How to unreleased Appraisal templates which are alreay being in used

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I am looking for the solution how to unreleased appraisal templates which are already released and also used by the Employees for their PDD process.

We are facing one problem in PDD templates, so we want to make some changes in already released templates.

Is there any way or solution by any Functional method/settings or by ABAP program?

Please reply as it is very critical and important for us to solve ASAP.

Thanks & Regards,

Ashish Mehta.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Ashish,

In Development, delete all test document for the given appraisal template. Set status to "Cancel Release". You should be able to proceed with your changes now and remember to set again to "Release" once you are done. Proceed in transporting your changes.

Cheers,

Kelvin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Now that might work (actually it will work). But you need to be 100% sure that your changes will not infleunce the appraisal process. Because it is not that hard to cause unrepairable data inconsistencies on already existing appraisal documents!!

There is a very good reason for not being able to unrelease templates once they are in use!

One is that you can create incorrect appraisal documents from a business point of view.

Say your document end appraisal is a 1-10 scale, one being the worst. The appraisal gets a 3 as final score, meaning in this scale quite bad. Now you unrelease the template and change the used scale to a 1-4 scale. Your very bad employee turns all of a sudden in a quite good employee!

Even worse, <b>you can create database inconsistencies on document level</b>. Just remove elements or columns from the template and you will get very strange results after releasing again.

I don't recommend changing templates once documents are based on them but if you use this option then be carefull!

Regards and Groetjes,

Maurice