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2660783 - Service Technician Can Be Assigned to Ticket even without Mandatory Skills

Symptom

You have assigned Skills to a Ticket and set them as mandatory, however, Service Technicians that do not have the mandatory Skills.

Environment

SAP Cloud for Customer

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Service work center.
  2. Select the Tickets view.
  3. Open Ticket ID XYZ (XYZ represents the Ticket ID).
  4. Go to the Skills tab and click on Add.
  5. Add Skill ID 123 (123 represents the Skill ID).
  6. Check the Mandatory box and Save.
  7. Now go to the Involved Parties tab and add Service Technician ABC (ABC represents the ID of a Service Technician that does not have the Skill 123 assigned).
  8. Click on Save.
  9. Your entries have been saved.

Cause

The mandatory flag is meant as a check for the assignment of Demands on the Resource Scheduler. It does not prevent save action on the Ticket.

Resolution

This is the standard behavior of the system.

If the feature/functionality is required urgently, please refer to KBA 3475641 - Functionality Currently not Available.

An alternative option may be to check the corresponding SAP Customer Influence Site to submit an idea:

See Also

More information on the scenario is explained on the Help Document Use Skills in Resource Scheduler.

Keywords

Skills ; Service Technician ; Ticket ; Mandatory ; Demands ; Assignment ; Resource Scheduler , KBA , LOD-CRM-SRP , Service Request Processing , How To

Product

SAP Cloud for Customer add-ins all versions ; SAP Cloud for Customer core applications all versions