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3779635 - "You do not have permission to edit the value. Please contact your system administrator." error when submitting Higher Duty - Employee Central

Symptom

  • A permission error occurs when submitting a Higher Duty/Temporary Assignment only when the Manager field is populated as per guidance in the referenced article.
  • Error displayed: “You do not have permission to edit the value. Please contact your system administrator.”

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Navigate to employee profile;
  2. Click on Actions > Add: Higher Duty/Temporary Assignment;
  3. Populate the desired fields > Save;
  4. Observe the error: “You do not have permission to edit the value. Please contact your system administrator.”

Cause

Known issue. 

Resolution

Engineering team is currently investigating the issue. Please follow this KBA for updates.

Workaround: raise a Support Ticket providing Company ID, if it's Prod/Preview/Dev, Data Center, and written authorization to enable the feature toggle that will temporarily solve the issue.

See Also

  • KBA 3038757 - Manager Field not defaulted during Higher Duty Assignment
  • KBA 3513544 - How to use Browser Developer Tools to get X-Unique-Id

Keywords

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Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions