App Extensibility: Employee Lookup

Use

You can extend the Employee Lookup app according to your business needs for different aspects. For this purpose, the following extensibility options are available:

Hierarchy view

You can extend the header content in the hierarchy view.

Hierarchy view

To extend Header content, the extensibility entities listed below are available on the different software layers. You have to extend each of these entities according to your specific business needs:

UI
View	Extension Point
Hierarchy.view.xml	headerField

Further Extensibility Entities

Business Add-Ins (BAdIs)

The following BAdIs are available for extensibility purposes:

BAdI for Employee Lookup(HCM_B_EMP_LKP)

You can use this BAdI to:
- Read information of an employee
- Read hierarchy information of the selected employee (Manager of the employee as well as direct reports of the employee)
- Search for employees based on their name
- Fetch the manager hierarchy of the employee until the top root level
BAdI Definition for Employee Assignments(HCM_B_EMPLOYEE_ASSIGNMENT)

You can use this BAdI to retrieve the employee's assignment information (for employees who are concurrently employed).

For more information on implementing the BAdIs in the context of enhancement concept, see SAP Library for BAdIs Embedded in the Enhancement Framework under Start of the navigation path Technology Next navigation step SAP NetWeaver Platform SAP NetWeaver Library: Function-Oriented View Application Server Application Server ABAP Application Development on AS ABAP ABAP Customer Development Enhancement Framework Enhancement Technologies Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) Additional Information End of the navigation path .

Extension Includes

In addition to the extension includes described above, the following extension includes are available:

DDIC	Extension Include	Use
HCM_S_EMPLOYEE_INFO	HCM_S_EMPLOYEE_INFO_INCL	Allows you to extend the EmployeeInfo Entity
HCM_S_HIERARCHY	HCM_S_HIERARCHY_INCL	Allows you to extend the HierarchyObject Entity
HCM_S_HIERARCHY_PANEL	HCM_S_HIERARCHY_PANEL_INCL	Allows you to extend the HierarchyPanel Entity
HCM_S_SEARCH_RESULT	HCM_S_SEARCH_RESULT_INCL	Allows you to extend the SearchResult Entity

If there are additional fields available in the OData service, you can display these fields on the UI. For more information, see the extensibility documentation for the respective SAP NetWeaver release on your front-end server at http://help.sap.com/fiori_implementation Start of the navigation path Extensibility Information for SAP Fiori Next navigation step Extending the UI Layer UI Extensibility Workflow Checking the SAP-Enabled Extension Options Extension Points End of the navigation path .

More Information

For a general description of the extensibility options and procedures of SAP Fiori apps, see http://help.sap.com/fiori_implementation Start of the navigation path Extensibility Information for SAP Fiori End of the navigation path .