2599316 - Region of Birth Field becomes mandatory and Picklist for some Countries in Biographical Information

• In the Biographical Information Portlet, when selecting Country Of Birth France, Italy, Chile, Brazil or Venezuela, the Region Of Birth becomes a picklist.
• Region of Birth in Biographical Information Portlet became mandatory for some countries

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• SAP SuccesFactors HCM Core
• Employee Central
• Biographical Information

1. Edit the Biographical Information of a User
2. Select France, Italy, Chile, Brazil or Venezuela from the Country Of Birth Picklist
3. Notice that Region Of Birth becomes a picklist populated with regions of the selected country

• Standard delivery for the field Region of Birth in Biographical Information Portlet, this field is changed to picklist for 5 countries (France, Italy, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela) upon selection of the field "Country of Birth" only when the Payroll switch is enabled in the instance.

• For the rest of the countries it is expected to be a free test as configured in the Succession Data Model.

• These picklists are hardcoded for the above listed countries when the Payroll Integration switch is on in provisioning.

Switch: Enable Payroll Integration (Valid for SAP Payroll in ERP Systems) — requires “Enable Generic Objects”, “Enable Translation of Employee Central Foundation Objects”, “Enable the Attachment Manager” and “Employee Central Foundation Objects”

These picklists are hardcoded due to country specific legalities for these countries.
The prequired picklists must be defined in your instance and can be copied from the master picklist file avaible on the help portal:

1. Italy: PROVINCE_ITA
2. Venezuela: REGION_VEN
3. Brazil: STATE_BRA
4. France: DEPARTMENT_FRA
5. Chile: REGION_CHL

NOTE:

• At this time the picklist behavior only exists when editing an existing employee.
• The picklists are not offered during a New Hire process.
• It is not the supported to switch on "Enable Payroll Integration" for the purpose of making the picklist to appear for the field "Region of Birth" for countries France, Italy Venezuela Braziland Chile if the customer does not have an actual integration to a payroll system.
• An Enhancement Request to enable the feature during New Hire is being tracked via JIRA ECT-84140.
• An Enhancement request to have country specific fields under biographical information is being tracked via JIRA ECT-133343 this will enable you to choose to use free text\picklist value for the input of “Region of Birth” and “Place of Birth” fields, picklist value of “Place of Birth” can be cascaded from the selected value of “Region of Birth”.

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