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Use

You assign users to employees and roles to these users. These roles give the users all authorizations necessary for Employee Self-Service.

There are two different groups of employees:

They still require the role (containing the authorization).

You can assign existing users to the employees.

These are employees who still need to be assigned a user and a role (containing the authorization).

Prerequisites

You have chosen the employees required and are on the Set up and maintain ESS users (Overview) screen.

Setting Up Users for Employees With Users and Without ESS Authorization

If you selected All employees or Employees with users, you can assign roles to the employees who are already assigned to a user without ESS authorization (role).

  1. In the ESS participants without users/authorization group box, choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text to select the Employees with users without ESS role (the number of employees is displayed).

Note

If this number is very large, you can run the job in the background.

The Relate Users with Persons screen appears.
  1. Select the employees.
  2. Choose Authorization assignment.

This takes you to the Attributes of Users to be Created screen.
  1. Choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

You have assigned the role to the users of the selected employees.

Setting Up Users for Employees Without Users

If you have selected All employees or Employees with users, you can create a user for the employees who are not already assigned to a user and assign the role to this user.

  1. In the ESS participants without users/authorization group box, choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text to select the Employees without users (the number of employees is displayed).

Note

If this number is very large, you can run the job in the background.

The Create Users for Persons screen appears.
  1. Select the employees required.
  2. Choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Users.

The Attributes of Users screen appears. For more information, see Defining User Attributes.
  1. Change the default values if necessary.
  1. Choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

Set Up User and Password Generation

For more information, see the Customer Enhancements section of the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Employee Self-Service.

Result

You have created users for the selected employees. You can view the relationship for these employees in the Communication infotype (0105). The role was assigned at the same time.

Your employees can now use Employee Self-Service.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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