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  • How To Change And Create SAP HR Infotype Screens Continued

    June 19, 2012 Comments are off

    This is continuation from the previous article on How To Change And Create SAP HR Infotype Screens. In the first article we learnt how to customize an infotype screen using features. In this second part we will see how we can enhance a standard infotype by adding some additional custom fields.

    The process of enhancing a standard infotype can be divided into three main steps:

    1. Creating the Customer Include (CI Include): CI_Include is a structure which contains all additional customer fields. For every infotype this structure is created with the name as CI_PNNNN where NNNN is the infotype number.
    2. Creating the Include Screen: It is a subscreen which is generated for customer enhancement.
    3. Assigning enhancement to the infotype: In this step we assign the custom screen to the infotype.

    Lets take a look at a Step by Step process .

    1. Creating the Customer Include (CI Include)

    Step 1.1. Go to ‘Enhance Infotypes’ through transaction code PM01. Click on “SingleScrn” Tab and provide the infotype number and infotype version. From the Subobjects select the radio button ‘Customer Include’ and then click on the “Generate Objects” button.

    Enhance Single Screen Of Standard Infotype

  • How To Change And Create SAP HR Infotype Screens

    June 14, 2012 3 Comments

    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:

    Example Of infotype 0185 (Personal IDs)


    Our requirement is to show only two fields, ID Type and ID no. for subtype Resident Status.