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3673679 - Latest People Profile Editing and History UI HRIS Job Information & Employment Details permission(s) not respected – 2H2025

Symptom

In the latest people profile, when editing Employee Central data such job information permissions are not respected in latest edit UI is enabled.

Is observed that permissions are respected when editing via 'take action' on the profile.

In order to verify you are using the latest edit UI, please review if the setting ‘Enable the latest editing and history UI for employee central HRIS entities on full profile’ is enabled in Configure Latest People Profile UI.

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Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
  • Latest People profile

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Log in to SF instance
  2. Remove element permission e.g. ‘cost center’.
  3. Proxy as user within MSS role -> navigate to any direct report's profile.
    1. Take action -> permission is respected.
    2. Pencil icon -> permission is not respected.

Employment details:

- Proxy user with view only RBP for employment details field

  1. New edit UI - RBP not respected - field is editable
  2. PP3/Old edit UI - RBP respected - field is view only

Cause

The field is editable because the logged in user might have Import permissions. Example based on the reproducing steps documented: 

  • Employee Central Import Entities > Job Information
  • Employee Central Import Entities > Employment details

Employee Central Import Entities e.g. Job Information, and target population centric, permits the granted user to edit all job information via Latest Edit UIs.
This is documented in following Guide: Notable Differences in Existing Features

Resolution

Please remove these permissions from the target affected user:

    • Manage Permission Roles
    • Remove -> "Employee Central Import Entities" related entity permissions

See Also

3594795 - Fields are not respecting RBP permissions in Full Profile - SAP for Me 

3629096 - Fields In Quick Action Are Editable EvenThough There Is No Permission Granted - SAP for Me?

Keywords

edit, permission, latest people profile, employee central effective-dated entities, people profile, take action, pencil icon, job information, employment details.
, KBA , LOD-SF-EP-FPP , People Profile - Full Profile , LOD-SF-EC-RBP , Roles & Permissions (EC Core only) , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 2511 ; SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core all versions