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2390723 - User ID, External ID and PERSON_GUID definition

Symptom

What are the use and definition of user related fields?

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Learning

Resolution

Please check the following links to the Learning Product Guides

Note: The External ID is technically not a field that we prohibit users from having duplicate values. At any point someone can run an input file on the connector and duplicate the External ID (External ID can only be updated via the connector).

  • If you attempt to create a new user with the same user ID as an existing user, the system will stop you.
  • If we didn't want you doing this for external ID, the system would also stop you.

If you are running a standard implementation, you wouldn't get a duplicate external ID because the connector and employee export job are creating the data.

Keywords

External ID, Person_GUID, Bizx integration fields, STUD_ID, USER ID, External Users vs User ID , KBA , LOD-SF-LMS-ADM , System Admin, Global Variables, References , LOD-SF-LMS , Learning Management System , Product Enhancement

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Learning all versions