Passing HR infotype start date to an event

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Mike,
Most infotype-based business objects provide the "Aggregate" attribute which contains an instance of the EMPLOYEET object for the employee and validitybegin date of the infotype.
You should just be able to use this attribute directly to fill your workflow container element or in your event start condition if that's what you are doing.
See business object EMPLCOMM for an example
 
So long as your event is based on the business object for that infotype you shouldn't need to do anything special.
 
Plus all HR events that I've dealt with always pass an EMPLOYEET instance as a event parameter.  As all HR events are handled by central routines if you look at standard HR events you can see that they all include two event parametesr:
* Employee - an instance of EMPLOYEE
* EmployeeUser - an instance of EMPLOYEET
 
So if you are using your own event, you might want to try defining the event parameter "EmployeeUser" as an instance of Employeet and that should be enough to pick up the correct employeet instance.
 
Jocelyn
 
-----Original Message-----
From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Pokraka
Sent: Friday,28 May 2004 5:03 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Passing HR infotype start date to an event
 
 
Greetings all,
The subject says it all: I want to know the start date of an infotype when
an event is raised.
We've specified a custom function in T779X to raise an event when a Person
is updated. However the update is usually future-dated and may even be
delimited. afterimage-begda is available within the FM and what I'm looking
for, but I cannot pass anything other than an event name out of the FM... so
near and yet so far! Would be nice to fill an event container at this point.
 
The issue behind all this is that the WF needs to instantiate an EMPLOYEET
object based on the start time specified in the update that raised the
event, just in case someone has a completely different alternative....
 
Any insight appreciated,
Cheers
Mike