2628761 - How To Enable Or Disable Custom External Module Integration Feature in SuccessFactors

• The "Custom External Module" option is visible in the Home page module picker (module drop-down).
• Administrators want to enable or disable (hide/remove) this option

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SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite

To disable (hide/remove) "Custom External Module" from the module picker:

1. Access Provisioning for the affected company instance.
   • As a customer, you do not have access to Provisioning. Please engage your Implementation Partner or open a case with SAP Support (Component: LOD-SF-PLT-NAV).
2. Go to Company Settings and locate the setting "Custom External Module Integration" and disable it.
3. Save the changes by clicking the "Save Feature" button at the top of the page.

If you want to enable this feature, consider the following:

1. In the "Frame URL" field, enter the URL you want to load. The URL can include the tokens "@CSS@" and "@LOCALE@". If present, SuccessFactors will automatically replace them with the correct values when the page is loaded in the iframe. 
   
   
   
   
2. You can specify additional URLs in the "Frame URL" field, but you have to give names to the other URLs, and only the nameless URL will be associated with the "Custom External Module" menu item in the module picker (see step #2).  To specify a name for a URL, put the name first, and then a pipe character ('|') after the name, immediately before the URL.  For example, let's say that you have the main URL be "https://www.successfactors.com/" and an "about" URL to be "https://www.successfactors.com/en_us/about-successfactors.html".  Then, in the "Frame URL" field, you would specify the following:

Once this is done, then the "/sf/customExternalModule" URL would go show the main URL, and the "/sf/customExternalModule?urlName=about" would show the "about" URL.

Once the URL for the iframe is configured in provisioning, you will see a "Custom External Module" menu item in the module picker.  If you want to change the "Custom External Module" menu item text to something else, then you can go to the "Admin Center | Text Replacement" admin tool, and change the value there.

Or if you don't want the "Custom External Module" menu item in the module picker to show up, then simply un-check the "Enable Custom External Module Integration" checkbox in provisioning (see item #1 for details).

1. Note that you can have the URLs like "/sf/customExternalModule" and "/sf/customExternalModule?urlName=about" to be used as custom navigation items in the module picker and other locations.  See the "Admin Center | Configure Custom Navigation" admin tool for details.

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