SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3357702 - "The value for field 'Company' in this Job Information record does not exist. Please select a valid value for field 'Company'." error upon submitting a Leave of Absence request

Symptom

You have noticed that, upon submitting a Leave of Absence request for an employee, the error message "The value for field 'Company' in this Job Information record does not exist. Please select a valid value for field 'Company'." is being thrown, despite the 'Company' value being active during the Leave of Absence period.

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Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
  • SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to Administer Time For... employee;
  2. Submit a Leave of Absence;
  3. Upon approving the request, the error gets thrown.

Cause

There are two points to observe in this behavior:

  1. The switch 'Use Company Filter for Positions in MSS Job Information and History', under Position Management Settings > UI Customizing, has its value set to 'Yes';
  2. In the 'Rule for Synchronizing Position to Job Information' field, under Position Management Settings > Synchronization, the rule configuration has a parameter to set 'Job Information.Company to be equal to Job Information.Position.Legal Entity', as shown below:

Resolution

Either remove the parameter from the rule configuration or set the value of the 'Use Company Filter for Positions in MSS Job Information and History' to 'No'.

You can find more details on why this occurs on KBA 2386613 - When can you include Company/Legal Entity in the Position to Job Information Sync Rule - SAP for Me.

See Also

2386613 - When can you include Company/Legal Entity in the Position to Job Information Sync Rule - SAP for Me

Keywords

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Product

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