2721590 - Best Practice for Setting a Cascading Picklist Value For Parent STATE and Child MUNICIPALITY

• Best Practice for Setting a Cascading Picklist Value For Parent  STATE and Child MUNICIPALITY
• Cascading picklist value displayed all Child PicklistID with  parentOptionId= -1

Example: How to Configure Picklist Cascading Parent  STATE_MEX and Child MUNCI_MEX PicklistID

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SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - Cascade Picklist

1. Go to Mexico user  address Portlet
2. Select home address
3. select State : benitor jaures
4. Result: Municipality field : display all Picklist

This issue is that not only the right parentOptionId ones will show up but also those whose with 'parentOptionId = -1' will also show up

Example of Misconfiguration

Step1:View Cascading configuration:

Based on The  Country Specific Data Model or Manage Business Configuration (BCUI) for Country: Mexico

<hris-field max-length="256" id="state" visibility="both">
<label>State</label>
<label xml:lang="en-US">State</label>
<picklist id="STATE_MEX"/>
</hris-field>
<hris-field max-length="256" id="address4" visibility="both" required="true">
<label>Municipality</label>
<label xml:lang="en-US">Municipality</label>
<picklist id="MUNCI_MEX" parent-field-id="state"/>
</hris-field>

Step 2: Picklist File

1.  In order to use cascading list the right way, Administrator User should set Municipalities with the right parentOptionId, rather than leave it empty(empty will be set as -1 by default).
2. All Child PicklistID  parentOptionId Must be updated 

See Below  Child MUNCI_MEX PicklistID with a valid Parent  STATE_MEX and

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