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3359253 - Field in People Profile is editable even though there are no permissions granted - Employee Central

Symptom

User is able to edit fields in people profile without the required permissions assigned.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Login to instance
  2. Proceed to people profile of user B
  3. Go to job information
  4. Insert new record
  5. See that User A is able to edit the a field that they should not able to
  6. Go to view user's permission
  7. See that User A does not get the edit permission for this field from any of there roles

Cause

There is an OnView Business Rule configured within the instance that is setting the visibility of the field to edit.

Resolution

The rule will overwrite the users permissions. If you do not want this to occur, kindly check the permission groups in  the if conditions of the rule so it will only trigger for intended permission groups.

Keywords

Field, Permission, No Permissions, Field, Triggering, Edit, onView rule, override permissions, edit field, view field, people profile , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-JOB-RUL , Job Info Business Rules , Bug Filed

Product

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