Changes to the
Connection between Time Evaluation and Microsoft EXCEL 
Use
This release note provides information on the following changes:
Report variants no longer necessary for time evaluation in actual plan
To control the checks on the working time (time evaluation simulation), you previously stored one report variant of RPTIME00 for the evaluation of the actual plan and another report variant for the evaluation of the target plan. The disadvantage of this procedure was that you had to duplicate the processing steps that were identical for regular time evaluation and for target and actual planning, in three different schemas.
As of Release 4.6C, you can use one schema for all three applications. This is made possible by time evaluation function IF TPLN, which you can use to query whether a completed target plan exists on the day being evaluated.
In the course of this change, the switch
PEINS SCEMI, which you previously used for
determining the report variant for the actual plan in the 
Set
Report Variant for Time Evaluation step, was deleted.
Standard setting of employee status for simulation changed
Previously, the standard system did not take
account of the Time Management status from the
Planned Working Time infotype when it checked working times (simulation
run of time evaluation). In the simulation run, the system treated all
employees as if they had Time Management status
9 - Time evaluation of planned times.
You had the option of using the
Set
Employee Status for Simulation step to change the standard
setting from BLANK (Time Management status not taken into account) to
X (Time Management status taken into account).
In Release 4.6C, the switch is set to X in the standard system. This means that you always have access to the most realistic evaluation results possible for your planning, such as the current status on overtime worked. This is particularly important in the following cases:
- For employees whose actual times are entered in time recording devices and imported to the R/3 System
- For recalculations. These results could not be taken into account until now.
Defining automatic assignment strategies for shift changes
If you have activated the automatic
assignment option in the shift plan, any employee shift or working
times that are changed in the shift plan are automatically assigned to the
requirement with corresponding requirement times in Requirements Matchup.
The assignment is made on the basis of the options specified in the strategy
for automatic assignments. You can determine which strategy
is valid in the IMG for Shift Planning. For this reason, the
Define Strategy for Automatic Assignment for Shift Changes activity has
been added to the IMG for Shift Planning, under Info Columns and Proposal
Determination -> Set Up Automatic Proposal Determination.
Enhanced control parameters for printing shift plans
Previously, you could only save the Microsoft Excel macro in the installation path of the SAP GUI . The link between macro and GUI meant that if a new SAP GUI was installed, any Microsoft Excel macros that a customer had modified could be overwritten.
To reduce the resulting workload for system
administrators, PEINS EXCME has been entered in
table T77S0.
This new entry allows you to specify whether the system searches for the
Microsoft Excel macro in the SAP GUI installation path, or in
the path defined in the environment variable.
If a customer-specific macro is saved in the path of the environment variable,
any new SAP GUI installations do not overwrite the macro.
System administrators can maintain Microsoft Excel macros by saving them on a file server.
Effects on Customizing
Report variant for time evaluation in the actual plan (PEINS SCEMI)
- Switch PEINS SCEMI no longer exists.
- Specify a time evaluation schema that you can
use to separate processing for the target and actual plan. You are recommended
to incorporate both branches of processing in the customer schema that you use
to perform your regular time evaluation. For an example of the IF
constructions required, see schema OK01.
Use switch PEINS SCEME to determine the report variant for time evaluation that you want to use to check the working time in Shift Planning.
Standard setting of employee status for simulation (PEINS PZTEF)
Switch PEINS PZTEF is set to X in the standard system, which means that the employee's Time Management status is now taken into account. Time evaluation runs from the date of the PDC recalculation in the Payroll Status infotype (0003) or from the start of the planning interval.
- Change the Time Management status for the employees who do not take part in time evaluation ( Time Management status 0 - No time evaluation). Assign them the status 7 - Time evaluation without payroll integration.
- If you do not want the Time Management status to be taken into account, set switch PEINS PZTEF back to BLANK.
Defining automatic assignment strategies for shift changes
The standard SAP system contains SAP_2 as the default strategy.
Enhanced control parameters for printing shift plans (PEINS EXCME)
The PEINS EXCME switch has
been added to the Specify Control Parameters for Printout
function under Connecting to Microsoft Excel.
The standard SAP system contains the Blank switch.