Extra Information Types

The Extra Information Types or EITs are DFFs attached to six very important entities that help us capture extra information, that are not available in our tables. It is kind of a DFF. Now, the question, why something called an EIT is introduced, if there was a concept of DFF already there?

• EITs are stored in different tables, where as DFFs are stored in the same very base table. So any changes the base table, creates extra rows for DFFs, but EITs stay intact, making it more normalized.
• EITs do not store historical information, neither are they date tracked. So any information which is static (data that hardly changes) can be put in EITs and others in DFF.
• EITs are enabled at the responsibility level, enhancing the data security a lot better than the way DFFs do.

EITs in HRMS are given to only six entities:

• People
• Assignments
• Job
• Position
• Location
• Organization

Steps to create EIT (Extra Information Type)

Step1:

Decide in which form u want to create a structure, go to that particular form and get the DFF or EIT name. For Eg: If I want to create a new EIT in people form , go to 

US HRMS Manager >> Enter & Maintain >> Search employee >> Others >> extra Information

Get the name of the DFF on top of the form

Step 2:

Go to DFF creation form 

System Administrator >> Application >> Flex Field >> Descriptive >> Segments

and search Extra Person Information and create a new structure and segments under this

Step 3: 

Register this EIT by running 'Register Extra Information Types' concurrent program.

US HRMS Manager and run the concurrent program.

Step 4: US HRMS Manager >> Security >> Information Types Security

Select the responsibiity from where u want to see the EIT which u created.