ESS: International Personal Information Iviews (ignore Molga)

Question

All -
Interesting situation at my current client.  We're doing an upgrade to ERP 2005 from 4.6C.  In the client's initial implementation (global implementation I might add), the Implementation partner set up with the system with all employees in Country code 10.  They designate the country at the personnel subarea level (if you're scratching your head in confusion then join the club...lol).  They implemented ESS a few years ago and did a repair to the function module which fetches the users HR data to point to an alternate table that has the personal subareas, this of course worked for the old version because design time was done in R/3 for that specific ESS service.  Fast forward to today and design/runtime happens on the frontend and of course there are country specific iviews for personal information scenarios.  There isn't time unfortunately within the upgrade project to fix the MOLGA mess so we're trying to find a solution within the webdynpro to have it ignore molga.  Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Hi Nakul,
1) For the various countries for which SAP provides the iViews for Address, either we have to have multiple iViews for different countries, or identify one country and link its resource to other countries. (in which case all employees regardless of where they come from, would see the same screen.
That's right! In SAP Help you have the complete list:
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/1c/ae6b40dde0980ae10000000a155106/content.htm
a little tip: i think as a workaround to avoid lose country functionality you can hide non-mandatory fields and rename labels through iview Personalization (Ctrl + Right Click in Preview mode), in order to match screen of different countries
2) For countries that do not have SAP iViews, we again identify the closes country screen and configure it in Country Specific Settings.
Which again means, my current setting (1 Portal {Role Definition}, 1 Workset, 1 Page 1 iView) for Address for all employees and still show country specific screens by resolving molga wont work anymore?
Portal always works with MOL/UGR parameters by using std services/resources/iviews, etc.
As an alternative, you can build a custom services/resources/iviews and then avoid this call (i'm talking about relate a one particular iview with a new resource, and this with a new service).
But i suggest maintain a simmilar behaviour to std, thinking of future upgrades and to get the advantages of functionality already built...
All the best