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2678327 - Approver receives an error when approving an Offer

Symptom

Approver receives either of the following error while trying to approve an offer:

1. Error while routing, Service Application exception occured.Wrapped Exception: FormRoutingException caught: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method com.successfactors.workflow.bean.RouteMapBean.hasIFSignitureStep() of a null object loaded from local variable 'routeMapBean'

2. Error while routing, Service Application exception occured. Wrapped Exception: FormRoutingException caught: No routing map found for folderMapid 0

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to offer approval > click on Approve
  2. Notice either of the following error messages:

Error while routing, Service Application exception occured.Wrapped Exception: FormRoutingException caught: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method com.successfactors.workflow.bean.RouteMapBean.hasIFSignitureStep() of a null object loaded from local variable 'routeMapBean'

Offer Approval.png

OR

Error while routing, Service Application exception occured. Wrapped Exception: FormRoutingException caught: No routing map found for folderMapid 0

Cause

  • Error is due to the user approving/rejecting an offer associated to a "closed" Job Requisition
  • If a job requisition is already closed, the corresponding offer approval form will be automatically deleted

Resolution

The solution would be to reopen the job requisition, approve / reject the offer approval then set again the status of the requisition to closed.

NOTE: Please note that this has been fixed for future offer approvals, issue should not occur for the reasons listed in Cause in this KBA. Offer approvals before the b2211 release can still be affected.

See Also

2960246 - What happens to Offers when a Job Requisition is closed in Recruiting?

2946193 - Error when approving/declining Offer Approval when Job Requisition was closed and reopened – Recruiting Management

Keywords

RCM-66595, offer, exception, routemapbean, FormRoutingException , KBA , LOD-SF-RCM-CAO , Candidate Offers, Offer Letters , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting all versions