Configuring Employee Self Service ESS MSS

Employee self services

The Business Package for Employee Self services helps streamline administrative tasks common to large numbers of employees within the organization such as creating, displaying, and changing their own HR – related data in the Enterprise Portal. It covers data from various business areas like:

•    Benefits and Payment
•    Working time
•    Career and Job
•    Employee Search
•    Personal Information
•    Travel Management
•    Corporate Information
•    Life and Work Events

The Business package does not contain any business applications. Instead, it contains Iviews that enable you to call Webdynpro Applications and display these applications in the SAP Enterprise Portal.

These Webdynpro applications are delivered with the SAP ECC Human Resource Extension (EA-HR) component.

Pre-requisites

1.    Installed BP-ERP and XSS usage type with SAP ECC and SAP Netweaver 2004s or BP Employee Self Service (ERP 2004 or 2005)

2.    Installed SAP EP

3.    Configured SAP EP System Landscape Directory with WEB AS ABAP (ECC) and WEB AS JAVA (EP)

4.    SSO configured between SAP ECC and SAP EP servers


Deployed Employee Self-Service package is available under Portal Content – End User Content

Setting up SAP JAVA Connectors for Employee Self Service

Logon to WebDynpro Content Administrator on EP server using the following URL:

http:/webdynpro/welcome/Welcome.jsp

Choose Maintain JCo Destinations. From the list of JCo Destinations, configure/activate the following JCo Destinations:

1.    SAP_R3_HumanResources
2.    SAP_R3_HumanResources_MetaData
3.    SAP_R3_Financials
4.    SAP_R3_Financials_MetaData
5.    SAP_R3_SelfServicesGenerics
6.    SAP_R3_SelfServicesGenerics_MetaData
7.    SAP_R3_SelfServicesGenerics_FIN
8.    SAP_R3_SelfServicesGenerics_FIN_MetaData
9.    SAP_R3_Travels
10.    SAP_R3_Travels_MetaData

Note: Make sure all the above JCo Destinations successfully pass the connection test.

Hint: Use SAPLogonTickets for all Model Data Destinations and UIDPW for all MetaData Destinations



Creating System Objects in SAP EP server

The following System objects and System Aliases has to be created under System Administration- System Configuration – System LandScape

The Backend system information needs to be given while creating the system alias

a.    Create a System for ERP HR and BSP Applications
b.    Create a System for Portal for Webdynpro
c.    Create an ITS based System

a. Create a System SAP_R3 for ERP HR and BSP Applications with Connector and WAS properties.

WAS properties used here for BSP Applications:

WAS Description    :     ECC WAS
WAS Host name        :     :
WAS Path        :     
WAS Protocol        :     http

Add the following System Aliases:
SAP_R3
SAP_BSP_EREC
SAP_Financials

b. Create a System SAP_WebDynpro_XSS for Portal Webdynpro with following WAS properties;

WAS Description    :     J2EE WAS
WAS Host name        :     :
WAS Path        :     
WAS Protocol        :     http

Add the following System Alias:
SAP_WebDynpro_XSS

c.    Create an ITS based System SAP_ITS_EBU with following ITS properties:

ITS Description        :    SAP ITS
ITS hostname         :    :
ITS path        :    
ITS protocol        :    http

Add the following System Alias:
SAP_ITS_EBU

Create an EP user ESSUSER and assign ESS and MSS role:

 Note: Ensure that the user has atleast Read Permissions for the systems we have created.


Create a Composite role Z_Roles (ZSAP_EMPLOYEE_ERP) by copying all the single roles contained in role SAP_EMPLOYEE_ERP

SAP_EMPLOYEE_ERP role consists of the following single roles:

SAP_BC_EMPLOYEE              ZSAP_BC_EMPLOYEE 
SAP_BC_ENDUSER             ZSAP_BC_ENDUSER
SAP_ESSUSER_ERP            ZSAP_ESSUSER_ERP
SAP_HR_EMPLOYEE_DE_ERP        ZSAP_HR_EMPLOYEE_DE_ERP
SAP_HR_EMPLOYEE_US_ERP        ZSAP_HR_EMPLOYEE_US_ERP
SAP_HR_PA_XF_EXPERT            ZSAP_HR_PA_XF_EXPERT

Create an SAP user ESSUSER and assign the ZSAP_EMPLOYEE_ERP role to it.


Assign ESSUSER with corresponding Employee using HRUSER Transaction code:

Click Assignment of employees to existing users

Select an Employee and press Assign employees

Click on Create Relationship to build a relationship between employee and the user.


Login to SAP Enterprise Portal with ESSUSER with assigned ESS/MSS roles

Result: