:

During testing of the Redwood Absences and Entitlements page in Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, we identified a critical limitation impacting our ability to adopt the new experience.

We have a tailored role called Time Keeper, designed to support managers by:

Adding, submitting, and withdrawing absences on behalf of employees

Viewing absence balances

Not administering absence plans (e.g., creating or deleting plans)

In the classic UI, we met this requirement using:

A custom Absence Data Role

Sandbox personalization's to hide or restrict sensitive actions

However, in Redwood:

The VBCS-based Absences and Entitlements page offers limited control over UI actions based on role permissions