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2775374 - BCUI - You do not have the necessary permission error when editing fields.

Symptom

When going in Manage Business Configuration, and clicking in an element you get an error message saying that "You do not have the necessary permission."

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Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Profile
  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
  • SAP SuccessFactors Platform

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Manage Business Configuration;
  2. Select a field on the left pannel;
  3. Get  the error below:

    You do not have the necessary permission.png

Cause

This is caused by lack of permission in a specific type of field (Standard, Background, Userinfo) in Manage Business Configuration UI.

Resolution

To provide the necessary permission, you need to go to Manage Permission Roles, and select the role you want to allow to edit those fields in BCUI. Under administrator Permissions, Manage Business Configuration, choose the visibility and actions allowed for the objects listed. Provide view/edit permission as required for Standard, Background or Userinfo Elements.

For additional information on BCUI Permissions please refer to our BCUI guide in Setting Permissions for BCUI.

See Also

2801085 - How to Work With the Manage Business Configuration (BCUI) feature in SuccessFactors

Keywords

You do not have the necessary permission, Error, BCUI, Manage Business Configuration, Cannot Access BCUI, Cannot Open Elements in Manage Business Configuration , KBA , LOD-SF-EP-BCI , BCUI & Data Model (XML) Configuration , LOD-SF-PLT , Platform Foundational Capabilities , LOD-SF-EC-BCI , Manage Business Configuration (BCUI) & Data Models (XML) , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions