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2591739 - Formal name Field not Visible in Add new employee Wizard

Symptom

While performing add new employee in the Personal information "Formal Name" is not visble. However it is visible in Personal information of the employee and have correct permission.
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Environment

Reproducing the Issue

"Add new Employee Screen"

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Employee Profile>>Personal Information

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Cause

Formal name will not be visible in add new employee. This is expected behavior.

Resolution

Intent of the field is to do formatting according to the formatting rule is processed post save from First name/last name/middle name. So it wouldn't make sense to make this field visible during the hiring process at all. And refactor the code to fill this field onChange is out of reach. So in add new employee this field will not be visible to edit or make changes accoridngly as per the code.

See Also

Keywords

Add new employee, Formal Name, formal-name, Name Format , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-HIR , Hire & Rehire Wizards , LOD-SF-EC , Employee Central , Problem

Product

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