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2277617 - Unable to proxy with error message "The Data Privacy Consent Statement is not accepted yet. Please accept statement first."

Symptom

  • The proxy function is not working;
  • When we try to proxy as a user we receive a message which states "The Data Privacy Consent Statement is not accepted yet. Please accept statement first."
  • When the user has concurrent employment and we try to proxy as the secondary assignment we receive the message "The Data Privacy Consent Statement is not accepted yet. Please accept statement first."

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Try to proxy as another user;
  2. The system will display the following error message: "The Data Privacy Consent Statement is not accepted yet. Please accept statement first."

Cause

Data Privacy Consent Statement was not accepted by the user being proxied as or the user does not have permissions over DPCS Settings.

Resolution

If an user does not accept the statement, he/she cannot log in to do anything and the admin trying to proxy him/her cannot do anything on behalf of him/her either. In that case, you will have to:

  1. Either ask the user to log in and accept the statement. (Not applicable for secondary assignments for users with concurrent employment. For this scenario, proceed with option 2)
  2. If the user agrees, the DPCS admin can accept the statement for the user in "Admin center > Set DPCS Statement Status". For this you can refer to this KBA 2088053

NOTE #1: This workaround is not valid for DPCS 2.0 for internal candidate, the internal candidates must accept the statement you can view accepted statements from Audit Log.

NOTE #2: In DPCS 2.0, when a privacy statement is configured to appear each time users log in (by enabling the DPCS flag "Show At Every Login"), no record is kept from when that users accepted the privacy statement, meaning there is no audit report from users previously accepting it. Because of this, users are not able to accept the statement on behalf of someone else, neither proxy as that user. This is currently an expected behavior and feedbacks on the feature are being collected on this improvement request: Log Data Privacy Statement Acceptance.

See Also

Help portal guide for Proxy Access : Setting Up and Managing Proxy Access

Keywords

DPCS, DPCS Statement Status,  Data Privacy Consent Statement, proxy issue, show at every login, unable to proxy, accept statement, , KBA , LOD-SF-PLT , Platform Foundational Capabilities , LOD-SF-PLT-PRX , Proxy , LOD-SF-PLT-DPC , Data Privacy Consent Statement (DPCS) Feature , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions