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2613892 - How to remove/Purge Orpahned ID's

Symptom

Run "Check Tool" to verify if Orphan Person ID´s exists into system

Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Reproducing the Issue

Review Check Tool for Orphaned ID's

Cause

When Person ID's are removed occasionally associations remain in the system and therefore the person ID's are then Orphaned ID's in the system that cannot be used until the Orphaned ID's are cleared.

Resolution

The following feature in provisioning needs to be enabled - "Enable Compound Deletes".

For customers with Partners please request your partner to enable this feature, else you will need to request support to enable this feature.

Once Enabled.

  1. Login to Instance
  2. Go to Admin Center, then "Import Employee Data"
  3. Then download the Template for "Compound Deletes" (Fill in template and then Import file)

This will permanently remove the Orphaned ID's from the system.

See Also

2438812 - Check Tool: How to use Check Tool to check if there are any Orphan Person ID Externals in the system. (CORE_JI_CHECK_03)

2472648 - Check Tool: How to check your Employee Central Configuration

Keywords

Purge, Orphaned IDs, Person ID, Check tool, employee data issues, how to identify orphaned person IDs, Remove , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-ADM , Admin Tools (EC Core only) , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1611 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1702 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1705 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1708 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1711 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1802 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1805 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1808 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1811 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1902 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1905 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1908 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1911 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 2005 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 2011 ; SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 2105 ; SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions