SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3098194 - Users with write permissions to a Child field cannot edit the field

Symptom

A user who has read permission to a Parent field, and write permissions to the Child field cannot update a field

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management 

Reproducing the Issue

  1. A user is permissioned with read access to a Parent field, and write access to the associated Child field
  2. The user cannot edit the Child field

Cause

The system is designed that users must be granted write permission to both Parent and Child fields.

Resolution

This behaviour has been confirmed as expected by Product Management. If you wish to see a change to this behaviour, we recommend creating an enhancement request in the Community Portal

Keywords

KBA , LOD-SF-RCM-JOB , Job Postings & Requisitions , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting all versions