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In this blog, you can see the procedures to configure the E-Recruitment component in such a way that the external applicants can access the e-recruitment web applications over internet, so thatthe entire recruiting procedure would be accelerated and your company and external applicants both profit. Using these Web applications, companies can publish job advertisements on theInternet, process online applications and applicants can monitor the processing status of their applications via Internet.
Activities in SAP E-Recruiting – External Candidates
The external candidate is a non-employee or ex-employee of the company. The external candidates perform the following activities.For performing the above mentioned activities by external candidates, the corresponding web applications should have been exposed and the external users should have the
P_RCF_APPL
authorization object. For searching for vacancies, the TREX engine with FUZZY search needs to be installed and the documents should have been indexed.
System Landscape
The ERP system has been separated from the internet users with a firewall and DM zone, so that the external candidates can access the e-recruitment web applications residing on the ERP systemonly through ISA reverse proxy server. In this way, the direct access to the ERP system can be avoided and can make the system more secure while accessing web applications via internet.
Prerequisites
1) On the ECC system, you should have checked your systems technical settings to ensure that the system would run properly.2) System Parameters in E-Recruiting should have been maintained properly.3) Communication Interface (SMTP mail server and port details) should have been configured properly.4) User Administration (Creation of User Profiles, Creation of User Groups, and Creation of Special Users - service user with role SAP_RCF_CONTENT_SERVER to enable documents of thedocument area to be accessed and another service user with user role SAP_RCF_UNREGISTERED_CANDIDATE to enable unregistered user to use the necessary services) should have been doneproperly.5) External candidates should have the authorization objects, P_RCF_APPL, P_RCF_STAT, and P_RCF_ACT for performing the above mentioned activities.6) Different communication destinations required for E-Recruiting should have been maintained via SPRO.7) TREX engine with FUZZY search should be installed and all the post installation steps should have been performed (Activating Python Extensions).
E-Recruitment Web Enablement
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SAP Global Delivery, BangalorePosted on Aug. 28, 2008 12:28 AM in Application Server,Beyond SAP,ERP
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8) ISA Server 2006 should be installed and should have been moved to DM zone for reverse proxy configurations.
Steps to be performed
The different steps to be performed are,1) Connecting TREX with an ABAP Application (RFC Connection)2) Set up of Search Engine for E-Recruiting3) Generate URLs for E-Recruiting Web Applications for External Candidates.4) Configure Reverse Proxy for the Web enablement of E-Recruiting Web Applications
1) Connecting TREX with an ABAP Application (RFC Connection)
To configure the search functionality for E-Recruitment, we need to create RFC destinations on the ECC system using TREX Admin Tool. As a rule, ABAP Applications communicate with the TREXServers by means of the TREX ABAP Client using RFC/SNC protocol. Communication takes place using an instance of the SAP gateway and an RFC Server.
1.1 Run TREX Admin Tool
Based on the TREX installation platform, we need to execute either TREXAdmin.bat or TREXAdmin.sh to open the TREX Admin Tool. In our case, installation platform is AIX and the script for TREX Admin can be executed as depicted below. We can see the TREXAdmin.sh file in the following path -:
/usr/sap/<System ID>/TRX01/
The shell script for TREX Admin Tool can be triggered like this, (make sure that you are already in the above mentioned directory and your user has got enough permissions to execute the adminscript. It is recommended to login with the <System ID>adm user, for eg: If system ID is TP1, then the user id is
tp1adm
)
./TREXAdmin.sh
1.2 Create New SAP System Connection
First step is to create new SAP system connection using TREX Admin Tool. For this, in the TREX Admin Tool,
Click on link RFC -> then choose “Create Connection”.
You need to mention the ECC system and client details here. Under logon data, you can see the mentioned user, which is “
TREX_ADMIN
”. The prerequisite is that, this user should have “
SAP_BC_TREX_ADMIN”
role attached on ECC system. (The user has the necessary authorization for secure use of the TREX Admin Tool in the SAP System).
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1.3 Set SAP System Logon Data
If you have not mentioned the logon data while creating the SAP System connection, you can edit the details later. For this,
Click on RFC-> Edit: Logon Data.
1.4 Create New RFC Destination in SAP System
This step is basically for creating
TREXDEFAULT_REG
and
TREXDEFAULT_START
RFC destinations on the SAP System. These two destinations are mandatory for configuring the Search ServerRelation (SSR) on the SAP R/3 system.
Click RFC-> Create: RFC Destination (sm59)
. After saving these entries, you would be able to see the above mentioned destinations in the menu tree for RFC Destinations under TCP/IP Connection on ECC system.
2) Set Up Search Engine for E-Recruiting
Search Engine for E-Recruiting should be configured properly if you want to use the search functions for candidate data, job posting and so on. For external candidates, they should be able tosearch for available vacancies and for Recruiter; he/she has to search for candidates from the Talent Pool.
2.1 Set up access to documents
You set up access to the contentserver service of the SAP E-Recruiting system. This enables users to access documents of the document area HR_KW (Document Storage for HR Objects). Attachments, search profiles, and so on, are stored in this document repository. The communication user
RCF_CONTENT
with role “
SAP_RCF_CONTENT_SERVER
” should have beencreated.
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