SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Q3 2019 – 1908

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Q3 2019 – 1908, release provides exciting innovations across SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Q3 2019 that can help you transform your HR operations, increase employee engagement, and deliver results. Don’t miss out on all the great innovations and enhancements. Here are a few key updates you should consider for SuccessFactors Employee Central 1 2 3

1908 Release Schedule

• Preview Release – August 9th, 2019
• Production Release – September 6th , 2019

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1.Rules scenario for Event Reason Derivation

What is it?

A new rules scenario for the purpose of Event Reason Derivation will be made available for b1908. It will make the creation of business rules for this purpose easier by restricting the selectable basic objects (to ‘Job information’ or ‘Compensation information’), the selectable action (to ‘set’) and the changeable field (to ‘Event-Reason’) 4 5

Why is it important?

Using rules scenarios limited to a specific purpose reduce complexity and potential errors. It classifies and structures rules and facilitate their searchability by reference. 6 7

Prerequisites

This feature is only relevant if customers use event reason derivation by rules.

2.Company Structure Overview

A maximum of 1000 child entities are displayed. If there are more than 1000 that could be loaded, a message appears, telling you that only 1000 are being shown. 8

3.Workflow

Workflow created date is replaced by approval date in email notification

Before : If CC Role is set to External Email, and if email document template contains “Created time” placeholder, the “Created time” in email always set to the Date when approval happens

After: If CC Role is set to External Email, and if email document template contains “Created time” placeholder, the “Created time” in email will be correctly set to the workflow creation time.

Country Specific Compensation portlet fields are not shown in workflow approval screen

Before : If customer configure country specific filed on compensation info element, even user has permission, user cannot see these fields on workflow detail page.

After: It has been corrected

4.EP Audit Report for Trend Information

What is it?

You can now generate an Employee Profile Data Change report, to audit changes to feedback data from Employee Profile, for all users. Each report can cover up to a 7 day period of time.

Why is it important?

Previously, you could create a personal data change audit report but only for one user at a time. This enhancement enables you to create a report for all users. 9

Prerequisites

You must have the Change Audit / General Audit configuration turned on.

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Thanks & Regards,
Anipe Abraham,
Consultant Certified – SAP HCM& SuccessFactors & Corporate Trainer