E- Rec - Hiding links - Create / copy requisistions in Recruiter start page

Question

I use a MSS view for creating Requisitions and hence want to hide Create / Copy requisitions link in Recruiter start page --> maintain requisitions.
Cn it be done with context changes. If yes, Can some one provide some info on the steps required.
Thanks
G Raj

Answer 1

Hi,
if you want to change the the appearance (grouping, links, texts) of a startpage this is completely done in customizing or better said you can define your own startpages and use some parts of the sap delivery if you like. The customizing for sartpages can be found in the IMG (T-Code SPRO) under SAP E-Recruiting -> Technical Settings -> User Interfaces -> (Settings for User Interfaces with Business Server Pages (BSP)) -> Start Pages.
We usually define customer startpages in every project, this is really no big deal.
If you want to remove a link from a page you should start by analysing the standard startpage as you will have to "rebuild" it. The standard startpage for the recruiter is 0003. Important to know is that IMG only contains customer customizing. The sap standard delivery is stored in own tables which can only be accessed using table tools e.g. SE11 or SE16.
The tables for startpage customizing are named T77RCF_SP*:
T77RCF_SP_ID(C) - Startpages
T77RCF_SP_ID(C)T - Startpages texttable
T77RCF_SP_GROUP(C) - Startpage groups (the blocks with a number of links)
T77RCF_SP_GROUPT/GRPCT - Startpage groups texttable
T77RCF_SP_LINK(C) - Links
T77RCF_SP_LINK(C)T - Links texttable
T77RCF_SP_ASID(C) - assignment of groups to startpages
T77RCF_SP_ASGRP(C) - assignments of links to groups
The table without C is the standard delivery, the one with C is the one for customer customizing.
Just take a sheet of paper and start by getting all groups to the startpage 0003. This should be 1005, 1000, 1001, 2000, 1002, 1004, 1003 but could differ depending on release and support package. As you only want to change the 2nd group you will be able to reuse the others. Next get the links to the group you want to change. In my system it's group 1000 which contains links 1000, 1001, 1003 and 1004 according to T77RCF_SP_ASGRP.
When you have this info you can start customizing your own startpage. you will need to create a new group in the IMG node -> Define Start Page Groups. Just use the information you find in the standard delivery and assign the 3 links you want to keep. Then create your startpage and assign the standard groups and instead of 1000 your own.
Althought it is possible to use the same numbers for IDs like SAP I prefere using 9NNN for the ids so you always know if its standard or customer. furthermore do not forget to udate your authorization roles and add the new startpage.
Best Regards
Roman Weise  
PS: of course it is your decision to hide links. But even if the managers create the requisitions using MSS the recruiters will work with their startpage only and they will have to be able to create and maintain requisitions so i am not sure if hiding the link is a good idea.