EREC: work experience, make end date not mandatory, current employer flag?

Question

Hi,
is there a way to make the end date of an external candidate's work experience NOT mandatory when the candidate is created by a recruiter?
Here's the code that triggers the error message when the recruiter doesn't enter an end date:
WD: ERC_C_CAND_EDU_WORKEXP_UI
View : V_WORK_EXP_POP
Method : ONACTIONOK
  IF lv_sdate IS NOT INITIAL AND lv_edate IS INITIAL.
    CALL METHOD lo_message_manager->raise_t100_error
      EXPORTING
        msgid = 'HRRCF0007'
        msgno = 110
        msgty = 'E'.
    RETURN.
  ENDIF.
If there's no other way, I guess I will have to create an enhancement, but in the code I read about a "current employer flag", so it seems there might exist a better solution. Can a recruiter set the current employer flag somewhere to avoid entering an end date?
Joë

Answer 1

Hello Joel,
The 'current employer flag' is the checkbox you can flag in the work experience maintenance. This flag means that the entry you are now creating is the last current one (which means your current employment). If you activate that checkbox the system automatically creates that entry with the high date as end date. So you only have to fill the start date but in your case that would not be successful as you would have only valid work experience entries then which could lead eg. to wrong results in the search scenarios and rankings.
Regards
Nicole