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2289000 - A field is unavailable to set value of another field in a Business Rule

Symptom

A field is not available for selection to set value of another field when creating a Business Rule.

Environment

Employee Central: Business Rule

Reproducing the Issue

There is a field "Custom Job Level' in Positions.


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There is a field "Custom Job Level" in job Classification.

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This field from Job Classification is not available in a Business Rule to assign to the field in Position.

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Cause

The two fields are of different types. The field in Position is of type String.

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The field in Job Classification is of type Picklist.

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Resolution

Both the fields should be of same type or of compatible type. To resolve this issue here, we change the field's type to Picklist in Position object's definition.

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Now we can set this field's value from the field in Job Classification.

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Keywords

Type , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-JOB-RUL , Job Info Business Rules , LOD-SF-EC-POS-OBJ , Object Configuration & Rules , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite 1511