SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2357252 - LMS - Specify the number of organization levels above the user's organization the user can search

Symptom

  • This KBA article outlines to turn on ability for end user's user search to users within parent and sub-organizations.
  • Users are able to search and select any peer from the company for approval.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Learning

Reproducing the Issue

Set the "orgLevelsAboveUser" setting to true/false.

Resolution

In the Learning admin side, click:

  1. Navigate to System Admin > Configuration > System Configuration > SEARCH
  2. Edit 'Search' >
  3. Find the property: 'orgLevelsAboveUser'.

# This configuration is used to specify the number of organization levels above the user's organization the user can search when restrictUserPeerSearchbyOrg is enabled.
# Min Value: 0 /Max Value: 30 Default value: 0
# 0: search results returns only users associated to the user's organization or its sub-organizations
# > 0:search results returns users associated to user's parent organization <x levels above user's org> and its sub-organizations
orgLevelsAboveUser=0

Apply Changes once 'orgLevelsAboveUser' has been modified as per your requirement.

See Also

2357210 - LMS - Configuration setting to allow end user search to users within an organization tree

Keywords

parent, parent organization, suborganization, orgLevelsAboveUser, restrictUserPeerSearchByOrg , KBA , LOD-SF-LMS , Learning Management System , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Learning all versions