SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3534309 - Document Generation - Placeholder break line - Employee Central

Symptom

It is not possible to set break lines in placeholders when creating a document through Manage Document Template.

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Create a Document Template with placeholders.
  2. Create mapping for the placeholders.
  3. When generating the document, the placeholders that have long values do not break lines, creating misalignments in the document content.

Cause

Product limitation.

Breaking the value of a placeholder into multiple lines cannot be done with Document Generation.

Placeholders are not meant for long texts.

Resolution

If you think the possibility to have this feature in the system would be useful, please feel raise an enhancement request as per KBA 2090228 - How to submit enhancement ideas for SAP SuccessFactors Products.

See Also

Document Generation guide 

3069585 - Document Generation - Unwanted Spaces Before and After Placeholders - SAP for Me

2671835 - Workflow Tags vs Placeholder - Workflow Notification Templates and Document Generation - SAP for Me

Keywords

placeholder, document, document generation, break, breakline, new line, document template, mapping , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-DOC , Document Generation , Product Enhancement

Product

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