SAP ABAP Data Element AVAILABILITY (Employee's availability status)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_ABA (Software Component) Cross-Application Component
   ⤷ CA-HR (Application Component) Cross-Application Objects in HR
     ⤷ BPTM (Package) Cross-Application Objects in HR Time Management
Basic Data
Data Element AVAILABILITY
Short Description Employee's availability status  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type AVAILABILITY    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 1    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 1    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name    
Search Help: Parameters    
Parameter ID   
Default Component name AVAILABILITY   
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Avail. 
Medium 15 Availability 
Long 20 Availability 
Heading 13 Availability 
Documentation

Definition

A distinction is made between the following availability
statuses:

  • Status 0: Employee is not available
    This status is based on
    • Breaks
    • Recorded absences (infotype 2001)
    • Special attendances (for example, attending a course)
      This availability status is determined when attendance and
      absence types are customized in the Implementation Guide (IMG).
  • Status 1: Employee is available
    This status indicates skeleton time (fill time, core time) without breaks.
  • Status 2: Overtime exists for the employee
    This status indicates that this time is not documented for the employee

and is outside of his or her planned working time (skeleton time). Any work done during this time is usually overtime.

  • Status 3: Employee is available on-call.
    The employee is available, but a time delay will exist before he or she
    can begin work. This status appears if an employee's availability
    duty is customized as "on-call" in the IMG.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  19980909 
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