Q3 2019 EC results

Rules Scenario For Event Reason Derivation

What is it?
A new rules scenario for the purpose of Event Reason Derivation will be made
available for b1908. It will make the creation of business rules for this purpose
easier by restricting the selectable basic objects (to ‘Job information’ or
‘Compensation information’), the selectable action (to ‘set’) and the changeable
field (to ‘Event-Reason’) 

Why is it important?
Using rules scenarios limited to a specific purpose reduce complexity and
potential errors. It classifies and structures rules and facilitate their searchability
by reference. 6
Prerequisites
This feature is only relevant if customers use event reason derivation by rules

Company Structure Overview

A maximum of 1000 child entities are displayed. If there are more than 1000 that
could be loaded, a message appears, telling you that only 1000 are being shown
3.Workflow

WORKFLOW

Workflow created date is replaced by approval date in email notification

Before : If CC Role is set to External Email, and if email document template
contains “Created time” placeholder, the “Created time” in email always set to
the Date when approval happens
After: If CC Role is set to External Email, and if email document template contains
“Created time” placeholder, the “Created time” in email will be correctly set to
the workflow creation time.
Country Specific Compensation portlet fields are not shown in workflow
approval screen
Before : If customer configure country specific filed on compensation info
element, even user has permission, user cannot see these fields on workflow
detail page.
After: It has been corrected
4.EP Audit Report for Trend Information

EP Audit report for trend information

What is it?
You can now generate an Employee Profile Data Change report, to audit changes
to feedback data from Employee Profile, for all users. Each report can cover up to
a 7 day period of time.

Why is it important?
Previously, you could create a personal data change audit report but only for one
user at a time. This enhancement enables you to create a report for all users

Prerequisites
You must have the Change Audit / General Audit configuration turned on.
2343018 - RCM Integration with Third Party
Vendors - Recruiting Management
Symptom

This Knowledge Base Article summarizes the following integrations:

 eQuest
 JobVite
 PeopleAnswers (Assessment Integration)
 SHL (Assessment Integration)
 Other Assessment vendors integrations
 Twitter
 First Advantage
 Verification Inc.

Environment

 SuccessFactors Recruiting Management (RCM)

 Third Party Vendor

Resolution

SuccessFactors can be integrated with other third party vendors. For most of them, the customer
has to purchase a license with a vendor. All Integrations for third party vendors are in charge of
Partner consultants. This Knowledge Base Article is a Master KBA for our resources regarding
implementing integrations with third party vendors.

Please refer also to the "Configuring Recruiting Management with Third-Party Vendors" guide
in http://help.sap.com/hr_recruiting/

Knowledge Base
Vendor name Description Article /
Implementation Guide
eQuest eQuest is the leader in domestic and international job 2103948 - What is
 eQuest? - Recruiting
Management

2279964 - How to Post

posting delivery and complete job board management
a Job to eQuest
services. It includes candidate sourcing metrics and
job board evaluations, job board consultation and
2343086 - Configuring
planning, job board negotiating, and billing control.
RCM integration with
Website: http://www.equest.com
eQuest -
Implementation tips and
tricks - Recruiting
Management
2343369 - Configuring
Recruiting – JobVite integration allows users to SSO RCM integration with
into JobVite, post JobVites to their social network Jobvite -
JobVite
status, and to easily send JobVites to their social Implementation tips and
network contacts. tricks - Recruiting
Management
Clients can integrate with third-party vendors
PeopleAnswers and SHL to perform candidate
assessments. Using this integration, customers can:
● Assign assessments to job requisitions
● Prompt applicants to fill out the corresponding
Configuring Recruiting
assessment
Management with Third
● View assessment statuses and results in the
Party Vendors Guide
PeopleAnswers assessment portlet within the application
and SHL Use of this integration requires a separate third party
Recruiting Management
contract with PeopleAnswers or SHL. If the client
and
opts-in to the assessment integration and configures it,
PeopleAnswers/SHL
recruiting users will see a section on the
requisition. The users will be allowed to assign them
to an assessment package to the requisition. The
Recruiting integration with PeopleAnswers and SHL
requires either Boomi or SAP HCI.
other Currently supported list of other assessment vendors Configuring Recruiting
Assessment which can be integrated with SuccessFactors RCM: Management with Third
vendors Party Vendors Guide
 ADP
 AON
 ASSESS
 AXIOM
 BERKE
 BIDDLE
 CHECKSTER
 CHEQUED
 CRITERIA
 CUT-E
 CUBIKS
 DDI
 DRIVERCHECK
 EELLOO
 ELIGO
 ESKILL
 EVOLVE EY
 FIRST_ADVANTAGE
 GIS
 HIRE_TALENT
 HIREVUE
 HOGAN
 HR_AVATAR
 HR_DIAGNOSTICS
 HRNX
 IBM
 INTELEFI
 KENEXA
 KORNFERRY
 LAUNCHPAD
 LOGI_SERVE
 MAUS
 MAXIMUS
 MEA
 MEYERS_BRIGGS
 PAN PEOPLEG2
 PEOPLEMATTER
 PA
 POMELLO
 PREDICTIVE_INDEX
 PREVUE
 PROFILES_INTERNATIONAL
 PSI
 REVELIAN
 SAVILLE_CONSULTING
 SCREENOM
 SELECT_INTERNATIONAL
 SHL
 SKILLSURVEY
 SMARTERER
  STANG
 STANG_DECISION_SYSTEMS
 TESTUP
 THOMAS_INTERNATIONAL
 TRAITS
 VIAPEOPLE
 WONDERLIC
 RIVS
 ASSESSMENT_SYSTEMS
 TALENTCUBE
 TAG
 SPEEXX
 WORLD-CHECKONE
 VIEPLE
 CAPP_ASSESSMENT
 ASCEND
 CARE_ADVANTAGE
 THINK_TALENT
 CARTEL_SYSTEMS
 INTERVIEWED
 REPNUP
 SKILLATE
 TALENTMATCH
 YOBS
 SEMAC
 FACET5
 HIRERIGHT

*If the vendor you want to use is not part of the list,
since 2019Q1 release the product was enhanced and
the clients can add vendor as a self-service. Check this
articl for more details 2772981 - Adding Assessment
vendors as self-service via Import/export assessment
vendor page

 
2658437 - RCM-
Twitter RCM-Twitter integration that automatically tweets all
Twitter integration -
integration externally posted jobs.
Recruiting Management
First Advantage The integration between SuccessFactors and First Configuring
/ (Verification Advantage allows joint customers to initiate and Background Check with
Inc.) receive results of background checks. It can perform First Advantage
drug screens on candidates directly from the
 SuccessFactors Recruiting system. Verification
Inc. After December 2014, all new customers who
need background checks should implement the First
Advantage solution. Do not implement any customers
with Verifications, Inc after December 2014.

2772981 - Adding Assessment vendors as self-

service via Import/export assessment vendor
page
Symptom

Recruiting users with admin permissions can add, change, and remove custom assessment
vendors in the Admin Center. This helps the vendor to build out an assessment integration, and
you can then select the vendor for the assessment package when creating a job requisition.
Previously, they had to raise a customer support ticket.

Environment

SuccessFactors Recruiting Management (RCM) - Q1-2019

Resolution

In provisioning under Company Settings we need to enable the below switch-

Enable Assessment Integration (requires Candidate Workbench)

Permission needed to be able to add in in RBP permissions - 

 Manage Permission Role -> Permission -> Manage Recruiting  -> Manage Assessment
Vendor.

After the permission please try to do the following steps -

1. Launch Admin Center.
2. Enter Manage Assessment Vendors in the Search toolbar.
3. Select Import in the Import/Export Assessment Vendors page to add a new vendor.
4. Choose Submit.
SuccessFactors Document Generation
Amounts in Words

In Most of organizations and for legal requirements Official HR Documents Like HR Letter, Employment Contract and so on,
it is mandatory to have the agreed on Salary whether gross amount or broken down to Pay Components written in both
Number and Words.
For Example 1450 (Only One Thousand Four Hundreds Fifty)

This feature is not available out of the box in SuccessFactors Document Generation and you cannot find in Business Rule
Engine a function that converts Amounts from Numbers into Words.

The blog post explains a solution to display Amount in Words in Documents

Solution in brief

1. Creating a lookup table to map the number to equivalent words (Custom MDF Object). The MDF includes the
number and the equivalent text.
2. A business rule using (Lookup) function to return the wording of the number.

Solution Implementation Description

Before starting solution implementation you have to consider the following points

 Discuss with the Customer the number ranges of current salaries and the expected increases in the coming years
 This solution is not recommended if the Basic Salary or Gross Pay Components those will appear be displayed in
the documents contains fractions (Cents for USD) as it will hugely increase the number of records in the lookup
table
 The solution is built based on an assumption that there is a good knowledge of document generation function as it
will not get deeper in document generation steps

Step 1:

Create a custom MDF object (i.e. NumtoWords) as a lookup table contains the following fields

 Number (Type Should be “Decimal” similar to Amount field in Compensation or Pay Components field)
 Words or Text “String” (Can be repeated for multiple languages)
Step 2

Prepare a CSV file to fill the lookup table with the number and text (You can search for functions available on the internet to
assist you in preparing the file). then upload the file.
Step 3

Now it is time to write the rule to populate the Text or Words value of the Amount.You will need to create a rule for each
Number will appear as a text also you will need a separate rule for each language

Assuming you have already maintained the Placeholders of the Amount ([Amount]) and ([AmountinWords]) in Document
Generation Template. Also the fields are maintained in Configure Object definition – Document Mapping Rule Result

The rule simply lookup in the MDF object created in Step 1 getting the equivalent Text of the amount of i.e Basic Salary

After creating the rule you will assign the rule to the Placeholder ([AmountinWords]) in Document Generation – Manage
Document Template Mapping

You are ready now to generate a document (HR with both Amount in Number and Amount in Words
2081553 - Deep Linking - Recruiting
Management
Symptom

 Are deep links supported in Recruiting Module?

 
 If so, what are the possible links?
 
 What are the restrictions of deep links in Recruiting? 

Environment
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management - All Versions

Resolution

   There are some restrictions on deep links for Recruiting:

 Deep links are intended for internal users only. External candidates cannot use deep links.
 
 Deep links are focused on tabs but not on job requisitions. In other words it is not possible to
have a link that goes directly to a job requisition.

Use cases:

 If a customer wants to copy and paste a link to be embedded in an email.

 
 If a customer wants to have a direct link from the intranet.
 
 This solution is universal feature.
 
 Further reading on deeplinking within SuccessFactors BizX .

List of links

 Deeplinking is available as of b1302 for customers with SSO enabled. Here's a list of the links
available.

 
RCM Tabs Deeplinking

Sl.N
Description  Deeplinks 
o
Recruiting
1 /sf/recruiting
Landing Page
2 Events /sf/recruiting /events
3 Job rec summary /sf/recruiting/jobreqsummary
4 Sources /sf/recruiting/sources
5 Preferences /sf/recruiting/preferences
6 Candidates /sf/recruiting/candidates
7 Interview Central /sf/recruiting/interviewcentral
8 Help /sf/recruiting/recruitinghelp
Careers Landing
9 /sf/careers
page
10 Job Applications /sf/careers/jobapplications
11 Job Search /sf/careers/jobsearch
12 Job Alerts /sf/careers/jobalerts
13 Saved Jobs /sf/careers/savedjobs
My Candidate
14 /sf/careers/mycandprofile
Profile
Saved
15 /sf/careers/savedapplications
Applications
 

Multi-level Deeplinking

Sl.N
Description  Deeplinks 
o
Rec - JobReq -
1 /sf/recruiting/jobreqsummary/new
CreateNew
2 Rec - JobReq - reports /sf/recruiting/jobreqsummary/reports
Rec - Job Req -
3 /sf/recruiting/jobreqsummary/offerapprovals
Offerapprovals
Rec - Events-
4 /sf/recruiting/events/new
CreateNew
5 Rec - Events- reports /sf/recruiting/events/reports
Rec - Events-
6 /sf/recruiting/events/offerapprovals
Offerapprovals
Rec -Preferences -
7 /sf/recruiting/preferences/mysavedques
MySavedQues
Rec- Preferences -
8 /sf/recruiting/preferences/myrecteam
TeamRec
Rec - Preferences -
9 /sf/recruiting/preferences/mysavedratings
MySavedratingScales
10 Rec - Can - Search /sf/recruiting/candidates/search
11 Rec- Can - SavedSearch /sf/recruiting/candidates/savedsearches
12 Rec - IntCen - Opened /sf/recruiting/interviewcentral/open
13 Car - Emp Referrals /sf/careers/empreferrals
Car - RMK Emp
14 /sf/careers/rmkempreferrals
referrals

Record-level Deeplinking
Sl.N
Description  Deeplinks 
o
Rec- JobReq /sf/recruiting/jobreqsummary?reqid =
1
--> req Id <value>
Rec- Events--> /sf/recruiting/events?eventid =
2
event ID <value>
Car - Job
3 Search - Job /sf/careers/jobsearch?reqid= <value>
reqID

2794752 - Q2 2019: Starting from b1905,

custom MDF objects will be RBP secured by
default.
Symptom

 My newly created custom MDF object is Secured by default

 How to make a non-secured custom MDF object.

NOTE: Image/data in this KBA is from SAP internal systems, sample data, or demo
systems. Any resemblance to real data is purely coincidental.

Environment

 SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite

 Metadata frameowrk (MDF)

Reproducing the Issue

Step1: Go to Admin Center => Configure Object definitions.
Step2: Click New => Object Definition => create a custom object with effective date = Basic.

Step3: Click on Save. An info message will be displayed: “This object is an role-based
permission secured object. To access this object, you need to grant the necessary rolebased
permissions.”

Step4: Click on OK. Custom Object is created with Secured = "Yes"

Cause

With Q2 2019, the default value for 'Secured' field is set to 'Yes' for all the custom objects.

Note: Secured is set to Yes for None, Basic, and Multiple Changes Per Day (MCPD) effective-
dated objects and not for FROM_PARENT effective-dated object. If you try to change the value
while creating or editing a custom object, a warning message is displayed asking you not to
change the default value.

As the new objects are RBP secured, you would also need to ensure that you grant necessary
Role-based Permissions before you could access such custom object from Manage Data page.
SAP recommends that all MDF objects should be created as RBP secured.

Resolution

If you want to make use of this object or want to create instances of this object, then you need to
provide necessary permissions explicitly to the role. Below are the steps you would need to
follow for that.

Step 1) Navigate to Admin center->Manage Permission Role.

Step 2) Click on Role you want to use for this user has acess to.

Step 3) Click on Permission => The Permission page is displayed.

Step 4) Go to section "Miscellaneous Permissions" => the object cust_test_RBP should be

displayed in the list of all the objects.

Step 5) Give access to Visibility and Actions. Click Done > Save Changes. =>The permission is
saved successfully.

Step 6) Navigate to Admin center =>Manage data.

Step 7) Search for cust_test_RBP under "Create new" => The object should be available as per
the permissions you defined in above step.

Step 8) Add data for cust_testcustRBP and save =>The data is saved successfully