Custom ESS/MSS iview question

Hi all,
The requirement is to create a custom ESS/MSS iview under one of the worksets in portal. For example I am creating a custom Beneifts iview under the Benefits workset.
I have to get the user personnel number to get the corresponding data in the WD application that i am creating. Where do i get this value from?
My assumption: It is stored as a global variable in a different WD component and i have to reuse the component in my new application to get the corresponding variable
I have tried my best to make the question clear. let me know if this needs to be more clear.
Thanks in advance,
Reddy

Hi Reddy,
There might be some portal events raised when a employee is selected. You should subscribe this event in your custom component and work on.
I do not know if the following information useful for you.
SAP note -- https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1112733 -- with Portal Eventing code to subscribe:
subscribe_to_event("urn:com.sap.mss.employeesearch",
EVENT = "selection_changed".

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I want to configure ESS and MSS.
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- ECC 5.0 ( with HR component SP05) in a server B.
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===========================================================================
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Obviously, for this reason the most of iviews raise errors. A few of these works ok.
I assign role, and others configuration steps, this part I thinks that is OK
I configured the Jco, the role in Portal, the profile in ERP for ESS, etc.
My principal question is:
Can I use Portal 7.0 against ECC 5.0 in order tu use ESS/MSS based on webdynpro, without stack j2ee in ECC server (B) ?
Is necesary install J2ee stack in my server B ? or not?
Where I need to deploy the XSS 500 components ? in the J2EE 7.0 ?
Why when I deploy have this problem and the most of components cant deploy it?
For my landscape, which is the recommended setup ?
thanks in advance.!
Leandro.

My principal question is:
Can I use Portal 7.0 against ECC 5.0 in order tu use ESS/MSS based on webdynpro, without stack j2ee in ECC server (B) ?
You can use Portal 7.0 against ECC 5.0
Is necesary install J2ee stack in my server B ? or not?
You don't need to install J2EE stack on ECC system
Where I need to deploy the XSS 500 components ? in the J2EE 7.0 ?
Deploy XSS on Portal server not on ECC.
Why when I deploy have this problem and the most of components cant deploy it?
There won't be any issue. Go for ERP 2005
For my landscape, which is the recommended setup ?
As per the landscape mentioned by you, I will suggest go for ERP 2005 & XSS 600.
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