Question { TCS, 6107 }

What are info type groups? Why do you use it? Where do you
use it?

Answer

The infotype group (commonly known as infogroup) guarantees
that during the personnel action, all information needed
for the business processes is stored. The infogroup is
processed when you perform a personnel action. - An
infogroup exists in the standard system for every personnel
action type. - In Customizing for Personnel Administration,
you can tailor the make-up of the various infogroups to the
requirements of your company. - You can define infogroups
as user-group dependent. Infogroups are used in Personnel
Actions to define a set of sequencial infotypes that you
would be using while performing an action. For example,
when you hire, you would want to use
IT0000,0001,0002,0006,0007,0008 etc in a sequence- in a
particular order. So define an Infogroup for this purpose
which contains all these infotypes, their order of
execution and the user groups it is applicable for. Then
you assign this infogroup to the action that you had
defined.