SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3317184 - Users are not able to edit fields such as Start Date / Legal Entity / Event Reason - Onboarding

Symptom

Before a patch/fix from March 2023, users without permissions for any entity opens new hire data review/personal data collection Page and can modify hire date, company and event Reason. Now the fields are ready-only.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding

Cause

Missing set of permissions.

Resolution

This was fixed by the engineering team with a patch and henceforth, the below permissions need to be provided to users who want to edit the fields (start date/legal entity/event reason):

  1. Employee Central Effective Dated Entities> jobInfo_event-reason and compInfo_event-reason >Edit/insert
  2. Employee Central Effective Dated Entities> Job Information> Legal entity >Edit/insert
  3. Employee Data> Start Date >Edit/insert
  4. Please do ensure that the candidate is in the target population of the role via which these permissions are granted

Important information: After providing the above permissions any candidate must be restarted for the fields to be editable.

Keywords

unable, edit, hire, date, legal, entity, start, date, event, reason, RBP, issue, read, only, onboarding, obx, onb , KBA , LOD-SF-OBX-NHR , Onboardee Data Review , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding all versions