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

You're trying to initiate onboarding process for external user using initiateOnboardingForUser API, when you POST the API query,

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

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• SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite
  
  • ODATA API

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.

From the error we can say that, start date provided in body is not matching with start date of homeAddress (PerAddressDEFLT API).

All Employee Central entities (PerPerson, EmpJob, EmpEmployment) should've same start date / effective start date as given in API query.

Check the start date of All Employee Central entities (PerPerson, EmpJob, EmpEmployment) is same as provided in API query.

If not, please correct the start date in the query, it should match start date of EC entities.

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