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2806388 - How to upgrade Employee Delta Export Excel spreadsheet without losing custom columns - SuccessFactors

Symptom

How to upgrade the spreadsheet Employee Delta Export without losing custom columns.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Delta Export Excel spreadsheet

Reproducing the Issue

You already have a Employee Delta Export spreadsheet with custom columns and need to upgrade.

Resolution

If you have an oldest version from Employee Delta Export with custom columns:

Note that images are examples and different versions can be showed on your environment.

Workbook version: old

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Custom columns:

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To upgrade to new version:

  1. Get the updated files according KBA 2358156 - How to query data using the MS Excel Add-In from Successfactors

  2. After download the updated file, go to Developer tab > Upgrade Workbook
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  3. Click OK
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  4. Choose the updated file that you saved on step 1
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  5. Click YES
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  6. Click OK
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A new tab will appear with updgrade information:

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And a new version is installed:

         1905-version.JPG

See Also

Using the Employee Delta Export Add handbook

2745435 - Employee Delta Export Add-In documentation - SuccessFactors

Keywords

Employee delta export; upgrade; update; custom columns; , KBA , LOD-SF-INT , Integrations , LOD-SF-INT-CE , Compound Employee API , How To

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM all versions