3622448 - Is not possible to create users in Successfactors from IPS via SCIM or Odata

You are working to implement IAS in your project and currently you are trying to create a logic where instead of sync the users from SFSF to IAS, you want IAS to create the users in SuccessFactors.

You noticed that if you use SCIM APIs you'll be able to use a post operation but even after creating the user, it will not appear in SFSF in any search, which means that you cannot use that.

• SuccessFactors
• IAS with SCIM APIS or ODATA

This is expected behavior as we do not support this action.

This happens because when you use IPS to create user inside SuccessFactors you are actually not creating the User but just the UserAccount and this will not allow you to use this User Account to for example hire the employee.

Please keep in mind that IPS was not designed to create data inside SuccessFactors, this will only consume the data from there, so any scenario where you are trying to do the inverse path is not supported.

To create users in SuccessFactors you need to use a middleware such as CI/CPI (Cloud Integration). 

The solution for this is to use a proper middleware to perform these type of actions.

As of today this is not on the plans or roadmap to enhance IPS to make this possible, if it ever changes we will update this KBA

create users in Successfactors via SCIM API , KBA , LOD-SF-INT-ODATA , OData API Framework , Product Enhancement