Symptom
Is it possible to change the text fields on employee profile portlets to become text areas rather than a standard text field, so we can increase the amount of characters that can be included in those fields?
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Environment
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Profile
Resolution
This enhancement is available for Background Element Portlets, and would allow users to visualize a larger box to type their texts. To enable it, follow:
- Go to: Manage Business Configuration
- Click: Employee Profile
- Click: Background Elements
- Click in the target Background Element
- Click in Details the target field
- Field Text Area Enabled, set: Yes
- Save
This is how the text area field would appear in a portlet:
See Also
2803695 - Creating and Configuring Background Elements Using BCUI
Keywords
text area enabled, large text, bigger text field, character limit, text area, BCUI, Manage Business Configuration, background element, , KBA , LOD-SF-EP-BCI , BCUI & Data Model (XML) Configuration , LOD-SF-EP-BGD , Background Elements , How To