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2249532 - Application error while terminating an employee

Symptom

Application error while terminating an employee

Environment

SuccessFactors Employee Central

Reproducing the Issue

1)      While terminating the employee, getting an application error.

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Cause

This is a data issue. The accrual booking for one of the Time Account is inconsistent.

1) Navigate to Employee Profile->Manage Time Off->Click on ‘Show detail’.

    NOTE:The issue could be in more than 1 Time Account. Therefore check all Time Accounts.

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2) Copy the Time Account Code

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3) Navigate to Admin Tools->Manage Data->Select Time Account->Paste the Time Account Code

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4) You can see that there are two duplicate Accruals that are created on the same date by the same user

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5) These are invalid postings.

Resolution

Go to Take Action->Make Correction->Delete one of the duplicate accrual ( i.e there should be only one Accrual Posting).

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After one accrual posting is deleted the employee can be terminated successfully.

Keywords

Termination Error SPLUNK:  java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method com.successfactors.absence.app.employeetimeaccount.accrual.periods.AccrualPeriodBooking.getBookings() of a null object loaded from local variable 'removed'          , KBA , LOD-SF-EC-TIM , Time Off , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite all versions