Customizing SAP ESS Portal Role

Hi,
I need to customize the ESS portal screens. For example, I need to view "Employee Search" tab but not the "Working Time" tab. Is advisable to modify the ESS Worksets provided by SAP directly and remove the workesets, pages that I do not need?
The approach I took was to create a new role and workset and include the SAP pages I needed. However, this gives me problems when I acess the iviews. For example, when I click on the "Who's Who" link, nothing happens.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.

Sudhir,
You mentioned to "change the Role location of each resource in backend ESS configuration". Which resources do I change.
For e.g., I created an "Employee Self-Service" role and an "Employee Self-Service" workset. Now in my "Employee Self-Service" workset, I referenced SAP's "Employee Search" workset. What do I need to change?
Thanks,
Basant
> You need to copy standard role and then put
> iviews/pages in concerned order/page.
> moreover you ned to change Role location of each
> resource in backend ESS configuration.
>
> Well removal of certain tabs can be achieved using
> service/Subareas config in ESS. Please check IMG ESS
> config node for more details.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Regards,
> Sudhir

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