3805976 - SF OData API — Leading/Trailing Spaces Behavior Differs Between Standard Fields and User Info Fields on User Entity

SF OData API — Leading/Trailing Spaces Behavior Differs Between Standard Fields and User Info Fields on User Entity

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SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

• User Entity

This is expected behavior

1. When using OData API to write to the User entity, leading and trailing spaces in Standard fields are trimmed, while leading and trailing spaces in User Info fields are preserved.

2. When using UI Import, leading and trailing spaces are trimmed for both Standard fields and User Info fields.

The nameEn is the User Info fields:

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Please note that the Integration Center logic is same as the UI Import.

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