Symptom
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:
Environment
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) - All Versions
You are using PP3.
Reproducing the Issue
- As a manager or admin, select any employee;
- Navigate to time off;
- Click on administer time;
- Click on New Absence;
- See the error;
Cause
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;
Resolution
- Go to configure object definitions;
- Search for the object EmployeeTime;
- Click on take action>make correction;
- search for all the fields documented in the section Cause;
- for each of this fields click on details and check if Visibility is set as editable(they must be set as editable).
Keywords
KBA , LOD-SF-EC-TIM-ABS , Absence error's - Calculations, Deductions, TT&ET , LOD-SF-EC-TIM , Time Off , How To
Product
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions