2194494 - Display 'Middle Name' in Employee Profile Search.

• How to display 'Middle Name' in Employee Profile Search.

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• SuccessFactors: Employee Profile

• Go to Employee Profile
• Serach for any user who has middle name.
• We can see that 'Middle Name' is not appearing in Employee Profile search even though middle name exists:

There could be following reasons for middle name not appearing in Employee Profile-

• There is no read/write permission configured in Role based Permission.
• For non RBP clients, permission for Middle Name is not defined for roles.
• Target population would be incorrectly defined in RBP.

To make Middle Name appear in Employee Profile Search, we need to check or configure following configuration-

• For Non RBP instance, Support Engineer should check data model xml for 'Middle Name'. It should be defined as below:

• For RBP instance, client needs to check role based permission; read or write permissions should be correctly defined-

• If Role Based Permission are set up correctly then we need to check Target Population for a specific role.
• Middle name would only be visible when 'Target Group' and 'Target Population' is set to 'Everyone', as below:

 Conclusion - To make 'Middle Name' visible to all, we need to set Grant Role to 'Everyone (All) users' and Target Population to 'Everyone'.

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