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3789513 - Line breaks not rendered in performance management forms when upserting via odata v2

Symptom

  • When posting data from SAP Integration Suite to SuccessFactors Performance Management forms via SuccessFactors OData V2, line breaks present in the outbound payload are not rendered in the target UI; the form shows all content in a single line.
  • Upsert requests complete successfully without error; no error messages are returned.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Post form content to SuccessFactors Performance Management entities via the SuccessFactors OData V2 API from SAP Integration Suite (CPI).
  2. Include line breaks in the payload values (for example,
    , \n, or other HTML/escape sequences) for text fields.
  3. Execute the upsert and confirm the request returns success.
  4. Open the corresponding Performance Management form and observe that the text is displayed as a single continuous line without line breaks.

Cause

Known issue.

Resolution

This issue will be fixed through patch with Preview deployment scheduled for 11-Aug-26 and Production deployment on 13-Aug-26. 

For release timelines, please review SAP SuccessFactors Product Release & Road Map Information.

See Also

Keywords

successfactors, performance management, pm form, epm form, odata v2, upsert, line break, newline, textarea, custom element, formcustomelement, html br, paragraph, cpi, integration suite, sf v2 adapter,KI1H2026,  PMU-28350 , KBA , LOD-SF-PM-API , Webservices, OData APIs , Known Error

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals 2605