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3084880 - Restrictions Of the New Time Sheet UI

Symptom

This KBA contains the latest restrcitions of the New Time Sheet UI.

Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central – Time Sheet
  • SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking

Resolution

 
Limitations

Breadcrumb navigation to the people profile is only supported for Time Tracking customers as of 2H 2024 release. Details in LINK .

On Change Rules that are assigned to the fields of Employee Time Sheet Entry, Time Recording, Allowance or Allowance Recording object definition are not executed.

A help text which is set for any field in the object definition of Employee Time Sheet Entry, Time Recording, Allowance or Allowance Recording is ignored.

The Hide Seconds setting is ignored for any Time or DateTime fields in Employee Time Sheet Entry and Time Recording object definition. Seconds are never displayed, even when Hide Seconds is set to No.

Only a limited set of custom field types is fully supported, which are:

  • String
  • Time
  • Date
  • Number
  • Boolean
  • Decimal
  • DateTime
  • Picklist
  • Generic Object
  • Foundation Object
  • Attachment

Partially supported data types:

  • User
  • Translatable

There is no dropdown/search help for an User custom field.

UI Field Renderer such as 'displayPickListWithoutExternalCode’ configured in the object definition of Employee Time Sheet Entry, Time Recording, Allowance or Allowance Recording are not supported.

Mandatory custom fields of simple types are supported in Employee Time Sheet Entry, Time Recording, Allowance, and Allowance Recording objects.
When you set a field to required = yes, you must provide a default value which is used in UI and background processes.

You are not allowed to set custom fields in Employee Time Sheet and Employee Time Valuation Result objects to require = yes.

It is not possible to change the sequence of the first several fields such as Time Type, Start time, End time and Duration etc. These fields are fixed to appear at the top and will remain so regardless of any modifications made to the sequence of fields in the object definition.

Restrictions on Initialization Rules in Time Sheet are documented in KBA 3584225.

Restrictions on Calendar Month View on Time Sheet UI are documented in KBA 3451238.

Quick Create does not support custom fields when Apply Planned Time. KBA 3603930 can be checked for further details.

See Also

3522883 - SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking and SAP SuccessFactors EC Time Sheet Release FAQ - Second Half 2024 (2H 2024)

3589070 - SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking and SAP SuccessFactors EC Time Sheet Release FAQ - First Half 2025 (1H 2025)

Keywords

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Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions