1. Train The Trainer Employee Central Administration
November 23, 2011
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4/19/2011

2. Purpose
Review key concepts and best practices for administration for Employee Central 2.0 Discuss common support process for supporting your users

3. Employee Central 2.0 Administration
SuccessFactors Employee Central 2.0 provides you access to key administrative functions and the ability to immediately update the Foundation Table data. With Role-based Permissions, you have flexibility to manage security by role and down to the data element level, as needed. NOTE: Given the new structure of data with EC 2.0, several items under Admin Tools are obsolete. Please be sure to refrain from using these features in your instance, as they are not compatible with EC 2.0. We are working toward a solution to tag or hide these items for EC 2.0 users. For now, please reference this document.

4. Employee Central Administration

5. Admin Tools: Manage Users
Utilize to Manage EC 2.0
Reset User Passwords
Reset User Account
Employee Export
Import Employee Data: Used for all employee data imports including profile/background data
Add New Employee: Takes you to same screen as Company Info / Add New Employee.
Not Compatible with EC 2.0
Set User Status
Matrix Manager and Custom Manager Relationship Import (Must use Import Employee Data)
Rehire Inactive Employee
Generate Audit Trail (Must use subdomain schema)
Caution!
Document Transfer: Can be used to move forms; but manager change should be made EC. Suggest not to use this feature; EC change will automatically move form based on PM settings

6. Admin Tools: Manage Users

7. Admin Tools: Manage Users

8. Admin Tools: Manage Users
Tips:
Export template through Download link at top.
Import data files in the order listed
Save as .CSV file, and Unicode-8 if using special characters
Always Validate Import File Data before importing

9. Admin Tools: Manage Employee Central Foundation Objects
Utilize to Manage EC 2.0
Import Foundation Data
Manage Organization, Pay and Job Structures: Used to manage all Foundation Table data.
Not Compatible with EC 2.0
Import Translations: Not supported at this time.

10. Admin Tools: Manage Employee Central Foundation Objects
Tips:
Export template through Download link at top.
Import data files in the order listed
Save as .CSV file, and Unicode-8 if using special characters
Always Validate Import File Data before importing

11. Admin Tools: Manage Employee Central Foundation Objects
Tips:
Backdate all dates to 1/1/1970 or earlier to ensure that employee records are not dated prior to this.
Add associations for each that have associations to ensure all fields can be entered on employee records.

12. Admin Tools: Managing Documents
Utilize to Manage EC 2.0
File Storage Management: Tracks storage usage of any imported files.

13. Admin Tools: Managing Documents
Tracks storage usage of any imported files. Filtering options to display certain file types or for only a specific Name or Username. Gives ability to Export needed files.

14. Admin Tools: Manage Security
Utilize to Manage EC 2.0
Mass Create Group Permission
Proxy Management
Proxy Import
Manage Support Access: Used for SuccessFactors support; allows support user access if SSO is turned on.
Manage Permission Roles
Manager Permission Groups
View User Permissions: Helpful to review a single user’s access and roles assigned
Caution!
Manage Role-Based Permission Access: Only provided to SF users created through Provisioning; should be a very limited capability.

15. Admin Tools: Manage Security

16. Admin Tools: Manage Security

17. Admin Tools: Manage Security

18. Admin Tools: Manage Security
Used to modify Permission Roles, or groups of permissions. Allows Admin to Edit, Copy, View Summary, View Change History, or Delete Roles.
In addition to editing permissions for a Role, Admin can grant Permission Groups to the role and define the Target population or Group.

19. Admin Tools: Manage Security
Tips:
Define groups to include in the Group by using any standard field to filter users.
Can select users by Username if needed.
Can also define groups/users to exclude from the group.
Reference the Active Group Membership total in the upper right to validate selections.

20. Admin Tools: Manage Security

21. Admin Tools: Managing Behaviors and Skills
Utilize to Manage EC 2.0
Behavior (Competency) Libraries: Used to add/modify existing Behaviors.
Families and Roles: Used to manage Behaviors for each Role; information used to determine Behaviors for Performance forms.

22. Admin Tools: Managing Behaviors and Skills
Modify custom libraries, add new behaviors.
Add to/modify Writing Assistant text through the Teasers link.

23. Admin Tools: Managing Behaviors and Skills
Tips:
Configuration change: system now uses custom field Job Role to map Behaviors (Competencies) to Roles
Use this to map new Behaviors to Roles
Define new field values for each role through Edit Properties

24. Admin Tools: System Properties
Utilize to Manage EC 2.0
Company System and Logo Settings: Modify or view Next Employee ID to be Assigned

25. Admin Tools: System Properties
Tips:
Select Company System and Logo Settings under Admin Tools. If a number is noted under “Next Person ID Assigned” then the auto-number generation is on.
This number represents the next UserID / Employee ID number that will be automatically assigned to the next New Hire record entered.

26. Admin Tools: Live Profiles / Picklist Mgmt / Talent Search Mgmt
Utilize to Manage EC 2.0
Export Extended User Information
Picklists: Manage all picklists data
Picklist Mappings Set Up
Talent Search Settings: Modify existing settings
Not Compatible with EC 2.0
Live Profiles / Import Extended User Information: DO NOT USE Import; instead, use the Employee Import under Manage Users

27. Admin Tools: Live Profiles / Picklist Mgmt / Talent Search Mgmt

28. Admin Tools: Live Profiles / Picklist Mgmt / Talent Search Mgmt
Tips:
As noted if modifying a picklist, export it first and make changes, retaining the ^picklistId and OptionId.
If removing an item, use OBSOLETED status versus ACTIVE; this retains any prior records with use of this entry
If creating new picklists, use a unique Picklist ID and leave the OptionId column blank
Use “Unicode UTF-8” Character Encoding format to retain the special characters in files
Be sure to export/import using the same Character Encoding format

29. Admin Tools: Live Profiles / Picklist Mgmt / Talent Search Mgmt

30. Admin Tools: Live Profiles / Picklist Mgmt / Talent Search Mgmt

31. Admin Tools: Employee Files
Utilize to Manage EC 2.0
Configure Employee Files: Modify Profile portlets and fields
Manage Workflow Requests: Route or cancel workflow requests
Manage Workflow Groups: Create Workflow Groups to be used in Workflows for approvals. (Note: If one user from the Workflow Group approves the transaction, the transaction is approved for that particular step and moves forward.)
Not Compatible with EC 2.0
Customize Employee Central NOTE: For EC 2.0, these changes are made by CS in the Data Model.

32. Admin Tools: Employee Files
Tips:
Under Admin Tools, select Configure Employee files to modify existing Profile layout or fields or to add a new Employee File.
Here you can add/remove background elements or tables or add/remove standard fields from a Personal Information portlet.

33. Utilize to Manage EC 2.0 Tips:
Manage Currency Conversion Rate Tables: Upload updated currency conversion rates.
Tips:
Do not create a new table for Employee Central; overwrite the existing table
Name cannot change for Employee Central use; should be “ECT_CONV_TABLE”
Must always use “ECT_CONV_TABLE.csv” filename.

34. Helpful Resources Customer Community (See link under Admin Tools)
Admin Resources (See link under Admin Tools)
Customer Success / Case Management “Solutions”
On screen directions for each Admin Tools feature
Use this PowerPoint to reference features not compatible with Employee Central 2.0

35. Wrap Up Describe the End-user Support process Q&A Close
Who do you call first?
How does it get escalated to the administrator?
Administrator will contact SuccessFactors as necessary
Q&A
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