3595724 - 'Time Sheet' or 'Time Off' Access Permission lost after 1H 2025 release

Symptom

After 2505 preview release, users lost their existing access to Time Sheet on web. Error message for Time Sheet: 'You are not authorized to view time sheet data or the user does not exist'.

As of 2505 release, the permissions related to Employee Self-Service Time Off UI and Time Sheet UI from the Employee Views category have been moved to the Time Management User Permissions category.
All existing permission roles with Employee Views permission for Time Off and/or Time Sheet should have been automatically migrated to Time Management User Permissions for Access Time Off and/or Access Time Sheet.

Similar situation may also happen for Time Off access, where after 1H 2505 preview release on your preview instance the access to Time Off is missing.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - Time Sheet
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - Time Off
SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking

Cause

As documented in Movement of Permissions from Employee Views Category to Time Management User Permissions Category, the permissions related to Employee Self-Service Time Off UI and Time Sheet UI are moved from the Employee Views category to the Time Management User Permissions category with the 1H 2025 release.

During the migration, there is a script executed to migrate the selected Time Off and Time Sheet under Employee Views category to selected Access Time Off and Access Time Sheet under Time Management User Permissions category respectively. So theriotically, these permissions will not get lost during the 1H 2025 upgrade.

But to be on the safe side, especially for the Production 1H 2025 release in May, please do make sure to check and ensure the Time Off and Time Sheet items are properly selected under Employee Views category for the relevant permission roles, before the production release.

This is to avoid any missing setting before the migration or any extremely rare occasion of data corruption before upgrade.

Once it happened that the Access Time Off and Access Time Sheet comes missing under Time Management User Permissions category after the 1H 2025 release, please follow the workaround in the Resolution part to manually select Access Time Off and Access Time Sheet under Time Management User Permissions category to ensure business run.

Resolution

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We are doing source code improvement to ensure a more stable migration with Production release in May.
And part of the source code improvement was alreday deployed with 2505p3 on May 6.
Further source code improvement is planned to be deployed with 2505p4 on May 13, aiming at a smooth migration during the production release.

Workaround before 2505p4 deployment.

Access Time Sheet permission needs to be set manually. This RBP permission can be found under the following RBP setting:
User Permissions > Time Management User permission > Access Time Off / Access Time Sheet (depending on which permission is needed.)

NOTE: For new permission roles, only Access Time Off and/or Access Time Sheet needs to be set, the Time Off and Time Sheet permissions under Employee Views are not available anymore.

Keywords

release, move, employee view, time sheet access, KI2505, TIM-46150, permission, access, time off, time sheet, timeoff, attendance, rbp, permission, role, 2505, TIM-50644, PTCH-46700, TIM-50644, PTCH-46803 , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-TMS , Time Sheet , LOD-SF-TTR-TMS , Time Sheet , LOD-SF-EC-TIM , Time Off , Known Error

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions