SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2645388 - Validate Field Length

Symptom

1- How to format a custom field to be of a specific number of Characters and Numbers? For example National Id Number added under job information.

2- How can we ensure the number of digits enter are exact?  For example 12 digits only.

Environment

Employee Central - Business Rule

Employee Central - Custom Field

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Create a custom field.
  2. Ensure the an error is thrown if the format entered is incorrect
  3. Ensure the value entered is of the required length

Cause

Configuration issue

Resolution

1- To set the format of the field please follow this article 2426526

2- To raise an error message if the value entered is not of the required length.

Please configure the IF CONDITION  as indicated below or  add this to existing rule (created to ensure the value entered is of the required format- see article 2426526).

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NOTE: The Base Object of the rule should be the one where the custom field was added (in this example, Organisation Information)

Raise the ERROR MESSAGE in the Then part.

See Also

2426526 - How to use a Business Rule to apply a Format/Regular Expression to a Field

2604562 - Maximum Number of Characters in the Object Text Field

Keywords

Field, Length, Format. , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-JOB-RUL , Job Info Business Rules , LOD-SF-EC-PER-PRS , Personal Info - Config, Rules, RBP, UI , How To

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central all versions