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3036845 - Error in Business Process Tile when Generate Employee ID for Hire/Rehire rule scenario is used - Onboarding

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

  1. Rule with scenario Generate Employee ID for Hire/Rehire exists and it is added to ONB2Config as per implementation guide
  2. Initiate onboarding from RCM for a candidate
  3. Candidate does not appear in dashboard
  4. Error is presented for candidate in Admin Centre > To - Do > Business Process
  5. 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

  1. In Provisioning > Import/Export Candidate to employee integration template > Export > Submit
  2. Open the xml file, remove the incorrect mappings, save the file
  3. In Provisioning > Import/Export Candidate to employee integration template > Import > Submit
  4. In the instance, restart error in Admin Centre > To - Do > Business Process
  5. 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