Using Custom MDF to Record Education Information and Identify the Highest Education Level

Business Scenario Some customers maintain their employee’s education background information in SuccessFactors and want to identify the highest education level among all records. For example, if an employee completed his/her university graduation, master’s degree and the PhD, the company would like to know his/her highest education level (in this case PhD), without having to go […]

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Job Rotation Solution Using MDF and Integration Center

SAP SuccessFactors HXM Core, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, SAP SuccessFactors Platform

Business Scenario Some organizations adopt job rotation as a common practice for the professional development of their employees. The main objective of this process is to provide their employees the opportunity to work on other areas beyond their responsibility. A job rotation process usually involves multiple employees at the same time, where an employee moves […]

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How to Avoid Accidental Data Deletion in MDF Portlets

SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - Employee Profile, SAP SuccessFactors Platform

The frequent occurrence of accidental data deletion is largely attributed to human error and can result in the loss of critical employee or system data which may cause dominoes effect across the system landscape, and other consequences. While there are remedial measures such as running audit reports and data retrieval to address such incidents, it […]

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Learning License User Types in SAP SuccessFactors Learning

SAP SuccessFactors ?Platform, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, SAP SuccessFactors Learning

SAP SuccessFactors licenses for Learning classify the users into two License user types, “Active” or “Functional”. It is important to classify the users into right type for compliance with the licenses purchased by the customer. Difference between Functional user and Active user: The Learning management system does not differentiate between an Active and Functional User. […]

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Auto Generate Career Path External Code

SAP SuccessFactors Succession, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, SAP SuccessFactors Platform, SAP SuccessFactors

Purpose: In this blog, the user will learn how to create system-generated external code for a career path in SAP SuccessFactors Career Development Planning. Career Path: The Career Path displays information about the expected path for a position or various positions. HR managers and HR administrators can create multiple new career paths and associate them […]

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SuccessFactors Alert Message & Message Definitions: Enhance User Experience

SAP SuccessFactors HXM Core

Introduction User experience has become a critical part of a successful implementation of SuccessFactors projects. One way to help customers increase the user experience is by enhancing alert messages and message definitions. These two functionalities are used to throw error messages, warning messages, or info messages during HR Transactions. Alert messages are highly used to […]

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SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh: Using SAP SuccessFactors solutions as an Event Source

SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Integration Strategy, SAP Integration Suite, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, SAP SuccessFactors

SAP SuccessFactors solutions are cloud-based HCM software applications that support core HR and payroll, talent management, HR analytics and workforce planning, and employee experience management. SuccessFactors solutions are used by over 235+ million users in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. SAP SuccessFactors Intelligent Services Events SuccessFactors already comes with Intelligent Services […]

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Generate report in Excel format and send as Email attachment to users using Report Distributor

SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Introduction: The Report Distributor tool allows users to schedule and distribute reports via e-mail, send reports to a FTP server, or run reports offline. Foremost, create bundles containing the necessary reports & then select the items to distribute, the destination, the recipients, and the schedule. This blog gives details on creating Report Bundle with necessary […]

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How to setup Time Evaluation in Time Tracking

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

Time Evaluation is needed to process recorded times in a way to calculate overtime premiums, shift premiums, working time account or overtime account balances, to create alerts and warnings if employees have times outside their planned hours, outside the flextime bandwidth, if they record more than 10hours per day and many more reasons. Successfactors Time […]

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Automate Mass Compensation related changes with Integration Center

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP SuccessFactors Compensation, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

Tired of imports/changes/exports? Unable to mass update current & future (specific) pay components with X% and maybe some extra logic in a more automated fashion? Do you want to mass change pay scale levels within a Compensation Cycle based on performance cycle outcomes? And/or are there employees that do not have the right manager in […]

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