Retrieve email id of superior person in organizational hierarchy

Question

Dear All,
In a company Organizational Structure is maintained at several levels. When developing a workflow, which is triggered whenever a support message is generated in Solution manager, a mail needs to be sent to concerned person. but if that person does not responds then the mail has to be triggered to person higher in organisational level.
pls tell me how to retrieve the email id of the person who is one level up than current person
thanks in advance,

Answer 1

If U have the PERNR ...
DATA: ls_sobid1 TYPE sobid,
ls_sobid2 TYPE sobid,
ls_sobid3 TYPE sobid,
v_usrid like pa0105-usrid.
SELECT SINGLE sobid FROM hrp1001 INTO ls_sobid1
WHERE otype = 'P'
and plvar = '01'
AND objid = pernr
AND endda >= sy-datum
AND begda <= sy-datum
AND rsign = 'B'
AND relat = '008'
and sclas = 'S'.
IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
SELECT SINGLE sobid FROM hrp1001 INTO ls_sobid2
WHERE otype = 'S'
and plvar = '01'
AND objid = ls_sobid1
AND endda >= sy-datum
AND begda <= sy-datum
AND rsign = 'A'
AND relat = '002'
and sclas = 'O'.
IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
SELECT SINGLE sobid FROM hrp1001 INTO ls_sobid3
WHERE otype = 'S'
and plvar = '01'
AND objid = ls_sobid2
AND endda >= sy-datum
AND begda <= sy-datum
AND rsign = 'A'
AND relat = '008'.
IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
SELECT SINGLE usrid from pa0105 INTO v_usrid
WHERE pernr = ls_sobid3
and       subty = '0010'
AND endda >= sy-datum
AND begda <= sy-datum.
endif.
v_usrid will contain mail ID of the superior ...