Symptom
- Error received in Business Process Tile when initiate onboarding from RCM using business rule to generate user id
- Error "Create External User The external user was not created because of an internal error. Please try again later. UUID:"
Environment
SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding
Reproducing the Issue
- Rule with scenario Generate Employee ID for Hire/Rehire exists and it is added to ONB2Config as per implementation guide
- Initiate onboarding from RCM for a candidate
- Candidate does not appear in dashboard
- Error is presented for candidate in Admin Centre > To - Do > Business Process
- Error "Create External User The external user was not created because of an internal error. Please try again later. UUID:"
Cause
- Recruit to Hire mapping XML had one incorrect entry, for example:
<mapping-attribute><source entity-type="application" refid="startDate"/><target refid="employmentInfo.hireDate"/></mapping-attribute> - In Admin Centre > Manage Business Configuration > employmentInfo
There is no field: employmentInfo.hireDate defined in Succession Data Model.
Resolution
- In Provisioning > Import/Export Candidate to employee integration template > Export > Submit
- Open the xml file, remove the incorrect mappings, save the file
- In Provisioning > Import/Export Candidate to employee integration template > Import > Submit
- In the instance, restart error in Admin Centre > To - Do > Business Process
- Candidate successfully visible in the dashboard
See Also
SAP Support Engineers please refer to Internal Memo.
Keywords
Generate Employee ID for Hire/Rehire, ONB2Config, User ID format, Create External User The external user was not created because of an internal error. Please try again later. UUID , KBA , LOD-SF-OBX-RCM , Initiate onboarding from RCM , Problem
Product
SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding 2005 ; SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding 2011