HCM P&F User Events on Dates Object

[former_member188765]

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In HCM P&F (FPM) there are two dates fields , when both of these dates are given by initiator , the difference in days should be added in another field on the form.

This is our simple requirement, the developer saying that there is no event available on Dates object and that's why we can't fill the corresponding field.

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Can someone guide us please?

how to trigger event against Dates object

[West4102 · Accepted solution]

Hi Zahid,

you can create a User Event and add it to your date fields in the form designer (FLUID). You have to create a field group for that user event (type = check event) and add those three fields and fields PERNR and EFFECTIVE_DATE to it. Now your developers have to develop a generic service implementation that does the calculation in terms of a custom OPERATION (operation on your two dates field and field difference in days).

There are some really good blog posts on P&F user events:

https://blogs.sap.com/2013/03/24/hcm-processes-and-forms-my-journey-around-user-events/
https://blogs.sap.com/2014/11/16/hcm-processes-forms-making-user-events-useful-again/

Best regards,

Andreas

[former_member188765]

Thanks Andreas and Christopher

I am bit late to reply as our developer gave us solution by providing a separate button,

I will ask him to see these suggestions,

[ChrisSolomon]

There are PLENTY of ways to do/handle this in either an Adobe Interactive form or an FPM-based form. Your developer is just not experienced enough to know how or do it.

For Adobe, this could be done via Javascript in the form or a custom user event on the backend (as mentioned above) triggered by an event on one/both of the date fields. You could even have a hidden control (button) on the form that is triggered via Javascript in the form. LOTS of ways to do this.

For FPM-based forms, this could be done with a custom user event or capturing FPM events (as I have blogged in detail about in the past).

LOTS of options for either route....and it depends if the user needs some immediate feedback or if this can be done as part of the form validation ("check" event).