Recruiter page in SAP e-Recruiting

[albert_israel2]

Hi,

We have been live with SAP e-Recruiting 6.0 for about 3 years. We have been using BSP applications so far. We have a standalone e-Recruiting system with a ECC6.0 EHP4 backend. We are in the process of upgrading to EHP5, and want to switch to WebDynpro. I have activated all the Services from SICF, and I can get the internal and external candidation application to work. However, I cannot get the recruiter page to work. Actually, I dont see any service that shows the recruiter start page. The requisition list comes up empty. However, I can get the requisition maintenance screen to work.

Albert

[romanweise]

Hello Albert,

the short answer: you cannot find a web dynpro startpage for the recruiter as there is not really one like for the candidate.

I assume you are currently on E-Recruiting 6.0 without any enhancement package. The upgrade from this release to EhP 4 or 5 is quite a big task as there are a lot of changes in technology, data model and best practises.

EhP 5 for e-Recruiting requires the use of SAP Portal (or NetWeaver Business Client) for recruiter and recruiting admin. So you have to link the eRec system to the portal and have to deploy the business packages (BP for Common Parts 1.51, BP for Recruiter 1.51, BP for Recruiting Administrator 1.51). Within the recruiter portal role there is the recruiter entry page with the work sets for the recruiter. This application is based on the POWL standard component.

For the upgrade you have to activate the business functions for eRec EhP 5 on the eRec system:

HCM_ERC_CI_1

HCM_ERC_SES_1

HCM_ERC_CI_2

HCM_ERC_CI_3

HCM_ERC_CI_4

This brings two issues. The business function activation cannot be reversed and as soon as you activated the one which enables the web dynpro ui for the recruiter, the BSP ui is no longer supported. So you should clone the eRec system to test the upgrade impacts and steps. Otherwise you would loose your maintenance landscape. Another issue is the changed TREX interface with buiness function HCM_ERC_SES_1 which requires a new TREX installation and connection setup.

When you have done this you should be able to access the recruiter entry screen. If you are using the standard eRec role for recruiter (id 0007) you should find requisitions under "Open requisitions of Team" (the "My open Requisitions" work set is empty as no requisition has a lead recruiter flag yet). A hint here: work sets are not refreshing automatically and the refresh link is only refreshing the active work set, NOT ALL!

Unfortunately then the real work starts. Some highlights you will face:

- ALE implementation has changed and needs to be reconfigured

- There is no longer a startpage for the decision maker and requisition requester. These functions are only supported by Manager Self Serves. The requisition request is based on HCM Processes and Forms.

- The correspondence is only supporting the letter section option. If you used the older option to change letters it is no longer working. Even if you use the letter section option the correspondences will probably need adaption as the control in the UI changed which effects the behaviour in the smartforms

- There are new fields in the requisition data model which are partly even required (e.g. Lead Recruiter flag). There is no SAP report to set this information for active requisitions. So this has to be done manually ever in frontend or database. And we lost some fields in some screens.

So you will have to plan some time and ressources for the upgrade.

Kind Regards

Roman

[albert_israel2]

Thanks, Roman. I really appreciate your detailed message.

Albert

[Former Member]

Hi Roman,

I want to use E-Rec 5 but with no portal. Does the same apply for NW business client scenario?

Regds,

S. Saggaf