HCM, PD UI Visualization 01

Technical Data
Technical Name of Business Function	`HCM_PD_UI_1`
Type of Business Function	Enterprise Business Function
Available From	SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0
Technical Usage	HCM Self-Services
Application Component	Business Package for Manager Self-Service (HR) (EP-PCT-MGR-HR) Talent Management (PA-TM)
Required Business Function	Not relevant

You can use this business function to employ graphical organizational charts that simplify the selection and maintenance of data for employees, jobs, positions and organizational units that lie in a manager’s area of responsibility. Using the organizational charts associated with this business function, managers can visualize and navigate through their organizational structures more easily - for example, by zooming in and out of these structures, by saving their personal settings as the default settings, or by displaying organizational hierarchies at any level they choose. Within these visualizations, managers can also perform efficient searches for text strings - for example, for employee names, locations, or position titles - and filter the search results, as desired, for subsequent processing.

For Manager Self-Service users, the graphical organizational charts offered in this business function simplify administrative tasks considerably. These charts improve the efficiency of managers overall, since the user interface reduces the amount of training that is required for users to perform their tasks, and enables position details and organizational entities to be maintained with greater ease.

We recommend that you use this business function together with SAP Talent Visualization, for which your enterprise is required to purchase a separate license. For more information, see SAP Note 1433225.

Integration

Activating this business function enables users to choose four iViews, named below, from Business Package for Manager Self-Service (SAP ERP) 1.51 and to view and (where authorized) maintain SAP Organizational Management data in the corresponding enhanced user interfaces.

In the iView Edit Position Details, found in the Competency Management area of the Team workset of Manager Self-Service 1.51, the enhanced user interfaces become available when this business function is activated.
In the iView Start Process for Employee, found in the HCM Processes and Forms area of the Team workset of Manager Self-Service 1.51, the enhanced user interfaces become available when this business function is activated.
In the iView Start Process for Multiple Employees, found in the HCM Processes and Forms area of the Team workset of Manager Self-Service 1.51, the enhanced user interfaces become available when this business function is activated.
In the iView Start Organizational Process, found in the Organization workset of Manager Self-Service 1.51, the enhanced user interfaces become available when this business function is activated.

Note Note

Instead of the business packages with roles for SAP NetWeaver Portal, you are at liberty to use the corresponding roles for Manager Self-Service in SAP NetWeaver Business Client for HTML.

End of the note.

Prerequisites

You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

Type of Component	Component	Required for the Following Features Only
Software Component	`EA-HRGXX 605`
Portal Content	Business Package for Manager Self-Service 1.51	Embedded Organizational Charts

You have installed the related ABAP Add-on EmbOrgCh 605, as detailed in SAP Note 1433225. For additional information about this prerequisite and Installation EMBORGCH 605 on ERP 6.0 EHP 5), consult SAP Note 1485853.

Features

Enhanced User Interfaces for Position Management

Enhanced user interfaces enable integration with new capabilities for position management in the partner solution extension by Nakisa. The partner application offers a graphical organizational chart from which users can select, change, clone, and create positions within their area of responsibility. The activities available to each user depend on their existing authorizations in SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM). These enhancements provide more efficient and transparent selection, change, and modification of positions and their details. Users working with position data from Organizational Management benefit from a more intuitive user interface, meaning that less training effort is required for employees.

Embedded Organizational Charts

Manager Self-Service (MSS) users can employ embedded organizational charts to manage their teams and cost centers. Organizational charts visualize the relationships between organizational objects – that is, organizational units, jobs, positions, and employees – in the form of graphical, interactive hierarchies. These organizational charts provide managers increased visibility into their areas of responsibility, and an enhanced user experience.

Embedded Organizational Charts in MSS Applications

In applications such as HCM Processes and Forms, managers can select staff or organizational units using graphical organizational chart visualization. The organizational chart visualization displays organizational hierarchies within the managers’ responsibility. Users can easily navigate through their teams when they start a change request for a person, position, or organizational unit. The organizational chart visualization enables managers to better understand employee-organization relationships, and hierarchical relationships within the organization. It also helps managers to find more quickly the right people in the organization, therefore enabling them to work more efficiently with Manager Self-Service.

Staff and Organizational Unit Selection Using Graphical Organizational Chart Visualization

Managers using organizational charts can navigate through their teams and search for employees, jobs, positions, and organizational units, and start employee processes or organizational change processes. The enhanced user interfaces provide simplified access to all the team and the information they need, including a short profile with more details for an employee or object, in one view. The enhanced user interface also allows managers to zoom in and out of organizational structures, search for items in the hierarchy, and save personalized settings as the default settings. This type of graphical visualization is an alternative option to the existing Object and Data Provider (OADP) user interfaces.

Organizational Chart Visualization and the Object and Data Provider (OADP)

SAP provides a default OADP-based implementation class in the Check Standard Organizational Chart Configuration system table. For more information, see Customizing for Integration with Other mySAP.com Components, under Business Packages / Functional Packages Manager Self-Service (mySAP ERP) → Organizational Chart Visualization .

Reviewing or Changing Standard OADP-Based Configuration

You can review the standard OADP-based configuration in the Check Standard Organizational Chart Configuration activity, and you can reuse this configuration for the organizational chart visualization, if required.

Alternatively, you can transfer the standard OADP-based configuration from the standard view cluster to the user’s view cluster, in the Transfer Standard Organizational Configuration activity, and import your object structures and data views from the existing OADP configuration using the Import Data from Object and Data Provider Configuration activity. You can then adapt the imported content and add new structures and data views, in the Maintain Transferred Organizational Chart Configuration activity.

In Customizing for Integration with Other mySAP.com Components, make the settings under Business Packages / Functional Packages Manager Self-Service (mySAP ERP) → Organizational Chart Visualization .