Understanding Self Service Menu Functions

In Self Service you define two menu function for accessing the same process from within ESS and MSS menus. The ESS function allows users to perform actions on the person assigned to the logged in user. Whereas the MSS equivalent of the function allows managers to perform actions on a people in their reporting hierarchy.

The ESS function includes information about the workflow, AME and other process related details. The workflow controls the sequence of screen available in the process and AME (if enabled) manages the Approval logic for the function.

The MSS function on itself only displays the Employee Hierarchy page. It needs to be associated to an ESS function, which controls the underlying process flow and approval management. It only includes a reference to the ESS function that controls the process.

All properties of the functions are controlled by the parameter values defined in the function definition. You can control the process by changing the value of any of the parameters. For e.g. if you want to change the underlying workflow for a process, simply change the value of parameter pProcessName in the ESS function definition to view the changes. Similarly, for a MSS function, changing the value of parameter pManagerEnabled to N would prevent manager to perform action on their own records. Every parameter has a specific role and its very intuitive to guess the utility of the parameter.

It took me a while to understand on how SSHR functions behave. These details should certainly help you to understand SSHR functions. I will later explain how you can define a custom process in SSHR and include it SSHR menus.