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2277599 - Importing comments to Candidate Profile via Candidate Import - Recruiting Management

Symptom

How to import comments into Candidate Profile via Candidate Import job?

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management

Resolution

To import comments to Candidate Profile, the migration template or csv file should contain two mandatory columns, the comments and commentator.

  • comments - will contain the comment value
  • commentator - will contain the username of who made the comment
firstNamemiddleNamelastNameaddressprimaryEmailcontactEmailresumedateOfBirthcommentscommentator
JohnMaxDoeAAAjmd@example.comjohn@example.comresume.docx1989-07-17T00:00:00This is a test commentrcmadmin

Once the comments are imported, the first row will display user/commentator's full name while second row displays the comment value.

Note: If one of the two columns is missing, the import process will fail with either of these errors:

  • Index -1 out of bounds for length
  • primaryEmail : null

See Also

  • 2767574 - How to Import Candidate Profile via Legacy Data Import - Recruiting Management
  • 3148062 - Getting Errors when importing the candidate profile in Provisioning - Recruiting

Keywords

legacy, data, migration, import, comments, commentator, null, username, primaryEmail , KBA , LOD-SF-RCM-CAN , General Candidate Issues (not Offers, not Profiles) , How To

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting all versions