Symptom
Hourly Daily Hris Sync casing Importing employee data such us causing Job Information failure
You would receive an application error when importing job history record.
The application error id would be accompanied by:The system has encountered an unknown error on import. Please contact the System Administrator
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Environment
- SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite
- SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
Reproducing the Issue
Customer:
- Go to Import employee data
- Job history
- Result: The system has encountered an unknown error on import. Please contact the System Administrator
Partner or SAP:
- Go to Provisioning
- Mange schedule
- select HRIS Sync
- Recurring
- Rundaily: Hourly
Cause
An hourly delta sync job schedule is causing Import failure
Resolution
Best Practices to schedule Sync jobs. 2080728 - Employee Central: What is HRIS Sync?
Delta Recurring Job: Must be Run 3 times for a Recurring job
The system will kick delta Sync job for every change made via UI, API, Import. Hence we recommend not to schedule delta Sync job on an hourly basis.
Solution:
To sync data from Employee Central to the user data tables
The maximum times that the job can run each day in the Admin Center.
- 3 times for a One-Time job
- 3 times for a Recurring job
For more information, each HRIS Sync Jobs.
Result : hourly job it isn’t supporting ( You must create a Daily Hris sync job with frequency: Run same job 3 time daily ( 3: 15 AM , 13: 15 PM 21:15 PM))
Example:
For Scheduling any SF Job please refer to Guide Creating a Scheduled Job Request in Admin Center
Since B2305 release (Post release- 2305): customer can schedule some job such as: Hris sync Via UI View: Creating a Scheduled Job Request in Admin Center and View : 2512570 - Creating an HRIS Sync Job in SAP SuccessFactors Via Scheduled Job Manager or Provisioning
2080728 - Employee Central: What is HRIS Sync? - chapter -Notes on Some Common Job Types
Full Sync: Can be Run: 3 times for a One-Time job
Full Sync job is meant for initial customer go-live or for any massive data change or for any major data discrepancies.
It is not advisable to schedule a Full Sync job daily or weekly or monthly or quarterly, etc. If there are data discrepancies, please raise tickets for support and support can advise if Full Sync needs to be run. In any and all cases, Full Sync should never be scheduled. or View: 3044382 - User Based HRIS Sync and View: chapter -Notes on Some Common Job Types
Customer Action:
As a customer, you don't have access to Provisioning. To complete tasks in Provisioning, contact your implementation partner. If you're no longer working with an implementation partner, contact SAP Cloud Support.
Please ask implementation partner, contact SAP Cloud Support to check you Hris sync configuration
Employee Central Support Engineer Team Action:
Please refer to Splunk log in Internal Memo
FAQ - Additional Information
Q) Where can I get information on this from the Guide?
A) Guide:Implementing Employee Central Core
Chapter: Human Resource Information System (HRIS) Synchronization
Q) Hris sync Job frequency
A) View Post B2305 Release Guide: Managing Scheduled Jobs
- 2231503 - Synchronize Business Configuration Job Configuration via Scheduled Job Manager
See Also
- 2512570 - Creating an HRIS Sync Job in SAP SuccessFactors Via Scheduled Job Manager or Provisioning
- 2964383 - MDF Field label name Change Doesn't Sync to Employee Profile Header after HRIS Sync (real time or Incremental Sync job)
- 2172427 - HRIS Sync - Data Synchronization from EC to EP - Hard Coded Sync Mappings
- 2080728 - Employee Central: What is HRIS Sync?
- 3044382 - User Based HRIS Sync
- 2080813 - HRIS Sync: Import & API upsert considerations - Employee Central
- 2512570 - HRIS Sync: How to create a HRIS Sync job
- 2231503 - Synchronize Business Configuration Job Configuration via Scheduled Job Manager
Keywords
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