Create Relationships (SAP Library - HR Funds and Position Management)

Create Relationships

In this step, you make the settings that are required for creating relationships.

By creating relationships between objects, you can display all the structures that exist in Personnel Management.

Relationships are special subtypes of infotype 1001. Each relationship has two relationship types , indicated by A and B. For each relationship created (A or B), the corresponding inverse relationship is automatically set up.

You can make the following settings:

You can create new relationships.

You can control the response of the system (error messages, warnings, information) if the 100% mark is exceeded in the case of "weighted" relationships.

You can show or hide the weighting percentage of a relationship and, if required, define additional data for a relationship. You can specify, for example, in the view 'Additional relationship info' whether the recursiveness check should be active for your own relationships or not.

Caution!

Apart from controlling the weighting, you should consult SAP before making any other changes to this view.

You can define the object types that are allowed for each relationship and inverse relationship.

You can set up external relationships.

External relationships are relationships between external object types i.e. object types that are not stored in the PLOG database in Personnel Development and Planning. (See also the step "Maintain object types").

You can enter a time constraint for each relationship.

You can change the "alias" name (semantic abbreviation) of a relationship.

Note

You can create 3-character relationships in the range "AAA" to "ZZZ". You should only use letters for this!

Example

Relationship	Inverse relationship
A002 reports to	B002 is line supervisor of
A003 belongs to	B003 incorporates
A007 describes	B007 is described by

Requirements

Before you create a new relationship, it should already have been created as a subtype of infotype 1001 "Relationships" in the step "Maintain subtypes".

Activities

1. Create new relationships, if necessary.

2. Specify whether an error message, a warning or an information message should be issued when a weighted relationship exceeds 100%.

3. Specify whether the weighting percentage of a relationship should be displayed or hidden in the infotype 'Relationship'.

4. Deactivate the recursiveness check, if necessary.

5. Specify which relationships should be allowed for which object types.

6. If you have created external object types, you may have to create the required external relationships.

7. Enter a time constraint for each relationship and inverse relationship.

8. Only change the relationship abbreviation ("alias" name) if it is absolutely necessary.

Note

The "Not maint." field in the view "Allowed relationships" does not have any effect on Customizing settings. This field (if it is set) merely specifies that the relationship in question cannot be maintained using the standard transactions.