SAP ABAP IMG Activity PT_TMW_ESEL_GR (Define Groupings)
Hierarchy
☛ EA-HRRXX (Software Component) Sub component EA-HRRXX of EA-HR
   ⤷ PT-RC (Application Component) Time Data Recording and Administration
     ⤷ PAOC_TIM_TMW_IMG (Package) TMW: IMG
IMG Activity
ID PT_TMW_ESEL_GR Define Groupings  
Transaction Code S_PH0_48000342   (empty) 
Created on 20000125    
Customizing Attributes PT_TMW_ESEL_GR   Define Groupings 
Customizing Activity PT_TMW_ESEL_GR   Define Groupings 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name PT_TMW_ESEL_GR    

In this activity, you group the selection IDs you have defined. You can then enter the groups in your profiles.

Decide which groups you require for employee selection:

Standard selection

There are two options available for standard selection: You can make the employee selection user-specific or for multiple users.

User-specific employee selection

You create a group consisting of selection IDs that are assigned to the specific user (time data administrator). Note that employee-specific selection requires a high degree of Customizing.

Example: You want to assign all industrial workers in cost centers 0815 - 0820 to one administrator.

Multiple-user employee selection

You create groups consisting of selection IDs that are not assigned to a user (time data administrator). You enter the groups in the required profiles under Multiple-user selections according to group. If you assign only multiple-user selection criteria to a profile, the system selects employees solely on the basis of the profile used to access the Time Manager's Workplace.

Example: You create three selection IDs. You use each of these selections IDs to select a time data administrator from the corresponding field. For each selection ID, you enter one of the three administrators whose assigned employees you want to be selected. You do not assign the selection IDs to any users.
You group the three selection IDs in a multiple-user group, and store it in a profile under Multiple-user selections according to group. The three administrators use this proile to access the Time Manager's Workplace. This enables all three administrators to access the same employee lists (selection IDs), and they can distribute their work among themselves, if necessary.

If you want to create a generic selection, see the note in the Employee Selection section.

Interactive selection

For interactive selection, you use a group to determine the following:

  • The selection IDs available to administrators as models for defining their own employee lists
  • Whether administrators can use selection fields to further refine the employee selection
  • The place where the selections defined by administrators are stored

Within one group for interactive selection, you can

  • Define only selection IDs as model entries
  • Specify only an InfoSet, without defining selection IDs
  • Specify selection IDs and an InfoSet

You use an InfoSet to provide time administrators with additional fields for their selection. You create InfoSets in the Specify InfoSets for Interactive Employee Selection activity.

When you define interactive selections, you cannot specify any evaluation paths for Organizational Management. Create evaluation paths in a selection ID via Customizing, and enter them as a model under the group for interactive selection. Time data administrators create their own selection (employee list) based on evaluation paths by selecting the stored selection ID, and, if required, they can supplement the InfoSet with additional selection criteria. When a new selection is created, the system uses the evaluation path from the model.
The relevant selection IDs must be user-dependent.

Please note the following naming convention: In Release 4.6C, the term "functional area" was changed to "InfoSet". If you read the term "functional area" in the documentation, this should refer to an InfoSet.

The group for the interactive employee selection is also used to store selections created interactively by time administrators. In other words, the system stores these selections under this group. You do not need to make any Customizing settings for this to take place.

Example: You want to enable time data administrators to create their own selections in which only active employees (that is, those who have not left the company) are displayed. You create a selection ID as follows:

  1. Create a selection ID.
  2. Select the selection ID and, in the dialog structure, double-click on Table.
  3. Choose New entries.
  4. Select the selection ID, and enter number 1 in the two No. fields.
  5. Under Object class, choose Persons.
  6. Under Infotype, enter "0000" for the Actions infotype.
  7. Under Field name, enter STAT2.
  8. For the Field type, choose Infotype field.
  9. Select the line, and, in the dialog structure, double-click on Ranges.
  10. Choose New entries.
  11. Enter the Selection ID.
  12. Enter 1 in the two No. fields.
  13. Under INCL/EXCL, enter I.
  14. For the Option, enter EQ.
  15. The selection value is 3.

    If an employee has the status active, the STATU2 field of the Actions infotype is assigned the value 3.

You specify this selection ID in the group that you specified in the time administrators' profile for interactive selection. You also specify an InfoSet in this group, which enables time administrators to select employees according to their personnel number and cost center. The time administrators can now define their own selections in the Time Manager's Workplace, which they can use to select active employees according to their personnel number and/or cost center.

Example

Requirements

Standard settings

The standard system provides the group TMW for the standard selection. You can use group TMW_INTERACTIVE and InfoSet /SAPQUERY/HR_XX_PT_TMW for the interactive selection.

Recommendation

Activities

Define group for standard selection

  1. Choose New entries.
  2. Create a group.
  3. Select the group, and, in the dialog structure, double-click on Grouping.
  4. Choose New entries.
  5. Select the group.
  6. If you want to assign several selection criteria to the grouping, assign it a sequential number, starting with 001.
  7. Under Sel.ID, enter the required selection ID.
  8. If you want to define user-specific selection criteria, enter the user name under User. If you want the selection criteria to apply to all users, leave the field blank.
  9. If required, repeat steps 5-8.

Define group for interactive selection

  1. Choose New entries.
  2. Create a group.
  3. Under Object type, enter P (person), and under InfoSet, enter the required InfoSet.

    You can create an InfoSet in the Specify InfoSets for Interactive Employee Selection activity.

  4. In the Work area field:
    • Leave the field blank if you want to specify your own InfoSet.
    • Enter G (for cross-client) if you want to use the InfoSet provided by SAP, /SAPQUERY/HR_XX_PT_TMW
  5. If you want to define selection IDs in addition to the criteria, select the group and, in the dialog structure, double-click on Grouping.
  6. Choose New entries.
  7. Select the group.
  8. If you want to assign several models to the grouping, assign it a sequential number, beginning with 001.
  9. Under Sel.ID, enter the required selection ID.
  10. Do not make an entry in the User field.
  11. If required, repeat steps 7-10.

Further notes

For general information on creating groupings, see the documentation on the Human Resources Information System in Personnel Management: Define Groupings.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 204   Establish Functions and Processes 
Mandatory / Optional 1   Mandatory activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG PT_TMW_ESEL_GR 0 HLA0009704 Personnel Time Management 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
HRSEL_GROUPINGS C - View cluster SM34 Define Groupings 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20000128 
SAP Release Created in 46C