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3417638 - Error Initiating Onboarding: "the onboarding process has already been initiated" - Onboarding 1.0

Symptom

While trying to initiate Onboarding process from RCM, the following error appears:

"Unable initiate onboarding. Failure reason: the onboarding process has already been initiated"

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding 1.0

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Access the instance;
  2. Go to Recruiting;
  3. Select the correct Job Requisition and select the candidate;
  4. Click to initiate Onboarding, the error will appear.

Cause

The Onboarding process was already initiated for the candidate in the same Job Requisition.

Resolution

Open a ticket to Onboarding Support to restore the deleted records of onboarding candidate from server side.

Alternatively, you can create a new Job Requisition and process the same Candidate again.

Keywords

RCM-ONB integration, error, job requisition , KBA , LOD-SF-OBD-INT , Integrations with Onboarding , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding all versions