Symptom
- In Manage Permission Role, a permission role assignment displays a recent Last Modified date.
- The assignment appears to have been recently modified, although it may not have been changed for a long time.
- In View History, searching for the assignment ID may show either no history records or only older history entries that do not correspond to the displayed Last Modified date.
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Environment
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SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core
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SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite
Reproducing the Issue
- No history records are found for the displayed modification date, or
- Existing history records indicate that the assignment was last modified much earlier than the date shown in the assignment list.
Cause
When an assignment was last modified in the legacy Manage Permission Role page, the assignment may display the permission role's Last Modified timestamp instead of its own modification timestamp. As a result, the assignment can appear recently modified even though no recent assignment change occurred.
Additionally, assignment history records may no longer be available if they have been purged due to the history data retention policy (for example, history records older than 180 days in Preview environments).
Resolution
The Engineering team confirmed that this behavior is expected.
If the displayed Last Modified date does not match the available assignment history, it may indicate that the date originates from the permission role update rather than an assignment-specific change, or that the relevant history records are no longer available due to data retention.
Keywords
rbp, role based permissions, last updated date, last modified timestamp, assignment history, role assignment history, history not showing changes, timestamp mismatch, permission role, modification date display , KBA , LOD-SF-PLT-RBP , Role Based Permissions , Problem
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