Infotype Category (SAP Library - Personnel Administration (PA-PA))

Infotype Category

Definition

The Infotype category is one of four categories used to classify a selection rule according to the type of selection.

Use

You use a selection rule in the Infotype category to select periods if

A record exists for the employee for the specified infotype or subtype (infotype existence)
Specific fields in an infotype or subtype contain the required values (infotype content)

Example

Periods when the employee takes unpaid leave should not be included in evaluations for the company pension.

Unpaid absences are saved in the SAP System in the corresponding subtype of the Absence infotype (2001). You create a selection rule and choose the Infotype Existence entry in the Infotype category. Enter 2001 as the infotype (Absences); enter the identifier for the absence type as the subtype.

Structure

Infotype existence

The SAP System generates a period as soon as a record exists for the specified infotype or subtype. The validity periods for the individual infotype records are used as the time intervals.

A exception is the Time Specifications/Employment Period infotype (0552). Depending on how the time specification type has been defined, you receive either a period, a weighted period, or a date-based duration. This is dependent on which imputation you have chosen for the period or key date specification. For more information, see Customizing for Personnel Administration under Evaluation Bases ® Calculation of Employment Period ® Time Specifications/Employment Period ® Define Time Specification Types.

Example

You want to impute the time specification Previous Employment Period in the Time Specifications/Employment Period at a rate of one third. To do this, you define a time specification type for the Previous Employment Periods time specification type. This time specification type requires the input of a period and the imputation of a factor with numerator and denominator .

When you create a record with the Previous Employment Period subtype, fields for the input of a numerator/denominator combination are shown. You enter 1 as the numerator and 3 as the denominator so that the SAP System imputes the individual time specifications at a third.

Returned Time Interval for the Time Specification/Employment Periods Based on the Definition of the Time Specification Type

Imputation	Period	Key date
Duration in years, months, days	Date-based duration	Date-based duration
Percentage rate	Weighted period	(combination not possible)
Factor with numerator and denominator	Weighted period	(combination not possible)
No additional specification	Period	(combination not possible)

If you create a selection rule in the Infotype category, we recommend that you work through the sequence of steps in Customizing for Personnel Administration under Evaluation Bases ® Calculation of Employment Period ® Valuation model ® Selection Rule.

You can only select infotypes in the Infotype field that are permitted for the selection rules in the Infotype category. You perform this step in Check Permitted Infotypes for Selection Rule.

Caution

You cannot delete the standard infotypes in this step. To deactivate the permissibility of an infotype, delete the Permissibility indicator.

Infotype contents

For this definition, the SAP System generates a period if particular fields in an infotype or subtype contain the required values for an employee.

A selection condition is required so that the SAP System can query the values of particular infotype fields. If the required value exists, a time interval is generated from the validity period for each infotype record. For more information, see Customizing for Personnel Administration under Evaluation Bases ® Calculation of Employment Period ® Valuation Model ® Selection Rule ® Define Selection Conditions for Infotypes. We recommend that you work through the steps in the Selection Rule section in the defined sequence.