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3753498 - Time type Field in Employee time object returns numeric values instead of time type codes/names in Story report

Symptom

Time type Field in Employee time object returns numeric values instead of time type code/name in Story report

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Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Platform

  • Story report

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to report center, create a new story report.
  2. Select Employee Time object in query designer page.
  3. Select Time Type column(column id: TIMEMANAGEMENT#EmployeeTime#timeType), set it as dimension, preview query. Pasted image.png
  4. Observe that values appear as numeric IDs instead of the expected codes or names.Pasted image.png

Cause

Time type data needs to be fetched from separate Time Type object.

Resolution

  1. Add/link the related Time Type object to Employee Time object.
  2. Select the External Name or External Code from Time Type object(column id: TIMEMANAGEMENT#TimeType#externalName or TIMEMANAGEMENT#TimeType#externalCode),set as dimension
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  5. The Time Type code or name values will be output properly.Pasted image.png

Keywords

TIMEMANAGEMENT, EmployeeTime, timeType, TIMEMANAGEMENT#EmployeeTime#timeType, numeric id, internal id, external code, external name, ec time, sac story, time type object , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-REP , Reporting Data (EC core only) , LOD-SF-ANA-SAC-DAM , Data Modelling - Module & Entity Data Issues , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Platform all versions