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3548848 - Error When Transferring Employee to an Organizational Unit

Symptom

An error occurs when attempting to transfer an employee to the organizational unit. The error message displayed is:
Update to organizational structure currently not possible; Period not valid; parent node only valid from DD.MM.YYYY to DD.MM.YYYY.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign.

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Navigate to Personnel Administration work center.
  2. Go to the Regular Tasks.
  3. Select the required Country and click on Transfer Employee.
  4. Input the mandatory fields.
  5. Save the changes.
  6. The error message is displayed.

Cause

The Valid To date of the Org Unit is maintained as 31.12.2999, due to the end date of the Org Unit the transfer is not possible.

Resolution

In order to fix this error, please change the Valid To of the Org Unit from 31.12.2999 to 31.12.9999(Unlimited) and then try transferring the employee.

See Also

Keywords

Employee transfer, Organizational Unit, Error, Update to organizational structure currently not possible, Period not valid, Parent node, Validity dates, Position record split, Org Unit, Transfer, Employee, Regular Task. , KBA , AP-OM , Organisational Management , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions