Maintaining HR Master Data (PA30)

Maintain HR Master Data (PA30)

The transaction PA30 is used to maintain individual infotypes. This enables you to select only one employee and only to maintain one infotype for them. For example, you can change or create Lars Becker’s place of residence. The most important processing operations are:

• Display
• Overview
• Create
• Change
• Copy

You can change existing infotype records and create new infotype records for employees. The SAP system uses this data to create a history of all the changes and developments pertaining to an employee during the period that the employee works at a company.

The create function enables you to enter new data. A new record is created while retaining the old record. The infotype history is generated by defining the validity periods.

The change function enables you to correct an existing infotype record without creating a new one. You overwrite the old one. When an infotype record is changed, its history is not updated.

You display an infotype on the screen using the display function. In display mode, you cannot process or update data.

The copy function also creates new infotype records. It also updates the infotype history. Unsuch as the Create function, you do not enter data on an empty screen, but on a screen containing the current data. You can then overwrite these values.

The delimit function enables you to delimit an existing infotype record.

The delete function enables you to delete existing infotype records from the database. If you delete infotype records with time constraint 1, the previous record is automatically extended. An infotype history is created using the definition of the validity period.

The list function is used to display an overview of all records stored for a specified infotype.

Infotype maintenance means processing data already in the system, and entering and saving new data. You can change existing records and add new records for an employee.

Infotype processing options include the following:

Change:

• You can correct an existing record without creating a new one.
• Use the change option to overwrite an existing infotype record, but not to create a new infotype record.
• Changes to infotype records are not included in the history.

Create:

• Enter new data on a blank entry screen.
• The old record, which can be delimited if necessary, remains in the system.
• Infotype history is created using the appropriate validity periods.

Copy:

• Create new infotype records.
• Enter data on an entry screen containing the currently valid data.
• Update the required fields by overwriting the existing values.
• Updates infotype history.

Delimit:

• End dates the record.

  Delete:

• Permanently deletes the record (providing the time constraint will allow)