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3526600 - The start date of work order cannot be scheduled later than the next Job Information record

Symptom

  • When attempting to update the Work Order Information in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, an error message is encountered:

The start date of work order XXXX cannot be scheduled later than the next Job Information record. Delete the Job Information record, and try again. 

  • This issue occurs when trying to update the start and end dates of the Work Order

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the contingent worker profile
  2. Click on Take action
  3. Click on Edit Work Order Information
  4. Change the Start Date 
  5. An error message will be prompt: The start date of work order XXXX cannot be scheduled later than the next Job Information record. Delete the Job Information record, and try again.

Cause

There is a record in job information in which the effective date is before the new work order Start Date chosen on the update.

The system will not allow the work order to start after the job info record.

That also applies when trying to update the start date to a date that is later than the current end date already set on the system.

Resolution

The new start date must be earlier than any record that is already set on the job information portlet.

If you want the new start date to be later than the current end date, you must first extend the end date and save. Then extend the start date and save.

See Also

2845132 - "End Date of Work Order XXXX cannot be pulled back into previous Job Info. Delete Job Info and retry" error when updating End Date of Work Order - SAP for Me

2643193 - Incremental load and Full Purge import of Work Order on various scenarios of Contingent Worker.

3054967 - Work Order records do not synchronize with Job Information - Employee Central

Keywords

SAP SuccessFactors, Employee Central, Contingent Workforce, Work Order, Sync Job Error, Update, Start Date, End Date, The start date of work order cannot be scheduled later than the next Job Information record, workorder, cwk, Contingent , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-CWF , Contingent Workforce , How To

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions