ESS / MSS Portal Roles and connection

[Former Member]

Hi guys,

I have some problem issue with ESS/MSS roles. I have assigned following roles in ECC 6.0 and this portal role ( com.sap.pct.ess.employee_self_service) I have assigned it in Portal 7.0. My ESS connection seems to work fine but there are some issue,

ECC (backend roles)

SAP_EMPLOYEE_ERP composite

SAP_BC_EMPLOYEE

SAP_BC_ENDUSER

SAP_ESSUSER_ERP

SAP_HR_EMPLOYEE_DE_ERP

SAP_HR_EMPLOYEE_US_ERP

SAP_HR_PA_XF_EXPERT

when I go into Travel expense link and open up Travel expense page there should be some more link at the right side of the page for example Enter expense and so on, that has mentioned to me by my functional team, but some reason I can see that links, any body can tell me what is the problem.

Another issue is my Basis team configured this ESS portal connection with the ECC 6.0 and they are saying all the users need to use same user ID and password. I know logon ticket works with Front end to backend by User ID but how can password would be same all the user will have to have a different passwords, right

Please give me some input

Thank you so much

Faisal

[Former Member]

>

> Hi guys,
> 
> I have some problem issue with ESS/MSS roles. I have assigned following roles in ECC 6.0 and this portal role ( com.sap.pct.ess.employee_self_service)  I have assigned it in Portal 7.0. My ESS connection seems to work fine but there are some issue, 
> 
> ECC (backend roles)
> 
> SAP_EMPLOYEE_ERP               composite 
> SAP_BC_EMPLOYEE
> SAP_BC_ENDUSER
> SAP_ESSUSER_ERP
> SAP_HR_EMPLOYEE_DE_ERP
> SAP_HR_EMPLOYEE_US_ERP
> SAP_HR_PA_XF_EXPERT
> 
> when I go into Travel expense link and open up Travel expense page there should be some more link at the right side of the page for example Enter expense and so on, that has mentioned to me by my functional team, but some reason I can see that links, any body can tell me what is the problem.
> 
> Another issue is my Basis team configured this ESS portal connection with the ECC 6.0 and they are saying all the users need to use same user ID and password. I know logon ticket works with Front end to backend by User ID but how can password would be same all the user will have to have a different passwords, right 
> 
> Please give me some input 
> 
> Thank you so much
> Faisal

Faisal,

Are the user IDs in the PA record, IT 0105, ST 0001?

[Former Member]

Not yet, first I wanted to have a solid connection between bck end and fornd end via ESS,. I didn't apply security yet without security this links that has to show up on the travel expense page. I'm not sure because I never seen this before, This is the first time I'm implementing ESS. My functional guy told me that there should be some links on the Travel expense page.

Other issue is my Basis guy configura ESS but he said you have to have same login and password for all the users. I don't think this how ESS works Basis team needs to configure it right or I need to researh to come up with some solution or assign some role that will bring those lmissing inkls

Any help will be appreciated

Faisal

[Former Member]

Hi Faisal,

I believe John is right on this one - most travel expenses links as standard will examine the organisation management linked to the user ID, The ID should be linked to a personnel number via infotype 0105 subtype 0001 and the personnel number should, ideally be linked to a position. Without these organisational assignments, some of the links will not display as the script cannot identify a personnel number for the expenses to be entered against. Your OM specialists should be able to help you configure the links in the backend.

Hope this helps,

Tom

[Former Member]

Thank you so much TOM,

Can you please provide me the beck end roles for MSS. I already have the ESS roles for Travelers, but I need to assign some MSS roles to Managers to connect to the portal. then I'll create cuso

I'll try to assigning OM to user and see those links come up in Travel expense in the portal. also another question for you if you have TVM experience please provide me some input.

Do we have to have System Users setup for all the employee or Travelers because my basis person told me password has to be same

Thanks again

Faisal

[Former Member]

Hi Faisal,

The standard SAP role for MSS functions for travel is, I think, SAP_FI_TV_TRAVEL_MANAGER.

I'm really not sure what your BASIS team are saying to you here, if they're referring to the RFC user from the protal, that should be a standard system / communication user, but you certainly shouldn;t need to create 1 system-type user per ID - the dialog users should be sufficient. If you can provide further details we may be able to assis further.

Thanks,

Tom

[Former Member]

Tom appreciated your input again, let explain it to you in detail.

So far Our Basis consultant configure the ESS/MSS portal 7.0. we are connecting from the bexck end ECC 6.0 and we are going to implement only TRavel expense piece of the Travel management.

He created ess_test user and assign these three portal roles:

com.sap.caf.eu.gp.roles.superuser UME Database

pcd:portal_content/com.sap.pct/platform_add_ons/com.sap.caf.eu.gp.folders.gp/com.sap.caf.eu.gp.roles.superuser GP Superuser Portal role

com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service Employee Self-servoce Portal role

From the backend side I have created same user ID and assigned following roles to test the connection

ECC (backend roles)

SAP_EMPLOYEE_ERP composite

SAP_BC_EMPLOYEE

SAP_BC_ENDUSER

SAP_ESSUSER_ERP

SAP_HR_EMPLOYEE_DE_ERP

SAP_HR_EMPLOYEE_US_ERP

SAP_HR_PA_XF_EXPERT

I was able to login and able to see all the tabs for ESSS, but here are the issues:

1) When I open Travel and Expenses link I got General information and sub links and also Personal information and ub links but other then that I can't see any other link, I don't know why.

2) Second issue: They want to see only Travel and Expenses tab other then that they don't want to see anything else there are so many other tab in this page, basically they want to customize the Iview, we don't have Portal Developer, is that somethig I can do from the role side to deactivate the other tab.

3) Another question: should I assign the same portal roles MSS, there is a MSS portal role in the Portal my question is should I assign the other role super role with the MSS role just like I assign ESS role with superrole.

Your input would be really appreciated

Thanks

Faisal