Symptom
Employee has three concurrent employments. CEs are stated as:
CE1 hired and terminated in past
CE2 hired in past and terminate in future (31/07/2027)
CE3 hired in future(1/08/2027)
Now when trying to terminate main employment with date 31/07/2027 in that main new employment field is not showing and clicking on submit getting the error:
"New main employment id is blank or is not an active employment, please provide New Main Emloyment Id from the active employments list - [XXX1, XXX2]. "
System is not able to find the any active employment on the 31/07/2027 due to that main new employment field is missing and getting that error.
Environment
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 1H 2026
- Concurrent Employment
- Termination
Reproducing the Issue
- Open person XXX's profile, select main employment > all actions > terminate
- Before selecting termination date, click on "show more fields", found there is a field "new main employment"
- Select termination date as "2028/7/31", then field "new main employment" disappeared
- Save the page, error occurred: New main employment id is blank or is not an active employment, please provide New Main Employment Id from the active employments list - [XXX1, XXX2].
Cause
This is a Known Issue.
Resolution
The fix for this issue is planned to be deployed on 2H 2026 release.
For release timelines, please review SAP SuccessFactors Product Release & Road Map Information.
After the fix is applied, "New Main employment" field will not disappear and in that field need to select the new employment.
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
Keywords
SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public