Adding a Column Owner to an Appraisal Template in Performance Management Module (ECM) of SAP ABAP HR

By Srikanth Reddy Konde, IBM Scenario: This document gives technical information to add a Column Owner to an Appraisal Template in Performance Management Module (Compensation Management) of SAP ABAP HR. This scenario has been configured in SAP ECC6.0 Business Requirement: In Performance Management module (ECM), SAP HR, based on clients requirement, Appraisal Templates will be designed by the Functional people and additional requirements fulfillment is done by the developers using ABAP code. The transaction code for creating and maintaining the Appraisal Templates is PHAP_CATALOG. To give additional requirements for the Appraisal Templates, in SAP there are Business AddIns(BAdI) are available for obtaining the solutions.
Information on Appraisal Templates and the requirement:

An Appraisal Template consists of the below parts in it and categorized in a structure as mentioned below. VA Appraisal template VB Criteria Group VC Criterion At VA Appraisal template level, will contain a tab called Column Access. In this tab, there is a column named as Column Owner. Below screenshot is an example for it through transaction code PHAP_CATALOG.

Generally the standard SAP templates are provided with few Column Owner values like Appraiser (Ex: Manager), Appraisee (Ex: Employee)...Etc. The column owners will be given access (Change/Display/Hide) to the columns of the Appraisal documents. Whenever the user access the created Appraisal document of the Appraisal template, based on this, user can have Change/Display operations on document for the columns where in he will act as a Column Owner. Below screenshot is to view the some of SAP provided Column owner values.

In most of the times, client requirement is to add an additional column owner value in the list as per

their requirement. To achieve this type of requirement, the technical information and also the configurations information are provided in the below section. Technical and Configuration information to add a Column Owner to an Appraisal Template: For adding a Column Owner into an Appraisal Template, SAP Provides a Business Add-Ins(BAdI) name HRHAP00_COL_OWNER.
Appraisal Document - Column Owner (HRHAP00_COL_OWNER)

This Business Add-In (BAdI) enables you to create further implementations, in addition to the standard SAP Implementations, with which you can provide further column owners. You can select the implementations in the appraisal catalog on the Column Access tab page.
Methods

Customizing: Check Owner Setting (Infotype 5023) (CUST_CHECK_SETTING) This method checks, according to the settings in infotype 5023, whether the person is allowed as the column owner. Objective Settings and Appraisals Parameters FLT_VAL (Import Parameter) Parameter FLT_VAL of method CUST_CHECK_SETTING T_APPER (Import Parameter) Appraiser Object Types T_APPEE (Import Parameter) Appraisee Object Types T_PART_APPER (Import Parameter) Part Appraiser Types T_OTHER (Import Parameter) Object Types for Further Participants SUBRC (Export Parameter) 0= Allowed; 4= Not Allowed Exceptions None. Check Column Owner (CHECK_COLUMN_OWNER) Using the object ID of the user, this method determines whether or not this user is the column owner.

If the system determines that the current user is the column owner, an 'X' is entered for the indicator COLUMN_OWNER. In this case, the user has all authorizations for the current column as entered in the Column Owner field in infotype 5023. Result The method returns information as to whether or not the appraiser is the column owner. Parameters FLT_VAL (Import Parameter) Parameter FLT_VAL of method GET_COLUMN_OWNER S_APPRAISAL_ID (Import Parameter) Appraisal ID COLUMN_ID (Import Parameter) Appraisal Column ID COLUMN_PART_AP_ID (Import Parameter) Part Appraisal ID T_HEADER_APPRAISER (Import Parameter) Header - Appraiser T_HEADER_APPRAISEE (Import Parameter) Header - Appraisee T_HEADER_PART_APPRAISERS (Import Parameter) Header - Part Appraiser T_HEADER_OTHERS (Import Parameter) Header - Further Participants T_MYSELF (Import Parameter) My Objects COLUMN_OWNER (Export Parameter) 'X'=Column Owner; ' '=Not Column Owner. Exceptions None. Captured screen through the transaction code SE18.

Implementing a custom Business Add-In(BAdI) for adding a Column Owner using HRHAP00_COL_OWNER

Go to Transaction code SE19, for creating the custom Business Add-In(BAdI), in Create Implementation tab, give BAdI Name as HRHAP00_COL_OWNER and click on Create Impl. Button.

Give the custom Business Add-In(BAdI) name (ZHRHAP00_COL_OWNER) with the filter value, where in the filter description is added as an Column Owner in the template.

The Interface tab consists of the methods to implement for getting the Column Owner

As mentioned above the two methods have got their significance to provide the requirement and the signature (Import and Export Parameters) of the methods are as below.

Please find below the code written for getting the column owner as Manager and High Level Manager.

This development is done in the method CHECK_COLUMN_OWNER to check when any users access the Appraisal document column; it will check whether the user is the Column Owner i.e. Manager and High Level Manager. For the program code, click here.

Once the method implementation is completed then the custom Business Add-In (ZHRHAP00_COL_OWNER) need to be activated. Once the above action is completed this particular enhancement will get applied for all the Appraisal Templates. And there will be an additional Column owner will be available in the list with the value Manager and High Level Manager.

This is the way the Column Owner will be added to the Appraisal Templates and same will be reflected when the Appraisal documents gets created and maintained. Now, based on the Column owner for a particular column the operations (Change/Display/Hide) will be provided on the document when the user accesses the document as a column owner (Ex. Manager and High Level Manager). Related Content The related transaction codes which are used for Appraisal Templates and Appraisal Documents of Performance Management (ECM) of SAP ABAP HR are as below PHAP_CATALOG To view and maintain the Appraisal Templates PHAP_PREPARE To prepare the Appraisal Documents using an Appraisal Template

PHAP_ADMIN To maintain and view the Appraisal Documents

OOHAP_BASIC To maintain and configure the Enhancements for different criteria basis