Family Members for ESS SP9

Hello,
I am on EP7.0 ERP05 NW04s ESS6.0 SP8 Patch 9 . There was one problem in the ESS Family Members/Dependents Detail screen for country selection for which a note 1039586 was released ....this note tells you to apply new SP9 released to solve the issue but we have already started Development with SP8 and done changes ...so we cannot apply SP9  .....is there some other way to go about this issue without manually changing the application...
Any help would be highly appreciated.

Hi Subhash,
Is the prerequisite note 981703 applied as mentioned in the note 1039586.
Have you applied the correction instructions which gives you the backend changes?
In case, if both of the above are done, then you have the complete backend changes.
Remaining Front end changes to be done
1. You have to create model in the family DC for the RFC which is added when you imported the correction instructions from 1039586.
2. You have to call the RFC onSelect action of the 'country' dropdown and assign the values returned by the RFC to the variable assoicated with the state dropdown.
Hope this is clear.But i suggest you to apply SP9 instead of making all these changes
Regards,
Sharadha

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