Reviewing SAP SuccessFactors Succession Management 1H 2024 Stay Certified Information

The Horizon visual theme is now available in more product areas.

We continue to update the visual styling on more pages over time. In 1H 2024, we added the Horizon theme to the following product areas:

• Employee Central - Company Structure Overview
• Platform
  • Coaching Advisor
  • Directory Search
  • User Settings page (except for the Groups tab)
• Recruiting
  • Candidate Profile page
  • Candidate Rating and Search
  • Job Postings and Agency Listings
  • Internal candidate experience, including: Job Search, Job Applications, Saved Jobs, Saved Searches/Alerts, My Candidate Profile, Saved Applications, and Referral Tracking.
  • Message Center
  • My Recruiting Preferences
• Succession & Development
  • Career Path
  • Career Worksheet
  • Succession Planning

We also added it to the following Admin Center pages:

• Compensation - Compensation Home
• Learning Administration
  • Curriculum
  • Import Content
  • Item Actions
  • Item Email Notifications
  • Item Instructors
  • User Module
  • User Tabs
• Platform
  • Email Notification Templates
  • Metadata Framework tools: Configure Object Definitions, Import and Export Data, and Manage Data
  • Org Chart Configuration
• Recruiting - Applicant Status Configuration

The Horizon theme is the latest design standard for all SAP applications.

Design Standards Included in the Horizon Theme

Minor Visual Changes in 1H 2024

If any employee has ever been nominated to a position or talent pool in Succession, this position or talent pool can't be permanently deleted using the Manage Positions or Manage Data admin tool.

Previously, you could use the tools to permanently delete such a position or talent pool. Now, when you try to delete it, an error message displays.

If you need to permanently delete a position or talent pool that has nomination records, you can purge it in Data Retention Management using the purge request type Purge Non-Sensitive MDF Business Data.

We added the validation checks to prevent the loss of nomination records, especially during data migration.

You're using the MDF position-based nomination method.

Validation for Permanently Deleting Positions and Talent Pools with Nomination Records

Purging MDF Data (Non-DRTM)

As an administrator, you can now prevent ratings in deleted forms from being used to generate the Performance-Potential or How vs. What matrix grid report in Succession.

To exclude deleted forms, select Exclude deleted forms when retrieving ratings in one or both of the following admin tools:

• Matrix Grid Reports: Performance-Potential
• Matrix Grid Reports: How vs. What

We developed this feature so that you no longer need to purge deleted forms if you don't want their ratings to be considered in the matrix grid reports.

This feature is only available in the matrix grid reports in Succession. Therefore, even if you select Exclude deleted forms when retrieving ratings, ratings of deleted forms are still shown on the Performance-Potential and How vs What matrix grids in People Profile.

• You have the Administrator Permissions → Manage Succession → Performance-Potential Configuration permission.

• You have the Administrator Permissions → Manage Succession → How vs. What Configuration permission.

Matrix Grid Reports

Defining the X- and Y-Axes for Matrix Grid Reports