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3320334 - Mass Purge Unused Attachments in Manage Documents page

Symptom

  • How to Delete/Purge the Unused Attachments which  can be seen in "Manage Documents" that are not visible on the custom object/Manage Data page.
  • Attachments have been loaded to the custom MDF object through ODATA API

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors HCM suite

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Manage Documents
  2. Observe multiple attachments regarding custom MDF object
  3. Go to Manage Data
  4. Search for custom MDF object and relating record
  5. Attachment not visible

Cause

As attachments are loaded by ODATA API and not referenced by SuccessFactors UI, attachments must be removed in the same way.

Resolution

Leverage ODATA API to delete attachments through Delete API function

See Also

2518360 - The Manage Documents Feature in SAP SuccessFactors

2148306 - How To Enable API Visibility In successfactors system for Custom MDF Objects

2599554 - Odata attachment upsert to custom MDF Object not reflecting attachments in UI

2669482 - How to perform operations with relationship between custom MDF objects

Keywords

Purge documents, unused documents, ODATA API, Insert, Manage Documents, Manage Data, Insert API , KBA , LOD-SF-PLT-DOC , Document Management , LOD-SF-INT-ODATA , OData API Framework , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core all versions