SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3751096 - Fields with year are now displayed as Y,YYY instead of YYYY - 1H2026

Symptom

Background fields with years are now displayed as Y,YYY instead of YYYY in the Latest People Profile.

Image/data in this KBA is from SAP internal systems, sample data, or demo systems. Any resemblance to real data is purely coincidental.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Reproducing the Issue

There is a field with field type IFLD and it is a field with year.
On the latest people profile, it is displayed as Y,YYY.

Cause

This is a Known Issue.

Resolution

The fix for this issue is planned to be fixed in M2605p1 Patch on 2026.5.21.

Workaround:

Change the data type to VFLD

Note that when data type is changed, you might face a situation where when you try to import data into the new field, the value is not reflected, in that case please raise a ticket to the engineering team to fix DB issue.

See Also

SAP Help Portal - SAP SuccessFactors Product Release & Road Map Information
SAP Help Portal - SAP SuccessFactors Patches Knowledge Base
KBA 2171560 - How to be notified of new or updated SAP Notes or KBAs
https://me.sap.com/notes/0003709302

Keywords

KI1H2026, SFEDU-21114, INC25423956, field of year, "1,999", background element, data type, comma in field of year, background field issue, import extended user information, XXXX, "X,XXX", year display, IFLD, VFLD

, KBA , LOD-SF-EP-BGD , Background Elements , Known Error

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core 2605