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2079404 - How to Enable the Mass Change Feature in Employee Central

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

Mass Data Management

Use this solution to perform bulk updates to data objects from the UI.

Position data objects.

System Administrators, HR Representatives

Foundation Data

Use this solution to import foundation data, and perform mass changes to foundation data.

Foundation data objects, including MDF (Generic) data objects.

System Administrators

Employee Data Imports

Use this solution to import employee data, and perform mass changes to employee data.

All HRIS entities.

System Administrators

Mass Changes to Job Information and Job Relationship

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

Mass Changes to Positions

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

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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

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions