Symptom
The picklist for one field on the Candidate Profile page is being displayed at the top left of the screen instead of beside the field label as normally expected.
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Environment
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management
Reproducing the Issue
- Manually create a new candidate profile in RCM > Candidates > Add candidate
- Go to the Salutation picklist field and click on the arrow to open the dropdown menu
- The picklist shows up at the top left of the page
Cause
Misconfiguration of the Candidate Profile Template XML - there is a closing square bracket missing in the field description for English US:
<field-definition id="salutation" type="picklist" required="false" custom="true" anonymize="true" sensitive="false">
<field-label mime-type="text-plain"><![CDATA[Salutation]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="de_DE"><![CDATA[Anrede ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="en_GB"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="es_ES"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="fr_FR"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="ja_JP"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="ko_KR"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="pt_BR"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="ru_RU"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="en_US"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="zh_CN"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-description><![CDATA[Salutation]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="de_DE"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="en_GB"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="es_ES"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="fr_FR"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="ja_JP"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="ko_KR"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="pt_BR"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="ru_RU"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="en_US"><![CDATA[Salutation ]></field-description>
<field-description lang="zh_CN"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<picklist-id>salutation</picklist-id>
Resolution
Add the closing square bracket as shown below:
<field-definition id="salutation" type="picklist" required="false" custom="true" anonymize="true" sensitive="false">
<field-label mime-type="text-plain"><![CDATA[Salutation]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="de_DE"><![CDATA[Anrede ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="en_GB"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="es_ES"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="fr_FR"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="ja_JP"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="ko_KR"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="pt_BR"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="ru_RU"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="en_US"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-label mime-type="text-plain" lang="zh_CN"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-label>
<field-description><![CDATA[Salutation]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="de_DE"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="en_GB"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="es_ES"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="fr_FR"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="ja_JP"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="ko_KR"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="pt_BR"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="ru_RU"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="en_US"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<field-description lang="zh_CN"><![CDATA[Salutation ]]></field-description>
<picklist-id>salutation</picklist-id>
Keywords
KBA , LOD-SF-RCM-CAN , General Candidate Issues (not Offers, not Profiles) , Problem