Symptom
When processing a hire/rehire, if the "Enable Centralized Services to Add New Employee, Add New Employee for Fixed Term, and Rehire Inactive Employee" switch is turned on in 'Company System and Logo Settings' and you have a custom MDF in your hire template, you receive the error "externalCode is a required field/association in Object X" when submitting the hire, even if the 'externalCode' field for the object has its 'Required' value set to 'No' in 'Configure Object Definitions'.
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Environment
SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite
SuccessFactors Employee Central
Keywords
externalCode is a required field/association in Object, externalCode, is a required field/association in Object, required field/association, Add New Employee, Rehire Inactive Employee, Manage Pending Hires, hire, rehire, CS20240007129262, INC7515830, ECT-231994 , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-HIR-NEW , Add New Employee Wizard , LOD-SF-EC-HIR , Hire & Rehire Wizards , LOD-SF-EC-HIR-RIE , Rehire Inactive Employee , Known Error
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