Symptom
Unable to rehire an employee as a Contingent Worker because of application error preventing the action.
Environment
- SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
- Contingent workforce
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Add New Contingent Worker
- Fill out the exact inactive employee First Name Last Name, and Date of Birth, and the other required fields.
- Click on continue and the Accept Match pop up displays.
- Choose the employment which will rehired as a Contingent Worker.
- Once all the employee data is correctly maintained, submit the rehire request.
- An application error is thrown.
Cause
The issue may have two causes:
- The username value inserted to rehire the employee already exists in the system to another active/inactive user, or;
- The username value inserted to rehire the employee is associated to a purged user from the system. The purge may have not been completely executed or correctly configured, leading the same username value to exists in the system database.
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Resolution
To solve the issue, please proceed rehiring the employee with a different username value.
See Also
Keywords
Contingent Worker rehire, username error when rehiring, error when rehiring contingent worker, Invalid username value, , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-CWF , Contingent Workforce , Problem
Product
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors HCM suite all versions