Reviewing the What's New Information in the 2H 2024 release

Pixel Perfect Talent Card (PPTC) will reach End of Maintenance on November 15, 2025 and will be Deleted on November 15, 2025.

Future dates are subject to change.

As Pixel Perfect Talent Card (PPTC) is not supported in the latest People Profile, it is decided to deprecate the existing PPTC functionality along with the legacy People Profile.

Visit the SAP SuccessFactors Customer Community Blog for more information.

If you're a licensed user of SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors Learning, and you've enabled Stories in People Analytics in your SAP SuccessFactors tenant, you can now access your SAP SuccessFactors Learning data to build stories in SAP Analytics Cloud.

The SAP SuccessFactors Learning live connection support in SAP Analytics Cloud allows you to blend Learning data with data from other SAP SuccessFactors modules. SAP Analytics Cloud also separates models (live queries) and stories, enabling you to reuse existing queries.

• You've an active account of SAP Analytics Cloud.
• You've enabled and configured SAP SuccessFactors Learning in your SAP SuccessFactors tenant.
• You've a common Identity Authentication service between SAP SuccessFactors, Stories in People Analytics, and SAP Analytics Cloud.
• You've enabled and configured the Story report with the Learning connection in your SAP SuccessFactors tenant.
• You've enabled the live connection between SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Analytics Cloud. For details, refer to the "SAP Cloud Application Connection to SuccessFactors" topic.
• You've configured the live connection (using copy connection) for SAP SuccessFactors Learning on your SAP Analytics Cloud tenant. For details, refer to the live data connections section of the SAP Analytics Cloud Help documentation.

There are no separate permissions to build SAP SuccessFactors Learning related Story reports in SAP Analytics Cloud. The permissions granted to users for SAP SuccessFactors Learning apply to the stories created in SAP Analytics Cloud.

SAP Cloud Application Connection to SuccessFactors

Classic reports is Deleted on November 15, 2024.

Future dates are subject to change.

As the logical next step for achieving our vision of making Stories in People Analytics the go-to solution for all your reporting needs, we are deprecating the legacy reporting tool, Classic reports.

For more information, refer to the SAP SuccessFactors Customer Community Blog.

You can now use the fields marked as sensitive in your system in Calculated Columns, without the need to add a context field along with it, to create calculations in Story reports.

With this enhancement, you achieve more accurate and improved results.

With the 2H 2024 release, you can add a sensitive field in the Calculated Column in your Story without the need to add a context field along with it.

In the previous version, when you selected a sensitive field in the Calculated Column, it was mandatory to add a context field along with it. Now, it's not a mandatory requirement.

Creating Calculated Columns for Stories in People Analytics

You can now add a maximum of 10 reports to a report bundle that you want to schedule using the report distributor tool.

This enhancement allows you to access information without overloading the system, as simultaneous scheduling and running of Canvas Reports previously caused significant strain on the database.

In the current version, you can add a maximum of 10 reports to a report bundle when scheduling reports with the report distributor tool. If you must add more reports, you can create additional bundles. This limit only applies when creating a new report bundle, and doesn't affect existing bundles.

In the previous version, you could add as many reports as you wished in a single bundle while scheduling a report in the report distributor tool.

Creating a Bundle

In the latest version of Role-Based Permissions, administrators can now configure tree security permissions.

This enhancement closes the gaps between the latest Role-Based Permissions and the legacy Role-Based Permissions. It allows RBP administrators who need to configure tree security permissions to leverage the new RBP experience.

How It Looks Now

Assigning a Permission Role

We've made enhancements to the Time Management Configuration object to provide you with the flexibility of generating planned working time data for custom duration not only in the past but also in the future.

In the Time Management Configuration object, we've introduced two new fields, Generate Planned Working Time Data for Past Period (in months) and Generate Planned Working Time Data for Future Period (in months). These fields allow you to generate planned working time data in the past for up to 12 months and in the future for a period of up to three months respectively. These configuration periods are effective from the current date and this period will move subsequently to the next day as each day passes by or in other words it is a rolling period.

We've made this enhancement to give you the flexibility to generate planned working time data for custom periods in the past and in the future.

Set the value for Generate Planned Working Time Data for Past Period (in months) in Manage Data Time Management Configuration object.

Set the value for Generate Planned Working Time Data for Future Period (in months) in Manage Data Time Management Configuration object.

Ensure you have the View permission for User → Time Management Object Permissions → Planned Working Time.

Time Management Configuration object showing the new fields Generate Planned Working Time Data for Past Period (in months) and Generate Planned Working Time Data for Future Period (in months).

How It Looked Before

The two new fields were not present in the Time Management Configuration object.

Reporting of Planned Working TimeTime Management Configuration

Candidate and applicant skills data are now reportable using Story reports.

A query on the Candidate Skill entity or Applicant Skill entity displays the skills and the skill extraction status from the resume. The report also shows whether the candidate or applicant validated their skills.

The enhancement helps recruiters audit skills-related data for candidates and applicants and use it to comply with regulations.

• Enable Assisted Applicant Screening in AI Services Administration → Feature Settings → Recruiting → Assisted Applicant Screening.
• (Optional) Enable the Assisted Applicant Screening and Allow Applicants to Manually Add Skills options in Admin Center → AI Services Administration → Feature Settings → Recruiting.
• Enable Stories in People Analytics and Recruiting.
• Candidate Skills are available when Mobile Apply is enabled.

Enable the Create Story permission in Administrator → Reports Permission.

In the current version, the Applicant Skill entity is available in Story reports to generate reports on applicant skills data. The values for the Skill Extraction Status field are Completed, Failed, Locale not supported, and In progress, and the Skill Validated field shows whether the candidate validated skills.

If you have enabled Mobile Apply, skills are validated. The value of the Skills Validated column will display YES only once the skills extracted from the resume are saved in the candidate profile.

In the previous version, the Candidate Skill and Applicant Skill entities were unavailable in Story reports.

The Audit Trail - Job Requisition, Job Posting Audit History, Application History, and Candidate Profile Fields Audit tables are now available in Story reports.

The enhancement helps generate audit data related to Audit Trail - Job Requisition, Job Posting Audit History, Application History, and Candidate Profile Fields Audit tables.

Enable Stories in People Analytics and SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting.

Enable Data Access:Story permission in Admin Center → Manage Permission Roles → Edit Administrative Role → Add Permissions → Recruiting Permissions.

In the current version, you can generate job requisition audit reports using Story reports.

In the previous version, the Audit Trail - Job Requisition, Job Posting Audit History, Application History, and Candidate Profile Fields Audit tables were available only in Table reports.

Available Data (Schema) in Story Reports

Job Location and Job Location Short Format generic objects for job requisitions are now reportable using Stories reports.

A query on the Job Location and Job Location Short Format table in the Job Requisition table displays the job descriptions's External Name and Code.

The enhancement helps you generate reports on the location data of the job requisition.

Enable Stories in People Analytics, and Recruiting.

Ensure you provide the required template-level and role-based permissions similar to any other generic object fields for the following Job Location and Job Location Short Format objects in Admin Center → Manage Permission Roles → Manage MDF Recruiting Objects.

In the current version, the Job Location Short Formatentity is available in Story reports to generate reports on job location short format data.

How It Looks Now

In the previous version, the Job Location and Job Location Short Format entities were unavailable in Story reports.

Related Information

Setting the Job Posting Rule to Fetch Job Location Generic Object

You can now report on the matched date of mentors and mentees in mentoring programs in Table and Story reports.

The Matched Date column in the reports shows the date when mentors and mentees were first matched. The date won't be changed in the following cases:

• Mentors or mentees restart the mentoring relationship after they've ended it

• Mentoring administrators remove matching between mentors and mentees

This feature is from customer idea 320503. Using these matched dates along with existing end dates, customers will be able to report on the duration of mentoring relationships.

Stories in People AnalyticsTable Reports

When creating a Story report on Role-Based Permissions, it's now possible to include permission category names and role descriptions. This enhancement introduces two new fields to the Role-Based Permission schema: Category and Description.

These additions provide a more comprehensive view of your permissions data within the Story report. In the context of permission categories, you can now effortlessly differentiate permissions with similar names in Story reports.

How It Looks Now

When you create a Story report for Role-Based Permissions, you now can view both the Category and Description in the available data.

How It Looks Now

Here's how the "Description" and "Category" columns appear in a Story report.

Creating a Story Report

Canvas reports for transactional reporting (Detailed reporting and Advanced reporting) will reach End of Development on November 17, 2023 and will be Deleted on November 21, 2025. This deprecation announcement has been withdrawn.

Future dates are subject to change.

As the logical next step for achieving our vision of making Stories in People Analytics the go-to solution for all your reporting needs, we are deprecating Canvas reports for transactional reporting (Detailed reporting and Advanced reporting).

• For more information, refer to the SAP SuccessFactors Customer Community Blog.

• For tips and assistance on planning the transition, refer to the community blog, Usage Statistics of Table and Canvas Reports to Plan Transition to Stories.

Table reports will reach End of Development on November 17, 2023 and will be Deleted on November 21, 2025. This deprecation announcement has been withdrawn.

Future dates are subject to change.

As the logical next step for achieving our vision of making Stories in People Analytics the go-to solution for all your reporting needs, we are deprecating the legacy reporting tool, Table reports.

• For more information, refer to the SAP SuccessFactorsCustomer Community Blog.

• For tips and assistance on planning the transition, refer to the community blog, Usage Statistics of Table and Canvas Reports to Plan Transition to Stories.

Tiles and Dashboard reports will reach End of Development on November 17, 2023 and will be Deleted on November 21, 2025.

Future dates are subject to change.

As the logical next step for achieving our vision of making Stories in People Analytics the go-to solution for all your reporting needs, we are deprecating the legacy reporting tool, Tiles and Dashboard reports.

For more information, refer to the SAP SuccessFactorsCustomer Community Blog.