Mapping Employee Information 

Use

You can use this function when replicating business partners from a sender system to a receiver system to send employee information in such a way that it is represented in the form used by each system.

Employee information can be represented in the following ways:

·        in the form of the BP role Employee that is assigned to the business partner, this is the case in CRM for example

·        in the form of the employee indicator, this is the case in Financial Services application systems for example

You can use this function to map the employee indicator to the employee role and vice versa.

Mapping employee information is not activated in the standard system of the business partner replication using XI.

Integration

Mapping employee information is part of the BusinessPartnerReplication integration scenario in the Integration Repository for the SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (XI).

Both the Message Interfaces BusinessPartnerDetailSendRequestOut (Outbound) and BusinessPartnerDetailSendRequestIn (Inbound) are used for this function.

Prerequisites

You have carried out the IMG activity Activate Function Modules in the Customizing for the SAP Business Partner for Financial Services under Settings for Financial Services ® Interfaces/Data Exchange ® Data Replication and activated the following function modules:

·         ABA_FSBP_EMP_TO_FLAG_INBOUND

This function module has to be processed at the event CRMIN (CRM inbound) before the function module BUPA_INBOUND_MAIN_CENTRAL(inbound for the general business partner data) is processed.

·        ABA_FSBP_EMP_TO_ROLE_OUTBOUND

This function module has to be processed at the event CRMOUT (CRM outbound) after the outbound for the general business partner data has been processed.

·        ABA_FSBP_MAP_EMP2FLAG_PRXY_DDC

This function module has to be processed at the event XIIN (Business partner: Mapping proxy to DDIC) after all of the other business partner data has been mapped.

You can activate or deactivate only the defined function modules in this IMG activity. If you want to add further entries, choose the transaction CRMC_BUT_CALL_FU.

Scope of Functions

Mapping the BP role Employee to the employee indicator (inbound) and the employee indicator to the BP role Employee (outbound) always takes place in the system that supports the employee indicator, that is to say not in the XI.

If the function modules required have been activated, then the BP role Employee is sent when business partner data is replicated.

Time Dependency

The BP role Employee can be time-dependent, the employee indicator cannot.

When the system maps the BP role to the indicator (inbound) the function module ABA_FSBP_EMP_TO_FLAG_INBOUND checks whether the information is valid at the inbound event and sets the indicator accordingly. When the system maps the indicator to the BP role (outbound) the BP role is always sent as time-independent. The receiver system posts the role according to the time dependency settings in Customizing.

For more information about time dependency, see Time Dependency of Central Data.

Example

You have a CRM system in which you use a BP role to indicate whether a business partner is an employee. This information is represented in the form of an indicator in the connected application system. By activating the required function modules, each system posts the information in the relevant form.