PCR in ESS ?

[Former Member]

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick question. Can PCRs be triggered from an ESS Role on the Portal ? We have a requirement (probably a strange one) but the ability for ESS users to trigger one particular PCR scenario would be a very quick solution for us, if it's possible.

On the Portal, I've created a link on the ESS role to trigger a standard PCR form. When you click link (opening a new window) I get an error creating form message.

Is there something in the background that prevents PCR being run outside of MSS ?

I'd appreciate anybody's thoughts on this. Apologies if this sounds a crazy idea but I'm new to these topics.

Thanks for your time

DK

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

What version are you on ? If you are on ECC 6.0, you might want to achieve the functionality of allowing ESS users to initiate forms using the HCM Processes and forms. HCM P&F is still based on the ISR/PCR concepts (of course there are lot of new features to it). We have similar requirements and exploring HCM P&F.

For older versions, using the PCR/ISR technology to kick forms from ESS might not be possible. There are other ways out of PCR/ISR to achieve the functionality though.

Thanks,

Javed.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Javed,

Thanks for the reply. We are on ECC 6.0. Can you elaborate further on HCM functionality. Any information or references would be greatly appreciated ?

Also I'd appreciate more information on other ways out of PCR/ISR to acheive the functionality ?

Thanks again for your time and help

DK

[suresh_datti · Accepted solution]

Did you check the [HR-Administrative Services?|http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/en/43/1d63953fce3566e10000000a11466f/frameset.htm]

~Suresh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Suresh,

We have not looked into this information. A quick look tells me it could be very useful to us and maybe exactly what I am looking for.

Many thanks

DK

[ChrisSolomon]

@Damien Kesle

The above are correct. I am DEEP into an HCM Processes and Forms project (which is a sub-node under the new HR Administrative Services in the IMG). This is THE replacement for the older PCR triggered processes and it even says so in SAP documentation. Soooo that should give a hint at the path to choose.

To your question, yes, with HCM P&F, employees can trigger processes now using the same kind of "start processes" iView as managers. In fact, we have modified ours to allow not only HR Admins, Employees and Manager (all standard "processor roles") but also a new role we created for "Manager's Delegates". HCM P&F is a bit much to grasp at first, but read through ALL of the documentation in the help.sap.com info for your version and it will come to you. One tip...get to Enhancement Pack 2 if possible. There are LOTS of improvements and fixes to HCM P&F in there (remember, it is new with ECC6, so it had issues out of the box).

[Former Member]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Having started to follow up on this, it has become apparent that this is the solution we need to implement.

We now have a great starting point (thanks to help on this thread) to continue on and develop a solution to help us meet our aims.

Thanks to all for their time and support.

Regards

DK