Background
SAP SuccessFactors plans to make the latest version of goal management opt out in the 1H 2024 release followed by a universal push around the March 31st 2025 release. For more details visit this link: https://groups.community.sap.com/t5/product-and-customer-updates/plans-underway-to-make-latest-versi...
As part of our broader effort to redesign the goal experience, SAP SuccessFactors has also made the decision to retire some features that were available in legacy goal management.
List of deprecated features
Feature | Reason for deprecation | Replacement | Availability of Replacement |
Group goals | Similar feature exists | Team goals. The feature allows you to create team goals and have the option to choose to assign it to yourself or not, which as a result surfaces that assigned goal on your own performance goal plan. Customers that were using group goals may use Team Goals to support the same business process. There are some new RBPs introduced for Team Goals, please learn about those here.
| Already available |
Mass Assign via the goal plan through CSV file | Low feature usage | Import Performance Goals in Admin Center | Already available
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Import or export goals directly from a goal plan | Low feature usage | Import Performance Goals in Admin Center | Already available |
Add goals using the SMART Goal Wizard | Replaced by a different feature | Creating goals with Generative AI. This will offer an AI-driven approach to creating goals that meet all the facets of “SMART’ goals. | 1H 2024 |
Layout configuration of the goal plan, including custom Learning Activities | Does not conform to new UX design pattern | There are no replacements for this feature. | Not applicable |
Automatic goal numbering | Does not conform to new UX design pattern | There are no replacements for this feature. | Not applicable |
Indenting goals | Does not conform to new UX design pattern | There are no replacements for this feature. | Not applicable |
Moving goals up and down the goal plan | Does not conform to new UX design pattern | There are no replacements for this feature. | Not applicable |
Tasks or targets of subgoals | Similar feature exists | Milestones. This feature allows users to breakdown the goal into achievement milestones, which are timeboxed and can define actual/target values for each milestone. If you use Tasks, you can still use Milestones as a replacement since we support the same fields. | Already available |
Spell check | Similar feature exists | Browser’s spell check. | Not applicable |
Summary section of goals on the goal plan | Low feature usage | There are no replacements for this feature. | Not applicable |
Navigating from goal plan to Goal Alignment Spotlight | Low feature usage | There are no replacements for this feature. | Not applicable |
Field types:
bool; checkbox; link | Low feature usage | bool: no replacements. checkbox: no replacements link: custom text/textarea fields | Not applicable |
Add to Outlook | Low feature usage | There are no replacements for this feature. | Not applicable |
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