Is the ABAP Webdynpro CATS available in both ESS and MSS?

[Former Member]

Hi experts,

We are in the process of implementing the WDA CATS application for ESS (ECC 6 EHP5) but our scenario is actually for managers to enter in time in CATS on behalf of their employees. I can't find any information on this scenario using the WDA CATS. I have linked the application to the related activities iView in MSS but it seems to be launching the CATS application for the manager instead of the employee.

The standard MSS role (1.5) seems to launch the Java CATS when doing it on behalf of an employee. I just want to find out if it's possible to use the WDA CATS application for on behalf scenarios as it used to be with the Java CATS?

Thanks!!

Jo

[Former Member]

Hey Jo

how are you? here goes some background info on cats and ess/mss:

In ehp5 - ess there are 5 application configurations delivered by sap in wd-abap one of which is the approval view for managers its called hrmss_ac_cats_approval. the remaining 4 configs are for employees to enter cats data.

Now the point of issue is the 'ess in mss' or 'on behalf of' functionality....

MSS at ehp5 cats is still on wd-java I guess,... I am not 100% sure so what needs to be done holistically is:

1. Select one of the employee cats appication configurations.

2. include it into the mss-related activity space.

3. now this has a known issue: passing of the employee number from within wd-java to wd-abap application sap has a couple of notes for them --> 1577099 & 1578965 chk them out....

4. what those notes say is you can put in any wd-abap service into related activity space which is still wd-java,... and get the manager to book time on behalf of employees...

I have personally not done the above yet,... but I did some r&d last year on the above......

ahh before I forget you may want to chk out the note 1513325

finally to be able to call the employee cats service in related activities could mean you have to:

1. create an iview of type wd-abap caling the ess-cats wda service.

2. include it within the related activities wdj page...

3. have the aforementioned notes applied..

4. ready to go...

tell me if this worked for you or not. if it does you owe me a coffee.

cheers

shree.

[Former Member]

Hey Shree,

Thanks for the quick reply!! That was very helpful and I think we worked out how to trigger the WDA CATS application from the related activities iview. Took a few tries but we got it to work. The question I still have is with MSS in EHP5, is it still a combo of Java and ABAP applications? I thought it would have moved to ABAP by now.

Jo

[Former Member]

as of ehp5 mss is still a combo of wdj and wda,...

not much improvement on the ehp6 version either as most of the hcm related content on ehp6 is on the metrics and analytics side only...

cheers