Describing key SAP SuccessFactors Succession Management 1H 2026 Features and Enhancements

You can now edit the section details of a talent card in the latest People Profile dialog. Editing is not available for the Career Goals and Variable Pay History Data sections as they are not supported in the latest People Profile.

We made this enhancement to help users achieve a consistent and improved editing experience that aligns with the latest People Profile.

You have configured the corresponding custom background element information in the latest People Profile.

You have View and Edit permissions for the respective Employee Data sections under User Permissions→Employee Data.

In the current version, selecting Edit in the upper right corner of a section opens the latest People Profile dialog for you to view and edit detailed information. The Career Goals and Variable Pay History Data sections are view-only and cannot be edited.

In the previous version, choosing Edit opened the legacy People Profile dialog for viewing and editing. The Career Goals and Variable Pay History Data sections also provided an Edit option that opened the legacy dialog.

Editing Information on Talent Cards

Users can now add custom attributes as search options in Talent Search, in addition to skills and competencies.

The Add dialog now shows the 50 most recently created attribute types, each containing at least one attribute. Users can drill down into an attribute type to select specific attributes or use the search bar to find attributes by name.

On the Talent Search results page, users can then view the name and proficiency level of an employee's custom attributes, and compare employees side by side. Users can also select custom attributes to be displayed in the exported search results file.

When reloading saved search criteria, inactive attributes are automatically removed from the pre-filled filters to prevent errors or confusion.

With the expansion of available attributes — moving from only skills and competencies to all types — managers, HR business partners, succession planners, and any other users who use Talent Search in their daily work can benefit from a more comprehensive data set for talent decisions.

• Your organization has migrated to Talent Intelligence Hub.
• The status of the attributes and their attribute types must be active.
• In Talent Search Settings, the option Show Attributes is selected and a rating scale is selected from the dropdown list for All Attributes.

• Users have the User Permissions→Growth Portfolio→Attribute→View permission.
• Users have the User Permissions→Growth Portfolio→Attribute Type→View permission.
• Users have the User Permissions→Growth Portfolio→Proficiency Level Scale→View permission.
• Users have the User Permissions→Succession Planners→Talent Search Access permission.
• Users have the User Permissions→Talent Search Field→Ratings→Attribute permission.

Managing Talent Search Settings

Searching by Ratings and Attributes

As an administrator, you can now use role-based permissions to control the visibility of overall performance ratings in AI-assisted successor insights. This prevents sensitive information from being exposed to unauthorized users.

On a position card in the Succession Org Chart or the Position Tile view, succession planners can use generative AI capabilities to gain insights into successors nominated for the position or the incumbent. Previously, the insights always displayed the nominees' latest overall performance ratings. Now, only succession planners with the User Permissions→Employee Data→Background Information permission for the element <sysOverallPerformance> can view this data for their target population. As shown in the screenshot, ratings for users outside of the target population are not available for AI analysis.

This enhancement improves data privacy by ensuring that only authorized users can access sensitive information.

• You have purchased the AI units license. For more information about the AI units license, contact your Account Executive.
• You have selected the option Assisted Successor Insights in Admin Center→AI Services Administration.

• Users have the User Permissions→AI Access→Assisted Successor Insights permission to access the AI-assisted Successor Insights feature.
• Users have the User Permissions→Employee Data→Background Information permission for the element <sysOverallPerformance> to access the target population's overall performance rating data.

AI-Assisted Successor Insights

As an administrator, you can use role-based permissions to control who can manage successor nominations and who can be nominated as successors for positions or incumbents.

A new permission User Permissions→Succession Planners→View/Add/Edit/Delete Successor Nominations has been added as a child permission under the Succession Planning Permission. You can use it to control who can manage successor nomination information.

Additionally, Admin Center→Nominations Setup now includes the option Apply target population restrictions to the View/Add/Edit/Delete Successor Nominations permission.

• By default, this option is not selected. Succession planners who have the existing Succession Planning Permission can nominate all active users in the system.
• When this option is enabled, succession planners must have both the Succession Planning Permission and the View/Add/Edit/Delete Successor Nominations permission to nominate users. In this case, only users within the target population can be nominated as successors.

The following examples show how the target population setting affects what succession planners with the new permission can do on the UI:

• On the position card, they can only view successors included in their permission role's target population. Successors outside this scope are hidden.
• On the talent card, they cannot view the current nominations or nomination history of users who are not included in the target population.
• On the Nominations and Successors cards in the latest People Profile, or on the Current Nominations and Successors blocks in the legacy People Profile, nomination information for users outside the target population is hidden.
  
• On the Succession module pages or other modules integrated with Succession Planning, when adding successor nominations, you cannot add nominations if the nominees are outside the target population.

This enhancement is based on customer idea 279053. The permission and target population settings provide finer‑grained access control within Succession Planning and support varied customer scenarios. For example, organizations can ensure that only those who have recorded their consent in employee data are eligible to be nominated for privacy compliance. This helps reduce the risk of inappropriate or non‑compliant nominations.

• If your organization does not need nomination restrictions, leave the new setting disabled. No additional action is required and existing behavior continues: users with the Succession Planning Permission can nominate all active users.
• If your organization wants to restrict who can be nominated, we recommend first setting up and testing these configurations in the Preview environment before adopting their functionality after the production release:
  • Grant the View/Add/Edit/Delete Successor Nominations permission to succession planner roles.
  • Define an appropriate target population for these permission roles.
  • Enable Apply target population restrictions to the View/Add/Edit/Delete Successor Nominations permission in the Nominations Setup tool.

Position Cards

Talent Cards

Succession

Viewing Nomination History for a Nominee in the Legacy People Profile

Generic Object and Foundation Object filters are now supported in Position Tile live slides within Presentations.

When creating or editing Position Tile live slides in Presentations, users can now view and select values for Generic Object and Foundation Object filters. Previously, these filters appeared as options but did not display values for selection. The filter options displayed in Presentations mirror the options configured for the Position Tile View.

This enhancement closes the functional gap between Presentations and the Position Tile View, allowing users to efficiently filter and present positions in Presentations.

• You have added Generic Object and Foundation Object fields as searchable fields to the Position object.
• You have enabled the setting Include Generic Objects and Foundation Objects in filters in the Position Tile View in Admin Center→Succession Settings.

Configuring Filter Options for Position Tile View