BusinessEventtype

The business object business event type is a grouping together
of business events that describes their very essence according to their
subject matter, their objectives, and how they are performed.

Example

Business event type "HR315 Recruitment"

Contents:
- Application
Recruitment process, personnel advertising, applicant master
data, optical archiving,
Applicant activities, applicant status, work processes, selection process, reporting

Applicant hiring
- Customizing

Basic settings, workforce requirements and personnel advertising, system representation of applicant

System representation of selection process, dialog controls, authorization management

Validity:
- If a business event of this type must be successfully attended before another business

event can be attended, such attendance must have occurred no longer than 2 years and 6 months ago

The following information is stored on business event type "HR315 Recruitment":

Objectives profile:
- Knowledge of the Recruitment component

- Basic knowledge of how to set up the Recruitment component

Target group description:
Business events of business event type "HR315 Recruitment" are intended for

- Personnel administrators,
- Project leaders responsible for implementing the Recruitment
component, and

- Everyone who will use the Recruitment component at their
enterprises.

Prerequisites profile:
- Attendance of a business event of business event type "HR050 Human Resources"

- Basic knowledge of how to use the R/3 System
- Basic knowledge of business processes in Recruitment

Attendance fee:
- For internal attendees: 500.00 euros
- For external attendees: 1000.00 euros

Schedule:
- According to the "SAP R/3 Customer Training" schedule

Attendance capacity:
- Optimum no. of attendees: 36
- Minimum no. of attendees: 12

- Maximum no. of attendees: 36

Organizer directory:
- SAP Customer Training, Walldorf, Germany

- M. Miller Corporate Consulting, Walldorf, Germany

Instructor pool:
- Hans Meyer, SAP Customer Training
- Susannah Schmidt, SAP, Recruitment Development

- Daniela Moore, employee at M. Miller Corporate Consulting.

Business event resource requirement:
- Instructor 1

1 extra for the first BE day
- Material per attendee
1
- Material per business event 1
- Room with PCs 1

1 extra for the first BE day

Material directory:
- Material per attendee
HR315 training materials

The contents of the "HR315 training materials" are specified
(in Materials Management) by a material BOM:

- 1 HR315 training file
- 1 pen
- 1 notebook

- 1 name tag
- Material per business event
HR315 slide file

Cost specification:
- Costs for
Training materials 15.00 euros/attendee

- Cost of meals 15.00 euros/attendee/day

Cost assignment:
- Cost center 1691901111 "SAP R/3 Customer Training"

Billing information:
- Responsible sales area:
SAP Walldorf, direct sales for all SAP products

- Material grouping - account determination: R/3 customer training

Allocatable activity types:
- Instructor activity
- Attendance

Available Methods

• GetDetailedList : Object List With Detailed Information [ BAPI_PDOTYPES_GETDETAILEDLIST ]
  

GetEventList

You can use this method to display a list of business event dates for a given business event type within a givenselection period.

Example

You can display all dates scheduled for the business event type
English Courses for the current month.

Notes

By specifying a language, you can restrict your selection tobusiness event dates that are held in the language in question.

By specifying a location, you can restrict your selection tobusiness event dates that are held at the location in question.

GetInfo

You use this method to retrieve various types of information about a business event type. This information might include:

1. a description of the contents of the business event
2. the business event organizer
3. the business event costs and price


4. the qualifications imparted upon completion of the business event
5. the qualifications required to attend the business event, and so on.

GetListFromDescription

You can use this method to search for business event types by enteringa text string that exists in the Description infotype (1002) or the pertinent subtypes.

Example

You are looking for the business event type 'Fit in the Office'. Youenter 'Fitness' as a text term. The system finds the relevant business
event type because the description of the event contains the text string 'fitness'.

Notes

To utilize the text search function to the full, you should use as manykeywords in the description text as you think would be logically used to search for the event type.

GetListFromName

This method enables you to search for business event types usingelements of the name (text strings) that are stored in the Object infotype (1000) as the business event long or short text.

Example

You are searching for a business event type with the short name: Economics English I', and the long text: 'Business English for
Beginners'. You could enter as a text term 'Economics', 'Business', or 'English' and system finds the business event type.

Notes

You must use a wildcard (*) if you enter incomplete names or strings toindicate to the system that the search term is only part of the full
text. If you initate a generic search (for example, English*), the system lists all event types that contain the string entered.

GetListFromQualification

You use this method to find business event types that impart or presuppose the specified qualification.

Example

You enter the qualification 'good knowledge of English'. Since theindicator 'Impart' is set, the system determines all of the business
event types that impart this qualification (for example "English III").

Notes

When you set the indicator 'Impart', please consider whether you aresearching for imparted qualifications or prerequisite qualifications.
' ' = Selection of event types as prerequisite qualification
'X' = Selection of event types as imparted qualification

You enter the qualification using the ID created in the Personnel Development application component.

Further Information

For further information on prerequisite or imparted qualifications,refer to the online Help documentation for 'Create business event
type', or for the 'Procedure' infotype, or "Application Help" under 'Follow-up'.

GetListFromTarget

You can use this method to find business event types on the basis of the target group that has been defined for them.

Example

You enter the target group 'Middle Management'. The system finds allbusiness event types linked with the relevant job (representing the target group).

Notes

Target groups are related as object type 'C' (job) with business event types via the relationship A033 "is planned for".

SubtypesForDescription

You can use this method to find out what subtypes of the 'Description'infotype (1002) have been created in Customizing for Training and Event Management in the step Define subtypes for infotypes.

Further Information

For more information on subtypes and infotypes, refer to the infotype
documentation of the application and to the Application Help documentation.