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ImranMohammed
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Part 3: Steps to enable Address Validation Service in SAP Success Factors Employee Central


This Blog is a collaboration work between SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) Team, SAP Data Quality Management Team and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central – Localization Team.

Welcome to Part 3 blog series on enabling address validation service within Data Quality Management, Microservices for Location Data and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central.

Please refer to Part 1 & Part 2.

We touch on following areas in SAP SF Employee Central to enable Address Validation Service.

  • Security Center

    • X509 Certificates

    • OAuth Configurations

    • Destination Settings



  • Miscellaneous Permissions

  • Configuration in Manage Data

    • United States

    • United Kingdom

    • Canada

    • Australia

    • Mexico

    • Singapore



  • Testing


Security Center

X509 Certifications

  1. Go to the Employee Central Admin Center, the search tool search for Security Center and select X509 Certificate tile


           




  1. Select Add and provide the requested information to generate the corresponding certificate.





    • Configuration Name

    • Certification Authority (CA): SAP Cloud Root CA.

    • Valid Until: Select the period of your validity.

    • Choose Generate and Save

    • Download the X509 Certificate and save it locally.




                    Note: The maximum supported period is 1 year. 

     




  1. Download X509 certificate. This file is required to create the Service Key on the DQM Account described in Part 1 of this blog series.


         



SF X509 Cert to be used in BTP Service Key


 

OAuth Configurations



  1. In the Security Center, select OAuth Configurations and add the required information





    • Configuration Name

    • OAuth Type: OAuth 2.0 mTLS

    • Grant Type: Client_Credentials

    • Client ID: Get the Client ID from BTP DQM Service Instance under the Service Keys (Refer to Part 1 blog)

    • X509 Client Certificate: Choose, created entry under “X509 Certificate” (Created in X509 step above)

    • For the Token URL copy the information available in the certurl from BTP DQM Service Instance under Service Keys (refer Part 1) - (https://...com) and append /oauth/token?grant_type=client_credentials

    • Token Method: POST & Save the changes





OAuth Configurations



Destination Settings



  1. In the Security Center, select Destination Settings and add all the required information.





    • Name: Address Validation Service Configuration.The name should always be Address Validation Service Configuration so that the address validation is triggered from Employee Central

    • Type: Choose REST

    • For the Endpoint URL, copy the information available in the URI from BTP DQM Service Instance under the Service Keys (refer to Part 1 blog). To construct the full Endpoint URL, prepend from BTP DQM Service Instance under the Service Keys and append /dq/addressCleanse to the host. For example, https://api.dqmmicro.cfapps.sap.hana.ondemand.com/dq/addressCleanse

    • Authentication Type: Choose OAuth

    • OAuth Configurations: Choose the entry created from the above step under “OAuth Configurations”

    • Choose Save





Destination Settings


 

Miscellaneous Permissions


To enable Address Validation Configuration in SAP SF Employee Central, we need to assign permissions for Address Validation Configuration for Country/Region.

  1. Navigate to Manage Permission Role and select the corresponding role.



Manage Permission Roles




  1. Select the corresponding role to enable Address Validation, navigate to Miscellaneous Permission and enable checkbox for Address Validation Configuration For Country/Region.



 

Configuration in Manage Data


Enable Address Validation Configuration for Country/Region in Manage Data

1. Go to the Admin Center and choose Manage Data


Manage Data


 

2. Select Address Validation Configuration for Country/Region as shown in the pic to create new


 

  1. Select United States from the Country/Region





    • Country/Region: United States

    • Activate Service Use For: Specify the type of user for whom you want to activate the validation service.

      • Employee Addresses Only – this option validates only the address of the employee

      • Employee and Dependent Addresses – this option validates an employee’s and employee’s dependents addresses



    • Default Locale: This specifies the language in which the user must type the address. For example, if the default locale is Netherlands, the user types the address in Dutch

    • Address Type: Specify one or more address types you want the system to validate.

    • Allow Save for Non Critical Errors is set No. It implies only valid address can be saved.

    • Save the Changes.





United States


Enable Address Validation Service for other countries by repeating the above steps 1 & 2.

Canada



Canada



United Kingdom



United Kingdom



Australia



Australia



Mexico



Mexico



Singapore


Note: Allow Save for Non-Critical Errors is set to Yes. It implies inaccurate address can be saved in the system by providing the warning to the user. Please refer the Singapore testing section of this blog to experience inaccurate address behavior & user warning.


Singapore


 

Testing


Let’s test and verify if Address Validation Service is enabled for the respective countries.

  1. Navigate to Employee Profile and enter employee address


         United States


Employee Profile




  1. Enter the address information





  1. Enter the United States address and hit Validate Address button. Note: Validate Address button is enabled due to the enablement of Address Validation Configuration for Country/Region.



 

  1. Validate Address button calls the DQM microservice to validate the provided address and provides a proposal to pick the correct address from the list. If in address provided is missing the apartment number, DQM proposed me to enter the apartment number and provided me a suggestion with the complete address data.






  1. Final address populated on the screen



Singapore Address Testing



Above testing steps can be followed to validate the address data for other countries.

Hope this blog series helps to enable Address Validation Service within Data Quality Management, Microservices for Location Data and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central.

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5 Comments
pieterjanssens
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We would like to set this up for our Sales Demo tenant(s), but the free tier of the DQM service to use on our CPEA tenant is currently limited to a 30-day trial and a fixed total usage of 1000 API calls, see SAP Discovery Center. Is there another free option for us partners to set this up?

ImranMohammed
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Hi Peter,

Thanks for your question. I don't think any other option available beside free tier access.
KashJawed
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Nice Blog Imran, I have a couple of questions:

1. Can address validation be used with Recruiting and Onboarding while onboarding a new hire or just during employee profile updates?

2. Can Informatica address validation be used in Part 1? 
https://knowledge.informatica.com/s/article/121713?language=en_US

thank you

KashJawed
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thank you Youssouf