MSS Add-On 1.0 Tweaks – Visibility Control of Fields in ESS

Our customer (on EHP minus 1) decided on a multi country implementation of MSS Add-on 1.0 with the requirement that all fields in ESS should have visibility control based on attributes of employee like Company Code, PA/PSA or EG/ESG.

The standard approach would be to use define multiple screens with required fields, use HRESS_C_PERSINFO_CONFIG to replace per combination and implement BAdI HRESS_PER_CONFIG_KEY for additional attributes. This definitely meets the requirement, however has following maintenance issues from a customer perspective.

• Introduction of new field in future will have to be added to multiple screens pre-defined across all countries.
• Any changes to screen for a specific combination defined by business will have wait till the monthly release cycle to be reflected in the portal ( only emergency transports can be moved to production environment between cycles)
• Most importantly, all changes require support organization involvement (configuration/transport). This should be avoided and had to be maintained by a power user directly in production using a custom table

Approach: Field visibility should be controlled both in Overview Screens and Detailed Screen. We will hide Date of Birth (GBDAT) in Personal Data in the blog.

CL_HRESS_PER_OVERVIEW is the default class used in these UIBBs. We need to enhance 2 methods to achieve the requirement.

Methods: IF_FPM_GUIBB_LIST~GET_DEFINITION

Modify ET_FIELD_DESCRIPTION for GBDAT and Set VISIBILITY as 01.

Store value of VISIBILITY_REF. Export to memory for later use.

Now enhance Methods: IF_FPM_GUIBB_LIST~GET_DATA

Modify LT_CT_DATA

Clear value of component (FPM_BOL_GUIBB_REF_XXXXXXXXXXX) stored for reference field VISIBILITY_REF to initial.

Now, the field GBDAT is hidden in Overview Screen

Detailed Screens:

CL_HRESS_PER_DETAIL is the default class used. We need to enhance 2 methods to achieve the requirement.

In method, IF_FPM_GUIBB_FORM~GET_DEFINITION, for ET_FIELD_DESCRIPTION change visibility of GBDAT to 01 from VISIBILITY

In method, IF_FPM_GUIBB_FORM~GET_DATA, modify CT_FIELD_USAGE. Change VISIBILITY to 01 for and FIXED_VALUES to X for GBDAT.

GBDAT is hidden in detailed screen also.

This approach can be used for standard overview/detailed screens. A custom table can be configured calling the Config IDs and visibility set based on the attributes as required.

Special Thanks to Sonu Krishna