Test Procedures (Infotype 0130)
You store the test procedures that have been carried out for your employees in the infotype
Test Procedures
(0130).
Both the test procedure key (which is represented by a subtype of the infotype 0130) and a release date belong to the test procedures. The following data is stored in infotype 0130 as additional information:
the releaser’s user ID
date
time
program used to implement the release
This data is set by the system and cannot be entered. This data is simply displayed.
If a test procedure is carried out for an employee up to a certain release date (this information is stored in infotype 0130), a write authorization may no longer being sufficient for changing certain infotype data whose validity start date is before the release date.
When you set up your system you assign test procedures to info(sub)types, i.e. you determine which info(sub)types are included in which test procedures. To be able to make limitless changes to an info(sub)type that has been assigned to a test procedure, you need to have a write authorization for the assigned test procedure (infotype 0130) in addition to the write authorization that you require to make changes to the info(sub)type.
As a rule, the infotype Test Procedures is not edited manually but when a program is used to set a release date for a selected number of persons. (The standard SAP system contains an example program that supports the release of time data. This program is RPTAPPU0).
Example
In the framework of decentralized time recording, the time administrator records certain absences. When the system is set up, these absences are assigned test procedure P. The time administrators have a write authorization for absences, but they do not have a write authorization for infotype 0130, subtype P. An inspector (with a write authorization for infotype 0130, subtype P) can implement the release for one (or more) persons up to January 31st i.e. he or she enters the release date January 31st in infotype 0130, subtype P. After that, the absences for the relevant persons cannot be changed by the time administrator if the validity start date is before February 1st.