2671407 - How to: Hide person-id-external from Add New Employee screen and allow ESS to edit person-id-external in Biographical Information

Employees are not allowed to edit their own person-id-external hence, you set the person-id-external field as View only from the data model:

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This would set the field as read only / view only in an Employee Self Service scenario:

Try to add a new employee from Add new employee wizard: person-id-external would be set to read only / view only as well.

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