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2818612 - How to add fields in Manage Employee Group

Symptom

  • How to add fields in Manage Employee Group?
  • Customs fields are not available in People Pool option in Manage Employee Group;

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Admin Center;
  2. Update User Information;
  3. Manage Employee Groups;
  4. Select an existing group or click to create a new one;
  5. You have noted that some fields that are available in Manage Permission Group, are not available in the People Pool;

In the example below, the options Customizable field 10 and Customizable field 15 are not available in People Pool:

manageemployeegroups_options.PNG

Cause

There are some fields that need to be added or edited in Data Model.

Resolution

For this solution, you need to engage your partner or open an case with Support SAP, informing:

CompanyID:

Support Access:

Approval to change data model: [Company Name] approves the changes in data model to turn available custom field in Manage Employee Groups.

If you are a partner, please, follow the steps below:

  1. Download the Data Model from Provisioning;
  2. Search for <description>Allow Everyone to read and write</description> or <description>Allow everyone to read non-sensitive data</description> in the data model;
  3. We need to add or edit the parameter below after the parameter informed above (<description>Allow Everyone to read and write</description> or <description>Allow everyone to read non-sensitive data</description>):

<element-permission type="write">
<description>Allow Everyone to read and write</description>
<role-name>*</role-name>

 </element-permission>

  1. After that, we need to add the fields we would like to see in Manage Employee Groups, in our example are Custom 10 and 15:

<element-permission type="write">
<description>Allow Everyone to read and write</description>
<role-name>*</role-name>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom01"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom02"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom03"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom04"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom05"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom06"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom07"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom08"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom09"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom11"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom12"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom13"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom14"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="city"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="state"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom10"/>
<standard-element-ref refid="custom15"/>
</element-permission>

  1. Import the Data Model in Provisioning;

Note: If "Dynamic Groups" <dg-filters> is enabled in the Data Model file, the custom field should be also included here <standard-element-ref refid="custom15"/>

The fields supported in Manage Employee Groups are mentioned in the KBA 2088248 - The My Groups Feature in SuccessFactors.

See Also

2088248 - The My Groups Feature in SuccessFactors

Keywords

Custom field not being shown, dynamic group, groups, manage employee groups , KBA , LOD-SF-PLT , Platform Foundational Capabilities , LOD-SF-PLT-PRV , Provisioning Changes , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions