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2496218 - Career Path Error: Selected role already exists in the career path.

Symptom

Users cannot add Peers to a career path in Career and Development.

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Career Development Planning

Reproducing the Issue

  1. In the SAP SuccessFactors Career and Development module select Career Path
  2. Click on "Add a Peer Role":
    Career Path
  3. When adding a Peer Role that already exists in the path:
    CP2.jpg
  4. The system gives a popup:

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Cause

This is expected behavior as a Peer Role cannot be added to a Career Path which already contains that Role

Resolution

Only a Peer Role which does not already exist in the Career Path may be added.

  1. For example, select Peer Role from the dropdown > For example 'Financial Analyst':

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  1. Select Financial Analyist.
  2. This does not exist in the above Career Path, so it will save correctly:

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Keywords

Career Path, Add Peers, Development Planning, SF, Success Factors, SCM, CDP , KBA , LOD-SF-CDP-CP , Career Paths , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development all versions