SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2567380 - Variable Pay - EC Integration : Merge Similar Employee Central Records option in Employee Central Settings

Symptom

  • What is the use of Merge Similar Employee Central Records setting?                                        
  • Why do we see only 1 records for terminated employees where as there should have been 2 records?

Environment

Successfactors Variable Pay

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Login as Admin > Compensation Home > Open Template > Manage Users > Edit Employee History.
  2. Search for Employee and observe that there is only record.

Cause

This is because "Merge Similar Employee Central Records" option is Set to Yes in Plan Setup > Employee Central Settings.

Resolution

Please Set this option to No to see different records.

Note for Support Engineers:

Please check internal note for reference Jira where Engineering has confirmed this behavior.

 

Keywords

employee history data terminated inactive employee merge similar records , KBA , LOD-SF-VRP-ADM , Admin Tools, Settings, Permissions , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Compensation all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core 1711