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HCM Processes and Forms

Additional User Interface

October 2012

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At the end of this module, you will be able to understand:

• How to launch processes from HR Administrator.

• How to monitor the processes that have been launched.

• How to create a print version of the form.

• How to use the web dynpro form in the DPF(Digital Personnel File)

• How to consume the applications in the PFCG role.

Objectives


Why Additional User Interface?

• “HCM Processes and Forms” is a

framework which can be used by

customers to create customer

specific business processes.

• The user Interface used by “HCM

Processes and Forms” is Interactive

Adobe by SAP.

• Due to market demands we are now

providing additional user interface

for “HCM Processes and Forms”

framework.

• The additional user interface is

based on web dynpro ABAP

technology .


Positioning of the new Additional User Interface

New alternative is based on Web Dynpro ABAP technology

New Forms Design Tool

New Presentation Layer

Existing investments in SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe are safe

Project goal is to introduce an additional UI not a replacement. This is a side-by

–side approach .Customers can choose the technology according to their

needs.

Most configuration, other than form layout, is meant to be reusable with Web

Dynpro UI version if you want to switch


Processes and Forms Functionality Delivered in HR

Renewal 1.0

Processes and Forms shipped as part of HR renewal 1.0

With this shipment you can

Create processes based on web-dynpro ABAP in the design Time Tool.

Consume the web dynpro ABAP based forms from ESS, MSS .

Service Layer for HCM Processes and Forms.

The details about these functionalities can be found in the service market

place.(service.sap.com) .The path is Support Portal->Knowledge Exchange-

>Ramp-up Knowledge Transfer->SAP Business Suite->SAP ERP->SAP HCM

renewal 1.0 ->Processes and Forms.

The following presentation talks about functionalities as part of FP2(feature

pack 2 of HR renewal 1.0)

service.sap.com


Search Objects - Employee

Search Objects

Different Objects like

Job, Organizational Unit

,Position can be

searched by changing

the category

The Result list will give

the search result.You

can hover over the

objects to get more

information about them.

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Search Objects – Position , Organizational Unit, Job


Start a Process for an Object

Select an Object

Click on the context

menu to get list of valid

processes. The

processes can be

configured in the launch

pad.

Launch the process

from the menu

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View the Object in Hierarchy

View the object in

hierarchy view

The hierarchy is

customizable and

depends on the

evaluation path

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Start Process From Hierarchy View

View the object in the

hierarchy

Start process from the

hierarchy view

Process is configured in

the launchpad

customizing

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Launch the web Dynpro ABAP Form

Form Utilities

Link List

Generate PDF-

History of previous

steps

Attachments

The number of

attachments can be

seen in the title.

Web dynpro ABAP

Form

Generate PDF – In case

you want to create a

print version of the web

dynpro ABAP form you

can do so by creating

an Adobe template

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Search Processes

Search Processes

Search Processes

based on criterion

selected.

Both web-dynpro ABAP

and Adobe processes

can be searched.

Result list of the search

Both the web-dynpro

ABAP and interactive

adobe processes will be

listed here

Click on the detail

button to see the

process details.

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Process Details

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Process Step Details

Step details of the

Process

Select the step to view

the form of the step in

the detail area.

The buttons

Back – To go back

to search

Withdraw –

withdraw a process

that is “in process”.

Expand Form –

Expand the form

area to see only the

form(the steps are

hidden)

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Digital Personnel File

Launch DPF(Digital Personnel File) after searching employee

Digital Personnel File.It stores all the forms and attachments for an employee.The

web dynpro ABAP forms can be converted into Adobe print forms and then stored

in the DPF (Digital Personnel File)

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Configurations for the Feature Described Above

GEN_PDF : Allows to create

print form of the web dynpro

ABAP based form

OFF_EMP : Allows to switch off

the employee search in the

search application

OFF_JOB : Allows to switch off

the Job search in the search

application

OFF_ORG : Allows to switch off

the org search in the search

application

OFF_POS : Allows to switch off

the position search in the search

application

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Adding Processes Into the Launch pad

Go to transaction „lpd_cust‟

Navigate to role „HRASR‟

Go to Change mode

Under Processes create a process with following parameters .

Application parameters Namespace: SAP

Application: ASR_PROCESS_EXECUTE_OVP

Application-Related parameters Target app. Parameters.: PROCESS=<Process Name>&OTYPE=<Object Type>

Configuration : ASR_PROCESS_EXECUTE_OVP_CFG.

You can check already delivered standard entries for the role „HRASR‟ for more

details.


Configure the Print of web Dynpro ABAP Forms

Adobe template for the

web dynpro ABAP form

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PFCG Role and Conversion to Portal Role

PFCG ROLE : SAP_ASR_HRADMIN_SR_HCM_CI_4

Business Function : HCM_ASR_CI_5(HCM, Administrative Services 05)

The PFCG role can be converted to the portal role.

Please check the netweaver portal documentation for the same.


You should now be able to understand

How to start the processes from HR admin start application

How the form uses utilities like attachments, link lists,history and

generate PDF

How to monitor processes using Process Browser.

How to use the web dynpro ABAP based form for print conversion

using Adobe forms.

How to use the print converted forms in DPF(Digital Personnel File)

Summary


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