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This Knowledge Base Article is to document all major enhancements to be aware of in our 2H 2022 release. Also provides one stop shop for all out Platform Foundation documentation.
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Environment
SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite
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The documentation can also be found on the SAP Help Portal under SAP SuccessFactors Release Information, quick links under "What's New" section will provide the detailed release summary across application. For extensive documentation on SAP SuccessFactors Platform including Admin Guide, Release Information and Implementation Guides see SAP Help Guide section SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite.
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Resolution
Role-based Permissions
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-RBP | PLA-33415 | New ID Column in Manage Permission Groups | SAP Help Portal |
New ID Column in Manage Permission Groups |
In the current version, there is a new ID column on the Manage Permission Group Page. The IDs are system-generated serial numbers according to the creation time of the permission groups. You now have unique identifiers to differentiate permission groups. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-RBP | PLA-33003 | Bulk Activate and Deactivate Role Assignments | SAP Help Portal |
Bulk Activate and Deactivate Role Assignments |
The latest Role-Based Permissions now allows you to bulk activate and deactivate role assignments of a permission role. Previously, you could only update the status of assignments one at a time. You can update the status for role assignments of a permission role under Admin Center Manage Permission Roles > [select a role] > Assignments. Before this enhancement, it was not possible to manage the status of role assignments that easily. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-RBP | PLA-30333 | Email Notification for Permission Group Changes | SAP Help Portal |
Email Notification for Permission Group Changes |
As a Role-Based Permission (RBP) administrator, you can now enable email notification for changes to large-size permission groups. A new Role-Based Permission Notification – Group Change email template is now available under Admin Center > Email Notification Templates Settings. Before this enhancement, RBP administrators could not monitor changes that impact a large number of users and reduce security risks. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-RBP | PLU-5754 | The Legacy Role-Based Permissions Now Supports Configuring Target Criteria for External Users | SAP Help Portal |
The Legacy Role-Based Permissions Now Supports Configuring Target Criteria for External Users |
Role-Based Permissions administrators can now define target criteria when granting permissions of non-user based MDF objects with a target population of external users, for example, external onboarding users. Previously, as an RBP administrator, when you granted permissions of non-user based MDF objects with a target population of external users, for example, external onboarding users, the Specify the target population of the other objects section didn't display in the Grant this role to ... popup. Now, you can see this section and further restrict the target population by defining target criteria at object level. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-RBP | PLA-31349 | Increased Access Granularity for RBP Administrators | SAP Help Portal |
Increased Access Granularity for RBP Administrators |
Now, you can grant view only access to RBP administrators. Previously, RBP administrators had both view and edit access of role-based permission management by default. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-RBP | PLU-5697 | The Latest Role-Based Permissions Supports Change History of Permission Roles | SAP Help Portal |
The Latest Role-Based Permissions Support Change History of Permission Roles |
As an RBP administrator, you can now view the change history of a permission role using the latest Role-Based Permissions. You can also compare two versions of a permission role to check which permissions are added or removed. You can now compare two versions of a permission role. The strikethrough texts highlighted in red are removed permission. The underlined texts highlighted in green are newly added permissions. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-RBP | PLA-32073 | The Manage Identity Account and Group Permission Category | SAP Help Portal |
The Manage Identity Account and Group Permission Category |
A new role-based permission category, Manage Identity Account and Group, is now available. The permission category is for housing identity management permissions. In the previous version, you did not have the option to locate role-based permissions about identity management that efficiently. |
Identity Authentication Service (IAS)
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-IAS | PLT-80002 | New Option in Monitoring Tool for New Hires to Use SAP Cloud Identity Services - Identity Authentication for Onboarding | SAP Help Portal |
New Option in Monitoring Tool for New Hires to Use SAP Cloud Identity Services - Identity Authentication for Onboarding |
In the current version of the Monitoring Tool, there's a Settings tab with an option called Apply to Both Employee and Onboardee, that includes new hires in the Identity Authentication service. The page used for tracking the Identity Authentication upgrade status is now located on the new Upgrade Status tab. In the previous version, Onboarding customers could only use the Identity Authentication service for employees, while new hires used a separate form of authentication. Administrators would only use the Monitoring Tool to track the progress of their upgrade to the Identity Authentication service on a single page. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-IAS | PLA-28233 | Manage Identity Authentication/Identity Provisioning Real Time Sync | SAP Help Portal |
Manage Identity Authentication/Identity Provisioning Real Time Sync |
A new administrative tool, Manage Identity Authentication/Identity Provisioning Real Time Sync, is now available to synchronize user account changes from SAP SuccessFactors to Identity Authentication Service through Identity Provisioning Service. We've made the enhancement to sync onboardee account changes to Identity Authentication Service in real time to help quicken the onboarding process. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-IAS | PLT-79611 | X.509 Certificate-Based Authentication for Incoming Calls | SAP Help Portal |
X.509 Certificate-Based Authentication for Incoming Calls |
SAP SuccessFactors Business Execution Suite (BizX) now supports X.509 Certificate-based authentication for incoming calls in Cloud-Identity Authentication, Cloud-Identity Provisioning, Employee Central Payroll, and SAP Business Technology Platform. Certificate-based authentication using mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) provides a more secure authentication option to its users. Compared to HTTP Basic Authentication, mTLS uses an X.509 certificate issued from a Certificate Authority, rather than relying on passwords for authentication. |
Manage Users
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-MNG | ECT-176085 | General Display Name | SAP Help Portal |
General Display Name |
You can now configure employee names that can be displayed consistently across SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite. A new admin option, Enable adoption of General Display Name, is added to control it. With the new capability, employees' chosen names are displayed in all interactions where a legal name isn’t required, while administrators and HRBPs can also access a person’s legal name whenever needed. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-MNG | ECT-177396 | Personal Pronouns | SAP Help Portal |
Pronouns |
We added a new standard element, pronouns to the Succession Data Model. You can now configure pronouns so that employees can display their pronouns on user interfaces such as People Profile and quickcards. Previously, people could not list their personal pronouns, like "she/her/hers" and "they/them/theirs" in email signatures and profiles. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-MNG | ECT-185370 | Support More Values for Gender | SAP Help Portal |
Support More Values for Gender |
Now, we also support the additional three values, Unknown, Undeclared, and Others, throughout the entire suite as appropriate and applicable in a specific business process. Previously, only Male and Female gender values were supported throughout the entire HXM Suite, while Employee Central already allowed five gender values. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-MNG | ECT-170010 | Assignment Display Header | SAP Help Portal |
Assignment Display Header |
A new standard element, assignmentDisplayHeader, is now available to be added to the Succession Data Model. The new standard element allows you to visualize the different employments of an employee and enables it for usage in latest Goal Management and Opportunity Marketplace. Previously, Administrators could not configure and import Assignment Display Header. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-UIM | ECT-201586 | Validation on Hire Date and Exit Date | SAP Help Portal |
Validation on Hire Date and Exit Date |
When you import user data file, the system now validates the values of HIREDATE and EXITDATE in the file, to check whether the data type is date and whether the value is a valid date. Previously, if you entered a value that wasn't a date for HIREDATE or EXITDATE, for example, last year, the system didn't import the value or threw an error. |
Latest Home Page
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-LHOM | WEF-22796 | Enhancements to Survey Cards on the Latest Home Page | SAP Help Portal |
Enhancements to Survey Cards on the Latest Home Page |
You can now specify a Target Group for each survey card, enabling you to make different surveys available to different audiences. You can make a survey card visible to one or more dynamic groups, permission roles, or permission groups. You can now prevent survey cards from showing on the home page while they're work-in-progress. You can use the Enabled switch to show or hide it. Previously, survey cards were not that flexible and more consistent with other custom cards. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-LHOM | WEF-21119 | Enhancements to the Manager Experience on the Latest Home Page | SAP Help Portal |
Enhancements to the Manager Experience on the Latest Home Page |
In the current version, dialogs opened with the My Team quick action and My Team card are enhanced. In the previous version, dialogs opened with the My Team quick action and My Team card were different. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-LHOM | WEF-33232 | Enhancements to the User Experience on the Latest Home Page | SAP Help Portal |
Enhancements to the User Experience on the Latest Home Page |
We've made several enhancements to the user experience on the latest home page. Overall improvement to layout, responsiveness and names were done in response to feedback from customers. |
Instance Refresh Tool
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-IRT | TLS-24588 | Restrict Refresh Schedule Date Selection to Not More Than 182 Days | SAP Help Portal |
Restrict Refresh Schedule Date Selection to Not More Than 182 Days |
In the current version, the Refresh Schedule Date date picker doesn't allow users to select a date beyond 182 days. This is done so that users do not end up blocking future slots and then cancelling refreshes; so that slots are available for others to use. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-IRT | TLS-21925 | Selective Anonymization of Data in Instance Refresh | SAP Help Portal |
Selective Anonymization of Data in Instance Refresh |
In the current version, The Selective Anonymization feature in Instance Refresh allows you to choose which fields in a custom MS Excel template which will be anonymized. Previously, users did not have the option to anonymize data during instance refresh. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-TLS | TLS-24546 | Availability of Instance Refresh Request Summary in the Download Log | SAP Help Portal |
Availability of Instance Refresh Request Summary in the Download Log |
In the current version, the summary of an instance refresh request is now available in the download log on the Overview page for every instance refresh request. In the previous version, there was not details of the instance refresh request to users. |
Data Retention Management
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-DRM | PLA-15174 | More Modules Support Access Control to Purge Reports of DRTM Purge Requests | SAP Help Portal |
More Modules Support Access Control to Purge Reports of DRTM Purge Requests |
In the current version, users have the ability to restrict access to purge reports of DRTM purge requests based on countries/regions has expanded to more DRTM purge types. Previously, purge types did not support access control based on countries/regions. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-DRM | PLA-27972 | Select All Countries/Regions or Legal Entities in DRTM Purge Requests | SAP Help Portal |
Select All Countries/Regions or Legal Entities in DRTM Purge Requests |
In the current version, you can choose Select all when you define purge rules based on countries/regions or legal entities for DRTM purge requests. In the previous version, there wasn't an option to select all countries or regions when defining purge rule. |
Change Audit Reports
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-CHA | PLA-27960 | Managing General Audit | SAP Help Portal |
Managing General Audit |
In the current version, You can enable auditing for page access, data export, and proxy sessions using the new tool Manage General Audit in Admin Center. In the previous version, you did not have the option to expand auditing coverage and gain more insight into your system. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-RAL | PLA-28541 | Increased Limit of User Accounts to Exclude from Read Audit | SAP Help Portal |
Increased Limit of User Accounts to Exclude from Read Audit |
In the current version, you can add up to 100 users to the Read Audit exception list. In the previous version, you could add at most 10 users to the Read Audit exception list. |
SuccessFactors Mobile app
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-MOB | MOB-62897 | Enhancements to the Home Page on iOS and Android Mobile Apps | SAP Help Portal | Security Enhancements for iOS and Android Mobile Apps |
In the current version, you can prevent users from downloading and previewing content in the iOS and Android mobile apps. In the previous version, you did not have the Attachment Download Restriction option. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-MOB | MOB-62895 | Enhancements to the Home Page on iOS and Android Mobile Apps | SAP Help Portal |
Enhancements to the Home Page on iOS and Android Mobile Apps | Mobile apps now include:
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Theme Manager
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-THM | WEF-25353 | Horizon Visual Theme for SAP Fiori | SAP Help Portal | Horizon Visual Theme for SAP Fiori |
In the current version, when the Horizon visual theme is enabled, you can see updated styling on many pages, such as more rounded corners and a stronger font weight. In the previous version, the Horizon visual theme wasn't available, so all pages used the older "Quartz" styling, with more square corners and a lighter font weight. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-THM | WEF-22820 | SAP Fiori Standards Universally Applied to Page Header | SAP Help Portal |
SAP Fiori Standards Universally Applied to Page Header |
In the current version, the page header has a (Search) icon that you can use to show or hide the search field. The (Show Me) icon is on the same side of the avatar image as other icons. In the previous version, the page header had a search field that was always shown and couldn't be hidden. The (Show Me) icon was on the opposite side of the avatar image from other icons. |
Scheduled Jobs
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-JOBS | PLS-31045 | More Jobs on Job Monitor in Scheduled Job Manager | SAP Help Portal | More Jobs on Job Monitor in Scheduled Job Manager |
In the current version, the tab where you monitor job execution is called Job Monitor can still be monitored in Provisioning or. You can select more job types in the Job Type field. Here's an example, showing executions of the Goal notification email job type. In the previous version, the tab where you monitor job execution was called Scheduled Jobs. The job types included in this enhancement couldn't be monitored in Admin Center. Instead, they were monitored in other tools, like Monitor Jobs and Provisioning. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-JOBS | PLS-334 | Manage Jobs in Scheduled Job Manager | SAP Help Portal |
Set Up Scheduled Jobs in Scheduled Job Manager |
In the current version, the tab where you view scheduled jobs and create job requests is called Job Scheduler. You can choose the Create Job Request option to create and submit a job request. In the previous version, the tab where you view scheduled jobs was called Scheduled Job Requests. You couldn't create job requests or complete any other actions after they're created. |
Metadata Framework (MDF)
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-MDF-OBJ | MDF-29017 | MDF Data Volume Information Now Available | SAP Help Portal | MDF Data Volume Information Now Available |
In the current version, the "Copy" menu is available for records of objects under the Configuration or Non-User Transactional category. In the previous version, administrators did not have the option to copy field values from one record to another for MDF objects under Configuration and Non-User Transactional categories. | |
LOD-SF-MDF-MGD | MDF-3908 | Copy Configuration and Non-User Transactional MDF Data | SAP Help Portal |
Copy Configuration and Non-User Transactional MDF Data |
In the current version, the tab where you view scheduled jobs and create job requests is called Job Scheduler. You can choose the Create Job Request option to create and submit a job request. In the previous version, the tab where you view scheduled jobs was called Scheduled Job Requests. You couldn't create job requests or complete any other actions after they're created. | |
LOD-SF-MDF-RUL | RUL-6889 | Stable Transport and Import of Business Rules | SAP Help Portal |
Stable Transport and Import of Business Rules |
In the current release, the Business Rules Admin page shows a message about how many rules haven't been migrated yet. The link in the message leads you to the check tool where you can perform the migration. In the previous release, business rules referred to the option IDs of legacy picklist values used inside the rule. Option IDs are system-specific. After transporting or importing the corresponding rules from the source system to the target system, the picklist values would differ between both systems and could thus lead to different results after rule execution. To prevent this, you had to manually adjust the option IDs of the legacy picklist values in the target system. The rule showed the label followed by the option ID in brackets in display mode. | |
LOD-SF-MDF-OBJ | MDF-49970 | Warning for Incorrect Value Source | SAP Help Portal | Warning for Incorrect Value Source |
In Configure Object Definitions, a warning appears upon saving when you use a generic object (GO) as the value source of an MDF field and the effective dating of the value source object is set to "From Parent". We added the warning to help you avoid application errors and data issues. | |
LOD-SF-MDF-OBJ | MDF-48571 | Search Data Tool Is Deleted | SAP Help Portal | Search Data Tool Is Deleted |
The Search Data tool is deleted as of December 9, 2022. The Manage Data tool provides the same search functionality as Search Data. We encourage you to use Manage Data to create, view, and edit MDF object data. | |
LOD-SF-MDF-XC | MDF-48544 | Deletion of SAP SuccessFactors Extensions from Extension Center | SAP Help Portal | Deletion of SAP SuccessFactors Extensions from Extension Center |
SAP SuccessFactors Extensions in Extension Center is going to be deleted on December 9, 2022. | Deprecation of the SuccessFactors Extension from Extension Center |
LOD-SF-MDF-RUL | RUL-8944 | Extended Rule Function: Get Picklist Value Label | SAP Help Portal | Extended Rule Function: Get Picklist Value Label |
In the current version, the Get Picklist Value Label rule function can now be used both with legacy picklists and MDF picklists. In the previous version, the rule function was restricted to legacy picklists. | |
LOD-SF-MDF-RUL | TLS-25119 | Manual Mass Change of Basic Rules to Application-Specific Scenarios | SAP Help Portal | Manual Mass Change of Basic Rules to Application-Specific Scenarios |
In the current release, you can change the underlying rule scenario for more than one rule at a time, from Basic to an application-specific rule scenario. You use the corresponding migration checks of the check tool to perform this change. The tool selects the correct rule scenario for your use case. In the previous version, you could change the underlying rule scenario to an application-specific rule scenario only for one rule at a time, using the Change Scenario link on the Configure Business Rules page. In the guided procedure that opens up when using this link, you have to choose the corresponding scenario yourself. | |
LOD-SF-MDF-OBJ | TLS-18501 | Enhancement to the Configure Object Definitions Page | SAP Help Portal | Enhancement to the Configure Object Definitions Page |
In the current version, you can add the MDF Object Definitions from the Configure Object Definitions page. Choose a bundle to add the configurations. In the previous version, you couldn't add MDF Object Definitions from the Configure Object Definitions page. | |
LOD-SF-MDF-OBJ | MDF-50148 | Improved Search Behavior in Configure Object Definitions | SAP Help Portal | Improved Search Behavior in Configure Object Definitions |
In the current version, Configure Object Definitions shows items in the object search result that are more relevant and are sorted alphabetically. In the previous version, Configure Object Definitions shows some irrelevant items in the search result, and the items aren't sorted alphabetically. |
Configuration Center
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-CGC | TLS-21535 | Filter Capability in Configuration Center | SAP Help Portal | Filter Capability in Configuration Center |
In the current version, you can apply filters to narrow down your search results to view and download the required configurations or to transport the required configurations from one tenant to another. In the previous version, filters weren't available. |
Manage Login Account
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-MLA | PLA-25749 | New Global User ID for Use Across SAP Applications | SAP Help Portal | New Global User ID for Use Across SAP Applications |
In the current version, there is new user unique identifier, Global User ID, to identify users across SAP business applications and services. The feature replaces the need for a correlation of different external user identifiers and functions as the default solution for establishing a common user identifier in integration scenarios. | |
LOD-SF-PLT-MLA | PLA-34885 | New Account ID Column on the Manage Login Accounts Page | SAP Help Portal | New Account ID Column on the Manage Login Accounts Page |
In the current version, you can see a new column, Account ID, on the Manage Login Accounts page. Account ID is a system-generated UUID. For example, 62272060-8568-9349-1700-022438dcdf96. Account ID is not editable. In the previous version, Account ID was not an option. |
Admin Center
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT | PLT-80253 | Enhancement to Tools Feature in Admin Center | SAP Help Portal | Enhancement to Tools Feature in Admin Center |
In the current version, you can add more tools as Favorites and see more recently used tools in the Admin Center. You can also now select a tools category from the search results to see corresponding links, instead of scrolling through the lists of links within the nested categories. In the previous version, all the categories and their corresponding links were displayed in a vertical view. As a result, some categories that displayed at the bottom of the page would only show a partial list of corresponding links, and you would have to scroll to the top to see the remaining half of the list. |
Alerts
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-ALR | TLS-24917 | Maximum Number of Unresolved Alerts | SAP Help Portal | Maximum Number of Unresolved Alerts |
In the current version, the Admin Alert Type Information popup shows information about the maximum number of unresolved alerts. In the previous version, there was no maximum number of unresolved alerts defined. Alerts were created or updated on a daily basis. |
Check Tool
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-CHK | TLS-23495 | Major Changes to the Check Tool | SAP Help Portal | Major Changes to the Check Tool |
In the current version, the checks are now grouped on tabs according to the check type they belong to. Each check type follows a specific purpose. In the previous version, all checks were grouped by application area. Additional information on a check was displayed in a dialog box. There were no migration checks. |
Passwords
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-PWD | PLU-5907 | Updated Default Settings for Reset Password Messages | SAP Help Portal | Updated Default Settings for Reset Password Messages |
In the current version, the popup messages that appear when you reset the password for login accounts have been enhanced, to enable automatic email notifications for account users. |
Action Search
Component | ID | Feature Name & Help Guide Link | Description | Before & After | Additional Information |
LOD-SF-PLT-SRH | PLS-26420 | New Actions Available in Action Search | SAP Help Portal | New Actions Available in Action Search |
In the current version, the actions listed above are available in Action Search. Now, you can search for these actions in the global header search box. In the previous version, these actions were not available in Action Search. |
Keywords
2H 2022, 2H, H2 2022, 2H2022, H22022, b2211, 2211 , KBA , LOD-SF-PLT , Platform Foundational Capabilities , Product Enhancement