Maintain Master Data Application: Short Profile Customization

My old blogs gives a decent introduction on the “Maintain Master Data” application. In this blog, I would like to walk through simple configuration steps to hide/rename fields in the “Short Profile” without any development (no copying of screens needed).

Quick Background

Maintain Master Data Application lets HR Administrators maintain employee related information. On loading any employee/position/organizational unit, an overview (for quick understanding) of selected organizational entity is displayed through “Short Profile” information. Information from various infotypes can be displayed in this short profile. For e.g. Employee Short profile displays information like Employee Group, Employee Subgroup, Personnel Area, Organizational Unit, Email, Telephone Number and Cell Number.

Configuration Options provided

SAP has provided us a very decent way to configure the information that can be displayed in the Short Profile.

“Create Configuration for Data Retrieval” allows us to define a “Configuration” that groups all related fields together. Please find the list of SAP delivered configurations below -

And for each configuration, we have a bunch of fields linked as shown below -

You can easily remove/rename fields of this configuration to have this reflected in the Short Profile.

Question!!!

How can we identify the Configuration that is linked to the Maintain Master Data’s Short Profile?

It goes in two steps –

Step 1:

Identify the Short Profile related Web Dynpro Configuration using the following configuration node –

The list of Web Dynpro Configuration names (Screen names) can be easily identified based on different object types:

Step 2:

Identify the configuration linked to this Short profile screen. Open the above identified screen (in technical terms it’s called as ‘Component Configuration’) from SE80 transaction:

Click on General Settings – Feeder Class Parameters to get the “Configuration ID”.

On getting the Configuration ID, you may go back to configuration node: “Create Configurations for Data Retrieval” to add/rename fields as needed.

To simplify everyone’s life, I am putting together the Screen and Short Profile Configuration ID details for all object types:

In my next blog, I shall list the steps needed to add new fields to the short profile screen.

That's all for today !