As Implementation consultants we know how to configure attachment as a URL in the Additional Data Collection for a new hire to download attachment/form. Ideally, we are supposed to host this attachment on SAP server and then configure it. To make it work without hosting on the server, we can have the attachment configured on....

The Onboarding solution offered by SAP SuccessFactors enables seamless integration of new hires into an organization’s culture while equipping them with essential tools and information to thrive as productive team members. With its comprehensive features, the solution facilitates a smooth transition, ensuring that new employees have the necessary resources to quickly acclimate and contribute effectively....

Offboarding is the formal process of separating an employee from a company, typically due to resignation, termination, or retirement. It involves various tasks and procedures to ensure a smooth departure, such as transferring job responsibilities, deactivating access rights and passwords, returning company equipment, and conducting exit interviews to collect feedback. SAP SuccessFactors provides a comprehensive....

In today’s digital era, effective document management is crucial for organizations to streamline their operations and ensure seamless collaboration. When it comes to human resources management, SAP SuccessFactors emerges as a leading solution with its robust capabilities. One of the standout features within SAP SuccessFactors is the Manage Documents tool, which revolutionizes the way documents....

SuccessFactors consultants and developers are often using the /oauth/idp endpoint the generate the assertion and consequently use the assertion in an additional request to obtain an access token. This endpoint is now deprecated and will be removed in the near future. It’s good to point out that although Postman supports many flavours of OAuth, it does....

Have you been waiting for a reason to get serious about Stories For People Analytics? This may be it! What is “it”? The ability to embed a hyperlink in an employee’s name or number in a Story report’s output that launches a new browser window with the employee’s profile. This allows a report’s consumer to....

We are aware about the use of BizX login page for login of Onboardee in ONB2.0. From 2H2022, SAP has officially released the feature of having IAS(Identity Authentication System) available to be integrated with ONB2.0 for New hires. This brings the option of having better security for login of Onboardee and leverage features of IAS....

How to use Postman to call SuccessFactors API using OAuth authentication method. Introduction: With the upcoming removal of basic authentication on November 20, 2026, it’s important to start using OAuth as your go-to authentication method for new integration scenarios. This tutorial will guide you through the process of using OAuth authentication method on Postman, a....

In this blog, the user will learn to use Initiatives in SAP SuccessFactors Goals Management. Initiatives: SuccessFactors Goal Management provides a feature known as “initiatives” whereby administrators can create corporate, departmental, division, business unit, and location-level initiatives and further enable employees to link their own personal goals to those initiatives. How it works: HR Admin wants to....

This blog deals with the approvals on the creation of Succession Planning Talent Pools. Talent Pool: Talent Pools offer an alternative approach to succession planning by allowing you to group successors. They can also be used to group your talent for non-succession-related needs like development plans, rotation programs, or high-potential pools. Talent Pools for Succession....

The SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite stores an extensive range of employee information and when we talk about employee data, some questions come to mind: Can I keep employee data offline? For how long? Should I anonymize them? Practically, historical data should not be stored any longer than is required. Once the required retention time has....

One of the lesser-known capabilities within SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central is the ability to create process-specific email notification templates. These can be useful when you have a process that requires a little extra guidance, such as reminding the manager to discuss the promotion with the employee. As you will see, there is a decent amount....

We will be discussing how to create a custom MDF Object that allows us to create multiple records with effective dates.   Understanding Metadata Frameworks Let’s break down metadata framework to see what it means. Meta is a prefix that is used to mean “an underlying definition or description.” Metadata provides basic information about the data, making it easier....

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 remind....

I received similar questions about SAP SuccessFactors (SF) landscape from our partners and customers; therefore, I decided to write a blog about common cross-customer questions. This blog is intended for customer admins, and consultants new to SAP SuccessFactors. The intent is to provide information in a simple way via a FAQ-kind structure. Feel free to....

It has been always a painful task to enter the same default values in payroll transactions (Payroll Driver/Payroll Posting to Accounting/Remuneration Statement…) or select the variant to populate the values. SAP has a solution to default the values at the start of the all major Payroll related transaction, and interestingly it can be easily achieved....

When dealing with Instances that have Onboarding and Employee Central implemented, it is common for the clients to have some types of information that are required in the Additional Data Collection Step of the Onboarding process and might be reutilised in the Employee Profile when the onboardee is converted to a employee in Employee Central.To....

What if we could show different content for the same screens/modules/fields for different groups of users? i.e. those who are assigned to the manager position should see different content in SAP Companion, than employees. Or different content should be provided for users employed in different countries. With the vanilla settings, SAP Companion uses the system....

In this blog, I will introduce Qualtrics Survey integration process in particular.  SuccessFactors provides a lifecycle scenario for employees as well as candidates. It can easily triggers to Qualtrics Surveys depends on the suitable business scenarios and it sends survey to our New Employee at first day of our company or you can define the....

In this blog post of Part 2 you will learn about setting up SAP Success Factor Work Zone with your SAP Success Factor tenant pre-requisites before running Work Zone Configurator. The Work Zone Configurator has been updated to support the conversion of SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone from HXM core to SAP Cloud Identity Services. Final Part Steps:....

In this blog post of Part 1 you will learn about setting up SAP Success Factor Work Zone with your SAP Success Factor tenant pre-requisites steps. SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone is a solution available through SAP SuccessFactors and offers a prepackaged experience specifically to address the needs of HR organizations based on SAP Work Zone. The SAP SuccessFactors....

The employee should be terminated when the contract end date is expired. Contract end date field is in the job information section of the employee profile. Options explored Off cycle batch event – can’t use when more than one entity are involved. Integration center – success. Solution The solution is developed using Integration center. 1.....

Introduction We would like to introduce the SuccessFactors Configuration Center for moving configuration changes through the SF HXM tenant landscape instead of doing it manually. The more tenants one have the more interesting Configuration Center gets. During setup we got different requirements to define permissions for different functions: downloading configurations create bundles and initiate transports....

Introduction CPF contributions are the major portion of Singapore payroll calculations. These contributions are subject to a number of legislative requirements and are quite complex in nature to understand and implement. SAP has provided solutions for various scenarios for CPF calculations and these are subject to configuration and consulting expertise. In this blog, we will....

I still remember back in early days of my HR functional career, all customers when they saw the Pay statement with daunting cumulative wage type “/552 Difference prev. Period”, it was always requested that the break-up of all past payments to appear in the statement. This functionality is easily configurable with zero coding in the very powerful....

Welcome to my first blog as the Solution Marketing Lead for SAP SuccessFactors Time Management. While I will not even attempt to be as eloquent and conversational as my predecessor Paul Meredith, nor as detailed and technical as my Product Management colleague Volker Ruof, I would like to be able to provide you with a....

SuccessFactors Execution Manager tool As an integration consultant, it might be asked how business users can get a view of interfaces status and check errors so they can take action. If you’re working in a SuccessFactors landscape, Execution Manager tool can be a solution for your business users who don’t necessarily have access to SAP....

In this recording we demonstrate how to use Performance Ratings in Compensation Eligibility Rules by : Creating an effective dated MDF object that will store all Performance Ratings over the years. Adding the Overall Performance Portlet to People Profile (mostly for data checks / testing purposes) Creating an Integration Center Job to feed the MDF object....

SAP has announced to sunset the use of HTTP Basic Authentication for APIs (SFAPI and OData). New feature of Oauth2.0 will be provided for SFSF Adapters of SAP PO 7.5 SP23+ and SAP CPI/CI. In this document, I will demonstrate the step required to generate OData API Application with OAuth2.0 authentication and later stage this....

Introduction – This article relates to scenario where absence entitlement are calculated in external system but are used in Employee Central Time Off for employees to record absences.   Background – Migration to SuccessFactors from on-premise SAP HCM and non-SAP ecosystem is happening for last few years and this will continue to grow. At times multiple system....

Creating solutions for customers is always the fun part of being a Techie. SAP are providing both customers and partners with the tools required to build out their own Intelligent Enterprise.  In this blog post, we use features within SuccessFactors and a flexible reporting tool called Business Intelligence Reporting Tool, which is more commonly known....

Continuing the trend of last year, I am excited to share the innovations and changes in 2021 for the Framework area. Hope this helps you to get a quick recap and get all ready for 2022! SAP Task Center SAP Task Center is the central inbox for tasks in the Intelligent Enterprise. It supports approvals from....

Realizing the full value of your SAP SuccessFactors investment requires a focus on application lifecycle management (ALM). SAP Cloud ALM is our application lifecycle management offering for cloud-centric customers. SAP Cloud ALM for SAP SuccessFactors: Delivers a self-guided and content-driven implementation workspace based on SAP Activate Supplies operational monitoring for business processes and integrations to minimize disruptions Is included with....

As we know, while using an integration between SF Employee Central and SAP Employee Central Payroll the customers can face some “integration issues” due to standard validations that are made only at the ECP level, and not on EC (the core system). One of these cases is about the PIS (Social Integration Program), a very....

Introduction SuccessFactors is designed very intuitive and navigation is quick an easy, especially with the new Reimagined Home Page: Nevertheless, at some point you might want to add custom quick-links and short-cuts to navigate within SF or jump externally or change labels to make daily use of SuccessFactors even more easy for your users. This blog....

Sometimes customers want to assign more than one matrix manager or custom manager in the Job Relationships portlet in EC.  This might occur if an employee is working on more than one project at any one time and more participants are needed in processes such as performance management. In this blog  post I will address....

Dear members, Good news! Enabling your HR transformation journey got a lot easier with the SAP Enterprise Support value map for SAP SuccessFactors. This value map will provide you with prescriptive guidance, access to SAP experts and industry peers, and help you build the digital skills needed to succeed in adopting and running your SAP....

Digital isn’t optional anymore, and Human Resources is no exception. Digital HR is essential to improve not only employee experience, but also productivity, security, transparency, communication and decision making – all key factors in helping HR drive business impact. Yet experience shows that HR often has the most challenges in obtaining approval to purchase and/or....

In our previous blog post – 7 Most Commonly Asked Questions About Package Configuration Manager for SAP SuccessFactors Solutions – we discussed the capabilities of the Package Configuration Manager tool. The next step is to outline some of the standard Business Scenarios that the SAP Partners can use the tool in their SAP SuccessFactors implementations. According to our....

Hi Everyone, Hope you are staying safe and healthy. I would like to highlight one of the key features that SuccessFactors provides, with which the admins would be able to mass update the Job-related master data of the employee in a simple and efficient way.  I could not see much information available on this, so....