Expected Behavior for Employee Tables in People Data Updates Flows
1. Tables that always start empty
These tables display a ‘+ Add’ button and begin blank each time you use the flow:
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Variable Pay
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Actual Payments
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Deduction
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Bank accounts
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Dependents
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Work eligibility
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Entitlement
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Equity
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Training Info
These records are designed to be added as new rows in the table each time you use the flow.
2. Tables that are pre-filled
These tables won’t show a blank form or a ‘+ Add’ button. Instead, existing data is auto-loaded:
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Work
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Address
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Employment
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Salary
Why Is This the Case?
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The first set of tables can include multiple “effective” entries at once.
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Historical tables, like Work, Address, Employment, and Salary, have only one row considered “effective” at a time.
When a flow begins, Bob fetches the current details from those historical tables and displays them for editing. Once you update the fields and select a new Effective date, Bob creates a new row in the corresponding table in the employee’s profile.
For the other tables, the system allows you to add multiple entries (via ‘+ Add’) during the same flow session, since they don’t rely on effective dates.
So, even though it may look like you’re editing an existing record, you’re actually creating a new one upon submission.
