Regd:Benefits Open Enrollment Issue

Question

Hi SAP,
I have problem in Open Enrollment which is in ESS.
We have used the Portal Navigation for designing the Navigation instead of Homepage Framework.
When we were using Homepage frame work the open Enrollment works fine(ie) it will be highlighted when the period is opened and it will be glared when the period is closed.
But now after changing the navigation design it is working fine when the period is open but its not getting blared or disabled when it is closed instead it gives me the error.
I need to make it disable when the period is closed.
Is there any configuration that I have to do.
Please put me some light on it.
Its very urgent.

Answer 1

I posed the same question to an ESS consultant who responded with the following:
"The plans presented in benefits enrollment (PZ14) and Participation Overview (PZ07) are list output from ABAP.  You can go into the program and select or exclude some of them based on certain criteria.  I've seen customers extend the Plan infotype to add a flag field to make it configurable to show, not show a given plan."
Since specific instructions weren't given, I wouldn't consider the issue answered.
However, I can provide the following work around:
Due to the fact that different populations have different open enrollment period timeframes, and all populations have been configured under one benefit area...we decided to create an "Open Enrollment Adjustment Reason" for each group instead.  Thus, the Adjustment Reason permissions will only display the plans we want the employee to see via ESS.  Prior to the open enrollment period for the population, we will run the Mass Adjustment Reason report to create IT378 for all relevant employees.  The OE offer will appear as another Adjustment Reason under the Enrollment service in ESS.