Unit 14: Changing Staff Assignments

Use

In the tests you have carried out so far, you acted both as the requester and as the superior.

In this unit, you will change the organizational plan in such a way that the requester and superior are two different SAP users.

Procedure

You enter a different user as the superior in the staff assignments of your organizational plan. Ask a colleague whether they would like to take part in this test. Or have yourself a second user created.

  1. Choose Start of the navigation pathTools Next navigation step Business Workflow Next navigation step Development Next navigation step Definition Tools Next navigation step Organizational Management Next navigation step Structural Organization Next navigation step ChangeEnd of the navigation path.

    This takes you to the Change Organization and Staffing (Workflow) screen.

  2. Search for your head of department position in the search area. The positions that were found are displayed in the selection area. Open yours by double-clicking on the entry in the change mode.

Deleting position holders

  1. Select the row in the overview area in which the assignment to the user is entered.

  2. Choose the arrow on the right next to the and then Assignment.

    The position of the department head is no longer occupied.

Reassigning position holders

  1. Choose User in the search area and search for the user whom you want to assign to the position.

    All of the users that match the search criteria are displayed in the selection area.

  2. Select the user whom you want to assign to the position and move them to the line position: head of department (ini) in the overview area using Drag&Drop.

  3. Choose .

    This completes the changes to the staff assignments. The two positions are held by different persons.

Result

You have changed the staff assignments by changing the assignment of users to a position. You can check this by displaying the staff assignments. Proceed as described in Unit 1: Organizational Structure.

You can also start with Unit 16: Fourth Test directly after this unit. The recipients of the work item for the step Check notification of absence are then determined from the possible agents for the single-step task. You have already assigned the position of department manager as possible processors to this task in Unit 6: Creating Task "Check Notification of Absence" .