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2575266 - Enabling Best Practices Employee Central Core Content Via the Upgrade Center

Symptom

  • The Best Practices Employee Central Core content is missing from the SuccessFactors Upgrade Center
  • This KB article explains how to enable Best Practices Employee Central Core content by using the SF Upgrade Center

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Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite
  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
  • SAP SuccessFactors Upgrade Center

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the SuccessFactors Upgrade Center
  2. Notice the Best Practices Employee Central Core Content is not available:

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Resolution

  • Activation of SAP Best Practices content via Upgrade Center should be only used if the application/functionality that should be added (like Employee Central, Time Off, Payroll Time Sheet, etc.) is not yet configured in the instance.
  • SAP Best Practices content is designed for activation by Implementation Partners/Consultants and requires a corresponding implementation project to make sure all customer requirements are fulfilled and any side effects on existing configurations are taken into consideration.

IMPORTANT: It is strongly advised to use the activation of SAP Best Practices via Upgrade Center in Test/Development instances only and to use common tools like IST to setup PRODUCTION instances.

MUST READ: Carefully review the SAP Note 2011015 – SAP Best Practices for SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - for clear guidance BEFORE running any activation in the Upgrade Center. Also see KB article - 2287005 - Configuration Changes in SuccessFactors Employee Central - for more information regarding Configuration Change Requests.

How to enable the "Best Practice" items in the Upgrade Center

Step 1:

  1. Go to Provisioning
  2. Enable: Enable SAP Best Practices Upgrades in Upgrade Center [Demoable, Not Ready for Production]

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Step 2:

Grant permission to feature: Manage Upgrade Center

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Step 3:

  1. Go to Upgrade Center
  2. Result: Best Practices Employee Central Core Content available

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See Also

  • SAP Note 2011015 – SAP Best Practices for SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
  • KB article 2287005 - Configuration Changes in SuccessFactors Employee Central
  • KB article 2260511 - SCR Form: Supported XML Software Change Request for Employee Profile & People Profile - Employee Profile

Keywords

sf, success factors, ec, deployment, rds, rapid deployment solution , KBA , LOD-SF-EC , Employee Central , SV-RDS-HCM , SAP HCM rapid-deployment solution , How To

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions