How can I enter a custom Person Number?

If you need a custom Person Number, then you can set the HCM Enterprise setting called Person Number Generation Method to Manual.

Person numbers are used when a user adds a person such as when they’re hiring them, or when they add a family and emergency contact. When you use the Manual Person Number Generation Method, the user must manually enter the unique Person Number while adding the person to the application.

However, while adding family and emergency contacts, not all roles can enter the person number manually:

• When an HR specialist adds the emergency contact for an employee from the My Client Groups tab, they can manually add a person number.
• When an employee adds a family or emergency contact from the Me tab, they can’t add the person number manually. Instead, the Automatic Person Number Generation Method will always be used and a unique numeric Person Number will be generated by the application. That’s because employees wouldn’t know a unique Person Number value when creating the contact.