Symptom
When editing Biographical Information and clicking Save the following error is seen:
Environment
- SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core
- Employee Central
Reproducing the Issue
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Open an Employee Profile
- Locate Biographical Information
- Click on the pencil icon to edit
- Make a change in any field
- Save and notice the Unexpected failure error
Resolution
In this scenario, clearing the MDF cache resolved the problem, please reference KB article 2534674.
See Also
* SF Support, please note the following from Splunk:
Keywords
SF , Success Factors , EC , EP , metadata , ECT-84859 , SaveEssEntity , SaveEmployeeObject , Object Definition of type Person is null , Unable to find the 'Person' definition, might be the corresponding module is not enabled , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-PER , Person Data (All Person Data Types) , Problem
Product
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors HXM Core all versions