2864601 - How to change the default locale and date format on Employee Import/Export - SuccessFactors Platform

• Customer would like to change the default locale and/or the date format when manually importing/exporting their User Data File
• Customer would like the default locale and/or the date format to match the logged-in user's language settings

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SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

On both "Employee Import" or "Employee Export" tools, customers have an additional section named "Specify Character Encodings, Locale, Date Format, and Batch Process Option".

To change the locale of your User Data File, please open that additional section and select one of the options available in the dropdown list named "Supported Locales". The date format will match the locale selected.

NOTE: The default selection of that field has no relation with the logged-in user's language settings. From December 1st, 2019 onwards, the default selection will be always set to English (US) regardless of the language configured in the instance or by the user.

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