2475948 - Automatic Generation of Foundation Object Code

How to automatically generate foundation object codes?

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Employee Central - Foundation Object

The below example is done for Location

If you want system to generate foundation object codes, you have to define a sequence and then use this sequence in a business rule.

You can create a sequence in Manage Data as following. Please ensure the sequence does not begin at 0 or with a negative value:

 
Now you can create a business rule with corresponding Foundation Object  as the base object as the following:

According to the above business rule, all position codes will be in the format: LOC_seqCurrentNumber.The format can be adapted as per business requirement.

This rule should be added as an onInit Rules in the Corporate Data Model.
The trigger of the rule, needs to be set on the foundation object element, after the labels, before the field configuration as seen below:

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