Talent Management Grid

Question

Hello Experts,
We are currently implementing Talent Managment Ehp6 and Nakisa 4.0.  I have a couple of questions
1) I've researched several SCN posts and blogs about how the Performance/Potential grid has to be a 5,6,9 or 15 box grid and that the values (scales) used in performance must also be used in the talent mgmt grid. When we implemented Performance Management (Ehp4) we used a 20 value scale (1-5 with .25 gradients in between). I would just like to clarify that with everything I have read the Grid in Talent Mgmt and Nakisa will not support this large of a scale. That there isn't any BADI or Enhancement that we can use? It seems like we will have to reduce our scale in Performance to be able to use it in Talent Management/Nakisa. Is that correct?
2) I'm a bit confused about the Writeback functionality with Talent Management and Nakisa. I understand that the Talent Mgmt has their own infotypes (i.e. Potential and Performance) and a Manager or TMS can change the potential/performance in the grid during a Talent Meeting. I'm trying to understand how Talent Mgmt updates Nakisa when these ratings get changed? Or does the TMS and Manager have to change the ratings in both places since Nakisa also uses a grid? Also what happens when you move from a performance template in one year to a performance tempalte in the next year? Does the data save or does it get replaced?
Any assistance or clarification would be much appreciated
Sarah

Answer 1

Luke,
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my questions, I appreciate it.
In regards to the peformance scale we didn't go the PMP route, we went with the Flexible.  When I go to the template in the appraisal catalog and try to add the Follow-up BAdI under the enhancement tab it gives me the information below :
"Note
Do not use the BAdI implementation for appraisal templates that you created using the transaction Appraisal Template Catalog (PHAP_CATALOG).
After you have completed an appraisal, the system copies the potential value and performance value to the Potential (7408) and Performance (7409) infotypes that are relevant for the talent review meeting.
The BAdI implementation can only be implemented with an appraisal template of type Performance Management that was created in the Customizing activity Configure Form for Performance Management Process since the appraisal values of the potential assessment and performance assessment are expected to be in certain places in the appraisal template or appraisal document."
Reading this I took this note to mean that if we created a Flexible Appraisal Template that I create via PHAP_CATALOG_PA that I could not use these follow-up BAdIs.  That you can only use this follow-up BAdI if you created a form/template using the PMP process.
Am I understanding this correctly? Can you not use the Calibration Grid if you created a template in the catalog using the Flexible templates? In our performance appraisal we don't use the "Final Appraisal" column for our final performance rating. We created a custom column that stores the final rating.
Thanks again
Sarah