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3703645 - Business rule for Initiate PM Form On Job Change does not respect the existing form and creates a new form

Symptom

Business rule for Initiate PM Form On Job Change not working as expected for multiple changes in Job Information.

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Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite
  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Configure a business rule to launch a Performance Management form on Job Information changes as per Implementation Guide Initiate PM Form On Job Change Event | SAP Help Portal with If condition 'Job Information Model.Performance Form.Value is equal to null'
  2. Create a change record in Job Information to trigger the business rule
  3. Check that the form is launched as expected
  4. Create another change record in Job Information to trigger the business rule
  5. Check that the Condition 'Job Information Model.Performance Form.Value is equal to null' is ignored and the form is launched again

Cause

Job Information pm-form field is not forward propagated.

Resolution

Every time the Business rule for Initiate PM Form On Job Change is triggered a new form will be launched as the previous form is not forward propagated for the new records.

In case this is important to your business, we encourage you to submit an idea for SAP SuccessFactors Products to have this functionality considered within future development cycles, please consider opening an enhancement request. For detailed steps on How to Submit Ideas for SAP SuccessFactors Products, please refer to KBA 2090228.

See Also

    Keywords

    business rule, Initiate PM Form On Job Change Event, launch, form, performance management, forward propagation, job information, pm-form, field, job info, job change, not created, cleared, deleted, not launched. , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-JOB-RUL , Job Info Business Rules , Product Enhancement

    Product

    SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite 2311