E-PMS: Bell curve functionality

Dear Friends,
We are implementing E-PMS in EHP5.  We would like to know what are the provisions available for bell curve in standard E-PMS.  Is there any standard functionality and BADIu2019s available for the same.
Also suggest any other work around.
Regards,
Nilesh

Hi nilesh,
use this function module
create report program
TYPE-POOLS: gfw.
TYPES:BEGIN OF ty_per,
       id TYPE hap_appraisee_id,
       END OF ty_per.
  types:begin of ty_pa0001,
        pernr type persno,
        end of ty_pa0001.
DATA: y_values TYPE TABLE OF gprval WITH HEADER LINE,
        x_texts TYPE TABLE OF gprtxt WITH HEADER LINE.
DATA: lt_pa0001 TYPE TABLE OF ty_pa0001.
DATA:var TYPE i.
DATA:var1 TYPE i,
       var2 TYPE i,
       var3 TYPE i,
       var4 TYPE i,
       var5 TYPE i.
DATA:lt_hrhap_appee TYPE TABLE OF hrhap_appee.
DATA:lv_pernr TYPE TABLE OF ty_per.
DATA:lt_hrhap TYPE TABLE OF hrhap.
DATA:lt_hrhap_further TYPE TABLE OF hrhap_further.
Data: lt_pa0000 type table of persno.
REFRESH y_values.
REFRESH x_texts.
SELECTION-SCREEN:BEGIN OF BLOCK a1.
PARAMETERS:org TYPE pa0001-orgeh.
SELECTION-SCREEN:END OF BLOCK a1.
START-OF-SELECTION.
   select pernr FROM pa0001 INTO TABLE lt_pa0001 WHERE orgeh EQ org AND begda LE sy-datum AND endda GE sy-datum.
   select pernr from pa0000 into table lt_pa0000  for all entries in lt_pa0001 where
                                                    pernr eq lt_pa0001-pernr and begda le sy-datum and endda ge sy-datum and stat2 eq '3'.
   MOVE lt_pa0000 TO lv_pernr.
   SELECT * FROM hrhap_appee INTO TABLE lt_hrhap_appee FOR ALL ENTRIES IN lv_pernr WHERE id = lv_pernr-id.
   SELECT * FROM hrhap INTO TABLE lt_hrhap FOR ALL ENTRIES IN lt_hrhap_appee WHERE
                                                                appraisal_id = lt_hrhap_appee-appraisal_id AND ap_status = '5'.
   SELECT * FROM hrhap_further INTO TABLE lt_hrhap_further FOR ALL ENTRIES IN lt_hrhap WHERE
                                                         appraisal_id = lt_hrhap-appraisal_id  AND row_iid = '1' AND column_id = 'ZSCR'.
   var = lines( lt_pa0001 ).
   var1 = var * '0.1' .
   var2 =  var * '0.2' .
   var3 =  var * '0.5' .
   var4 = var * '0.1' .
   var5 = var * '0.1' .
   y_values-rowtxt = 'Actual Bell Curve Distrubtion'.
   y_values-val1 = 10.
   y_values-val2 = 12.
   y_values-val3 = 44.
   y_values-val4 = 15.
   y_values-val5 = 12.
   APPEND y_values.
   y_values-rowtxt = 'Ideal Bell Curve Distrubtion'.
   y_values-val1 = var1.
   y_values-val2 = var2.
   y_values-val3 = var3.
   y_values-val4 = var4.
   y_values-val4 = var5.
   APPEND y_values.
   x_texts-coltxt = '94%-100%(5)'.
   APPEND x_texts.
   x_texts-coltxt = '91%-93%(4.5)'.
   APPEND x_texts.
   x_texts-coltxt = '81%-90%(4)'.
   APPEND x_texts.
   x_texts-coltxt = '70%-79%(3.5)'.
   APPEND x_texts.
   x_texts-coltxt = '60%-69%(3)'.
   APPEND x_texts.
   CALL SCREEN 100.
CALL FUNCTION 'GFW_PRES_SHOW'
EXPORTING
CONTAINER         = 'CONTAINER'    "A screen with an empty container must be defined
PRESENTATION_TYPE = GFW_PRESTYPE_LINES
*        PRESENTATION_TYPE =  gfw_prestype_time_axis
*        PRESENTATION_TYPE = gfw_prestype_area
*        PRESENTATION_TYPE = gfw_prestype_horizontal_bars
TABLES
VALUES            = Y_VALUES
COLUMN_TEXTS      = X_TEXTS
EXCEPTIONS
ERROR_OCCURRED    = 1
OTHERS            = 2.
Regards
Jayaprakash

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    * Headphones no longer work - Like many people, I prefer to use my own choice of headphones, rather than those basic ones that come bundled with the N8. However, after updating to Belle, I find that my headphones no longer work! The sound is not diverted to the 3.5mm jack, and music just plays through the device speaker rather than the headphones which are plugged in. I tried them out on other devices, and they work fine, and they worked fine before I updated to Belle, so this is obviousy an issue which needs to be addressed
    * Homescreen wallpaper pictures obscured by navigation bar - Previously, the pictures I use as my homescreen wallpapers fit nicely between the navigation bar along the bottom, and the info bar along the top. With Belle this is no longer the case, where the picture is extended, and these two bars obscure the image below (the navigation bar happens to be semi-transparent, but that's beside the point)
    * Application screen button right above the physical button - I honestly don't see the point in having a button in the bottom left corner which does the exact same thing as the physical button on the N8 which is situated directly below it.
    * Profile ordering - On previous Symbian handsets, and also previously with Symbian^3 / Anna, it was possible to order your profiles however you wanted. There was also more than four default profiles. However, with Belle it seems that if you rename any of those first four, they retain their position, regardless of alphabetisation. For example, if you created a fifth profile called "Silent (Office)", it would appear in fifth place, rather than directly beneath "Silent" as you would expect
    * Renaming the default "Silent" profile conflicts with the dropdown menu function - If you rename the default "Silent" profile to something else (Ie, "Loud"), and also change the profile settings (such as turning the volume right up), then this renders the silence feature in the dropdown menu redundant! You can still select the "Silent" function from the dropdown menu, but it will activate / deactivate whatever profile occupies that second slot, regardless of whether you have it set as silent or something else
    * The camera interface - Once again, an example of moving icons when they didn't need to be moved! I used to find that the location of the various camera settings was perfect with Anna, but now they're all along the bottom. Why did they need to be moved? This is perhaps just nitpicking, and doesn't really bother me as much as other changes, but I see no reason why some things need to be changed for the sake of changing things!
    Things that needed to be fixed, and still haven't:
    * Calculator - In this day and age a smartphone should have an advanced calculator, similar to many hi-end scientific calculators. At the very least, a basic calculator shoud have a "clear screen" button! We shouldn't have to exit the application and relaunch it in order to do a new calculation!
    * The music player - Artists and Albums should be separate. End of! If youre choosing a new ringtone, you can browse by either Song, Artist, or Album, so why isn't this the same for the music player? This has annoyed me ever since I first got my N8, but seems like something Nokia are reluctant to fix, despite complaints from the majority of users. Also, why is there still no user-definable equaliser?

    bumblebirra wrote:
    GeminiPhoenix, you make plenty of valid points, but I think you need to try to give Belle a chance and then you might start noticing small things like the ability to simply delete any unwanted homescreens, and then it might begin to grow on you. I can understand your frustration at what you feel have been unnecessary changes (to Belle itself) but... well, I guess it must have been a MAJORLY serious age-old problem that forced you to risk the upgrade.
    Your complaints about the Belle widgets are all justified and hopefully Nokia are listening and will do something about them in due course.
    Even though I'd like more widgets, and more implementations of various settings into widgets, I find Belle to be be intuitive enough to make it an enjoyable experience - no less than Anna anyway.
    I agree, Nokia should give the option to revert back to previous operating systems.
    If I loved Anna so much, I wouldn't have cared less for latest and fastest software for my device. It would have taken a very serious problem to make me take the risk of changing it.
    I admit I may have jumped the gun on one or two issues, and I have since discovered how to delete unwanted homescreens. However, this just proves that the option is well hidden away in a very specific place, where I would have probably not looked had someone not directed me to it. Therefore I formerly retract that issue from my list, but I will add that I feel such options should be more visible, especially as we don't have a user manual to flick through and we're expected to just figure this stuff out on our own!
    I have also discovered that the Wi-Fi needs to be prioritised in order to automatically connect when in range of my home network. Again, this is not made clear, and the required settings are hidden away in an obscure folder where most normal people wouldn't think to look... I also retract this from my list
    As for the "age-old problem" - This thread should answer everything:
    /t5/Messaging-Email-Browsing-and/Urgent-help-required-N8-refuses-to-send-text-messages-after-6/td-p/...
    It was indeed a serious problem, and the only way to fix it was to update to the newest software version. No doubt the problem will occur again in a few months time, and I'll have to do the same again...
    However, where I initially aimed to fix one problem, Belle has posed several new ones, such as the headphones no longer working, and the text messaging interface being rearranged based on the assumption that everyone texts using the Conversations feature. Two things I use every single day, and pretty much everywhere I go.
    I am also glad that you support my complaints about the widgets, so thank you. I know they're only minor issues, but they're the most used, and I fail to understand why they decided to change certain ones. The whole widget system overhaul is great, but it's ruined by the larger widgets which formerly used to be much more compact. For example, the music player and eMail widgets are the largest and most waste of space, whereas the clock / calendar / profile cluster was perfect, so why separate them so that they take up twice as much space on the homescreen?
    I too hope they're paying attention, and I have openly shared my thoughts with the Nokia team via Twitter. I would suggest everyone else does the same if they feel the same way
    I liked Anna. Whlist I did miss the old PR 1.2 icons, and disliked the coloured blobs, I could live with it. I thought Belle would be more of the same, with just a few tweaks here and there to things that needed fixing, but it seems like something entirely different. At the very least, I expected certain things to stay the same, with the improvements being under-the-hood so to speak
    As I have said before, certain aspects didn't need touching. They were perfectly fine as they were. Belle would function just as well if they had've left the widgets as they were. I appreciate that they've done a lot of work making certain aspects run faster, but some things weren't broken, so why try to fix them? Even more frustrating is the fact that other issues have yet again been ignored, such as the terrible music player interface, which almost everybody wants changing back to something similar to the S60 v5.0 era

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