Switching from Old Appraisal System to Management By Objective (MBO)

[Former Member]

Dear fellow practitioners,

I have a requirement to switch or migrate from the OLD appraisal system to the NEW appraisal system (MBO).

Does anyone have any information of the implications of switching the value of REPLA in T77SO from blank to 'A' or 'X' when the old appraisal system is already configured previously and is to be replaced by the new appraisal system with similar business requirements?

There is an existing appraisal catalog configured for the old appraisal system. How do I migrate the Appraisal Models in the Appraisal Catalog of the OLD Appraisal system to the NEW Appraisal Catalog in MBO?

I have not been able to find much information with regards to this. Therefore, many thanks in advance to anyone who can shed some light or provide some references to this matter.

[sarah_debza · Accepted solution]

Hello,

have a look at note 728542

It was planned to use the switch to replace the appraisal functionality in only one of the applications; technically it's turned out, this was not possible.

For using the usual functionality for appraisals in training and event management (TEM), HAP00 REPLA has to be set to space.

All other settings: X, T, A will cause problems.The reason is that many transactions of TEM delegate work to the central appraisal component and there the swith to MBO functionality is done (in the case X, T and A).

It is however possible to use MBO functionality for personnel appraisals. The transactions of MBO have to be used 'directly'.

These transactions are not part of the menu but can be added to the favorites list.

PHAP_ADMIN_PA

PHAP_CHANGE_PA

PHAP_CREATE_PA

PHAP_PREPARE_PA

PHAP_SEARCH_PA

PHAP_CATALOG_PA

There is no recommended way to load historical appraisal data. You will have to write a customer-specific program for this purpose.

It depends on your specific requirements whether you really need the data in R/3. For example, if you need the data for reporting, it may be easier to load the legacy data directly into BW. If you need them for program logic, e.g. to default values for new appraisals, you could consider loading the data into a customer table and read that table in your implementation of an appropriate user exit.

Hope this help

Sarah