3400054 - [COE0019]Validation failed error while uperting initiateOnboardingForUser API - Onboarding

When trying to initiate onboarding process for external user using initiateOnboardingForUser API, the error is observed:

Error: [COE0019]Validation failed. Start Date mismatch with the Home Address entity: homeAddress for variants: mailing.

Note it will take your variant, so it can be "home" for example.

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding

1. POST below request using initiateOnboardingForUser API:
   https://<API-Server>/odata/v2/initiateOnboardingForUser 
   Body:
   {
       "userId":"john",
       "atsApplicationId":"john",
       "startDate": "2019-08-29T00:00:00"
   }
2. Error: [COE0019]Validation failed. Start Date mismatch with the Home Address entity: homeAddress for variants: mailing.

Start date provided in body is not matching with start date of homeAddress (PerAddressDEFLT API).

Check the start date of All Employee Central entities (PerPersonal, EmpJob, EmpEmployment, EmpCompensation, PerAddressDEFLT, EmpJobRelationships, PerPersonRelationship) to make sure it has same start date / effective start date as given in API query.

Example adding PerAddressDEFLT: 

{
  "__metadata": {
    "uri": "PerAddressDEFLT",
    "type": "SFOData.PerAddressDEFLT"
  },
  "addressType": "home",
  "personIdExternal": "454",
  "startDate": "/Date(1532572453000)/",
  "endDate": "/Date(3173567653000)/",
  "county": "5498",
  "province": "5506",
  "state": "3661",
  "city": "Shanghai",
  "country": "CHN",
  "zipCode": "201203",
  "address3": "502, no.66, lane 888, Somewhere district",
  "address1": "15-71 NCI Tower, No. 13332 A Test Ave"
} 

Note this is an example and it is necessary to adapt to the data to your entities that are mandatory (validation is against Manage Business Configuration entities).

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