SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2723297 - 'Your changes cannot be saved because they are not consistent with existing employee times' error when making changes to Time Off fields in Job Information

Symptom

You have noticed that, upon making changes to the Job Information field 'Time Recording Variant' under Time Information, changing from 'Duration' to 'Clock Times', the error 'Your changes can’t be saved because they aren’t consistent with existing employee times. The time recording variant in the employee time external code on date doesn’t match the time recording variant variant in the job information.'

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Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
  • SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

Reproducing the Issue

1. Go to an employees' profile;

2. Make changes to time recording variant and/or other associated fields in job information portlet;

3. Observe the error:

Cause

There are leave bookings after the effective date of the Job Information change that are not consistent with the new time information fields.

Resolution

To make the change, all the leave bookings after the effective date of the change should be cancelled. After cancelling the leave bookings, the changes can be made and the employee needs to book the leaves again on the cancelled days, as per the new time information.

Keywords

Time Recording Variant, Time Profile, Employee Time, Time Off, Error, Consistent, Job Information, Employee Central, Your changes can’t be saved because they aren’t consistent with existing employee times. The time recording variant in the employee time on doesn’t match the time recording variant in the job information, change , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-TIM-JOB , Time Management in Job Info - Records & Objects , LOD-SF-EC-TIM , Time Off , LOD-SF-EC-TMS , Time Sheet , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions