SuccessFactors Employee Central Core

Academy (THR81_EN_Col2211)
Table of Contents
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Core Academy (THR81_EN_Col2211)
Introduction: Getting Started
Employee Central Basics
Practice Environment
Data Protection and Privacy Features
Employee Central Course Scenario
Exercise: Prepare an instance
Business Example
Steps
User Permissions
Administrator Permission
Assessment
Question 1
Question 2
Using XML During Data Model Configuration
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Core structure
Data models in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
Example Data Model
Data Model Configuration
The Four Data Models
Linking a data model to a DTD
Exercise: Prepare the data models
Business Example
Supplemental Guides
Importing a picklist at the beginning of an implementation
Picklist and picklist values
Exercise: Create a new picklist
Business Example
Configuring the People Profile after initial setup
Employee Central People Profile overview
Configuration of People Profile
People Profile Edit Field Configuration
Exercise: Configure People Profile
Business Example
Assessment

Introduction: Getting Started

Employee Central Basics

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central provides a reliable, consistent system of record for global
companies and helps enhance the overall experience for highly diverse mobile employees. It makes
tasks less manual for employees, managers, and HR, giving them the tools to automate time-
consuming tasks.
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Core features allow for an easy-to-configure Organization,
Job, and Pay structure, customize Employee Data elements, and provide for Event and Event
Reasons to track what is happening throughout the employee lifecycle. You can automate a workflow
for each event reason to standardize the approval process. The system includes robust tools for data
import, mass changes, and rule management.

This course builds on concepts first taught in the SAP SuccessFactors Platform Academy course
(THR80). The content this course relates to includes:
● Configuring SAP SuccessFactors
● Managing security Using SAP SuccessFactors role-based permissions
● Managing proxies
● Configuring SuccessFactors with XML files
● Configuring people profile
● Managing picklists
● Defining metadata framework objects
● MDF object configuration
● Creating and triggering business rules
● Workflow and managing data for MDF objects
● Managing your profiles with the Business Configuration tool and MDF blocks
● Implementing translations

If you need to review any of these topics, we recommend revisiting the SAP SuccessFactors Platform
Academy before continuing this course.

Practice Environment

Your practice environment for the THR81 course is already configured for use as you learn the
product. However, out-of-the-box customer instances require preliminary provisioning setup and
configuration. To learn more about the initial configuration tasks, such as which Provisioning settings
are needed to be activated, review the implementation guide on the SAP Help Portal.

Questions related to training can be posted to Employee Central Academy Learning Room. Questions
about specific customer configuration or implementation scenarios can be posted to HCM Partner
Delivery Group. In addition, internal employees can utilize internal HXM xChange SharePoint sites.

Data Protection and Privacy Features

The data protection and privacy features include, for instance, the ability to report on personal data
changes and the capacity to report on all the data subject’s personal data available in the application.
Customers will also have options to configure data retention rules at country level for active and
inactive employees that will permanently purge personal data from SAP SuccessFactors applications.

It is the customer’s responsibility to adopt the features that they deem appropriate. More information
can be found in Setting Up and Using Data Protection and Privacy on the SAP Help Portal.

Employee Central Course Scenario

Business Example

To fully prepare the training environment for this course, you must apply some initial settings. In this
exercise, you will update permissions and e-mail addresses.
● Administrator Permissions: The default admin user provided in the training environment does
not have full permissions. You will modify the permission role to get access to some
configuration tools.
● Notifications: You will update the e-mail addresses of test users to get notifications that you
will be updating in the system.

Update Role-Based Permissions to ensure the permissions required to complete the exercises are
enabled.
A. Go to Manage Permission Roles using Action Search.
B. Search and Select the System Admin role.
C. Select Permission. This will open the Permission settings box.
D. Select the User and Administrator Permissions mentioned in the User Permissions table and
Administrator Permissions table.

User Permissions
Administrator Permission

E. Select Done.
F. Scroll down and select Save Changes.
G. Log out and log back in.
Update the test users' e-mail addresses to get system-generated notifications for workflows, import
jobs, etc:
A. Open EmployeeDataEmailImport.csv from the Course Files.
B. Beginning on row three, change the values in column C (e-mail address) to your e-mail
address for all rows that contain data.
C. Save as a .csv file.
D. Log in to your instance (if necessary).
E. Use Action Search to go to Import Employee Data.
F. In the Select an Entity dropdown, choose Email Information.
G. In Purge Type, select Full Purge.
H. (If necessary) Set the File Locale to match your locale.
I. Select Browse to search for and select your EmployeeDataEmailImport.csv file.
J. Select Validate Import File Data.
K. Select Monitor Job to see your results in Scheduled Job Manager. Alternatively, you can open
the Scheduled Job Manager tool in a separate tab to maintain the Import Employee Data
screen open.
L. Locate the job that includes emailInfo_validate. The page will need to be manually refreshed if
the result is not yet visible.
M. Once the job is completed, you can scroll to the right to download the status. Verify there are
no errors.
N. Return to Import Employee Data.
 O. Repeat steps F to I.
P. Select Import.
Q. Select the Monitor Job to navigate to Scheduled Job Manager and see the results of your
import.

Assessment

Question 1

How does SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central enables employee engagement? *There are two
correct answers*.
● The Platform features allow users to easily navigate to their employee records and search for
other users.
● Employee Central comes with pre-delivered standard data elements for easy implementation.
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