A deep link to a People Profile block section directs users to a specific section so that users don't need to look for the section in People Profile. and deep link take user to specific blocks.

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SAP SuccessFactors Employee Profile

There are two supported deeplink patterns which can help user to navigate a specific block section: 

• Pattern 1 : User and Section
  • #user/{userId}/{section} - to go to target user’s target section.
  • Ex. https://hcm68sales.successfactors.com/xi/ui/peopleprofile/pages/index.xhtml?_s.crb=qlAk7l%2b%2bZzrGhSZ0h15sHiRF2kJ64XJsbjDvNopbBQA%3d#user/511951E98F7C4EF09F944172B7E6DDE1/section7617
• Pattern 2:
  • #section/{section} - to go to the login user's target section.

  • https://hcm68sales.successfactors.com/xi/ui/peopleprofile/pages/index.xhtml?_s.crb=qlAk7l%2b%2bZzrGhSZ0h15sHiRF2kJ64XJsbjDvNopbBQA%3d#section/section7617

How to find section id for block?

• Take the benefits section as an example

Once it load, please copy URL of the same.

Once you cope URL ,You will find section id in url as below. 

https://hcm68sales.successfactors.com/xi/ui/peopleprofile/pages/index.xhtml?_s.crb=qlAk7l%2b%2bZzrGhSZ0h15sHiRF2kJ64XJsbjDvNopbBQA%3d#user/511951E98F7C4EF09F944172B7E6DDE1/section7617


You can use the section id as highlighted above to create URL as shown below.

•   Pattern 1: https://hcm68sales.successfactors.com/xi/ui/peopleprofile/pages/index.xhtml?_s.crb=qlAk7l%2b%2bZzrGhSZ0h15sHiRF2kJ64XJsbjDvNopbBQA%3d#user/511951E98F7C4EF09F944172B7E6DDE1/section7617
•   Pattern 2 :  https://hcm68sales.successfactors.com/xi/ui/peopleprofile/pages/index.xhtml?_s.crb=qlAk7l%2b%2bZzrGhSZ0h15sHiRF2kJ64XJsbjDvNopbBQA%3d#section/section7617

Please note:

The above deep link creation method is based on PP3, with the latest people profile enabled and full profile adoption after 2h 2024, the previous deep link might not be valid.  Customer might need to recreate these links by a new method. We will keep the document updated by then.

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