UI Programming Guidelines for Infotypes
This section discusses important guidelines for programming user interfaces in a de-coupled environment, and therefore relates to the creation of new Personnel Administration infotypes in this and every subsequent release. We recommend that you review these guidelines, as needed, whenever you execute the Create Infotype transaction (transaction code PM01) to create new Personnel Administration infotypes and program the corresponding user interfaces.
Note
The programming guidelines set forth below solely apply to standard Personnel Administration infotypes. Infotypes in other functional areas (for example, Time Management) are not affected.
At Release 4.6C and in prior releases, Personnel Administration infotypes were created in a previous framework, where the user interface was not de-coupled from the corresponding business logic. That framework remains operative in this and every subsequent release, meaning that customer-specific infotypes or individual infotype records that were created at Release 4.6C or below will continue to function in this release, or any release thereafter.
In the revised framework for creating infotypes, the user interface of any infotype is completely de-coupled from the corresponding business logic. To enhance master data consistency and improve performance, you may therefore wish to “migrate” into this release existing infotypes from Release 4.6C and below – that is, adjust the user interfaces of the infotypes that were created in the previous framework to make them compatible with the revised framework for the de-coupled environment.
Caution
Although you are not required to migrate infotypes from the previous framework, it is important to note that infotypes that have not been migrated cannot be processed by applications – for example, HR Administrative Services – introduced in the standard system after or in tandem with the revised framework.
In summary, this section discusses the user interface programming guidelines that apply to the creation of new Personnel Administration infotypes, whether standard or customer-specific, in this (or any subsequent) release.
To this end, the remainder of this section is divided into the following topics:
If you wish to follow the revised framework and create new Personnel Administration infotypes in this release, then we recommend that you observe the user interface programming guidelines set forth below, along with the corresponding Business Logic Guidelines for Creating and Migrating Infotypes .