SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3671895 - When you sign in as mentor and try to perform any action, there is an error "operation failed. please refresh your browser and try again later"

Symptom

When you access the Mentoring by Signing in as a mentor and try to perform any action, an error appears.

error : "Operation failed. Please refresh your browser and try again later." 

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Log in as the affected user.
  2. Navigate to Development > Mentoring.
  3. Open the mentoring program.
  4. Sign in as mentor.
  5. Attempt to perform any action; the error "Operation failed. Please refresh your browser and try again later." appears.

Cause

Competency filters are configured in the default development plan template, but the competency field is not defined.

Resolution

Configure the competency field in the corresponding development plan template.

Example xml code for competency field definition:

<field-definition id="competency" type="competencies" required="false" detail="false" viewdefault="on" showlabel="false" field-show-coaching-advisor="false" cascade-update="push-down">
    <field-label>Related Competencies</field-label>
      <field-description>Related Competencies</field-description>
    <field-format>use-competencies</field-format>
  </field-definition>

Keywords

error, mentoring, operation failed, competency field, development plan template, mentoring error, mentoring program, error message, "operation failed. please refresh your browser and try again later",Sign in as mentor , perform any action , KBA , LOD-SF-MEN-ADM , Admin Center and Setttings , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development all versions