Symptom
- Mass Changes need to be made to employee data on an EC instance.
- How can this be enabled in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central?
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Environment
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
Resolution
- In order to enable the Mass Change feature - , the following needs to be enabled in Provisioning:
Enable Generic Objects [Not Ready for Sales/Production]
- Please reach out to your Implementation Partner for assistance.
Overview of Mass Changes in Employee Central
- Everything about the different methods in Employee Central to perform mass transactions on employee and/or company data.
- There can be many scenarios for performing mass changes can be many, ranging from a system-wide data migration to ad-hoc data updates.
- SAP SuccessFactors provides dedicated solutions to help achieve your objective. This guide elaborates on the different options available in Employee Central for mass data changes.
Solution |
Description |
Supported Entities/Data Objects |
Suitable User Roles |
Use this solution to perform bulk updates to data objects from the UI. |
Position data objects. |
System Administrators, HR Representatives |
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Use this solution to import foundation data, and perform mass changes to foundation data. |
Foundation data objects, including MDF (Generic) data objects. |
System Administrators |
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Use this solution to import employee data, and perform mass changes to employee data. |
All HRIS entities. |
System Administrators |
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Use this solution to perform mass changes to Job Information and Job Relationship data. This solution performs mass changes on the basis of business rules. |
Job Information and Job Relationship entities. |
System Administrators |
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Use this solution to perform mass changes to Position data. This solution performs mass changes on the basis of business rules. |
Position data objects. |
System Administrators |
Grant RBP:
- Permissions for Mass Data Management
- To perform mass changes and related tasks, you must have the following permissions.
Permission Type |
Permission Category |
Permission Name |
Result |
---|---|---|---|
Administrator | Manage Mass Data Management | Enable Mass Data Management | Provides access to the Admin Center Mass Data Management page. |
User | Miscellaneous Permissions | MassChangesJob | Grants access to create and manage mass change job configuration and create mass change requests. |
- Go to admin center
- Manage mass Changes
FAQ - Additional Information
Q) Where can I get Guide?
A) Guide: Managing Mass Changes in Employee Central
Chapter: Mass Changes to Job Information and Job Relationship or Mass Changes to Positions
See Also
- 2460314 - Manage Mass Change Runs
- 3047844 - Mass Data Management Edit Button Not Working When Creating a Mass Change
- 3068365 - Mass Data Management keeps loading indefinitely
- 2591119 - How long do the events/logs created by Manage Mass Change remain in the application?
- 2598225 - Manage Mass changes job : Completed with Errors
- 2719010 - Employee Central - Off Cycle Event Batch
Keywords
SF, Success Factors, EC, mass change , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-ADM , Admin Tools (EC Core only) , LOD-SF-EC-MDF , MDF & EC2MDF Migration , How To