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2659466 - Defaulting Company/Legal Entity Field at the Start of the Add New Employee Wizard

Symptom

  • Defaulting Company/Legal Entity Field at the Start of the Add New Employee Wizard
  • Is it possible to default the company field at the start of the add new employee wizard?
  • Can we use an onInit rule to default the company field in add new employee wizard?

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Environment

  • Employee Central – Hire/Rehire
  • Employee Central – Business Rules

Reproducing the Issue

1. Create a rule similar to this

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2. Set the trigger as onInit in Manage Business Configuration > JobInfo Element

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3.Check the add new employee wizard > Value not defaulted

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Resolution

This is not possible because this field is not a data model field, but a hard-coded field that is only found in the hire wizards

The rule will not trigger because the field is not part of the job information element, which is where you add the trigger for the rule

Keywords

Add New Employee Wizard, Company, Legal Entity, Defaulting Legal Entity, Defaulting Company, Defaulting Fields, Setting Values, Business Rules, onInit, Employee Information Model, Job Information, Job Information Model , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-FOO , Foundation Objects (Organisation, Pay and Job Structures) , LOD-SF-EC-HIR , Hire & Rehire Wizards , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core 1805