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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 arestructured in the same way.

There are also different data clusters, which contain data from specific processing steps, suchas 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

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Bank Details

Organization Assignment

Infotypes are information units in the Human Capital Management system. Groups of relateddata fields are bundled into infotypes.

Infotypes structure information, facilitate data entry, and allow data to be saved for specificperiods. 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 Assignment0001, Personal Data 0002, and PayrollStatus 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 validityperiod 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 otherin terms of time.

Several infotypes have subtypes that break down information further. For example, the addresstypes for the infotypeAddress 0006 represent the subtypes.

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

Constraint 3

Constraint 2

Constraint 1

Employee Hiring Date 9999

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