2171588 - OData API Metadata Refresh and Export in SuccessFactors Cloud

There are many possible symptoms regarding this feature:

• Needs to Refresh/Export OData API Metadata through SuccessFactors UI;
• Fields are missing/changed in the OData API Data Dictionary tool;
• The to-do task "Third-Party To-Do Items" is displaying the text "[object Object]";
• New records/data not being returned through API calls;
• The Continuous Performance Management (CPM) page keeps loading;
• There is an OData API error when opening the CPM module;

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• SAP SuccessFactors Performance Management
• SAP SuccessFactors Goal Management
• SAP SuccessFactors Continuous Performance Management
• SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
• SAP SuccessFactors Integration Center
• SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management

• Refresh: Initiates a request invoking ‘$metadata’ to refresh the metadata.
• Export: Downloads an XML file with the metadata from the cache.

Follow below steps to refresh metadata:

1. Go to Admin Center;
2. At the Search Tools, search for OData API Metadata Refresh and Export:
   
   
   
   When clicking on "Refresh", the message "Refresh Successful!" will be displayed after metadata gets refreshed.
   The updated metadata will be re-generated, and saved into the cache for further usage such like export metadata.
   
    

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