Simple way to extend the bizzcard on the ESS overview screen.

The main activity when rolling out Employee Self Service (ESS) to a country will be customizing the layout off the Personal Information Screens in ESS. The fields on detail and confirmation screens can be personalized by disabling them, removing them, or making them unavailable, among other functions, in the Portal Content Administrator using the personalization functionality.

The fields on the overview screen, the Business Card can be customized (IMG – Personnel Management  – Employee Self-Service – Service-Specific Settings – Own Data – Customizing of Personal Information Screens – Determine Fields for Business Card on Area Page) . The screens can be customized using a table in the backend. The customize table in backend can used to add fields, assign field labels and specify the order in which you want the fields to be displayed.

SAP has delivered a structure which contains a number of fields that can be customized. For number of these fields, SAP has delivered so called “descriptive text” text fields. These fields are the descriptive texts for a key field. For example the field nationality is available as ISO code, but also as a field with a descriptive text.

The problem is that the customer what to see the descriptive texts, but not the keys. SAP has delivered only the key fields, but not the descriptive texts fields. In this example the marital status is delivered, but the descriptive text field is missing from the structure.

The descriptive text fields can be added for key fields by executing the following steps.

Step 1.  Indentify the name of the structure

Go to the Business Card customizing step in the IMG (IMG – Personnel Management – Employee Self-Service – Service-Specific Settings – Own Data – Customizing of Personal Information Screens – Determine Fields for Business Card on Area Page) and the infotype and the country which you want to add the field.

Step 2.  Append a custom structure to the standard SAP structure

Append a new the custom structure to the selected structure in Step 1.

Step 3.  Append a new field to the custom structure

Append a field for the descriptive text to custom structure and save/active the structure.

The new field with the descriptive text should be added the structure created in step 1.

Step 4.  Link the descriptive text field to key fieldname

The next step is to link newly created field in step 2 to the existing field in the structure.  You can add the field in table view V_T588AUTO_TEXTC (Maint. View: Assgmt Text Flds for Gen. TextReader (Customer))

Step 5.  Add the newly created descriptive text field to Business Card

Go to the Business Card customizing step in the IMG (IMG – Personnel Management  – Employee Self-Service – Service-Specific Settings – Own Data – Customizing of Personal Information Screens – Determine Fields for Business Card on Area Page)  and select the infotype, country and structure in which you want to the add the descriptive text field.  Add the field and the position on the business card and save the entry.

Hint: If you using multiple language in your portal. You need translate all the entries in the list including the entries delivered by SAP.

Step 6.  View the result in the portal

Select your iView and check if your descriptive text field has been successfully added to your service in the portal.