Use

You (the person setting up Manager’s Desktop ) make all the settings described here as predefined settings for the desktop application scenario in Manager’s Desktop customizing. Based on your predefined settings, the user makes the required settings for his or her individual desktop.

Features

The settings you make in customizing can be subdivided as follows:

Settings for the Entire Scenario

In the Define Scenario-Specific Settings step you define customer-specific application scenarios for Manager’s Desktop . An application scenario consists of all the theme categories, subcategories and executable functions that are available to the user in an application.

In the Determine Views of Organizational Structure step, you define different views of a user’s area of responsibility by specifying evaluation paths. The user can then display the views by selecting tab pages on the right side of the screen.

In the Define Scenario-Specific Settings step, you use the Skip Initial Screen indicator to specify that the system should skip the initial screen, and go straight to a particular theme category.

In the Adapt Initial Screen step you can make customer-specific adjustments to the initial screen of Manager’s Desktop by inserting your own company logo and/or background.

Settings for the Left Screen Area (Function Tree)

Using the customizing transaction Wizard for Defining Function Codes, you define new function codes that the user sees as either theme categories, subcategories or executable functions (reports, transactions and so on) in the function tree in the left screen area.

In the Data Extraction step, you specify how data from Organizational Management is to be extracted when the extraction is triggered in Manager’s Desktop . You can then use the data in another application. With an appropriate graphics application, for example, you can use such data to create an organizational graphic with additional data.

You can call up the graphics application in the function tree under the Organization theme category.

In the activities in the Quota Planning step, you make settings relating to required positions planning.

Settings for the Right Screen Area (Area of Responsibility)

For each theme category in an application scenario, you can specify which tab pages (which views of the area of responsibility) are available to the user. This is done in the Determine Views per Category step.

In the Define Scenario-Specific Settings step, you can specify with the Reorg. not permitted indicator that the line manager is not allowed to make reorganizational changes using drag & drop within his or her area of responsibility. This also means that the Reorganization subcategory in the function tree for the Organization theme category is no longer visible.

With the Hide virtual root indicator, you can specify that the virtual root of the area of responsibility in the right screen area (that is, the user who holds a chief position) is hidden in all theme categories with a corresponding structure.

In the Column Framework section, you define and configure columns and column groups that are used to display additional information in the right screen area.

Activities

You make the settings in the relevant customizing activities in the implementation guide (IMG) for Manager’s Desktop , which you reach through  Personnel Management Manager’s Desktop Customer Adjustment or Enhancement of Function codes or Quota Planning.