Positions mass move with same position name?

Question

Hi All,
1) Is there any direct way to change Organization of a Position?
We tried performing Mass move between the organizations with the same source and target position names. But we faced the issue - 'The target position already exists outside the target organization' since the same position cannot exist in 2 organizations.
2) We tried a changing the position name to a temporary name and then performed mass move between the orgs from the temporary position to original position. This worked to some extent - The position and the assignments having this position got updated correctly, but the position hierarchy still shows up the Temporary position name.
Is there any solution for our issue 1? or any approach for issue 2?
Application version is 12.1.2.
Many Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

In Oracle HRMS Positions have very strict criteria.
1. They have to be unique within a BG. Hence you cannot have two positions with same name inside one BG even if they are in different Organizations.
2. You cannot change the job or Organization of a position once created.
and so on..
what you are trying to do here violates the basic definition of position in HRMS. You will not be able to change the organization of a position and treat it as the same old position. This is functionally not correct.
In such cases, the best approach is to have a segment for the position KFF holding the short name for the organization it belongs to. Thus whenever you want to change the organization of the position, what you actually do is create a new position, since one of the segment values changes in the position definition.
Coming to the approaches you have tried:
1. Mass move cannot circumvent the basic tenet of HRMS position to allow you create new position with same name but different organization. Hence this approach will not help at all.
2. I am not sure how this happens. But as discussed above changing organization of a position will definitely cause issues somewhere or the other.