Copying Competencies for Contingent Workers

We are using R12.1.

We have positions setup for employees and contingent workers.

We have competency requirements setup for positions.

For an employee we can navigate to their competency profile, click COPY COMPETENCIES, select PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT COMPETENCIES and click COPY.

This action takes the competencies assigned to their position and loads them to their competency profile.

If we repeat the same actions using a contingent worker, we get the following error after clicking COPY: APP-PER-52595 No primary assignment exists for this person.

However, if we query PER_ALL_ASSIGNMENTS_F and look at the PRIMARY_FLAG it is set to 'Y' for our contingent workers.