2661606 - “others-ratingtab-permission” vs “others-ratingtab-item-permission” - Performance Management

This article explains the differences between the “others-ratingtab-permission” and “others-ratingtab-item-permission”.

SAP Successfactors Performance Management

Tab Permission: others-rating-tab-permission

This tab is defined in meta section for Performance Management V12 Acceleration forms. It is relevant for all goal, development, and competency sections. The other's rating tab can be hidden in all relevant sections with following configuration:

<fm-meta>

...

<others-ratingtab-permission type="none"> 
            <role-name>E</role-name>

            <route-step stepid="1"/>

            <route-step stepid="2"/>

 </others-ratingtab-permission>

...

</fm-meta>

• It controls others rating tab display or non-display for all sections at once. With this configuration, the Ratings from Others tab will be hidden and the message "There are no Ratings from Others" will not be displayed.

Hide Others Rating tab in a specific section: others-rating-tab-item-permission

The others-rating-tab-item-permission defines access on a field level within the Other's Rating tab. The others-rating-tab-item-permission can be defined in each goal (objective), development, or competency sections. The following is an example of the XML code to use below the field permission.

You can further control if you want to hide the rating or/and the comment in others rating tab via "tab-item":

<objective-sect *******************>

...

<others-ratingtab-item-permission type="none">
      <role-name>*</role-name>

      <tab-item refid="item-rating"/>

      <tab-item refid="item-comment"/>

      <route-step stepid="1"/>

      <route-step stepid="2"/>
</others-ratingtab-item-permission>

...

</objective-sect>

• It controls others rating tab display / non-display for each section. 
• Although set “others-rating-tab-permission” to be none, the message "There are no Ratings from Others" can not be hidden. But, under this circumstance, if the option “Enable user experience enhancements to Performance Management forms” is enabled in "Performance Management Feature Settings", the whole tab will not be visible and the message "There are no Ratings from Others" is also not visible. (further details on this please refer to kba 3401276 - Rating from other's tab not visible when "Enable user experience enhancements to Performance Management forms" is enabled and 3493210 - Other's rating tab in section is still visible despite permissions set to none - Performance Management)

References:

• Implementing and Managing Performance Management >Configuring Form Templates Using XML >Form Permissions in XML Template >XML Example: Tab Permissions
• 3401276 - Rating from other's tab not visible when "Enable user experience enhancements to Performance Management forms" is enabled
• 2078697 - Other's Rating Tab Permissions in Performance Management
• 3322464 - Comments Not Visible From Other Users In a Performance Form
• 3493210 - Other's rating tab in section is still visible despite permissions set to none - Performance Management

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