Assigning users to employee to access ESS

Question

Hi Friends
Please let me know why to assign user to employee for accessing ESS applications in portal.
What is the difference between user and Employee.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi Krishna,
ESS i.e. employee self service is an application which comes as a Business package mySAP ERP and is precisely a set of iviews of Webdynpro application.
The main purpose of user being assigned to employee to to use the ESS appication, without which the Business package would be irrelavant.
For employees to be able to use the Employee Self-Service applications, they must be linked with a user. Each of the users has to be linked with a role. The role provides your employees with the system authorizations they require. The authorizations ensure that employees can execute the following functions:
1. Access the Employee Self-Service applications.
2. Display data
3. Maintain their own data
Each employee is linked to a user via the Communication infotype. i.e. 0105
Hope this was helpful.
Thanks and Regards.
Shaila Krishna.