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PLEASE VOTE: Gender Field is Out of Date

ward_scott
Galactic 6
Galactic 6
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Gender in LMS is binary and mandatory. However, many people no longer identify with binary genders. There have been numerous legal actions at local and federal courts and I would prefer to prevent that in our organization.

Please vote here: https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/idea/273017

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SF-Chris
Employee
Employee
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Hi @ward scott,

Where is the Gender field mandatory still? Per https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2934480, it was removed from being visible and you can always remove the mapping for the Connectors to no longer store this data in LMS. 

Regards,
Chris

MaryKatherineJ
Galactic 6
Galactic 6
I think the Gender field was removed from visibility in the LMS User record with the vSaaS b2005 upgrade. I just checked our Entity Configuration > User record page in our Production instance, and it is no longer listed as a field that can be enabled for visibility. However, if the field is still mapped within your CONNECTOR configuration file for the SF User Connector, your LMS may still be receiving gender values from your BizX Employee Profile records. And if the data is being passed to your LMS, then it might be possible to expose that data through a report. If you want to stop the Gender data from BizX from getting sent to LMS, even if you can't see it, I would strongly recommend removing the mapping from your CONNECTOR configuration file. Look for this statement:
sfuser.field.mapping.data.GENDER=GENDER
and remove the GENDER value after the = sign.
I certainly understand your concern. We have more options beyond Male and Female that can be selected in our Employee Central module, but we mapped our SF User Connector to transform any value that did not match M or F to show as null in LMS. Our Gender field in the LMS was not marked as Mandatory, so we could leave it null. (It is a moot point now, though, since we cannot see the data in LMS any longer.) But if you also don't like the option to transform non-binary options to null in the LMS connector, then consider removing the mapping altogether and let the non-binary values be captured only within your HR system instead.

Good luck!
Mary Katherine

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Occasionally, I have to go to the Admin Center > Manage Users and create a contract employee. Here, the gender is mandatory. I admin that I was surprised to find that the gender was not even visible in the LMS user profile .

It looks like SAP may already be on this path to eliminating the field altogether and, in that case, kudos to them. 

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I was confused thinking that this was for LMS only but in the enhancement, it's under Employee Central. 

I'm not well versed in EC/EP but if you go to Admin Center > Manage Business Configuration > Employee Profile > Standard > gender > the field can be made mandatory or even disabled. While it's not removing completely from the application, this change might suffice for now.

Regards,
Chris

@ward scott, in our EC, we created Gender values of "Unknown" and "Undeclared".  Our HRIS specialists use "Unknown" for contractors, and we allow "Undeclared" for those who prefer not to choose a binary gender.  However, in our LMS connector, we added a Transform statement to nullify any Gender values other than M or F.  

            sfuser.field.transform.data.GENDER.@NULLIFY@=U,D,Unknown,Undeclared

Of course, since the Gender field in the LMS is no longer displayed, we can safely unmap the field totally.