Application Status Web Application 

Use

It is not unusual for large organizations to receive hundreds of job applications in response to one job advertisement. In addition to reviewing applications manually, companies typically generate confirmation letters, rejection letters, and so on. Also, applicants frequently telephone organizations to check the status of their job application.

The Application Status Web application helps support a cost-effective and efficient recruitment procedure by allowing applicants to check the status of their job applications over the Internet. This enables you to dispense with a part of your administrative duties.

Advantages for employers:

·        Costs can be saved because applicants can track their own applications on the Internet. This means that companies have fewer telephone inquiries to answer, and that they do not need to create and send letters of confirmation.

Advantages for applicants:

·        Employees can find out the status of their application quickly and easily on the Internet. Another advantage is that they are not restricted to normal company opening hours.

Integration

When external applicants submit a job application using the Employment Opportunities Web application, they are given a temporary job application number, and a password. These can then be used later to check the status of an application.

If you want to use the Applicant Status Web application, you must have implemented the Employment Opportunities Web application.

Prerequisites

Authorizations/Security

The SAP System assigns applicant numbers and passwords to external applicants upon submission of their application.

Standard Settings and Default Values

If you want to use this Web application, you have to work through all of the Customizing activities that would normally also be necessary for setting up the SAP Recruitment component.

You can also create additional texts describing the application status. For more information on setting up the above-mentioned texts, see the Implementation Guide under Web Applications  ® Application Status ® Set Up Application Status.

Features

Modification Options

Output on the Internet

Recruitment data is output via the Internet Transaction Server. The data is written to the Internet Server from the SAP system. There, it is formatted and presented in HTML standard format on a special output screen.

Graphics and forms for this Web application are provided with the standard system. You can, however, change the screen layout (background, or text colors, for example) and insert graphics of your own by changing the HTML templates.

The HTML templates for this Web application are as follows:

 

SAPMPW03_100.HTML	SAPMPW03_300.HTML
SAPMPW03_200.HTML	SAPMPW03_5000.HTML

Transaction/Name of Service

You access the Application Status Web application using transaction PBW2.

You can find all the relevant data under this transaction in the SAP@Web Studio.

SAP Development Objects

The following development objects play an important role in this Web application. Please do not change these objects!

 

Development class	PAPL
Transaction	PBW2
Module pool	SAPMPW03
Function groups	APPL, VAP1
Function modules	BAPI_APPLICANT_CHANGEPASSWORD
	BAPI_APPLICANT_CHECKEXISTENCE
	BAPI_APPLICANT_CHECKPASSWORD
	BAPI_APPLICANT_GETSTATUS
	BAPI_APPLICANT_GET_PW_REG
	BAPI_APPLICANT_CREATE
	BAPI_APPLICANT_INITPASSWORD
	BAPI_APPLICANT_CREATE_PW_REG
BAPIs	Applicant.ChangePassword
	Applicant.ExistenceCheck
	Applicant.CheckPassword
	Applicant.GetStatus
	Applicant.GetPassword
	Applicant.CreateFromData
	Applicant.CreatePassword
	Applicant.InitPassword