Enhancing an Infotype Included in the SAP Standard System (SAP Library - Developing an Infotype in Personnel Administration)

Enhancing an Infotype Included in the SAP Standard System

Use

The enhancement concept for infotypes within Personnel Administration and Recruitment offers you the following functions:

You can perform additional customer validations.

For more detailed information, please see Extended Help under the Enhancement transaction (transaction code CMOD).

You can include additional fields in an infotype.

The enhancement concept allows you to include additional fields in the data field structure Psnnn. You can then maintain these fields in the standard individual screens.

See also:

Enhancing List Screens

If you incorporate additional fields in an infotype, these will be treated in the same way as the SAP standard fields in reporting, when creating the documents, and within dynamic events.

The enhancement of an infotype in the SAP standard system does not cause problems during a release upgrade.

Constraints

The following infotypes are excluded from the enhancement concept:

Actions infotype (0000)

Additional Actions (0302)

Time Management infotypes (2nnn)

Applicant Actions infotype (4000)

The length of the data field structure PSnnnn and the CI include must not exceed 1500 bytes.

If you include additional fields in the Organizational Assignment infotype, (0001), these will not appear on the logical database PNP as selection fields.

Delete enhancement for infotypes:

To delete the infotype enhancements, use the following procedure: reset enhancement:

Start the Personnel Administration infotype copier (PM01)
Enter the infotype number.
Choose Enhance infotype.
Choose Enhancement ® Delete enhancement.
Start the Data Dictionary (SE11)
Enter the PS structure of the corresponding infotype in the Data type field (PSnnnn).
Choose Display.
Choose Activate and carry out the updates to the infotype database table that are necessary according to the activation log. The database table for Personnel Administration infotypes is PAnnnn, the database table for Recruitment infotypes is PBnnnn.