SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2490480 - Global Assignment - Ending Global Assignment Updates the Host Record and not the Home Record

Symptom

  • When ending a global assignment, the End Global Assignment job history record appears just in the host accounts job info and not the home account's job history.

Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - Global Assignment

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Add Global Assignment for a user
  2. End that Global Assignment
  3. Observe where the End Global Assignment job info record appears in host profile's job history.

Cause

Expected System Behavior

Resolution

  • Update of any data in the host record will only ever appear in the host account's record and vice versa
  • Add Global Assignment and End Global Assignment event reasons will be part of Global Assignment (Host) Profile of the Employee and can be visible in Host Profile's Job History.
  • Away on Global Assignment and Back from Global Assignment event reasons will be part of Home Profile of the Employee and can be visible in Job History of Home Profile.
  • This behavior is dependent on the Event reason and Global Assignment Configuration settings:

Event Reason Configuration:

GA event reasons config.jpg

Global Assingment Feature Configuration:

Global Assignment Configuration.png

Keywords

Global Assignment, End Global Assigment Home and Host Job Information History , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-GA , Global Assignment , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1611 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1702 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1705 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1708