SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3279286 - How to change the label of 'Country/Region' in Global Information - Employee Central

Symptom

Is it a way of changing the Country/Region field that appears in the Global Information portlet while adding a new record, as this field is not available in Manage Business Configuration or in the Data Models?

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the profile of a user and click to edit the Personal Information porltet
  2. Click on "Add Global Information"
  3. An option to select Country/Region will appear:

Cause

It is possible to create a custom language package to edit this field.

Resolution

  1. In the instance, go to "Manage Languages"
  2. Find the language you are using 
  3. In the "Action" column, click on the three dots and on "Download default labels"
  4. Open the file and find the key "EMPLOYEE_HRIS_COUNTRY_CODE"
  5. Change the label to any label you want and save the file
  6. Go back to Manage Languages and click on "Add custom locale", in case you still don't have a custom language package for this language
  7. After creating a custom language, click on "Upload custom labels" and import the updated file
  8. Click on Save. The new label should be available.

See Also

Keywords

globalInfo, Country/region, Global Information, change label, manage languages, EMPLOYEE_HRIS_COUNTRY_CODE, custom language , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-PER-GLO , Global Info - Config, Rules, RBP, UI , How To

Product

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