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2739462 - DRTM Employee Profile Purge not working - SAP SuccessFactors

Symptom

Background data is not getting purged, even though the purge message just says "The user master data will be excluded from the application data purge".

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Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Profile

Reproducing the Issue

User is performing the background data is not getting purged, even though the purge message just says "The user master data will be excluded from the application data purge".

Purge Type: DRTM Employee Profile Purge

  1. Open your instance
  2. Search "Manage Data" in Admin Center 
  3. Select "DRTM Employee Profile" and "BACKGROUND (BACKGROUND)" 

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The user exit date is:

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Resolution

The user exit date is "9/1/2018", while the retention period is 12 month, that's the reason the user was excluded from the application data purge.

See Also

 2651195 - DRTM Purge: Background information is not removed for Global Assignment or Concurrent Employment user

SAP Help Portal - Employee Profile: Background

SAP Help Portal - DRTM Purge Request Types

SAP Help Portal - Data Included in the DRTM Employee Profile Purge

Keywords

SuccessFactors; DRTM, Employee, Profile, End, User, SuccessFactors, Exit, Purge, Mass, Delete, Manage Data, LOD-SF-EP, LOD-SF-EP-ADM, Background, Information, EP, the user master data will be excluded from the application data purge , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-ADM , Admin Tools (EC Core only) , LOD-SF-EC , Employee Central , LOD-SF-EP-ADM , Roles & Permission / Directory search , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions