SAP HCM Data Provider

Introduction

The SAP Data Providers let’s you import data from SAP HCM. It follows the sample principal as any other data provider.

The following entities are supported.

Entity	Supported

Entity	Supported
Core Identity
Employment
Employment Types
Functions
Organization Units
Resource
Resource Assignment
Role Assignment
Machine

Unlike other data provider, for the SAP HCM data provider to be working, you need to actually install something on the SAP System which exposes RFC Functions to be used. Please follow the following instructions:

How-to Install the CoreOne SAP Module on a SAP system

Connection Info

For all entity parts you need to specify the connection information which contains the following parameters.

Parameter	Mandatory	Example	Description

Parameter	Example	Description
Host	SAPHOST01	The SAP host
System Number	00	The system number
System ID	ERP	The system ID
User	cos_sap_service	The user to connect with
Password	* * * * * * * *	The users password
Client	800	The client to be used
Language	DE	The language to connect with Some of the return values of some of the data will depend on the language that you choose here.

HcmFilter

The HcmFilter object let’s you filter the data within SAP so that you only synchronise the objects that meet the filters configuration.

Filter	Description

Filter	Description
`PersonalAreaCode`	Selects only employees that match any of the specified personal area codes
`OrganizationalUnitRoots`	Selects only employee or employment that have an active employment below the the specified root items.
`ExcludePositionIds`	This let’s you exclude employees, employments or functions that have an employment on any of the specified positions. You can use this for example to exclude all the employees that are parked on the sap `9999999`position.
`ExcludeOrganizationalUnitIds`	This let’s you exclude employments that contain a specified organizational unit.
`ExcludePositionsIdRanges`	This let’s you exclude employees, employments on any of the specified positions. You can define a range of PostionIds that you want to exclued with in de format Low to High.

PropertiesToLoad

The list of HcmFieldDefinitions that need to be loaded whereas each HcmFieldDefinitions has the following parameters:

Parameter	Mandatory	Description

Parameter	Mandatory	Description
`InfoType`		The info type where the property is stored on if it’s not a standard info type
`TableName`		The table the data is stored on i.e. `PERSONAL_DATA`.
`SubTypeColumnName`
`SubTypeColumnValue`		The colum name on the subtype i.e. `STREETANDHOUSENO`
`FieldName`		The field on the table i.e. `PERNO` see also the `StandardHcmFields`for all SAP default fields.
`TableType`		Either `Simple`, `Sub` or `Xml`

SubTypeColumnName

All the default SAP values are available in the StandardHcmFields definition so you do not need to be bothered with the specifics below. This documentation is more for real advanced and complex configurations.

Some data within SAP is stored on a dedicated table with a specific column like the perno on the PERSONAL_DATA table shown below:

Those regular table are for example:

ORG_ASSIGNMENT
PERSONAL DATA

Other data is stored in a table that has a specific record for said data indicated by a SubTypeColumnName and a SubTypeColumnValue. For the example if you would like to read the street address of an employee his would be “SUBTYPE” as the SubTypeColumnName and “1” as the SubTypeColumnValue and “STREETANDHOUSENO” as the FieldName as shown below.

Those tables with subtypes are for example:

ADDRESS
COMMUNICATION

SAP Info Types

With the CoreOne SAP Connector you can read all InfoTypes by using the /ITSENSE/EMPLOYEE_GETINFOTYPE function. This function is only called when a non-standard InfoType is used. In most cases all needed information can be loaded with the standard functions. Those functions only access the following InfoTypes:

What	Info Type

What	Info Type
Organizational Assignment	Infotype 0001
Personal Data	Infotype 0002
Addresses	Infotype 0006
Communication	Infotype 0105