2907880 - The "Achievement" Metric Lookup Table Column is Not Respecting the Decimal Places Defined in the Field-Format - Goal Management

In the field definition for the "achievement" Metric Lookup Table Column, the field-format is not being respected and only returns values to 5 decimal places.

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SAP SuccessFactors Goal Management

In the Goal Plan XML template, the field-format for the "achievement" table column is defined with more than 5 decimal places (example below shows 9 decimal places):

When adding a goal in the Goal Plan, it is possible to add values with the 9 decimal places:

In the Goal Plan, the "achievement" table column only returns the value entered to 5 decimal places:

• As defined in the database, the max length for the achievement column is 38 and the supported decimal places is 5 (38,5).
• Thus, the current system behaviour is that the "achievement" table column which is of field type "number" will only display 5 decimal places.

Workaround:

• If the customer wishes to calculate with larger values, they may rely on the default thousand separators.
• The field-format attribute should be removed from the field-definition of the "achievement" table column.
• By default, values entered will display with thousand separators:

• We encourage you to submit or vote on an enhancement request to have this functionality considered within future development cycles – you can do this on our Customer Influence Portal at https://influence.sap.com/successfactors .
• All enhancement requests are reviewed by our Product Management team and, if successful, are developed and implemented in a future product release.
• Peer voting is a key part of this review process, so we encourage you to provide a clear explanation so that other customers are able to understand the functionality requested.

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