Hi there,
Second half 2022 release is here!
This blog highlights key enhancements to SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC). This 2H release is more customer centric, lot of enhancements coming from customer community ideas, thumbs up!!
To celebrate 2H 2022 release, let’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
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UI Clean Up:
Long wait is over, team SAP removed all MDF-based foundation objects from the Manage Organization, Pay and Job Structures UI because you can't manage them here. You had to use the Manage Data UI instead. Finally, SAP decided to clean the interface. This enhancement is from a Customer Community idea
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Configuration Type: Universal
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Customer Community Idea
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Support for Additional Alternative Cost Centers
: Yes! You heard it right!! You now have the benefit of entering and assigning 30 alternative cost centers to an employee for a specified time period instead of the previous limitation of 12 alternative cost centers. This too is an enhancement from Customer Community idea.
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Configuration Type: Universal
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Customer Community Idea
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Tooltip Added for HRIS Elements and Fields
: SAP added a tooltip for standard HRIS elements and fields on the Business Configuration UI. These tooltips provide meaningful information that helps administrators to use each field in the configuration. Again, an enhancement from Customer Community idea! Cheers!! Hope to see more coming.
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Configuration Type: Universal
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Customer Community Idea
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HRIS Actions from the Business Configuration UI is Deleted:
Clean up continues, most of the HRIS Actions from the section that isn't used in configuration of People Profile are removed from Manage Business Configuration > HRIS Actions. The actions under Business Configuration UI (BCUI) that are currently not used in configuration of the People Profile will be deleted on December 9, 2022.
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Configuration Type: Universal
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Manual Mass Change of Basic Rules to Application-Specific Scenarios:
One from my wish list and one more from customer community idea. Changing basic rules to application-specific rule scenarios for several rules at once is now a real thing. Yes, this is now possible for rules that can be converted to application-specific scenarios of the following modules:
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Employee Central Core & Time Off: Rules
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All rules for workflows are assigned to an application-specific rule scenario. (WorkflowsNoBasicRules)
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All rules for event-reason derivation are assigned to an application-specific rule scenario. (EventReasonDerivationNoBasicRules)
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All rules that use the object Time Account Type are assigned to an application-specific rule scenario. (TimeAccountTypeNoBasicRules)
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All rules that use the object Time Type are assigned to an application-specific rule scenario. (TimeTypeNoBasicRule)
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Configuration Type: Universal
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Customer Community Idea
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New Actions Available in Action Search
: A few new actions related to People Profile, Job Information,