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2189075 - What Fields are Supported by Talent Search?

Symptom

This article explains the available fields supported by Talent Search

Image/data in this KBA is from SAP internal systems, sample data, or demo systems. Any resemblance to real data is purely coincidental.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development

Resolution

Supported fields are found in Talent Search > Basic Information:

Talent Search Basic info.png

All the fields in the graph below, are supported for use in the 'basic information' section of the Talent Search; however, some are not supported for use on the Faceted Filter section on the results section:

FIELD ID FACETED FILTER SUPPORT
USERNAME  
EMAIL  
GENDER Y
LASTNAME Y
FIRSTNAME Y
MI Y
DEPARTMENT Y
DIVISION Y
LOCATION Y
JOBCODE Y
HIREDATE  
TIMEZONE Y
MANAGERID Y
HRID Y
DEFAULTLOCALE  
TITLE Y
BUSINESSPHONE  
HOMEPHONE  
CELLPHONE  
FAX  
ADDRESSLINE1  
ADDRESSLINE2  
CITY Y
STATE Y
ZIPCODE  
COUNTRY Y
EMPID  
CUSTOM01 Y
CUSTOM02 Y
CUSTOM03 Y
CUSTOM04 Y
CUSTOM05 Y
CUSTOM06 Y
CUSTOM07 Y
CUSTOM08 Y
CUSTOM09 Y
CUSTOM10 Y
CUSTOM11 Y
CUSTOM12 Y
CUSTOM13 Y
CUSTOM14 Y
CUSTOM15 Y
SSN  
DATEOFBIRTH  
CITIZENSHIP Y
NATIONALITY Y
ETHNICITY Y
MARRIED Y
MINORITY Y
BUSINESSSEGMENT Y
SERVICEDATE  
LEVEL Y
FUNCTION Y
PERFORMANCE  
POTENTIAL  
OBJECTIVE  
COMPETENCY  
TALENTPOOL  
ANALYTICS  
RISKOFLOSS Y
IMPACTOFLOSS Y
BENCHSTRENGTH Y
REASONFORLEAVING Y
NEWTOPOSITION Y
DATEOFPOSITION  
KEYPOSITION Y
FUTURELEADER Y
MATRIXMANAGED Y

 Talent Search Facet Filter.png

Besides the above standard elements, Talent Search also supports search on:

  • All User-Info elements
  • Background elements, including Trend elements
    • Note:  Background elements with id "sysScoreCard" are NOT included in Advanced Information such as the Nomination Portlet, Successor Portlet and Development Objectives Portlet.
  • Competencies
  • Employee Central Job Info entity
  • MDF Talent Pools
    • Note: This is found under Advanced Information

Note 1: For users with Global Assignment: it is not possible to search for the Global Assignment user when using the “Username” field under Basic Information. Only the primary assignment username is sent to server no matter which assignment is selected.

Note 2: With Job Profile Builder enabled you can use Competencies and Behaviors as search criteria, but not Skills.

You can find more information about the mapping of this fields on the implementation guide:

Succession Data Model to Succession Org Chart Mapping Values of Standard Elements | SAP Help Portal

Keywords

SF, success factors, SCM, userinfo data, talent search, talent search fields, Faceted Filter, add criteria , KBA , LOD-SF-SCM-TS , Talent Search , How To

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development all versions