Custom fields on Position object

[siyamndebele]

Hi Experts

May I be advised on how can I make a country, city and province custom fields that I added on the position object to auto populate from the location field that is already on the position object.

The three fields values should not be a picklist value.

Regards

Siya

[NathanWilkinson]

can you not pull the data from the mapping rule rather than putting it on the position - you do not need to have all data on the position itself to map to a req!

[NathanWilkinson]

I have never seen a customer wanting to do this - - what is the business need?

[siyamndebele]

The fields are required for RCM, the client want to use them for job applications when potential talent applies for vacancies then these fields must be auto populated from the location of the vacancy.

[nlgro023]

Can't you jsut write a business rule (On save I guess) that would take the values from the location and that puts them on the position fields?

[siyamndebele]

The challenge is that these fields values are not available on the business rule values to choose from.

[nlgro023]

The KB seems to agree sadly.
2748311 - Retrieving the Business Address from the Location Object in a Rule - Emplopyee Central (sa...
Technically there are still 3 options, they are however a bit more challenging each
- Use Integration Center for the position object, navigate to the address details and let Integration Center write it to the custom fields (i.e. daily) by filtering for the respective fields being empty
- Build a massive if, then else rule (I doubt you'd prefer that).
- Build an MDF object that also stores the Location data (potentially have it auto filled / updated via integration center) and use the look-up to retrieve those details