How to update Description on Business Class when another Business Class Description is Updated

Hannah Johnson

Our Position Descriptions are built to incorporate the HROrganizationUnit Description (along with Job Title, etc). We are looking for a way to automatically have the Position Description update when the HROrganizationUnit Description is updated, either using LPL or IPAs.

We tried to create an action that look at old description and new description and send that when initiating and IPA, however we ran into issues with the LPL and were told we couldn't have old description. We can't find any way in IPA to pull this information either (when we do a transaction node to look at audit log, there is no field to show description old value or new value.

Is anyone else doing something similar and be willing to share their steps?

andy

We don't use HCM, so I'm not as familiar with Positions and it sounds like you may have already tried this, but couldn't you add a Configured Action for HROrganizationUnit Update that would invoke update Position Description on each Position, provided you have a relation between HROrganizationUnit and Position? Something like...

Update is an ActionOverride

    effective date required

    Exit Rules

        if(Description changed)

            for each ActivePositionsRel

                invoke Update each

                    invoked.Description = Description + ":" + each.Job

Is the current Position Description manually inputted or is it a derived composite of multiple existing fields?

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