How To Fix 53730 - Employee &1 locked

53730 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: 53 - Incentive Wages Data

• Message number: 730

• Message text: Employee &1 locked

What causes this issue?

The employee is currently being processed by another transaction.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message 53730 - Employee &1 locked ?

  The SAP error message "53730 Employee &1 locked" indicates that the employee record you are trying to access or modify is currently locked. This can happen for various reasons, such as:
  Causes:
  
  Ongoing Processes: The employee record may be locked due to ongoing processes, such as payroll processing, time evaluation, or other HR-related transactions.
  User Lock: Another user may have the employee record open in a session, preventing you from accessing it.
  System Lock: The system may have placed a lock on the employee record due to a previous transaction that did not complete successfully.
  Data Consistency Checks: The system may lock the record to ensure data consistency during updates or changes.
  
  Solutions:
  
  Wait and Retry: If the lock is due to an ongoing process, wait for that process to complete and then try again.
  Check User Sessions: If you suspect another user has the record open, you can check the user sessions in the system (using transaction