3549451 - Error adding Background Element IFLD or FFLD or VFLD to Candidate Profile - Recruiting Management

This article describes the issue with adding background elements IFLD6-8 or FFLD5-8 or VFLD16 in the Candidate Profile Template. 

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management

While updating the templet Via Manage Templates or Provisioning, add IFLD6-8 and/or FFLD5-8 and/or VFLD16 under a background element, you will get an error that will depend on where you make the changes. 

a. If you made the changes in the manage templates, you will get a pop-up error with a fingerprint: fingerprint=a7093934b827835eb4d6558a3da81d3edae63be4.

Note: The fingerprint may differ. However, you can observe that if you remove the problematic fields (IFLD6-8 and/or FFLD5-8 and/or VFLD16), your changes will save.

b. If you made the changes in provisioning, you will get an error saying: 

Errors Validating Recruiting Template: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: ###; columnNumber: ###; Attribute "field-name" with value "######" must have a value from the list "name desc vfld1 vfld2 vfld3 vfld4 vfld5 vfld6 vfld7 vfld8 vfld9 vfld10 vfld11 vfld12 vfld13 vfld14 vfld15 vfld16 startDate endDate dfld1 dfld2 dfld3 ifld1 ifld2 ifld3 ifld4 ifld5 ffld1 ffld2 ffld3 ffld4.

Engineering team has confirmed that from database schema the available columns are from IFLD1 to IFLD5 and from FFLD1 to FFLD4 and VFLD16. Hence, you can add until IFLD5 and until FFLD4. The error is a result of the database design and is considered a system limitation.

Our engineering team is working to have the error in Manage Template tools addressed. Click on the star icon to follow and mark the KBA as one of your favorites to get notified of any updates.

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