Customising ESS

Hello Everyone,
We are customising ESS Travel Expenses iViews. My requirement is to remove the "Receipts View" Perspective after we click on the Review button in the "General Data View". We totally want to remove this stage and when the user clicks on the Review Button in General Data View it should directly take them to the "Review View".
I hope this explains my problem clearly. If this is not clear to anyone, please let me know. i will try to explain it clearly. Please help me in resolving this issue. I would appreciate your help.
Regards,
Gopal.

Hi GLM,
When I click on the FPM Application within "Self-Service Administrator" it is throughing the following Null Pointer Exception. Please have a look and let me know if it makes any sense to you, because it is not making any sense.
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at com.sap.xss.config.PcdNamingUtil.removePcdPrefixFromId(PcdNamingUtil.java:22)
     at com.sap.xss.cfg.edt.FPMApplicationEditor.doInit(FPMApplicationEditor.java:552)
     at com.sap.xss.cfg.edt.wdp.InternalFPMApplicationEditor.doInit(InternalFPMApplicationEditor.java:430)
     at com.sap.xss.cfg.edt.InconsistentObjectExceptionView.doInit(InconsistentObjectExceptionView.java:174)
     at com.sap.xss.cfg.edt.InconsistentObjectExceptionView.wdDoInit(InconsistentObjectExceptionView.java:100)
     at com.sap.xss.cfg.edt.wdp.InternalInconsistentObjectExceptionView.wdDoInit(InternalInconsistentObjectExceptionView.java:112)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.generation.DelegatingView.doInit(DelegatingView.java:61)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.controller.Controller.initController(Controller.java:215)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.View.initController(View.java:445)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.controller.Controller.init(Controller.java:200)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.getView(ViewManager.java:709)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.bindRoot(ViewManager.java:579)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.init(ViewManager.java:155)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.InterfaceView.initController(InterfaceView.java:43)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.controller.Controller.init(Controller.java:200)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.getView(ViewManager.java:709)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.bind(ViewManager.java:555)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.getView(ViewManager.java:724)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.bind(ViewManager.java:555)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.getView(ViewManager.java:724)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.bindRoot(ViewManager.java:579)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.init(ViewManager.java:155)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.InterfaceView.initController(InterfaceView.java:43)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.controller.Controller.init(Controller.java:200)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.getView(ViewManager.java:709)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.bindRoot(ViewManager.java:579)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.view.ViewManager.init(ViewManager.java:155)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.window.WebDynproWindow.doOpen(WebDynproWindow.java:295)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.window.ApplicationWindow.show(ApplicationWindow.java:182)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.window.ApplicationWindow.open(ApplicationWindow.java:177)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.cal.ClientApplication.init(ClientApplication.java:364)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ApplicationSession.initApplication(ApplicationSession.java:756)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ApplicationSession.doProcessing(ApplicationSession.java:291)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ClientSession.doApplicationProcessingStandalone(ClientSession.java:713)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ClientSession.doApplicationProcessing(ClientSession.java:666)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.ClientSession.doProcessing(ClientSession.java:250)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.clientserver.session.RequestManager.doProcessing(RequestManager.java:149)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doContent(DispatcherServlet.java:62)
     at com.sap.tc.webdynpro.serverimpl.defaultimpl.DispatcherServlet.doPost(DispatcherServlet.java:53)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
     at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.runServlet(HttpHandlerImpl.java:401)
     at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.handleRequest(HttpHandlerImpl.java:266)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:386)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:364)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.invokeWebContainer(RequestAnalizer.java:1039)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.handle(RequestAnalizer.java:265)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Client.handle(Client.java:95)
     at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.request(Processor.java:175)
     at com.sap.engine.core.service630.context.cluster.session.ApplicationSessionMessageListener.process(ApplicationSessionMessageListener.java:33)
     at com.sap.engine.core.cluster.impl6.session.MessageRunner.run(MessageRunner.java:41)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:102)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:172)
Please help me to resolve this issue. I would appreciate your help.
Regards,
Gopal.

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