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2653032 - Nomination History showing wrong incumbent in timeline for Legacy Position - Succession Management

Symptom

When using Legacy Position nomination method, the Nomination History dialog shows the current incumbent of the position, when seeing a history change in a date prior to the effective date of when the nomination succeeds and became the incumbent of the position.

For example: Position “A” has 3 successors (user “U1”, “U2 and “U3”). The nominations were added on 01/21/18. Successor “U1” succeed and became the incumbent of position “A” on 05/28/18. When opening the Nomination History dialog for position “A”, and verifying the history on timeline “01/21/18” (prior to current incumbent succeeded), user “U1” shows as the incumbent of the position, instead of showing the incumbent of the position when the change occurred (01/21/18).

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Succession Management - Legacy Position Nomination Method

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Succession Org Chart;
  2. Search for a position with nomination history;
  3. Open the Position Card menu and click “Nomination History”;
  4. The Change History dialog shows that a nominee succeeded and became the incumbent of the position on a given date:

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  1. Select a date in the timeline, before the incumbent change effective date, to see the change history;
  2. The Position card shows the current incumbent of the position, added after the change history you are seeing:

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Cause

Currently, this is the expected behavior of the system for Legacy Position Nomination Method, as it is not an effective dated object, such as MDF Position nomination method. Thus, the system only keeps the current status of legacy position in database.

Resolution

For MDF Position nomination method, the system respects this logic and shows the incumbent of the position for the effective date you are seeing the history change.

However, if you consider this an important enhancement for Legacy Position nomination method, you can always share your ideas in our "Influence and Adopt" community, so it can be considered to become a future enhancement. Though we may not be able to accommodate every suggestion, we do our best to accommodate ideas with a high level of interest from the community.

To have your idea considered and voted on by the community, and to track the interest of others in the community, please follow the steps provides in the KBA 2090228 - How to submit enhancement requests for SAP SuccessFactors products.

Keywords

latest, incumbent, effective date, change history, nominee history, Succession Org Chart, position card , KBA , LOD-SF-SCM-NOM , Nominations - Form Based and Formless , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development all versions