How to disable ECM Compensation Plans

[Former Member]

Hi people:

We have an issue with the Compensation Planning ECM iView of the our MSS 6.1. We want to hide a couple of Plans (the tabs) from the current iView. We have tried with all the different parameters included on the iView, but we have not been able to modify anything apart from the columns groups or the columns assigned to the iView on the parameters

We have reviewed all the Object and Data Provider tables but we have not found anything related to this of how to enable or disable the Compensation plans tabs from the ECM Compensation Planning and ECM Compensation Approval

We have reviewed as well the Compensation Workset guides but apart from parameters to modify the navigation or the content of each Compensation plan, we have not found any reference which can guide us. We have tested the following parameters VIEWIDSAL, VIEWIDBONREG,VIEWIDBONOFF,VIEWIDLTI and play with them removing and changing the standard parameter ECMNAV,ECMBON,ECMLTI,ECMSAL based on the ODAP, but we have not found anything which can help us.

Has anyone knows if it is possible and how to achieve this on the Portal?

Kind regards

Gonzalo Pérez-Prim

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Gonzalo Pérez-Prim

[paul_davidson · Accepted solution]

Hi Gonzalo,

Each tab in ECM corresponds to a Plan as created for Enterprise Compensation Management in configuration. Whether the tab appears or not depends on whether it is assigned to the Review also created in ECM. The Program assignment will determine whether an employee is eligible for a particular Plan, but the name will appear on the tab but all entry columns will be blanked out.

We just completed introduction of ECM and configured 1 review item for 2007. There were 6 plans each with a separate tab - Hourly Merit, Salaried Merit, Hourly Market Adjustment, Salaried Market Adjustment, Lump Sum Adjustment and a Summary tab. The columns that appeared on each tab were configured in the Object and Data Provider and each one was different. Both hourly and salaried employees appeared on all tabs, but no entry could be made in the Salaried tabs for Hourly employees and the same for Salaried in the Hourly tabs. The Summary tab was custom designed and had all information about both hourly and salaried and provided overall department totals.

To remove the tabs, you must remove the plans from the review. You did not explain which tabs or why, but if you wanted to separate the salaried tabs from the hourly, you would have to create two reviews and then select the plans you want to display in each. You would use the features to indicate which reviews would be available for which employees. The managers would then have two entries in MSS to select the reviews for the salaried employes or the reviews for the hourly. As explained above, we combined them so we could have department totals including all employees.

[Former Member]

Hi Suresh:

First, thank you for your answer.

Have you ever done this, considering that we have a Portal Savvy guy, it is difficult?

It is there any possibility to do it modifying the SAP R/3 Customizing, it would require to modify the Enterprise Compensation Compensation Review Items from the customizing?

How about on future versions it is possible to do it on ERP 2005 or the issue is still the same?

Kind regards

Gonzalo Pérez-Prim

[suresh_datti]

I haven't done it.. But I do remember reading about the way some people managed to customize the forntend by decompiling the Java code.. Obviously SAP neither recommends it nor would support the custom code. But it is very much doable, as others have done it. You can change the validity period for the Plans in the config, but that would remove them from appearing in PA30 ( on 0759 ) too.. if you are OK with that, you can maintain the view V_T71ADM10 in SM31 and change the effective dates.

I haven't seen it yet, but I guess the WebDynpro version of ECM will definitely be more flexible for frontend changes.

~Suresh

[Former Member]

Hi All:

More information, we have been reviewing the ECM configuration at the IMG, we have seem the configuration plans but we have not found anything which can guide us to how to disable them from the Portal tabs.

Also our fear is that we will encounter problems on the SAP R/3 Configuration if we modify the Enterprise Compensation Management tables, such as removing Plans on the Compensation Plans configuration table.

Kind regards

Gonzalo Pérez-Prim

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Gonzalo Pérez-Prim

[suresh_datti]

If you are trying to remove them only from the frontend, I don't think there is such an option (without modifying the Java code). As all the valid Plans for the Review in question will show up as the tabs.. If this is a MUST, the one option I can think is to get the access key & modify the source code in the backend.

~Suresh