Configure Settings for Workforce Viewer

 

You use this Customizing activity to view structures in an organizational setup. The organizational setup has different structures that can be displayed according to roles and applications.

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A structure is a hierarchical representation of object types (employee, organizational unit, and position) and relationships between the object types in an organizational setup.

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For more information, see Roles in Workforce Viewer.

You can use this Customizing activity for the following HCM applications:

  • Personnel & Organization

    For more information, see Customizing for Configure Settings for Workforce Viewer under Start of the navigation path Personnel & Organization Next navigation step Landing Page Next navigation step Search Lane or Organization Lane End of the navigation path.

  • Employee Self-Service

    For more information, see Customizing for Configure Settings for Workforce Viewer under Start of the navigation path Personnel Management Next navigation step Employee Self-Service (SAP UI5) Next navigation step Landing Page Next navigation step Search End of the navigation path.

  • Manager Self-Service

    For more information, see Customizing for Configure Settings for Workforce Viewer under Start of the navigation path Personnel Management Next navigation step Manager Self-Service (SAP UI5) Next navigation step Landing Page Next navigation step My Team End of the navigation path.

The key advantages of using this Customizing activity are as follows:

  • Override the standard delivered settings for each application with minimal changes

  • Configure new structures for existing or new applications

  • Create or reuse existing object and data provider (OADP) data views to display data for an object type

  • Create or reuse existing evaluation paths to set up the structures

  • Create or reuse existing function modules to create structures that cannot be created using existing evaluation paths.

Prerequisites

The data views used in this Customizing activity are already present in the OADP framework.

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If the data views are not available, you can create the data views in Customizing for Data Provider under Start of the navigation path SAP Implementation Guide Next navigation step Integration with Other SAP Components Next navigation step Business Packages/Functional Packages Next navigation step Manager Self-Service (mySAP ERP) Next navigation step Object and Data Provider End of the navigation path.

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Activities

You can perform the following activities using this Customizing activity:

  • Configure different structures

  • Provide a user interface (UI) description for each structure and object type

  • Prioritize a structure if more than one structure is available

  • Enable navigation panel and accordingly display the associated data

  • Enable multiple selection of nodes and provide further navigation targets to process the selected nodes.