Infotypes in Personnel Administration

Data structures in HCM are a combination of master data, transaction data, and results data. The master data of Personnel Administration, Time Management, and Personnel Planning are structured in the same way. There are also different data clusters, which contain data from specific processing steps, such as time events on the cluster, PCL1, or accounting results on the cluster, PCL2. The infotypes are grouped into different number ranges, nnnn:  0000 to 0999 Personnel Administration master data  1000 to 1999 Personnel Planning  2000 to 2999 Time Management  4000 to 4999 Recruitment  9000 to 9999 Customer-specific enhancements

Infotypes in Personnel Administration

Staff/Job Applicants

Address / Personal Data Family Working Time

Bank Details Organization Assignment

Infotypes are information units in the Human Capital Management system. Groups of related data fields are bundled into infotypes. Infotypes structure information, facilitate data entry, and allow data to be saved for specific periods. Infotypes serve as templates for users to enter data. From a database point of view, infotypes provide a data structure and a set of coherent data records. The infotypes, Actions 0000, Organizational Assignment 0001, Personal Data 0002, and Payroll Status 0003 are the prerequisites to enter a personnel or applicant number. Save the infotypes at intervals to build up an infotype history. The system stores a validity period for each infotype record. As a result, several data records normally exist for each infotype of an employee, and each record has a different validity period. You use a time constraint to determine how the data records of an infotype react to each other in terms of time. Several infotypes have subtypes that break down information further. For example, the address types for the infotype Address 0006 represent the subtypes.

Constraint 1 Constraint 2 Constraint 3

Employee Hiring Date

9999

Each infotype and subtype has a time constraint. Time constraint 1: Complete saving with no overlaps at any time, which means one valid data record of the relevant infotype must exist during the duration of the employees tenure at the company. Time constraint 2: Incomplete saving without overlaps at any time, which means an infotype may exist at a given time. No more than one valid data record of the infotype can exist at any given time. Time constraint 3: Incompleteness and overlaps permitted, which means any number of valid data records of an infotype may exist at any given time.