2939946 - How to get the "personId" of an employee

Under Biographical Information portlet, the ID value you see is actually the personIdExternal value of the employee:

Technically, personId and personIdExternal are different things and it may be useful to know the personId.

So how can we confirm what is the personId value of this employee?

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SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite

You can check this info using Data Inspector:

1. Open Data Inspector tool
2. Select "Table_PER_PERSON" entity
3. In the filter section, provide the employee's personIdExternal in "Person ID External" field:
   
   
   
   
4. Click on "Show Data" button
5. The employee's personId value will be shown in "Person ID" column:
   
   

So, in the example above, personId=2541 and personIdExternal=joliver.

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