How To Create A PD Info Type From Scratch

How to Create a PD Info Type from Scratch
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SAP ECC 6.0 and above.For more information, visit the Enterprise Resource Planning homepage.
Summary
There are a lot of standard PD info types provided by SAP. However, sometimes there arise needs to create customized ones. This article gives you a step-by-step guideline for the configuration of a PD info type from scratch. Author: Dilek Ersoz Adak
Company: MilSOFT ICT Created on: 22 September 2010
Author Bio
Dilek has been graduated from Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) Computer Engineering department in 2003. She started working while she was still an undergraduate student. Her first workplace was Aselsan (Ankara, Turkey) where she has worked for 5 years. There she has dealt with HR (Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Payroll, Training and Event Management, HR-ABAP) and BI modules as well as ABAP development. In May, 2008 she switched to Milsoft ICT (Ankara, Turkey) as an SAP consultant where her main interest area is again HCM modules including Personnel Administration, Personnel Development, Organizational Management, Objective Setting and Appraisals, Training and Event Management and Payroll. She is also dealing with BI and Portal configuration. She is still working in MilSOFT ICT.
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Table of Contents
Steps for Creating PD Info type From Scratch ................................................................................................... 3 Creation of Tables/Structures ......................................................................................................................... 3 Creation of ABAP coding ................................................................................................................................ 6 Maintenance of Configuration Tables ........................................................................................................... 15 Testing the Info type ...................................................................................................................................... 26 Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 28 Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 29
Steps for Creating PD Info type From Scratch

Throughout the article XXXX will be used as the info type number. Please note that custom info types should lie within 9000-9999 number range. Creation of Tables/Structures 1. Create HRI9XXX structure via SE11. Include the fields that are to be included in the info type.
2. Create HRP9XXX table via SE11. Here make sure you have the includes: a. HRIKEY b. HRIADMIN c. HRI9XXX (created in the previous step)
3. Create P9XXX table via SE11. Same includes as HRP9XXX should be added.
Creation of ABAP coding 4. Create MPXXXX00 module pool via SE38. Please do not forget to add P9XXX table into the TABLES part.
5. If no special initialization is needed, you can add a empty INIT_9XXX module into MP9XXX20 include.
6. Go to SE51 t-code. Input program name as MP9XXX00 and screen number as 2000. Select Change.
7. Press Layout button. Add relevant fields of info type. (e.g. P9XXX-ZZZZZ)
8. Go to SE38 t-code. Create MP9XXXBI module pool. Here please write down the fields that are added to info type screen.
9. Go to SE35 t-code. Create RH_INFOTYP_9XXX dialog module. Make sure to specify program name as MP9XXX00 and screen no as 1000.
10. Go to PPCI t-code. Fill info type & info type name fields. Press Create button.
Maintenance of Configuration Tables Now, we will update relevant configuration tables as provided by the log from PPCI transaction. 11. Go to SM30 transaction Table/view name T777D. Maintain. Press New Entries button.
12. Go to SM30 transaction Table/view name T778T. Maintain. Press New Entries button.
Create the following entry.
13. Go to SM30 transaction Table/view name T77ID. Maintain. Press New Entries button.
14. Go to SM30 transaction Table/view name T77OA. Maintain. Press New Entries button.
15. Go to SM30 transaction Table/view name T777M. Maintain. Press New Entries button.
16. Maintain T778U if info type is to have subtypes. (subtype texts will be automatically saved into T777U) 17. Maintain T77NI if you selected Country specific info type in table T777D.
18. Go to transaction SOBJ - Piece list for PDST and PDWS
Testing the Info type 19. Now info type is ready for input: a. Go to PP01. Select the object type info type is assigned to (in our case T). For a specific object select the info type from list and select Create button.
b. Info type is ready for input:
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Company: MilSOFT ICT Created on: 22 September 2010

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