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Retaining New Hire Personal Information During Automatic Restart of Onboarding Process
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Description

The updated personal data of the new hire is now retained during the automatic restart of the onboarding process.See More

Detailed Description

Administrators can now trigger automatic restart of onboarding, without canceling the entire process and initiating onboarding all over again, when a new hire's start date is preponed or postponed in SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting. Onboarding Process The updated personal data of the new hire is now retained during the automatic restart of the onboarding process. In addition to retaining user employment-based such as the Job Information, Compensation Information, Pay Component Non-Recurring, Pay Component Recurring, Job Relationships Information and Employment Information, the automatic onboarding restart process now retains the following personal data for new hires: Personal Information Address Dependents This enhancement ensures that the updated data for person-based entities are now retained, improving the efficiency and providing greater flexibility for scheduled changes in the onboarding process.

Impact Assessment

This feature may require configuration review, user communication, and regression testing of related processes in Onboarding implementations. Administrators can now trigger automatic restart of onboarding, without canceling the entire process and initiating onboarding all over again, when a new hire's start date is preponed or postponed in SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting. Onboarding Process The updated personal data of the new hire is now retained during the automatic restart of the onboarding process. Implementation teams should verify that existing configurations remain valid and test core business scenarios after the upgrade to confirm correct behavior.

Test Recommendations
• Verify the feature is enabled and accessible from the expected navigation path or configuration area in a test environment. • Test the end-to-end scenario with representative test data covering both happy paths and error conditions. • Validate correct behavior across all relevant user roles and permission configurations (admin, manager, employee). • Test edge cases: empty or missing values, boundary conditions, concurrent users, and large data sets. • Confirm that existing integrations, workflows, and downstream processes are not affected by the change.
Product: Onboarding
Modules: Onboarding
Feature: Onboarding
Reference: OBX-37913
Version: 2H 2025
Valid as Of: Nov 14, 2025
Latest Revision: Oct 03, 2025
Affected Areas:
Compensation Employee Central Onboarding Recruiting