Leave Management

Functional Overview

By using the Leave Management service you can perform Leave Request functions in any device or platform like Mobile, Collaboration, Social Networks, Groupware Integration and Portals.

Prerequisites

The consumer must have a personnel number in the SAP system
The SAP system must be configured for this user to use Leave Management as mentioned in the chapter Configurations on the SAP ERP System (Provider system) for Leave Management in the following path SAP NetWeaver Gateway Configuration Guide Settings for Leave Management Application .
The SAP NetWeaver Gateway system needs to be configured as mentioned in the chapter Configurations on the SAP NetWeaver Gateway System (Consumer System) for Leave Management in the following path SAP NetWeaver Gateway Configuration Guide Settings for Leave Management Application .

Employee Time Account

The Employee Time Account is used for managing an employee's working times, absence times, time credits, and approvals for working times. The Laws, collective agreements, company policy, and company regulations determine which time accounts must be set up.

Time accounts can be used to:

Check Personnel times
Create Statistics
Allows flexible working times
Provides Leave recording responsibilities required by authorities and company's own employees.

F4 Help Support Fields

The Leave Management application provides F4 help for the following values:

Leave Item Type Code
Leave request status Code

Messages

Error Message : Could not get employee personnel number from SAP system
Meaning : The SAP User ID may not be assigned to a personnel number (permr). See section Assigning a SAP User ID to a Personnel Number Configurations on the SAP ERP System (Provider system) for Leave Management in the SAP NetWeaver Gateway Configuration Guide Settings for Leave Management Application to assign a SAP User ID to a Personnel Number.

Service and Metadata Documents

Use the links given in the table below to access the service document and metadata document for Leave Management:

Service Document	`http://<hostname>:<port>/sap/opu/sdata/iwcnt/LEAVEMANAGEMENT/?$format=xml&sap-client=<client number>`
Metadata Document	`http://<hostname>:<port>/sap/opu/sdata/iwcnt/LEAVEMANAGEMENT/$metadata?$format=xml&sap-client=<client number>`

Note Note

Contact your system administrator for host name and client number.

End of the note.

Collections

Collections are objects that hold other objects that are accessed, placed and maintained under some set of rules. This section lists the collections for Leave Management and the rules enabled for each collection.

Collections	Description
EmployeeTimeAccountCollection	This collection provides valid and deductible time accounts for an employee.
EmployeeAllowedLeaveRequestTypeCodeCollection	This collection provides the permitted attendance and/or absence reasons for an individual employee.
RequesterNoteCollection	The requester for leave can enter a note explaining the need for the requested leave. This collection provides details of the requester's note.
ApproverNoteCollection	The approver can approve or reject the absence and can enter a note explaining the decision. This collection provides the details of the approver's note.
LeaveRequestCollection	This collection provides the details used by an Employee to inform an approver of a leave request or update/cancellation of a leave request and depending on the business scenario.
LeaveRequestLifeCycleStatusCodeCollection	This collection provides details of the current status of the employee's leave request.

Reference

For more information, see SAP Library for SAP ERP and SAP R/3 and R/3 Enterprise on SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.com/erp.

In SAP Portal, SAP ERP SAP ERP Central Component (Open the documentation) Expand SAP ERP Central Component Expand Business Packages (Portal Content) Choose Business Package for Employee Self-Service (SAP ERP) 1.0 Expand Working Time Expand Leave Request .