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Gopinath
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Alumni Experience Blog has been created together with @niharika and @anantapalli 

The Alumni Experience gives former employees access to their personal and payroll related information after their employment ends. 

In this Blog, we are going to cover on below to have smooth Alumni Experience:

A) Pre-Requisite.

B) Configurations Enablement. 

C)Demo + IAS Sync.

D)Alumni Offboarding Purge.

E) FAQ.

 

A)Pre-Requisite:

1.Enable Offboarding and ensure that the Employee Data Review Step is configured in your Offboarding process variant.

2.Identity Authentication Services (IAS)/IPS should be enabled.

3.Company logo and setting - Enable latest people profile.

4.Company logo and setting- Enable Show inactive user in people profile search.

5.ECP (Employee Central Payroll) should be enabled.

6.Personal Email Should be maintained in Employee profile.

B)Configurations Enablement:

Step1: Feature Enablement

Enable alumni switch from Admin Centre-Onboarding General setting page (it will appear only if offboarding switch is enabled)

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Step 2: RBP Enablement 

Once feature is enabled from onboarding general setting page, "Alumni External User" role will be auto-created with user type as "Alumni"

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List of Permissions available for RBP:

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Assignment: Grant themselves so that alumni can access only their profile.

 

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Step 3Business Rules Enablement

Business Rule Scenarios (2 scenarios) will be auto created once alumni feature enabled:

A)Initiate Alumni Process -It will determine whether terminated employee (offboarded) will be Eligible as Alumni.

B)Set End Date for Alumni User Access: It will set an expiration date to end user's access to alumni experience.

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Step 4: Provisioning Jobs Enablement

2 Jobs Need to be enabled :

A) Job Type-ONB2ConvertTerminatedEmployeeToAlumniJob : It will convert Terminate employee to Alumni Status.

Former employees are converted to alumni users on the day after their employment ends.

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B)Job Type-ONB2AlumniProcessCloseJob- It will convert back user status from alumni - Terminated status.

When the defined Alumni Access time period is over and once the conversion job runs successfully, alumni user access to the alumni portal is terminated.

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Step 5: Job Scheduler Enablement

Job Type-Sync Alumni Data -To ensure that changes to actions or business rules are incorporated into the existing Alumni process, configure the Alumni Maintenance Job.

You've scheduled a one-time maintenance job in the Schedule Job Manager. When triggered, the job updates the alumni process with any changes to actions or business rules. Once configured, this job can be manually triggered as- needed from the Job Scheduler page.

Step 6: Configure Alumni Activation Email Template in IAS

Go to SAP Cloud Identity Services-Identity Provisioning Target Systems (your Identity Authentication target system Transformations)-Switch to JSON Editor-Edit and add below piece of code to transformation xml:

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Create a new property called ias.alumni.email.template.id.attribute. Go to SAP Cloud Identity Services Applications & Resources Email Template Sets (select the Email Template Set) On-Behalf Registration (tab) and copy the URL value in your browser right after Template Sets.

After the On-Behalf Registration email template set and new property value have been configured, specify that this email template set should be used for Alumni.
Go to SAP Cloud Identity Services Identity Provisioning Target Systems (your Identity Authentication target system)-Transformations-Switch to JSON Editor-Edit and add below piece of code to transformation xml:

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C)DEMO+IAS Sync:

Step1: Terminating employee Suzhal M Shocks with end date as 24-feb-25.

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Step 2: Employee Data Review Step should be completed and Alumni process will be triggered . 

In order to verify it : Please navigate to Admin centre-manage data - You will observe new object "AlumniProcess" will be created with process status as "Not Started".

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Step 3: Start date of Alumni is 25-feb (which is post termination date ) .so if job now runs in provisioning it will convert terminated employee to Alumni status (ONB2ConvertTerminatedEmployeeToAlumni) .

ONB2ConvertTerminatedEmployeeToAlumni Job concept : It will pickup all the users whose process status is "Not started " for alumni process and startDate<=particular date where job ran.

It will update status from Not started to Enabled as shown in below screenshot :

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Step4 : Alumni User Status is Active Now in SuccessFactors:

 

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Step 5: IAS Sync for Suzhal M Shocks

User Staus is currently inactive in IAS side:

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Real Time Sync will convert user status from Employee to Alumni with Delta Sync.

User Login Name will be converted to personal Email Address + User Type updated as Alumni from Employee + Status changed from Inactive to Active.

 

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Alumni will receive an automated email to personal email address to login:

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Alumni Login from Activation Email :

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Initially Alumni Need to accept DPCS Statement

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Once login ,please click on employee profile

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Alumni can edit personal information:

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Alumni can update payment information:

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D)Alumni Offboarding Purge :

The Alumni Process couples with the Offboarding process, so the Offboarding purge needs to be configured to align with the expiration of alumni access.

The alumni process is a child process of the Offboarding process, however the alumni process can remain active after the Offboarding process is completed.

If the Offboarding purge is triggered while the alumni access is active, the Offboarding purge is skipped for the active alumni users. When enabling Alumni Access, you must update your Offboarding purge configuration, so it aligns with the Alumni Access period.

E)FAQ:

1.If Alumni update payment method and what if work flow configured?.
Answer: Yes workflow will be triggered to user to approve it.

2.Is offboardee and alumni user status are same ?
Answer: Alumni status will get changed only after termination date .

3.Alumni can access outstanding offboarding tasks (ex: KT Tasks)?
Answer: Based on permission provided for alumni role.It is upto alumni user would like to perform or not those outstanding tasks.

4.what is status type for alumni ?
Answer: Alumni shares the external user flag 'e'

5.how alumni will login after termination?
Answer: Personal Email address in mandate to be maintained in employee profile before termination date.

6.Where Alumni Email Templated will be configured?
Answer : It will be configured in IAS side . Kindly refer guide for more details in scetion :Configuring the Alumni Activation Email Template in Identity Authentication.

7.if we convert type to alumni via job(convert term employee to alumni) ,whether rehire will be triggered? because status should be f to trigger rehire.
Answer: Rehire is handled for Alumni.

8.Is it necessary for the alumni process creation job to be scheduled after the hris sync job? Also does this job take care of timezone of the user?
Answer: As for the process closure, Alumni process in itself is independent with very less coupling to offboarding. Having it separate and creating this job is one time activity for the customer.

9.Whether Alumni Access can be revoked by Manager from Dashboard?
Answer:Yes ,it can be revoked by manager from offboarding dashboard. Please find below screenshot.

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10.How Alumni Access Date is set in Offboarding Dashboard?
Answer:It will be set based on rule :Set End Date for Alumni User Access

 

Alumni Experience for rehires (Rehire with Old Employment and Rehire with New Employment) to be continued in separate Blog .

Happy Learnings 🙂

Thanks,
Gopinath Murugaiyan
IT Technology Senior Consultant.
Workforce Solutions | Corporate Functions & Analytics.
SAP Labs India Private Limited | Whitefield | Bangalore- 560066, India.

 

14 Comments
SvenRingling
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Thank you, @GOP !

You mention ECP as a pre-requisite.
I get that for access to payslip or other pay-related forms, but is it really a prerequisite for the alumni feature as a whole? Even without EC it should still be able to give them access the EC data.

Gopinath
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@SvenRingling 

ECP is for payslip access and for profile access only EC is required.

Thanks,

Gopi

chrispsaville
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Whats the licence implication of this?

Gopinath
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@chrispsavilleIt is with Onboarding/Offboarding license.

RandolphTan
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Hi Gopi,

Was the offboarding module must implemented then only can have this alumni feature or it can work independently?

Gopinath
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@RandolphTan  yes it is required

tanyaM1
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RE: this question "Whats the licence implication of this?"

Just to confirm. There is no license needed in terms of a login license for every past employee to make this work? thanks.

 

@Gopinath 

egitoyo
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@Gopinath Does it require EC license in order to use Alumni feature? (apart from ONB license)

amydobson
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@Gopinath - I have the same license questions as above.  Do customers need to account for additional Onboarding licenses for their alumni users?

Jayananda_Kotri
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Hi @amydobson ,

The Alumni access is covered as part of the Onboarding/Offboarding license as of now that is based on the Employee Count. This would be revisited in future. 

Best regards,

Jayanand

RMeijer
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Hi@Gopinath or @Jayananda_Kotri,

Regarding the lastest people profile: is the full people profile required or will Alumni experience also work with just spotlight and preview enabled?

Thank you!

DamianEnnis
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Hi @Gopinath 

We currently terminate employees using Take Action, would enabling Offboarding mean we have to change the termination process? Or can we just enable it in order to use the alumni experience?

Also, enabling alumni switch from Admin Centre-Onboarding General setting page - I take it this won't be available if we are still using Onboarding 1.0?

Thank you

Damian

dmak
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We would like some of our "alumni" to have access to apply for internal jobs, is that possible?

G2
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Hi eveyrone,

Concerning step 6, what is the source system for the creation of the target system? The procedure assumes that I already have one and jump to the transformation step.

Configuring the Alumni Activation Email Template in Identity Authentication

@Gopinath @Niharika @anantapalli & team   
Thanks for the blog,  its a nice feature requested by business.