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3715363 - Application error when rehiring an employee - Employee Central & Onboarding

Symptom

Application error occurs during rehire an inactive employee, either in Onboarding and/or Employee Central.

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Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
  • SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding

Cause

System is unable to process one or more files associated with the employee profile due to invalid or corrupted attachments.

Resolution

  1. Review the attachments related to the impacted employees either in Onboarding (PDC) or in the previous employment records;
  2. Delete any problematic or corrupted attachments;
  3. Re-submit the rehire.

Support Engineer: please refer to the internal memo for sample backend logs.

Keywords

Application error when rehiring an employee, Caused by: com.successfactors.sca.ServiceApplicationException: Failed to update the attachments.Failed to update attachment properties: Wrapped CmisBaseException: Invalid object ID: sys_file://resources/removed.txt, onboarding error, rehire verification, sf d5, application error, invalid object id, failed to update attachments, pdc error, mph error, corrupted attachments, rehire inactive employee, business rule execution log, x-unique-id , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-HIR-RIE , Rehire Inactive Employee , LOD-SF-OBX , Onboarding 2.0 , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions