SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2725692 - Dropdown option for standard fields in Talent Search

Symptom

  • What standard fields are supported with dropdown filter in Talent Search?
  • How to configure the fields as dropdown filters, instead of open text in Talent Search?

Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Succession Management
  • SAP SuccessFactors Talent Search

Resolution

The dropdown option in Talent Search is supported only on below standard fields only:

  1. Division
  2. Department
  3. Location
  4. JobCode
  5. Custom01-Custom15

Other standard elements, than the ones mentioned above, can be displayed as dropdown in Talent Search only if a picklist is associated to the field in Data Model.

To have standard fields as dropdown options in Talent Search, it is necessary to configure the attribute pre-populate="true" for the standard element in the XML code of your instance (Data Model).

In order to make changes in the XML, please contact your Implementation Partner. If you don't have a Partner, you can find for SAP Certified Partners via the SAP Partner Finder or, alternatively, speak with your Account Executive or Customer Engagement Executive about Professional Services options. On this specific scenario, you can also contact SAP Cloud Support via case requesting this change. For more information on Software Change Requests, please kindly refer to KB Article 2252666 - SCR Form: Supported XML Software Change Request for Succession Org Chart and Succession Datamodel

For Partners & Support Only:

Below is an example of how to configure the attribute in the standard element:

<standard-element id="division" max-length="255" required="false" matrix-filter="true" pre-populate="true">

Note: The picklist options displayed in the Talent Search dropdown will be based on all of the records stored in the User Data File (UDF) for that field for both active and inactive users.

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Product

SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development all versions