PICOF Primary Run Fails: "Entered Information Does Not Meet the Restrictions" on Pay Group Update
The error The following unexpected error has occurred: Validation error occurred. The entered information does not meet the restrictions defined for this field. (Integration_System_Reference).
What it means
A PICOF integration run in primary mode tries to write back the last successful run date to the pay group's payroll integration system setup, and Workday rejects that write with a generic validation fault. The integration and its data are fine, the ISU just lacks permission to update that setup object.
Troubleshooting
- Confirm the failure only happens on primary runs, not on non-primary (delta) runs. If unchecking "primary" in the launch parameters completes cleanly, that isolates the cause to the primary-run write-back step.
- Check the ISU's security group for Get and Put access to the Payroll Interface domain and the Integration Event domain. Primary runs write to "Maintain Payroll Integration Systems for Pay Group," which needs Put access beyond what a read-only delta run requires.
- Activate any pending security policy changes after granting access; an unactivated grant behaves exactly like a missing one.
- Re-run the same primary run after granting access to confirm the validation error clears, rather than assuming a data fix will help since the request body was never the problem.
⚡ Quick fix
Grant the ISU's security group Get/Put access to the Payroll Interface and Integration Event domains, activate pending security policy changes, then re-run the primary integration.
✓ Permanent fix
Document that PICOF primary runs need write access to the pay group setup object as a standard part of ISU provisioning, separate from the read access a delta run needs, so this doesn't get rediscovered every time a new primary-mode PICOF integration is built.
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