SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

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

Symptom

Users cannot add a role more than once to a career path in Career and Development.

Users cannot add more than two 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  role that already exists in the career path:
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  4. The system gives a popup:

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Cause

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

Resolution

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

  1. For example, select  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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Note : A maximum of two peer roles to any given node is allowed. 

See Also

Career Path

Keywords

Career Path, Add Peers, Development Planning, SF, Success Factors, SCM, CDP ,roles, maximum, two, once, peer roles,add role. , KBA , LOD-SF-CDP-CP , Career Paths , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development all versions