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2577775 - Application Error in BCUI after Enabling Contingent Workers from Manage Employee Central Settings

Symptom

An Application error is displaying when trying to access Manage Business Configuration after enabling Contingent Workers from Manage Employee Central Settings.

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - Contingent Work

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Navigate to Manage Employee Central Settings
  2. Turn On 'Contingent Workers'
  3. Save & Exit
  4. Go to Admin Center > Tool Search > Manage Business Configuration
  5. The application error presents, containing no fingerprint.

Cause

  • The system did not correctly deploy the Objects "ECPersonElementConfig" & "ActivityListObject" when the Contingent Workers option was enabled in Manage Employee Central Settings.
  • To verify this:
  1. Navigate to Configure Object Definitions
  2. Select 'Object Definition' and locate 'ActivityListObject'
  3. Verify that it is not possible to take any action on ActivityListObject.

Resolution

  1. Disable Contingent Workers from Manage Employee Central Settings.
  2. Save & Exit.
  3. Refer KBA '2534674 - How To Fix Inconsistencies In Metadata Framework (MDF)' and run the "MDF Object Definition to DB SYNC" job.
  4. Once the job completes, go back to Manage Employee Central Settings.
  5. Enable 'Contingent Workers'
  6. Save & Exit
  7. Navigate to Manage Business Configuration and ensure no error is being raised.

@Support Engineers: Please refer internal memo.

See Also

Refer KBA '2534674 - How To Fix Inconsistencies In Metadata Framework (MDF)', on how to run "MDF Object Definition to DB SYNC" job.

Keywords

Application Error,  ObjectDefinition, getId, null object loaded from local variable, occurred, Java Exception: OMITTED, bcui, success factors, sf, ec, cwf , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-BCI , Manage Business Configuration (BCUI) & Data Models (XML) , LOD-SF-EC , Employee Central , LOD-SF-EC-CWF , Contingent Workforce , How To

Product

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