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3557237 - Change audit report with error message: 'Status is Employee Central (Failed)'

Symptom

When attempting to submit a change audit report using the Employee Central module, the process fails and displays a "Failed" status accompanied by the message: "Employee Central (Failed)" in the report.

Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite
  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central: Employee Profile

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to change audit report.
  2. Create Personal Data report.
  3. Select Personal Search.
  4. Change by user.
  5. Select the modules: Employee central.
  6. Set date range.
  7. Submit the report.
  8. View partial failure result after report completes.
  9. Note that module status is Employee Central (Failed).

Cause

The system is designed to protect against large volume data changes in a short time, which are typically produced by import jobs or migrations, not actions by a natural person. The audit report is designed to record changes by a natural person. An error is thrown to prevent the extraction of large volume audit reports, which would not be user-friendly to read as it contains more than 20000 record changes.

Resolution

Before running the change, audit report is important to:

  1. Acknowledge the limitation of the audit report to protect the system. Limitations of Change Audit | SAP Help Portal 
  2. Understand that large volume data changes are typically produced by import jobs or migrations, not actions by a natural person.
  3. Note that an error is thrown to prevent the extraction of large volume audit reports.

In case you need this behave to be reconsider, please check the process to how request improvement: 2090228 - How to submit enhancement ideas for SAP SuccessFactors Products - SAP for Me.

See Also

Keywords

Partial Failure, Change Audit Reports, SAP SuccessFactors, Employee Central, Large Volume Data Changes, Import Jobs, Migrations, Natural Person, Error, Large Volume Audit Report, Database Script, Memory Consumption, Status is Employee Central (Failed)', change audit report, INC10334412. , KBA , LOD-SF-PLT-CHA , Change Audit , LOD-SF-PLT-AUDR , Request Audit Report (Not Change Audit) , Problem

Product

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