(S4)PACG 200 SP11
When the option ‘CATS’ is selected as the Person Reservation source in transaction /PACG/ECM_CPERR - Person reservation - general setting, reservations created in FSM will be reflected as CATS entries. The solution supports creation, update and deletion of reservations. See also: https://proaxia-prod-doc.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PFCC/pages/edit-v2/831848449
Integration scope
Creation
Person Reservations are saved as CATS entries with the time slot and attendance/absence type reflecting the properties from FSM. Remarks are stored as CATS short text. Full-day Person Reservations result in full-day CATS entries.
Person Reservations longer than a day result in creation of a few CATS entries, separate for each day (while FSM Person Reservation can span across a few days, CATS entries can be created only for one). These CATS entries are linked to each other in a dedicated table (/PACG/ECM_APRES), thanks to which update/deletion of a reservation in FSM will affect all the related CATS entries in SAP.
Make sure that a given Attendance/Absence Type used as a Person Reservation type allows posting of entries shorter than a day, if such will be posted in FSM. See the view V_T554S, field ‘Minimum duration’. Otherwise the posting will fail.
In certain cases, e.g. based on work schedule / planned working time customizing, SAP ECC/S4 may automatically adjust the time slot of a CATS entry (e.g. shorten it). As a consequence, the Person Reservation in FSM would be adjusted to the time slot saved in the backend. This automatic adjustment is out of FSM Cloud Connector’s control and relies purely on standard HR customizing, FSM Cloud Connector however ensures that the data created in SAP ECC/S4 is reflected in FSM.
Update
Update of a Person Reservation in FSM results in cancellation of all the related CATS entries in SAP and creation of new ones.
Deletion
Deletion of a Person Reservation in FSM results in cancellation of all the related CATS entries in SAP.
Key migration
Implementation of this solution required adjustment and simplification of the object keys generated for CATS-based reservations. If you upgraded to (S4)PACG 200 SP11 and already used the functionality of Person Reservation based on CATS entries (Automatic transfer of CATS entries as person reservations), please follow the steps described here: Migration of keys for CATS-based Person Reservations
Technical table
The table used to store data of multi-day reservations can be periodically cleared using the dedicated deletion report: /PACG/ECM_DEL_APRES - Delete table /PACG/ECM_APRES.