Technical Miscellaneous

How To Transport Organizational Structure

May 12th, 2008 | By smilepak | Category: FCS, Organizational Management, Technical Miscellaneous

After spending hours creating an Organizational Structure, it is rather silly to recreate that for each environment you have for testing purposes. One simple solution to that vs doing an entire system company is to use a standard delivered tool from SAP. This tool could be used in several different way, we’ll get that into [...]



HCM Commonly Used Transaction Codes

Apr 24th, 2008 | By smilepak | Category: Compensation Management, Organizational Management, Payroll, Personnel Management, Technical Miscellaneous

I was browsing the other day and came across a nice list of commonly used transaction codes for HR.
Master Data PA10 - Personnel filePA20 - Display HR Master DataPA30 - Maintain HR Master DataPA40 - Personnel ActionPA41 - Change Hiring DataPA42 - Fast Data Entry for EventsPRMD - Maintain HR Master DataPRMF - Travel [...]



Identifying Transaction Code In SPRO / IMG

Apr 9th, 2008 | By smilepak | Category: Technical Miscellaneous

I came across a thread a few weeks ago on one of the SAP support forum asking on how to identify transaction code in certain IMG / SPRO nodes (SAP configuration area). It made me ponder a bit because I usually do the long route by typing SPRO and drilling down the IMG path. Knowing [...]



Distribution of HR Master Data

Apr 9th, 2008 | By smilepak | Category: Technical Miscellaneous

A couple of years ago I was on a project where they implemented HR, CRM, SRM, FI, and other modules in one large implementation. What made it interested is each of these modules sat as their own instance / system. So HR data is not on CRM or SRM environment.
What was useful is the [...]



Modifying TARIF Feature

Jan 4th, 2008 | By smilepak | Category: Compensation Management, FCS, Technical Miscellaneous

ZFEATURE_TARIF
Logic Designed By: K. Nguyen-Tu
Overview:
The purpose of ZFEATURE_TAIF it to look up job function codes reside on the job object (c) and pass it back to the main TARIF feature for processing.
Logic:
1) We started with the main feature “TARIF” modification through transaction code PE03 and have it call the ZFEATURE_TARIF custom program

Original Custom Code Attached:
(Due [...]



Version 0 is not defined for fiscal year XXXX?

Jul 24th, 2007 | By smilepak | Category: Technical Miscellaneous

Some of you might come across this before when doing conversion or new hire through PA30 and accessing infotype 0000. This occurs when the controlling area isn’t linked to the fiscal year in question. A simple configuration could take care of it through T-CODE: OKEV.



How To Identify Transaction Codes To IMG Items

Jul 20th, 2007 | By smilepak | Category: Technical Miscellaneous

Often time, we find ourself in the IMG node very frequently. Going to transaction SPRO and start drilling down the massive maze of the IMG path could be time consuming.

There is a setting you could set on your end which will display the transaction codes to each area you are in. This way you will [...]



What Are RHINTE? (PA - OM Integrations)

Jul 5th, 2007 | By smilepak | Category: Organizational Management, Personnel Management, Technical Miscellaneous

During an SAP implementation, conversion program will occur to load OM and PA data separatedly as their own infotypes / objects. But there is a missing connection between OM / PA through relationships and other tables that might not get loaded via conversion. With that, we have several RHINTE programs to assist in this matter. [...]



Customizing Feature

Jun 1st, 2007 | By smilepak | Category: Technical Miscellaneous

Do you often time find the business requirements sometime don’t fit with what is available in standard features, such as TARIF, SCHKZ, etc.,?

Most standard features uses similar table structure, such as TARIF uses the PME01 structure. The only available values there for you to select against are MOLGA, Company Code, Personnel Area, Personnel Sub Area, [...]



Showing Keys In Dropdown

Mar 19th, 2007 | By smilepak | Category: Technical Miscellaneous

There is a simple setting in SAP to turn on and/or turn off showing KEYS in SAP dropdown field. Have you been on an SAP environment where the keys are turned on and you don’t know how to turn it off? Vice Versa?

Above is an example shot from transaction PP01.

To enable it or disable it, [...]