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3720144 - Application error when submitting personal data collection step - Onboarding

Symptom

An error occurs when attempting to submit the Personal Data Collection (PDC) step from the candidate's perspective.

Error message: "An application error occurred. Please try again later, or notify support (with the error information of errorId=[IDNUMBER], timestamp=[TIMESTAMP], and the version information from the current screen) if the issue keeps occurring."

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Attempt to submit the Personal Data Collection (PDC) step from the candidate's perspective.
  2. Encounter the application error with the provided error ID and timestamp.

Cause

There was a mismatch between the object field, which was a picklist type, and the UI configuration, which was a string type.

Resolution

In order to check this compare both fields in Object definition and UI configuration. If the type is differente:

  1. Delete the UI field associated with the issue.
  2. Recreate the UI field to ensure proper configuration.

Support engineer check internal memo for the proper logs.

See Also

Keywords

personal data collection, onboarding, application error, errorId, custom MDF object, ONBADMIN, UI field mismatch, onboarding, onb, obx, hire template configuration, intermittent error, pdc, Unable to set the value , KBA , LOD-SF-OBX-PDC , Personal Data Collection , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding all versions