Symptom
When using Past Direct Mapping for a field of a MDF Object the data doesn't appear or appears broken in the document generated.
Environment
- SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions
- SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite all versions
Reproducing the Issue
- Navigate to Manage Data;
- In first dropdown select the object of interest;
- In the second dropdown select an employee;
- There are more than one record for the employee;
- Check that there is a Past Direct Mapping for an object field in the Document Generation Template;
- In the document generated the previous value of the field doesn't appear in document generated or it appears broken.
Cause
Expected Behavior. The system only retrieves active records and the records which are not pending while fetching the data for the placeholder, so it only retrieve the data of the current record.
Resolution
You can submit an enhancement request specifically about this to have it considered within future development cycles – you can do this on our Customer Community Portal. For detailed steps on How to Submit Ideas for SAP SuccessFactors Products, please refer to KBA 2090228 - How to submit enhancement ideas for SAP SuccessFactors Products - SAP for Me.
See Also
2494561 - Custom MDF Objects mapping in document generation. - SAP for Me
2320253 - Document Generation: Specific field is not available for direct mapping - SAP for Me
Keywords
Document Generation, Direct Mapping, Past Direct Mapping, MDF Object, Document Generation Template , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-DOC , Document Generation , LOD-SF-MDF , Metadata Framework , Problem