2652628 - Contact id cannot be empty error while creating benefit contact

Symptom

Getting below error when creating a new benefit contact

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Environment

SuccessFactors Employee Central
Global Benefits

Reproducing the Issue

Navigate to admin center--->Benefits admin overview---->create new benefit contact--->save--->above error appears

Cause

Contact ID is a mandatory field and its blank since visibilty of the field is read only.

Resolution

Change the visibility of Contact ID field to editable

Navigate to admin center--->Configure object definition---->Search benefit contact---->Click details section of the field externalCode --->Set the visibility to editable--->Save

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Keywords

Contact id cannot be empty benefit contact benefit admin overview , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-GBF , Global Benefits , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions