ESS with SAP ERP 2004 ECC 5.0

[andr_siegling]

Hello,

with SAP R/3 we used the Employee Self Services via an external ITS. Now we are using SAP ERP 2004 ECC 5.0 with an installed Java AddIn without Enterprise Portal.

My Question is:

What ways are possible, so that we can use the ESS functionality?

My Ideas are:

1. Use the old external ITS and connect it to the new system.

Problem: Is the connection possible?

or

2. Use the existing services from the internal ITS.

Problem: It seems that some are not working - is it possible to activate them?

or

3. Use the WebDynpro-Technology without Enterprise Portal.

Problem: Will it work?

All information I could find, is, that none of the mentioned ways will work, but maybe someone tried to do the same and was successful.

Thanks for ideas,

André

[Former Member]

Hello Andre,

I don't have experience with using ESS web dynpro applications standalone without EP but I believe that should work just fine. We use standalone web dynpro applications for our mobile ISR/PCR approvals where we access web dynpro application directly via Blackberry. You should be able to access any web dynpro application directly without EP iView - for certain services you will need to provide the correct attributes and values via URL though.

Hope that helps you a little bit,

Harald

[Former Member]

...one more thing!

You can also test the ESS web dynpro application directly via web dynpro content admin - so it shoud work just fine without EP!

Harald