How to Add addl approval levels to Salary Change in MSS

by psft_dude Tue May 02, 2006 7:00 pm There is a requirement where we had to add additional approval levels for base pay in MSS in HCM 8.9. Currently PSFT has delivered one approval level, so if a manager gives an increase to a team member the request goes to his immediate boss but now I wanted to add another approval level so that it goes to next level. The Approval Rule set is (HR_SALCHANGE), so I wanted to check if anyone has added any levels to any of the MSS transactions and also does the delivered business process workflow authomatically recognizes the additional approval level or do we have to modify the delivered workflow. Any help is greatly appreciated...

psft_dude Posts: 7 Joined: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:55 pm Top

Found a solution for this, so thought I would post it

by psft_dude Mon May 15, 2006 7:13 pm After doing some research I found out that there is an hidden table called 'ps_ss_adm_rulestp', unfortunately PSFT did not deliver a front end panel in order to include a step here. So when we add a step in the approval rule set, the system was looking for a row in this table too. So I inserted a row from back end giving the right step number and stuff and it started working. So what it means is we still have to modify the approval rule set, add the new step, write pcode in the save edit to populate the next level supervisor id, and we can use the delivered derived work records emplid_t01 thru emplid_t09, use one of these fields, using pcode we can populate the next level supervisor id and we should insert a row in the hidden table and the existing workflow will automatically start triggering to the next level. So changes are required. So thought you will put this in the customer connection so that it would be helpful for others....

This is how we modified this table at our company TRANSACTION_NAME S APPR_RULE_SET EFFDT APP APP A S

HR_SALCHANGE 1 HR_SALCHANGE 01-JAN-00 1 A N Y HR_SALCHANGE 1 HR_SALCHANGE 01-JAN-00 2 A N Y HR_SALCHANGE 1 HR_SALCHANGE 01-JAN-00 3 A Y Y

APPR_RULE_DETL Approval Rule Defn Details APPR_RULE_FIELD Approval Rule Defn Route Cntl APPR_RULE_AMT Approval Rule Amounts RTE_CNTL_LN Route Control Profile Line RTE_CNTL_RUSER RoleUser Route Cntl Profiles RTE_CNTL_TYPE Route Control Type RTE_CNTL_HDR Routing Control Type PSWORKLIST list of work items for each user PS_WF_INSTSTATUS description of the status