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3258171 - Picklist Field is not showing dropdown values within Candidate Profile after adding it manually - Recruiting Management

Symptom

After a Recruiter adds a Candidate manually, there is a picklist field that is not working properly by not showing the options:

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management.

Cause

There is a misconfiguration in the XML of the Description tag:

As can be seen above, there is no end and closure tag after one label description. This bad format of the XML tags can cause some issues while using the field. The description corruption is also visible in Manage Templates:

Resolution

The description tag must be corrected like below, where one line per tag is following the respective language:

If necessary to make the change via Manage Templates, it can be simply inserted the description like this example:

Note: In this scenario, the User's current language was EN_US. Hence, please insert the description accordingly to your system language. 

Keywords

picklist, dropdown, not showing, values, options, candidate, profile, manually, added, created, issue , KBA , LOD-SF-RCM-CAN , General Candidate Issues (not Offers, not Profiles) , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting all versions