3483864 - Business First Name Alt 1 RBP not following parent field - SuccessFactors OData API

You are trying to query alternate language fields using odata api but API is not fetching some alternate language fields.

Query:
Query: https://<api-server>/odata/v2/PerPersonal?$select=businessFirstName,businessFirstNameAlt1,businessLastName,businessLastNameAlt1,firstName,firstNameAlt1,lastName,lastNameAlt1,personIdExternal,startDate&$filter=personIdExternal eq '*****'

Here businessFirstNameAlt1, businessLastNameAlt1 are alternative language fields.

Response:

As we can see in above response, alternative language fields for Display First Name((firstNameAlt1) and Display Last Name(lastNameAlt1) is being fetched but Legal First Name(businessFirstNameAlt1) and Legal Last Name(businessLastNameAlt1) not got fetched although it is being maintained in the Employee Profile.

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• SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite
  • Employee Central
  • OData API

1. Maintain Legal First Name(businessFirstNameAlt1) and Legal Last Name(businessLastNameAlt1) in the Employee Profile as shown below.
   
    
   
   
2. Run APi query: https://<api-server-url>/odata/v2/PerPersonal?$select=businessFirstName,businessFirstNameAlt1,businessLastName,businessLastNameAlt1,firstName,firstNameAlt1,lastName,lastNameAlt1,personIdExternal,startDate&$filter=personIdExternal eq '*****'
3. Response:
   
   <d:personIdExternal>******</d:personIdExternal>
                   <d:startDate m:type="Edm.DateTime">2022-10-01T00:00:00</d:startDate>
                   <d:firstName>**</d:firstName>
                   <d:lastName>**</d:lastName>
                   <d:businessLastName>**</d:businessLastName>
                   <d:lastNameAlt1>***</d:lastNameAlt1>
                   <d:firstNameAlt1>****</d:firstNameAlt1>
                   <d:businessFirstName>**</d:businessFirstName>
               </m:properties>

   As we can see in above response, alternative language fields for Display First Name((firstNameAlt1) and Display Last Name(lastNameAlt1) is being fetched but Legal First Name(businessFirstNameAlt1) and Legal Last Name(businessLastNameAlt1) not got fetched although it is being maintained in the Employee Profile.

Business First Name Alt field is not following the RBP of parent field.

Currently this is identified as bug. This fix should be released in b2411 i.e,. in 2nd release around November. This issue has work around.

Workaround:

You can grant admin permission "Employee Central HRIS OData API (read-only)" to the API user when querying.

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