2482805 - Manager cannot add new absence for direct reports

When you select an employee and click on administer time and try to add a new absence you can see that the screen becomes dark and you cannot perform any actions.

See screen shot below:

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) - All Versions

You are using PP3.

1. As a manager or admin, select any employee;
2. Navigate to time off;
3. Click on administer time;
4. Click on New Absence;
5. See the error;

For the object EmployeeTime object there are some conditional fields that cannot be hidden, if you doso, you will cause this error documented on this KBA.

Those fields are:

• loaActualReturnDate;
• loaExpectedReturnDate,
• timeType;
• startDate;
• endDate;
• undeterminedEndDate;
• startTime;
• endTime;

1. Go to configure object definitions;
2. Search for the object EmployeeTime;
3. Click on take action>make correction;
4. search for all the fields documented in the section Cause;
5. for each of this fields click on details and check if Visibility is set as editable(they must be set as editable).

KBA , LOD-SF-EC-TIM-ABS , Absence error's - Calculations, Deductions, TT&ET , LOD-SF-EC-TIM , Time Off , How To