Customizing HCM Headers

Applies to:
R/3, all releases

Summary
The purpose of this article is to clarify how to customize a HCM header.
Author: Márcio Leoni
Company: SAP Brazil
Created on: 18 April 2008

Author Bio
Márcio Leoni joined SAP in 2007. He is a product consultant of Human Capital Management –
ESS/MSS.

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Table of Contents

How to Start Customizing a HCM Header ..........................................................................................................3

Step One: ........................................................................................................................................................4
Step Two: ........................................................................................................................................................5
Step Three: .....................................................................................................................................................6
Disclaimer and Liability Notice............................................................................................................................7

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How to Start Customizing a HCM Header

On Personnel Administration transactions there is a header which contains some employee consolidated
information (e.g. Employee’s name, Personnel Area, Personnel Number, etc.). It is possible to customize this
header with the desired information or even include an employee’s picture.

On the following pages you will see a step-by-step to customize a HCM header.

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Step One:
1) Open an Infotype in transaction PA20 or PA30.
2) Go system -> Status
2) Then you will obtain the related program (subscreen). On the following picture the
program (subscreen) is /1PAPAXX/HDR_00288A

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Step Two:
1) Open transaction SE38
2) Open the source code of the copied header. In our example it is
/1PAPAXX/HDR_00288A.
3) Then you will obtain the table to change the header’s fields and the header
modifier. On the following picture the table is “T588J “and the header modifier
“88”

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Step Three:
1) Open transaction SM31.
2) Open the table to change the header (In our example it is T588J).
3) Find the corresponding header modifier (In our example it is “88”) and
create/change/delete header’s fields.

P.S.: If you need to change the data’s display format you can set the field
“Conversion” through table T552N.

Example:

Conversion = 07 , make this:

Before > After
- GJM > G.J.M.
- ThChr > Th.Chr.

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Disclaimer and Liability Notice

This document may discuss sample coding or other information that does not include SAP official interfaces and therefore is not
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