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SAP SuccessFactors 2021H1 2021 Release Updates
Employee Central, Time-Off and Benefits
May 2021
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Presenters
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Mariam Abtahi
Senior Consultant
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Anusha Joy Sugunaraj
Senior Consultant
HR Path
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• HR Path: The Group
• The Advise to Run Process
• Release Highlight on Platform, EC
• Release Highlights on Time-off, Benefits
• Questions & Answers
Agenda
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Platform
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• Important changes
• New UI Features
• Admin Alert New Feature
• Target Population Options
• Proxy Assignment
• Center of Capabilities
• New Home Page
Overview Platform
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• What is it?
You can set up email notifications for the alert types that are most important to your work. The default
setting for email notifications is set to "none". You can change the frequency to daily or weekly. With
email notifications, you get the information that is most important to you in the frequency you need.
• Role-Based Permission Prerequisites
Administrator > Admin Alerts >
Access Admin Alerts
Email Notifications for Admin Alerts 2.0
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• What is it?
When you assign a permission role to everyone or to a dynamic group, you can define the target population as
peers or managers of the users in the access group. Peers are users who have the same direct manager as the user
in the access group.
In the Grant this role to... page, besides Granted User's Department, Granted User's Division, Granted User's
Location, and Granted User (Self), you can now also see Granted User's Peers and Granted User's Manager in
the Target population of: dropdown.
You can now easily define a target population of peers or managers.
Defining Target Populations as Peers or Managers
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• What is it?
You can now specify the target population of external Onboarding users as granted user's department, division, or
location in Role-Based Permissions.
In the Grant this role to... page, you can now choose Granted User's Department, Granted User's Division,
and Granted User's Location to specify the target population of the External Onboarding User type.
New Target Population Options for External Onboarding Users
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• What is it?
You can now restrict proxy assignments to a specified time range when you assign a proxy to act on your behalf,
using your personal account settings.
You can add a start date, an end date, or both when you assign a proxy on the Settings page. The assigned proxy
can only access your user account during the specified time range.
Time-Based Proxy Assignment on User Settings Page
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• What is it?
You can view data usage of your instance and manage storage
space in the new Manage Data Storage tool. Manage Data Storage
in Admin Center offers the following functionalities:
• You get an overview of data usage in your instance.
• You get detailed breakdowns of data usage by data type and by
module.
• You can purge data to free up storage space via the link
provided to the Data Retention Management.
• It offers you an insight of the storage usage in your instance.
You can make data retention strategies accordingly.
• Role-Based Permission Prerequisites
• Admin Center Permissions > Access Manage Data Storage
Manage Data Storage
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• What is it?
Center of Capabilities is a new framework that provides
a centralized repository known as Capabilities Library to
capture the capabilities of people in an organization.
Capabilities include competencies, work styles, work
values, and other organization-defined attributes that
enable people to achieve desired outcomes. In this
release, the supported capability type is competency.
You can perform the following tasks by using Center of
Capabilities:
• Create and manage competencies and the associated
behaviors based on organization-specific
requirements.
• Create a library structure to organize competencies
under different libraries, categories, and groups.
Center of Capabilities
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• What is it?
The latest home page is redesigned so that it's simpler, more engaging, faster to load, and available on all devices.
It includes a simplified administration experience as well.
The legacy home page experience (introduced in Q2 2016) will be replaced by the new one (introduced in Q2 2020)
for all customers. You can upgrade to the latest home page today, using the Upgrade Center. We encourage you to
review the available information and begin planning to adopt the latest home page for your organization.
Migration of Legacy Home Page Experience to Latest Home Page Experience
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• What is it?
Quick actions are visible based on role-based permission and system configuration. If configured in the system and
relevant to a person's role, the following quick actions are available:
• Create Activity quick action enables you to create an activity in Continuous Performance Management.
• Report Center quick action takes you to the Report Center page.
• Favorites quick action enables you to review a list of available links and select your favorites, so that you have quick
access to them on the home page.
• Prerequisites
• Admin Opt-In
• You have enabled Latest Homepage.
More Quick Actions on the Home Page
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• What is it?
All quick actions available in the system are visible by default. You, as an administrator can deselect the ones you don't
want to use, so that they aren't visible to anyone, in any role, except for the Favorites and Saved for Later quick
actions, which are always visible.
Remember: Quick actions are visible based on role-based permission and system configuration. Of the ones you choose
to show, individual users only see the ones that are relevant to their role. They can see a maximum of 8 quick actions
total, 6 based on their permission, plus Favorites and Saved for Later.
• Prerequisites
• Admin Opt-In
• You have enabled Latest Homepage.
Ability to Show Or Hide Quick Actions on the Home Page
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• What is it?
You can now use the Favorites quick action to review a list of available links and select your favorites, so that you have
quick access to them on the home page.
The Available list includes some common links that we provide by default, as well as custom links added by
administrators. The Favorites list includes only the links you've marked as your personal favorites.
The Favorites quick action on the latest home page provides a similar experience to Quick Links on the legacy home
page. The addition of Favorites gives customers quick access to important pages from the home page.
• Prerequisites
• Admin Opt-In
• You have enabled Latest Homepage.
Favorites on the Latest Home Page
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• What is it?
As an administrator, you can now add custom links to the Favorites quick action on the latest home page. You can also
import custom links that you've configured for the Quick Links tile on the legacy home page.
Custom links are optional. If you add them or import them from the legacy home page, they're included in the Available
list, along with the standard links we provide by default. You can configure one or more target groups who can see each
link. You can also add a localized link name and description for each language in the system.
Many customers require the ability to display different links on the home page for different target groups. That ability
isn't available for Quick Links on the legacy home page.
• Prerequisites
• Admin Opt-In
• You have enabled Latest Homepage.
Ability to Manage Favorites on the Latest Home Page
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• What is it?
The time off card on home page shows the following:
• The amount of time, in days, since the last time the user took vacation.
• The time when the user next has planned vacation.
• An invitation to take vacation, with a link to the page where the user can apply for vacation.
The card appears on the landing page when it has been more than 30 days since the user's last vacation and he or
she has no planned vacation in the next 60 days.
• Prerequisites
• Admin Opt-In
• You have enabled Latest Homepage.
• RBP: User Permission > General User Permissions > Access the Latest Home Page
Time Off Card on the Latest Home Page
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Employee Central
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• Important changes
• Enhanced Validation for New Country Specific Fields
• New Rule Scenarios to enhance system functionality
• UI Enhancements in different areas
• Position and Job Information Enhancement
• Health and Vaccine Tracking Portlet
• New Feature in Workflows
• Pending Alerts Functionality
• Manage Pending Hire Tool
• User ID Encryption
• Mass Generated Document Email Option
• Work Permit Enhancement
• Qualtrics Email Surveys
Overview Employee Central
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• What is it?
• To collect country/region-specific information
related to gender, it’s required to select a
picklist with a picklist ID in the format of
gender_XXX, where XXX is a 3-letter ISO
country/region code. Picklist IDs in any other
format aren’t accepted for this field.
• We've included validation messages to notify
that this format must be adhered to avoid
misconfiguration.
Enhanced Validation for Gender-Country-Specific Field in Business Configuration UI
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• What is it?
• You can now use a rule scenario to configure cross-entity rules that are triggered from the source
entity and changes executed on the target entity.
• For example, you can configure that changes in Job Information update Compensation Information.
• Rule scenarios limit the amount of issues that result from incorrect rule configurations in Basic rules.
Rule Scenario for Cross-Entity Rules
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• What is it?
• The duplicate check in the rehire process now shows additional fields in the results popup.
• The fields shown are: First Name, Last Name (Username), User ID, Person ID (Person ID External),
Employment Status, Date of Birth, Job Title, Legal Entity, Location, National ID (for example, SSN for
the US)
• In cases where the duplicate check shows multiple results based on the criteria in the Hire/Rehire
Configuration object, it can be difficult to identify the correct match. The additional fields can help admins
narrow down the results and quickly find the correct one.
Duplicate Check for Rehire Shows Additional Fields in Match Results
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Duplicate Check for Rehire Shows Additional Fields in Match Results
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How It Looked Before How It Looks Now
• What is it?
• Attachments added to the active Work Order record of contingent workers are now referred and not copied in the
corresponding inactive Work Order record.
• This behavior applies to Work Orders created as part of:
1. Hiring and rehiring contingent workers.
2. Adding new Work Orders.
3. Adding new concurrent assignments.
• This enhancement prevents any issues arising out of duplicate attachment copies existing in the Work Order of
contingent workers, by ensuring that the inactive Work Order record always has a reference to attachments present
in the active Work Order.
• In the current version, attachments added to the active Work Order record of contingent workers are not copied to
the corresponding inactive Work Order record. An attachment reference is added to the inactive Work Order instead.
• In the previous version, a copy of every attachment added to the active Work Order record of contingent workers
was added to the corresponding inactive Work Order record.
Enhanced Work Order Attachment Management
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• What is it?
• We changed the icon that indicates when a pending hire is awaiting approval by participants in a workflow.
The tooltip for the icon is changed to "Pending approval". We changed the icon so its size is similar to the "In
draft" and "Sent back by approver" icons in the Manage Pending Hires tool.
Icon Change in the Manage Pending Hires Tool
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How it looked before How it looks now
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UI Enhancements for Compensation History
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• What is it?
• The Compensation History
UI now displays current
values in bold text as well
as the previous values
listed in strikethrough text.
This closes a gap between
the previous version of
Employee Central and
People Profile.
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Positions Without Incumbents Not Moved When Supervisor or Position Changes in Job Information
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• What is it?
• In Employee Central Organizational Management, when the reporting line is the leading hierarchy, the
lower-level positions with no incumbents are no longer transferred below the new position. This is also
the case when the person is on a position where multiple incumbents are allowed.
• This change was made to avoid empty positions being moved in the hierarchy although they haven't
changed. This is incorrect.
• What's Changed
• Now, positions without an incumbent are not moved.
• Previously, in such cases, not only positions with incumbents who report to the employee were
transferred, but also positions without any incumbent.
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• What's Changed
• Current version: The Enable Name Format switch
is now located in the Admin Center under Manage
Employee Central Settings.
• Previous version: It was located under Company
Settings in Provisioning.
Name Format Switch Now In Admin Center
• What is it?
• This change is made to keep the settings for this feature consistent with other Employee Central
features.
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Enhanced Home and Corporate Address Information for Singapore
• What is it?
• SAP have added the following new country/region-
specific fields for home and corporate address for
Singapore in Employee Central and Employee Central
Payroll: Block Number, Floor, Unit Number, and
Building Name.
• They made these changes to have more accurate
address data for customers in Singapore.
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Health and Vaccine Tracking Portlet
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• What is it?
• The Health and Vaccine Tracking Portlet is
built on a custom MDF Framework. This
portlet provides you with a framework to
further accommodate employees' health and
vaccine status tracking requirements.
• It can be activated through Upgrade Center
Health and Vaccine Tracking Portlet
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• What is it?
• For non-user generic object workflows, CC roles can now be redirected to the object's Manage Data page or
the Manage Positions page.
• The Redirect CC Users to Workflow Approval Page option on the workflow configuration page specifies
whether CC roles are redirected to the workflow details page (also known as "workflow approval page") or
other pages when they open links in an email notification. In case of non-user generic object workflows, if
the option is set to “No”, CC roles are now redirected to either of the following two pages:
- The Manage Data page (for Department-related and similar workflows), where they can quickly review the
corresponding data changes.
- The Manage Positions page (for Position-related workflows), where they can efficiently perform next steps.
For any other workflows, they're redirected to the People Profile page of the subject user.
CC Roles Redirected to the Manage Data Page or the Manage Positions Page
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• What is it?
• Using this new rule setting, you can delete unwanted pending alerts for several HRIS effective-dated entities
when creating a new alert. After a new alert is created following a data change, old pending alerts become
irrelevant and are not expected to be sent.
• Explanation of the Logic
• When the end date of an employee's contract approaches, their manager may extend the contract period
before a scheduled alert is sent. The previous behavior is that after the manager moves the end date
forward, instead of cancelling the original alert and keeping only the new alert, the system would keep and
send both. This has confused customers because the original alert is already irrelevant and shouldn't be sent.
• Three HRIS effective-dated entities are supported now: job information, compensation information, and pay
component recurring.
New Rule Setting for Deleting Unwanted Pending Alerts for Effective-Dated Entities
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Context Switcher Shows Inactive Label for Inactive Employment Records
© HR Path 2021
• What is it?
• When a logged-in user wants to view their multiple employment records, such as concurrent
employment or global assignment, the context switcher now shows the Inactive label next to their
inactive employment records.
• The distinction prevents users from being redirected to inactive employment records since it enables
them to quickly identify the right employment.
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Manage Pending Hires Tool Now Supports Configurable New Hire
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• What is it?
• New hire templates can be configured to flexibly
configure the hiring process to cater to different
needs for your workforce. When hiring from
the Manage Pending Hires tool, if you have new hire
templates configured, you are now able to select a
template for new hire and rehire scenarios. This
change was needed to bring parity between hiring in
module integration scenarios and hiring in Employee
Central Core.
• In the current version, when you begin the hiring
process by selecting a pending hire, you see a screen
allowing you to select a new hire template.
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Sent Back by Approver Status Added to Manage Pending Hires
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• What is it?
• The Manage Pending Hires tool now includes an icon
to indicate if an approver in the workflow has sent
the pending hire back for further action. Icons in
the Manage Pending Hires tool indicate when a
pending hire is in draft, or if the hire is in process
awaiting workflow approval. However, when an
approver sends the pending hire back to the initiator,
there was no indication in the Manage Pending
Hires tool. We added the new icon to indicate that
the pending hire has been sent back by the approver
and can now be acted upon.
• This new icon helps users to quickly identify and to
respond to pending hires that were sent back.
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User ID Encryption for Employee Central Pages
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• What is it?
• We have created an option for you to encrypt the user IDs in URLs for Employee Central pages.
• If enabled, the following pages show the User ID encryption:
✓ Global Assignment
✓ Switching Profile/Searching for other user profiles
✓ Concurrent Employment
✓ Rehire
✓ Rehire with New Employment
✓ Internal Hire
✓ Manage Pending Hires
✓ New Hire creation from org chart
✓ View Profile link from Hire Success page
• Configuration Requirements
• You have enabled the Admin Center Company System and Logo Settings Encrypt User ID in
URL setting.
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Mass Generated Documents Email Options
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• What is it?
• You can now choose to whom to send mass generated documents by email. You can send it to the job
owner or individual employees or both.
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Incremental Load Mode Supported When Importing Work Permits on Centralized Services
© HR Path 2021
• What is it?
• Besides the original Full Purge mode, customers can now
choose the Incremental Load mode when importing work
permits leveraging the Centralized services.
• With this new mode, work permit records that have business
keys not matched in existing data will be imported as new
records; those that have business keys uniquely matched in
existing data will update their corresponding records.
Customers can use two new check tools to identify and clean
up data issues, such as duplicate or incomplete records,
before importing data. In most cases, customers only need to
update a small part of existing data. Updating data in this
new Incremental Load mode is beneficial because it saves
time and system resources.
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Validation Available for Work Permit Data Entered on UI
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• What is it?
• By default, we now validate work permit data entered on the UI to ensure only valid records are saved in the
system.
• We recommend that customers enable Country, Document Type, and Document Number under Manage Business
Configuration workPermitInfo and make them mandatory. Values entered for these three fields on the Work
Permit block are joined to User ID to form a business key that identifies a work permit. The new validation
mechanism works to ensure no work permit with an empty or duplicate business key is saved. Customers still have
the choice of disabling validation by deselecting the Enable Validations on the Work Permit Editing UI option
at Admin Center Company System and Logo Settings.
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Qualtrics Email Surveys
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• What is it?
• You can use Intelligent Services events to send employee information to Qualtrics, so that you can send
a Qualtrics survey in email for following purposes:
✓ How they feel about their rehiring process.
✓ How they're doing as a first-time manager.
✓ How employees are doing after changing from individual contributors to becoming a manager with
direct reports.
✓ How employees who were managers feel about their transition to becoming an individual
contributor, without direct reports.
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Qualtrics Email Surveys
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• Configuration Requirements
• Enabling this feature requires Employee Central, a Qualtrics Employee Experience license for Lifecycle
projects, and enabling Intelligent Services and Integration Center. You use your Qualtrics account to
create surveys and view its results. All the settings to configure the contents and schedule for the email
survey are also performed at Qualtrics. Before you can configure this integration, you also need to
create a business rule and an OAuth configuration.
• Role-Based Permission Prerequisites
• You have the Administrator Metadata Framework Configure Business Rules permission.
Time Off / Timesheet
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• Important changes
• Qualtrics Email Surveys for Long / Short Term Disability
• Opening Accrual and Opening Entitlement
• Permission to Restrict the Target Population to Peers in the Team Absence Calendar
• Retrigger Periodic Time Account Update on the Admin Alerts 2.0 UI
• Validation when Deactivating the Time Type
• Default Disability Period Settings in Short-Term Disability Absence for Canada and United States
• Employee Time Permissions Respected by Other UIs
• Full Day Field Is Hidden for the "Full Day Bookings Only" Setting
• Live Dashboard Showing Workflow Status for Time Objects
• New Time Sheet UI
• Working Time That Ends at Midnight
Overview Time Off/Timesheet
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Qualtrics Email Surveys for Long / Short Term Disability
• What is it?
• You can use Intelligent Services events to send employee information to Qualtrics, so that you can send
a Qualtrics survey in email when employees go out on short-term disability.
• Long Term: Customers wanted a way to be able to simplify the process for sending a survey in an email
to be able to gather feedback from employees directly about what they think about the long-term
disability program.
• Short Term: Customers wanted a way to be able to get feedback from their employees regarding the
organization's short-term disability program.
• What's Changed
• Current version: Manage Qualtrics Integrations in the Admin Center includes the Employee Long
Term Disability option in the Event Name field's pulldown list.
• Previous version: This Employee Central option wasn’t available.
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Opening Accrual and Opening Entitlement
• What is it?
• You can use the opening accrual and opening entitlement posting types to manually post an initial leave balance
to a time account.
• The system doesn't recalculate opening accruals and opening entitlements. You can use them to manually post
an initial balance to a time account, for example, when migrating your time account balances.
• These posting types are introduced to make it easier for admins to post balances for time accounts with the
Entitled as Transferred entitlement method.
• What's Changed
• Current version: You can use the opening accrual to make an initial leave balance posting that is yet to be
transferred into an entitlement. The initial leave balance posting doesn't get recalculated based on the
accrual rule.
• Previous version: The system might have overwritten values according to the accrual rule when manual
accrual postings were recalculated.
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Permission to Restrict the Target Population to Peers in the Team Absence Calendar
• What is it?
• You can now use the Granted Users' Peers permission to restrict the target population to peers for a
permission role.
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• What's Changed
• Current version: You can restrict the absences
that appear in the peers view.
• Previous version: The Employee Time permission
had to be assigned to all employees so that the
absences in the peers tab of the team absence
calendar could be viewed.
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Retrigger Periodic Time Account Update on the Admin Alerts 2.0 UI
• What is it?
• You can now trigger a rerun of the periodic update process on the Admin Alerts 2.0 user interface (UI)
control.
• The UI has been enhanced to make it easier for admins to look at alerts, correct errors, and retrigger
the periodic update directly on the Admin Alerts 2.0 UI control, compared to retriggering it from the
Manage Time Off Calendar UI.
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• What's Changed
• Current version: How It Looks Now.
• Previous version: You had to go to
Manage Time Off Calendars to
retrigger a periodic update.
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Validation when Deactivating the Time Type
• What is it?
• A validation error is raised when you try to delete or deactivate a time type that is referenced under
the time profile in the available time types.
• This validation is included to maintain data consistency.
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Default Disability Period Settings in Short-Term Disability Absence for Canada and United States
• What is it?
• You can now configure the policy for the short-term disability absence and the system will propose the
disability period end dates when requesting an absence.
• The system provides a button that the admin can use to fill the Disability Period End Date fields with
the dates that will reflect your company's policy for the short-term disability absence.
• This feature reduces the admin's manual work of filling the Disability Period End Dates. The admin can
also track the differences between the short-term disability periods in the absence record and the
periods that would be applicable according to the company's policy from the start date of the absence.
• What's Changed
• Current version: How It Looks Now.
• Previous version: This option wasn't available.
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Employee Time Permissions Respected by Other UIs
• What is it?
• The permissions for Employee Time are now respected by UIs such as the My Team UI, the Org Chart,
and the Employee Profile.
• If you don't see any absence data in these UIs, please check whether you have the permissions assigned
listed in the prerequisite section of this document.
• This feature has been enhanced so that once you have the Employee Time permission, you can see
absences on other UIs.
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• What's Changed
• Current version: Employee Time permissions are
respected by other UIs.
• Previous version: Employee Time permissions were
not respected by other UIs.
Full Day Field Is Hidden for the "Full Day Bookings Only" Setting
• What is it?
• You can now choose to hide the Full Day field on the Time Off UI.
• When the Permitted Fractions for Unit Day setting or Permitted Fractions for Unit Hours in the Time
Type object is set to Only full day bookings allowed, then the Full Day field on the Time Off UI is
hidden. The Full Day field is hidden to both clock-time and duration-based users.
• What's Changed
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• Current version: The full day field is
hidden on the Admin Alerts UI.
• Previous version: The full day field
was displayed on the Admin Alerts UI.
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Live Dashboard Showing Workflow Status for Time Objects
• What is it?
• There is now a dashboard that time admins can use to view live information on the workflow status of
time objects.
• The dashboard gives information on pending approvals, managers, and objects that are in another
status, such as Approved, Rejected, and Cancelled, for objects in Employee Central Time Off and Time
Sheet. The number of objects and their workflow percentage is also shown.
• The dashboard is available in the Content Store in Report Center..
• Admins can use the dashboard to keep track of pending approvals. They can also use it to drill down to
information on the manager who is to give approval and the user who submitted the information or
request for which approval is pending.
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New Time Sheet UI
• What is it?
• A new employee self-service (ESS) user interface (UI) for attendance recording is available. This new
UI supports accessibility standards and can be used on both desktop and mobile devices.
• The new UI includes all features of the current UI except for a limited list of custom field types, field
criteria, and search fields in the cost center selection popup. Before you choose to upgrade, it is
strongly recommended that you test the new UI in your test instance, or in your production instance
using the separate URL provided by SAP. This gives you the opportunity to assess the new UI and
prepare user guides and rollout material for your employees.
• The new UI is easier for employees to navigate.
• What's Changed
• Current version: SAP has introduced a 2-month calendar overview which displays the status of
previous time sheets, so employees can keep track of their scheduled payments. It has made it
easier to record attendances, breaks, on-call times, and absences.
• In addition, employees can now request approval for single attendance recordings when SAP
SuccessFactors Time Tracking is switched on.
• The new UI is responsive to screen size, meaning it always displays the correct amount of
information for the user's specific screen.
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Working Time That Ends at Midnight & Cross-Midnight For Attendances
• What is it?
• It is now possible for employees to record working time that starts or ends directly at midnight, or that
spans midnight (that is, working time that starts on one day and ends on another).
• Additionally, you can now define segments in the work schedule, the work schedule day model, and
time segment filters in the time valuation that end at midnight.
• With this new function, it is now much easier to support any working time models that allow employees
to work during the night.
• What's Changed
• Current version: Employees can track their working time for cross-midnight shifts.
• Previous version: Employees received an error if they attempted to enter an end time of 24:00 or
working time that spanned midnight.
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Global Benefits
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• Important changes
• Automate Benefit Enrollment Changes Due to Job Transfer
• Enhanced Date Information Display in Global Benefits
• Deep Link to View Dependent Details
• IRS Premium Table Based Imputed Income for USA
• Label Changes to Global Benefits Payroll Integration Options
• New Workplace Pension Plan Type
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Automate Benefit Enrollment Changes Due to Job Transfer
• What is it?
• This feature allows you to create or update benefit enrollments for:
• Job transfers within the same legal entity or between legal entities when there's no termination and
rehire
• Future or past-dated events
• This feature allows you to close the gaps in the way job transfer scenarios were handled when an
employee's job transfer affected the benefits assigned to the employee.
• What's Changed
• Current version: Global Benefits supports benefit enrollment or update for job transfer or job change
scenarios using the ISE event for job transfer.
• Previous version: Global Benefits didn't support benefit enrollment or update for job transfer or job
change scenarios using ISE events. Only system events New Hire, Termination, and Rehire were
supported.
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Enhanced Date Information Display in Global Benefits
• What is it?
• The following dates have been updated to display the date in the employee's profile time zone rather than the
server time zone:
• Claim Date in Benefit Claim
• Request Date and Effective From Date in the Benefit Enrollment and Benefit Program Enrollment
• This is done to improve the user experience on date and time information in SF applications.
• What's Changed
• Current version: The dates are displayed in the time zone set in the logged in employee’s profile. If the time
zone isn't assigned in the employee’s profile, then the server time zone is considered.
• Previous version: The dates were displayed in the server time zone, irrespective of the time zone set in the
employee’s profile. For example, assume an employee works for an organization in Germany that has a server
in Australia. If the employee enrolls for an Insurance benefit in Germany on March 29, 2021 (4:00PM). The
system considers the Effective From Date as March 30, 2021 (1:00AM) due to the time zone differences.
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Deep Link to View Dependent Details
• What is it?
• You can use a deep link to go directly to the Dependents People Profile block of an employee from the
Open Enrollment UI.
• This feature allows users to directly access the Dependents block in People Profile without leaving the
benefits enrollment page.
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IRS Premium Table Based Imputed Income for USA
• What is it?
• Global Benefits can now calculate Internal Revenue Service (IRS) premium table based imputed income related
to the employer-provided life insurance coverage. The imputed income calculation is based on the employee's
age and the coverage amount.
• What's Changed
• Current version: IRS Premium Table option has been introduced in the Imputed Income Configuration field. An
administrator can use an existing IRS Premium Table or create an IRS Premium Table based on the payroll
frequency of the company.
• Previous version: The imputed income could be maintained as either Fixed Amount or Not applicable. The
Fixed Amount option was applicable for domestic partner health insurance.
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Label Changes to Global Benefits Payroll Integration Options
• What is it?
• Payroll integration options in Global Benefits have been renamed. You can now select payroll
integration mode as Pay Components or Benefit Objects.
• What's Changed
• Current version: The Integration Mode option Pay Components has replaced the earlier option
of Payroll Integration as Yes. Similiarly, the Integration Mode option Benefit Objects has replaced
the Payroll Integration option No.
• Previous version: Payroll Integration dropdown list had Yes/No values.
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New Workplace Pension Plan Type
• What's Changed
• Current version: SAP has introduced a new pension/retirement plan type called Workplace. When you
choose the retirement plan type as Workplace, you can choose the contribution option as Employee
with Employer Match. Additionally, the field Multiple Fund Selection Allowed has been changed to
Pension Funds.
• Previous version: The system limited the number of contribution guidelines to one for each
country/region and plan type. This feature was developed to overcome this limitation and meet the
needs of the customer.
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