How to enable ESS link in portal

Question

I need the enable ESS link or provide access permission of ESS in my portal.what can i do for that.can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.
S.Ramesh

Answer 1

Hi RK,
I will try to sum up as much as I can and limit to repeat whats already mentioned above (as they are whats needed in certain steps of implementing ESS).
1) Go to the SAP MarketPlace and via there, you can proceed to SAP PC (or use this https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/contentportfolio).
There are 3 BP for ESS, choose the BP with suit your EP and backend system. Click on the text and you can see the below:
a) Primary Backend System
b) Portal Release
c) iView Runtime Technology
To see your EP version, goto http://<host>:<port>/sap/monitoring/SystemInfo. There you'll find something like sap.com/SAP-JEE 7.00 SPxx, this means, you're on Netweaver 7.00 (formerly 2004s), otherwise you'll see 6.40 (that's Netweaver 2004).
2) Deploy the selected BP
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/44/fa068634000c4be10000000a11466f/frameset.htm
3) After deploying the BP, you have to maintain the JCo's for ESS to access your backend system which host your HR.
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/8c/cb3042366c0521e10000000a155106/frameset.htm
4) In the backend system which host your HR, you have to setup the necessary ESS authorizations. ESS backend are normally to assign SAP_EMPLOYEE_ERP role to employee which is composite role, which contain following roles:
SAP_BC_EMPLOYEE
SAP_BC_ENDUSER
SAP_ESSUSER_ERP
SAP_HR_EMPLOYEE_DE_ERP
SAP_HR_EMPLOYEE_US_ERP
SAP_HR_PA_XF_EXPERT
You can duplicate or maintain the authorization objects for the above mentioned roles (base on what you want them to execute) using PFCG, generate the profiles and complete the user compare.
In summary, your setup Portal for your ESS users to display what they can see via the ESS BP and you can customise what you want them to see (ESS BP provide standard ESS iviews, pages, workset and role but you can create your own page, workset or role and delta link the provided ESS iviews). From the backend system (HR), you set what your ESS users can do via authorisation roles mentioned above. Once you have setup the above, your ESS users can start with their ESS activities.
P.S: As also mentioned above SSO is also a plus point for your users as then they will not have to login when they try to access ESS (backend system) via the Portal.
Hope that helps.
Ray