SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3646904 - Moving Position Inactivation date does not re-trigger validation error

Symptom

Manually changing the date that a position becomes inactive through History Edit does not raise an error message.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Terminate employee.
  2. Provide effective future date (E.g. 10/10/2025).
  3. Approve termination.
  4. Record added to position to show position becomes inactive on 10/10/25.
  5. Go to position > make correction on the same record > choose effective date 01/06/25 > save.
  6. No error pops up to say there is still an incumbent assigned on this date.

Cause

Expected behaviour - No position validation when doing changes directly to history.

Resolution

  • These validations only occur when using take action, import or in position org chart etc
  • Position History is a kind of admin tool therefore we do not check this initial validations again on save and allow the save. 

See Also

2530661 - Position change via Job History does not respect FTE

Keywords

position validation, inactive position, active incumbent, manage positions, take action, make correction, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, position history, validation trigger, data inconsistency. , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-POS , Position Management , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions