3612852 - Issue saving Employee Central Employee History field mapping in VarPay plan

Employee Central History Field mapping when saved, gives the popup that the mapping has been saved. But when the screen is refreshed, the mapping gets blank.

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SAP SuccessFactors HCM Cloud Suite

SuccessFactors Compensation Management

SuccessFactors Variable Pay

1. Goto the impacted variable pay template under Compensation Home
2. Under Plan Setup -> Settings -> Employee Central Employee History Field Mapping
3. Map the History fields to the relevant Employee Central fields
4. Save the configuration and you will receive the message as The field mappings are saved.  
5. Now either refresh this page or access this page again from the Settings Menu
6. Saved mappings will disappear and becomes blank

The Succession Data Model throws an error when Exported and imported back.

The Background Element Education has a field by name Status which is mapped to FFLD1. This field can be mapped to either Integer or Text 

1. Succession Data Model was Exported and Imported back to see the Error Details
2. based on the error details, the mapping done for the field Status was changed from FFLD1 to VFLD18
3. Then tried the Employee Central History Field Mapping again
4. The issue now has been resolved

https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SUCCESSFACTORS_COMPENSATION/2db61525a45e47e2b1de119b5282c173/48f90d134d964379a1d860a635fc1f8c.html?q=reserved%20fields

2730558 - Compensation & Variable Pay - Manage Business Configuration (BCUI) 

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