Manager Self-Service (MSS) and automated Infotype Updates

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Barebel, 
If you are in this area you should look at what is happening in ERP 2005 (ECC 6.0) for HCM Processes and Forms as this is the next evolution of what you are trying to do.  From Enhancement Pack 4 org management forms will be included as standard. 
 
At the moment if you need to do updates to PD org objects look at functions RH_READ_OBJECT, RH_CUT_OBJECT, RH_DELETE_OBJECT, 
To create/update use RH_INSERT/UPDATE/etc. _INFTY
 
In other words look at the existing code under BOR objects PDOTYPE_O and PDOTYPE_S and the "Dark" (i.e. background)  methods to get some clues.  Some of these also have multi equivalents e.g. RH_INSERT_OBJECTS
 
Hope that helps. 
Regards,
Jocelyn 

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Sent: Mon 21/04/2008 5:57 PM
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Subject: Manager Self-Service (MSS) and automated Infotype Updates



Hi Folks, 

I'm involved with a project to implement Personnel Change Requests - basically Manager Self Service (MSS). We run our HR-system on SAP R/3 Enterprise and Netweaver 04. Some portal-functionality is already available for special payments and we would like to follow a similar approach for these types of changes:
- Change in Position ("functional" where the position stays as is or "regular" where the employee moves to another position) 
- Change in Job-ID/Pay/Grade/Working time 
- Converting from conditional to regular employment status 
- Terminating or Leave the company 

We are currently in the design-phase of the project and are trying to put the various bits and pieces together. One of those pieces obviously involves workflows which should be triggered from the notifications generated by the portal-requests. I've already searched various places (SDN, PCR-cookbooks...) but so far couldn't find any information about how to actually handle the updates to the Personnel- and PD-Org-tables. Most of the documentation seems to imply that a person eg. an HR-admin will do these updates directly in the system with information provided in the work-item. Our goal is to have these updates done automatically in the background, triggered from workflows. 

Looking at how involved a "simple" change like "leave the company" actually is when done via transaction PA40, I have some doubts, whether this can be triggered from Workfow and the updates then done automatically without putting the data-integrity at risk. I did find information about function modules HR_INFOTYPE_OPERATION and HR_MAINTAIN_MASTERDATA but these seem to be for updates to one Infotype at any one time only - so we'd still have to make sure to call them multiple times in the proper sequence if more than one IT needs updating. 

Another aspect is, that most - if not all - of the employee-related changes will also include PD-Org-changes, if only to delimit corresponding org-assignements.I haven't yet been able to find any BAPIs and/or Function modules for these types of changes. 

Could you please give me some pointers of where else I can search for information and/or examples? Is what we have in mind feasible at all? Has it been done before? 

Thanks much and Cheers 
Baerbel Winkler 

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