Downloads

Please note that you can find the download files for recent articles at the bottom of the individual articles.

June 2008

For “Alleviate Cost Burdens with a Custom Fringe Solution in SAP Payroll” by Mike Timm, Managing Partner, Integrated Consulting Group LLC.

Download the function code and custom table ZHPAY_FRINGE_TMP layout.

August/September 2007

For: "Detect the Effect of a Change in US Tax Models on Payroll — Before You Do It" by Clay Molinari, SAP HCM Consultant, C&C Savant, Inc.

Download a custom ABAP program with similar features as transaction PC00_M10_UTMDU0 for analyzing wage types.

April 2007

For: "Improve Data Entry Efficiency with CATS User Exits" by Manuel Gallardo, Master Technical Specialist, Tesoro Companies, Inc.

Download sample ABAP code for CATS user exits CATS0002, CATS0003, CATS0004, CATS0006, CATS0009, and CATS0010.

March 2007

For: "Always Land on Your Feet with This Introduction to CATS" by Martin Gillet, SAP HR Consultant, Cogilius bvba.

Click here to download an Excel guide to a typical CATS setup and an excerpt from my SAP PRESS book Integrating CATS.

For: "Automate Bonus Payments to Terminated Employees" by Dawn Burns, EDS Sr. Consultant.

Click here to download the code to update infotype 0003 records when the system creates an infotype 0015 record for terminated employees.

December 2006

For: "Part 3: Plan for and Implement SAP Learning Solution's Authoring Environment," by Tammie Eldridge, Solution Principal, SAP America, and Danielle Morrison, Senior Consultant, Innovapost.

The authors supplement their article by explaining an object in SAP Learning Solution called learning objectives. In addition, you can read about how the SCORM standard affects SAP Learning Solution.

November 2006

For: "SAP Job Pricing Part 1: Set Up the Foundation for Market Data Analysis," by Jeremy Masters, SAP Consultant, Worklogix.

Click here to download a table containing the data elements for survey market data.

August/September 2006

For: "Load and Maintain Your SAP System's Bank Table for Free," by Clay Molinari, SAP HCM Consultant.

Click here to download a text file of the program Z_FILL_BNKA_FIELDS_US1 to see how the data from the input file is split into the required fields in the BNKA table.

For: "Validate School Data Entry for Education Infotype 0022," by James McCallum, Senior Technical Consultant, SAP Americas, Inc.

Click here to download the complete T5J65 load ABAP program ZHR_LOAD_SCHOOLS for one of several different categorization scenarios for education type information. Click here to download the Excel file t5j65_schools_5_columns.csv, the Excel file shown in Figure 6.

July 2006

For: "Two Methods to Access OM Data Quickly and Easily," by Rehan Zaidi, Senior SAP Consultant, Siemens Pakistan.

Download the code in Figure 3, Figure 8, Figure 9, and Figure 10 so that you can view OM data.

November 2005

For: "Quick Tip: Use ABAP Code to Report on Repeating Groups in Table," by Ian Moogan, Senior SAP Analyst, HP-CDS.

Click here to download the full source code explained in the article.

July 2005

For: "Two Ways to Easily Access Payroll Information," by Rehan Zaidi, senior SAP consultant, Siemens Pakistan.

Click here for the document in which the author provides a detailed introduction of clusters, describes their structure, and explains the purpose that they serve in SAP HR.

June 2005

For: "Speed up R/3 Data Entry with the Object Manager," by Clay Molinari, SAP HR Consultant.

See the author's video demonstration of the object manager's features and functions, click here.

For: "Merge SAP Data Directly into a Microsoft Word Document," by Jim Fang, SAP Consultant, ERP Solutions; and Dawn Burns, SAP HR Consultant, EDS.

The authors provide full code for the sample program zzjf_word_46up featured in their article. This program adds another field, "Years of Service >=", to the standard PNP logical database selection screen, click here.

December 2004

For: "Use Clusters to Access Infotype Texts," by Rehan Zaidi, senior SAP consultant, Siemens Pakistan.

The author provides a detailed introduction of clusters, describes their structure, and explains the purpose that they serve in SAP HR.

August/September 2004

For: "Create a 'Plug-and-Play' Standardized Data Change Detector" by James McCallum.

This is code from the article that helps you to create a change detection tool. Click here for the text version and here for the html version.

July 2004

For: "How to Define and Configure Benefit Salary," by Clay Molinari.

The author supplements his article with sample code for a user exit to override the standard benefit salary cutoff calculation.

January/Febuary 2004

For: "ABAP Program Streamlines Flexible Spending Account Reconciliation" by Clay Molinari, SAP HR Consultant, C&C Savant, Inc.

The author supplements the ABAP code in his article with a downloadable version of the flexible-spending account reconciliation program.

November 2003

For: "When and How to Develop Custom Functions and Operations," by Steve Bogner, Managing Partner, Insight Consulting Partners.

The author provides the full code for benefit accrual function ZBNAC.

For: "What You're Missing Without Custom HR ABAP Object Technology," by James McCallum, SAP HR Consultant.

The author supplements his article with the following:

• Examples for all ABAP Objects mentioned in the article including attributes and method implementations for the Employee, Payroll, and ALV Grid Managers objects.
• Example ABAP Data Dictionary objects needed for using the HR ABAP Objects including structures and table types.
• Example coding for the Payroll Cluster Comparative Viewer (PCCV) program and data retrieval function modules used by the Employee and Payroll objects.
• Supplemental ABAP Data Dictionary objects needed for 4.6B implementations.

Click here for a zip file containing these four examples.

For: "Manager Self-Service Now Allows Enhancements Without Programming," by Dagmar Gundelfinger, Product Manager, SAP AG.

Click here to download the step-by-step guide for creating your own iViews based on generic iViews.

October 2003

For: "Control Open Enrollment with an Adjustment Reason" by Clay Molinari, Independent SAP Consultant.

The author supplements his article with a program for creating infotype 0378 in batch mode and a sample user exit to make the end date different for each type of plan.

August/September 2003

For: "Understand Payroll Wage Type Processing: Payroll Schema and Rule Basics," by Steve Bogner, Managing Partner, Insight Consulting Partners.

The author supplements his article in the August/September issue of HR Expert with background on basic wage type processing concepts and more detail on the examples used in his article.

For: "Create New Infotypes or Enhance Standard Ones to Meet User Needs," by Dawn Burns and Kathy Howard, Electronic Data Systems.

Click here for a step-by-step example of creating a custom infotype for a new dress code policy.

July 2003

For: "Unleash the Power of Dynamic Actions: Tips and Tricks to Get the Best Results," by Rehan Zaidi, SAP Technical Consultant, Siemens Pakistan.

The author supplements his article on dynamic actions in the July 2003 issue of HR Expert with technical information and extra tips on why dynamic actions sometimes fail to achieve their purpose.

April 2003

For: "Keep Master Data Consistent with Configuration When You Make Annual Design Changes to Your Benefit Plan," by Clay Molinari, Independent SAP Consultant.

Figures 6 through 9 and the appendix contain code samples that were too long for the article.

• Figure 6
• Figure 7
• Figure 8
• Figure 9
• Appendix

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