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2576810 - Position Sequence Skipping Increments When Copying Positions or continuing the warning message

Symptom

When using auto-generated a position code sequence. On copy of positions from the position org chart numbers/increments of the sequence code are being skipped.

Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
  • Position Management

Cause

This issue is caused by the incorrect assignment of raise message business rule.
If the conditions of the warning message are met, this can cause the sequence to skip values.

Resolution

Raise Messages business rule on the Position Object need to be triggered as validate rules.
To try resolve the issue, please correct the assignment of your raise message rule from on Save to on Validate.

NOTE: Development team confirmed that by design system cannot guarantee that the sequence will not be skipped, so this is a workaround that might not work for all cases.

Please review the following section of the guide for further detail on Automatic Generation of Position Code

Keywords

position code, autogenerated, auto generation, automatic generation, skip, missing, skipping, sequence, code, raise message, warning message, copy position, sequence increment, save rules, validate rule, Sequence increments when you continue with warningmessage, INC0065673 , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-POS , Position Management , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions ; SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions