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2589934 - Background information not visible for managers when user is under Global Assignment

Symptom

When user is under Global Assignment, managers are unable to see background blocks, as they keep loading.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Login or proxy as a manager;
  2. Go to a employee's profile that is currently under Global Assignment;
  3. Scroll down to a background block;
  4. See that it keeps loading.

Cause

By default, background information is displayed based on users rather than persons. With multiple employment, including global assignments, concurrent employment, and rehire with new employment, a person has multiple user IDs and each user has a People Profile. So when you are viewing one of the profiles for the person in People Profile, only background information related to the user ID, which may be inactive, is shown.

Resolution


There are two ways to be able to view Background Information Blocks on the additional profiles:

  • Enabling Person-Based Background Information Blocks - to link the blocks to the person not the employment 
  • Providing Permissions to the Home/Orginal Employment Blocks

Implement Person-Based Background Information Block:

In order to resolve it, you can enable custom background information blocks and Pixel Perfect Talent Card (PPTC) in People Profile to display all records of background information about a person so that even if the person has multiple employment, all background information records are shown under each employment.

For the steps on how to enable this, please review the following section of the Guide: Configuring People Profile - Enabling Person-Based Custom Background Information

Keep in mind that if users have permission to view or edit a custom background data element related to one employment of a person with multiple employment, then users can view or edit all records related to the person in the custom background information block and Pixel Perfect Talent Card, including those related to inactive users.

As a workaround for that, you can grant manager permissions to view the background elements of the GA user’s home assignment, and the block should load while in GA, as well.

Providing Permissions to the Home/Orginal Employment Blocks:

If you do not wish to implement Person-Based Background Information Blocks, the alternative is to provide permissions to view the background elements of the GA user’s home assignment. Once this is done, they will be visible on both profiles to view the data.

Keywords

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, KBA , LOD-SF-EC-GA , Global Assignment , Product Enhancement

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions