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3779424 - Joule Navigation Links Are Not Generated for SuccessFactors Pages

Symptom

  • When entering commands such as “View my manager” or “View my peers”, Joule correctly displays a profile card with the employee's name.  However, the profile card is not a clickable hyperlink and does not navigate the user to the corresponding Employee Profile page in SAP SuccessFactors. The base functionality of Joule is working correctly for other queries.
  • When entering commands such as “View Org Chart” or “Go to Home Page”, Joule provides a text-based response instead of generating the expected navigation button or deep link. 
  • Standard configuration checks have already been completed, including:
    • SuccessFactors user permissions and assignment to the deepLinkActivationPermission group.
    • Execution of the "Refresh Synthetic Group Data" job.
    • Verification of the IPS source/target configuration and provisioning job.
    • Confirmation of the assigned Role ID in Work Zone.

Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite
  • Joule

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Enter a prompt to view personal information, such as: "View my profile" or "View Org Chart" 
  2. Observe that Joule returns a response that contains a profile card with the employee's name but does not include a clickable profile button or a navigation deep link.

Cause

The issue may be caused by a manually created Navigation Service configuration in BTP.

Please note that if you're setting up Joule after Oct 13, 2025, you do not need to provide this destination's screenshot. Since:  you do not need to configure the navigation service destination manually, the Navigation Service Destination, This is already handled at the BTP provider-side (and customers do not see this destination created).

Resolution

Delete the destination in BTP for 'NavigationService' as per the KBA 3756978 - Joule only gives general response.

See Also

Configure Destination to Use Navigation Service | SAP Help Portal

3619387 - Joule - Navigation Configuration / CDM Troubleshooting of SuccessFactors CDM and Navigational relied Use Cases - SAP for Me

Keywords

SAP SuccessFactors, Joule, SF, Joule, Navigational use case, navigational service, configuration, troubleshooting, Work Zone, BTP, deeplink
, KBA , LOD-SF-PLT-JOU , Joule in SuccessFactors , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core 2605