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3561167 - Username Resets to Email For Onboardees on Start Date

Symptom

For onboarding hires, on users start date the username is set to email even after the username has been updated during Manage Pending Hires step

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Navigate to Manage Pending Hires
  2. Select Onboarding User
  3. Proceed with Hire and Fill in Username Field
  4. Submit Hire
  5. On Start Date employees username is set to email, and username entered in MPH is lost

Cause

This has been identified as a product defect

Resolution

SAP Engineering team have confirmed this will be fixed in 1H 2025 release.

See Also

3125887 - [Onboarding] ConvertExternalUserOnStartDateJob changes username to userID

Keywords

SAP SuccessFactors, Onboarding, Username Conversion, New Hires, Personal Data Breach, OBX-36918 , KBA , LOD-SF-OBX-JCN , Conversion External User to Internal User , LOD-SF-EC-INT-OBX , Onboarding 2.0 to EC Integration , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding all versions