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 Developing an Infotype in Personnel Administration

Use

Infotypesare used in Personnel Administration and Recruitment.

Transaction PM01 Create Infotype is a tool that both customers and SAP can use to develop new infotypes and to enhance standard infotypes.

This transaction allows you to enhance and modify standard SAP infotypes, and create your own infotypes.

Prerequisites

To be able to enhance a standard infotype or create a customer-defined infotype, you must have knowledge in ABAP programming, as well as experience using the Screen Painter and ABAP Dictionary .

Features

Transaction PM01 Create Infotype comprises the following functions that you can select using tab pages:

  • Create new infotype

    There is an old method and a new method for creating infotypes.With infotypes created using the new method, there is a strict separation between business logic and user interface-relevant elements. These infotypes are known as "decoupled" infotypes. For more information, see Decoupling Infotypes .

    New infotypes that you create using transaction PM01 should be decoupled.

    The system automatically creates the necessary subobjects in the background. Some subobjects must be edited.

  • Create infotype version

    An infotype version can be a country-specific infotype, an industry-specific infotype, or an infotype for the public sector of a country.

  • Enhance a screen structure of an infotype and delete enhancement.

    You can create fields you want to be displayed in the infotype but are not saved in the database.

  • Enhance the single screen of a standard infotype and delete enhancement.

  • Enhance the list screen of a standard infotype and delete enhancement.

  • Delete customer-defined infotype