How to restrict course catalog display in LSO Learning Portal as per Employee Subgroup?

[Former Member]

Hi Friends,

There is as requirement in my organization that course catalog in Learner Portal should be displayed as per employee sub-group.

For Ex, if Course A is dedicated to only group O1 employee and course B is dedicated to only O2 employee.

             Then Course - A in Learner Portal should be displayed for the employees whose Emp. Subgroup is O1.

             Similarly, course B in Learner Portal should be displayed to only employees whose Emp. Subgroup is O2.

Please guide me how to archive this requirement in LSO Lerner Portal.

Regards

Ramji Dubey

[Former Member]

Hi Ramji.

I am not an expert on this subject, but if i would be in your shoes i would considerate a restructuring on the training catalog for learning portal.

Eg.

If you need to separate courses per subgroup you can create one L object to each subgroup needed and than create another L object for eventual courses that could be viewed for the whole organization.

Below this first L than you can structure your catalog as you wish.

Than you create one differen structural profile for each subgroup giving access to it respective L object plus the other L object with general courses...

Eg:

L Subgroup 01 - PD profile ZSUBGROUP01

L General Courses - PD profile ZSUBGROUP01

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L Subgroup 02 - PD profile ZSUBGROUP02

L General Courses - PD profile ZSUBGROUP02

This may help you.

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are not using structural authorization, then how would we do that.

Regards

Ramji

[Former Member]

Hi Ramji.

I don´t think it is possible to mannage this requeriments by PFCG authorizations. How i am not a Basis i can´t answer that with 100% sure.

Here at my job we had a similar problem.

So how we also didn´t have structural profile, we decided to hide the trainning catalog from portal and let HR take care of assingning ppl.

Recently i found out how to configure structural authorizations and now we are considering to show the catalog again.

[Former Member]

Hi Julio,

Can you please tell me how to hide training catalog from learner portal?

Regards

Ramji

[Former Member]

Hi Ramji.

Here is a little document explaining how i did this.

1)First of all, you need to know where you can create this objects. To create each one of this objects you need to access LSO_PVCT transaction.

Right click on the L object where you wanna create your course below.

3) When you create one object, note that Course Group Info (infotype) is created.

4) If you take view on this infotype you´ll see that it is created with the option Subject area flagged. All you need to do is change this infotype unflagging this option.

5) You can do the same configuration on D objects, DC or EK objects.

• D objects: Look for Course Type Info and flagg the option no display in intranet.
• DC objects: Look for Course Type Info and flagg the option no display in intranet.
• EK objects: Look for Course Type Info and flagg the option no display in intranet.

Note 1: If you hide the entire L object, you won´t need to do the step 5. But if you want to select which courses will be hidden you´ll have to do step 5.

Note 2: If you hide the catalog, you´ll do this for the whole organization, including managers. So HR will be responsible for assigning learners to all courses.

If you want. look for me on SCN. i Think we can share experience.

Att: Júlio

[Former Member]

Hi Ramji,

Please do as the foloowing step:

This section describes the special authorizations that you can define in Personnel Planning and Development in addition to the basic access authorizations.

And in this step you must to create profiles regarding the your courses. And after that assign the profile to all the employees who are booking for the courses.

Regards,

Shirin

[Former Member]

Hi Shirin,

Can you provide me some example of structural authorization regarding this issue?

Regards

Ramji

[Former Member]

Hi Ramji,

The only way to do that in SAP standard would by by assigning different profiles in structural authorisations to employees of different ee subgroups. Though that would be an admin nightmare - I would go for one profile, but use a custom function module in profile definition in T77PR.

Alternatively, you'd probably find ways to build an intelligent filter by enhancing SAP coding in lerner portal - the most difficult bit probably finding the right spot. Could easily take you a day to design.

But maybe you could use the target audience concept, which goes be jobs, rather than restricting access with a hard cut ny er subgroup? Check out standard doco /help.sap.com on how to assign a job as target group for a training and what that means.

Best wishes

Sven

[Former Member]

Hi Sven,

Please tell me the Object Types that is required to create a profile to maintain authorization as per employee subgroup.

Regards

Ramji Dubey

[Former Member]

Hi Ramji,

this would be structural authorisation with a custom function module, so nothing to do with authorisation objects.

if you are not familiar with it: there's a lot of documentation around and any colleague who's worked in HR authorisations before will know.

The LSO object types you need depend on how you want to restrict access. Probably by Training Group, i.e. object type L.

It's not rocket science, but will require a bit of knowledge across the HR system - if I may judge from your question, you're probably very new to SAP HR? In that case, getting a colleague with a bit of experience involved would be a good idea.

best wishes

Sven

[Former Member]

Hi Sven,

There is no person from whom i could ask about that. So, can you help me how i should do all this thing?

Regard

Ramji Dubey

[Former Member]

Ok. I'm not going onto a rant again about irrespobsible employers making a quick buck out of juniors at the expense of their customers and emoloyees.

The design options are all mentioned above. Read up a bit about structural authorisations and have a go at it in the sandbox system.

I assume you know basic ABAP? If not: if your employer doesn't get a couple of days from a senior consultant, they should at least have half a day ABAP resource...

Fingers crossed!

Best wishes

Sven