How To Change And Create SAP HR Infotype Screens
In SAP HR, infotypes are used to group employee data. SAP provides many standard infotypes for different information group. Many times, based on the business requirements, we have to modify the standard infotypes.
We can modify the infotypes either by showing/hiding the standard infotypes fields based on certain criteria or by adding additional custom fields in the infotype structure.
This is a 2 part tutorial. In Part – 1 you will learn how to configure infotype screens. In Part – 2 you will learn how to add additional custom fields to your screens.
Show/Hide fields in infotype screen
The infotype screen can be configured based on the values of the following fields:
| Field | Field Name | Field Length |
| Screen number | DYNNR | 4 characters |
| Subtype | SUBTY | Up to 4 characters, but always the same length for one feature |
| Company code | BUKRS | 4 characters |
| Personnel area | WERKS | 4 characters |
| Employee group | PERSG | 1 character |
| Employee subgroup | PERSK | 2 characters |
| Payroll area | ABKRS | 2 characters |
| Country grouping | MOLGA | 2 characters |
Based on the relevant employee data in the above fields the infotype screen can be customized. The fields which are used to decide the screen layout are maintained in a ‘Feature’ through transaction code PE04.
Features return the value in the Variable key, which is then maintained against the infotype screen numbers in table T588M.
Let us take an example of infotype 0185 (Personal IDs).The standard screen is:
Our requirement is to show only two fields, ID Type and ID no. for subtype Resident Status.