3788652 - Text in the Succession Card can not be translated

• Within the Successors Card (found in the Latest People Profile), selecting the "add" option followed by the "Employee" search field, if only 1 character is provided for the search, an error message shows: "searchValue must be at least 2 characters long". No possibility to translate.
• No label displayed to use in the Manage Languages tool.

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SAP SuccessFactors Succession Management

1. Navigate to the Successors Card in the Employee Profile.
2. Select a successor to consult his/her data.
3. Go to Add button.
4. Select the "add" option followed by the "Employee" search field.
5. Provide only 1 character for the search.
6. Observe the error message: "searchValue must be at least 2 characters long". 

This validation message is returned directly by the backend service as a fixed system string and is not driven by the translatable label/token framework, so no token is exposed for it. This is a current implementation characteristic, not a configuration issue on your side.

This behavior is by design. The employee search used in the Successors card enforces a minimum search-value length:

• Latin-script languages (e.g., English, German): minimum 2 characters
• CJK languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean): minimum 1 character

A single Latin character is intentionally rejected because it would match an extremely large result set with very low relevance/performance, whereas a single CJK character is typically a meaningful name/word — hence the difference.

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