Explanation of Individual Properties (ECM)

CREVI, SKIP_OBJECT_SELECTION

These properties determine the behavior of the iView initial screen. Normally, that is if neither of these two properties have been predefined, users must first specify the compensation review to be approved and then select the organizational units that they want to have approved.

If you only predefine the CREVI (Compensation Review) property for the scenario, the user cannot select the compensation review when he or she accesses the scenario. That is, selection is switched to inactive.

If you set only the SKIPOBJECTSELECTION property to true , the user cannot select the organizational units him or herself. That is, selection is switched to inactive. The system automatically selects all organizational units delivered by the evaluation path.

If you predefine the CREVI property and set the SKIPOBJECTSELECTION property to true , the user arrives directly at the planning view of the iView.

CURRENCY

This property allows users to display all planning data in one currency or in employee-specific currencies ( Basic Pay infotype (0008)). All currencies from the budget or compensation adjustments are available to the user. Should you require additional currencies, you can store the appropriate technical key from the SAP System (for example, EUR, USD) in the CURRENCY property. However, you must ensure that the currencies exist in the SAP system and that it is possible to translate it to the other relevant currencies here. These currencies are then available for users.

ACTIONS

These properties determine which actions in the individual views (tab strips) are available for a compensation plan according to the plan category. When you enter the action ID in one of the properties for actions (ACTION_SAL, ACTIONS_BONREG, ACTIONS_BONOFF, ACTIONS_LTI), the action is added to the view for the relevant plans. The actions have the following IDs:

  • GDL – Use guidelines

  • PCT – Use percentage

  • CLR – Delete entries

  • MIN – Increase to minimum in salary range

  • CMP – Graphical comparison

  • CUR – Currency change

Not all actions are available for all plan categories. The maximum actions that are available for the various plan categories are:

  • Salary Adjustment (ACTIONS_SAL) - GDL, PCT, CLR, MIN, CMP, CUR

  • Regular Bonus (ACTIONS_BONREG) - GDL, PCT, CLR, CMP, CUR

  • Off-Cycle Bonus (ACTIONS_BONOFF) - GDL, PCT, CLR, CMP, CUR

  • LTI(ACTIONS_LTI) - GDL, CLR, CMP

SKIP_REVIEW_PAGE

This property dictates whether the review screen is displayed before the compensation plan is approved or rejected. The review screen allows you to check all data that will be approved or rejected in the subsequent step.

This property works together with the FPM Application configuration. To skip the review page, set this property to TRUE, and set the FPM application to 'Skip review page'.

ORGVW_SELECT_UI_VISTYPE:

This property defines how each of the Organization Views are to be displayed in the selection perspective; as a tree structure or table. Here, you enter the key for the organization view (for example MSS_ECM_SEL_LIS) and then equate it to either TABLE or TREE.

If the Org. View is set to use a TREE structure, in the backend, the Object Selection Rule used by this Org. View has to leave the checkbox 'Delete Duplicates' open. If the Org. View is set to use a TABLE structure, in the backend, the Object Selection Rule used by this Org. View has to check this checkbox.

You can make multiple entries for multiple views; each entry must be comma-separated.

SHOW_BUDGET_TOTALS

This property determines whether the budget table includes a line that displays the total of all budgets.

INITIAL_SORTING_COLUMN

This property determines which table column is used to sort employees at the start of the compensation scenario. Here you can enter the technical name of the table column you would like to use. As standard, the property has the value CP_NAME. The list of employees is, therefore, initially sorted according to their names, in the format <Last Name, First Name>.