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ESS Emplopyment > Phone Book question

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TBonney
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7/9/2009 3:01 PM
    To all,

    Has anyone made any edits to the information displayed in ESS under the Employment > Phone Book task?

    When you do a search, it returns the persons phone number, but also their email address. The problem is that on HR11 many of our employees either have no email address, an incorrect/outdated email address, or a default email address that is used for our internal education program.

    since so many employees would still utilize the default address, it doesn't make sense to try and "scrub" the data.

    Therefore, we wanted to simply edit the HTML for the display of the returned data on the ESS screen, if not remobing the email address altogether, at least making the email address simply be displayed instead of coming up as a link.

    Has anyone ever edited this? Thank you in advance for any insiight anyone can provide.
    Gary Davies
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    7/9/2009 6:10 PM
      I have made this type of modification for clients. Keep in mind when you go down this path that you may have to backup the html, and reapply your mods any time a patch is installed for ESS/MSS. This is a manual effort.

      That being said it is a simple change, just sometimes difficult to know where to apply it as most of self-services builds the web pages dynamically using javascript withing the HTML. The employee phonebook one is simple though and contains all the source within the HTML.

      My suggestion, if you do modify it, comment it well and document the change and have a procedure in place for reapply the change when patches are applied.
      TBonney
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      7/21/2009 5:00 PM
        Hi Gary.

        Thank you for your response. Would you be willing to provide me with more detail on the modification you made to the html to achieve this type of notification? If so, please reply to this post or to me directly at tbonney@mvnhealth.com.

        Thank you, in advance, for any assistance you might provide!
        Gary Davies
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        7/21/2009 7:42 PM
          Change

          PhoneTable += ... the "a" tag with mouse over and email address in the GetPhone function

          To:

          PhoneTable += PhoneRec.employee_email_address;

          in phonebook.htm under $WEBDIR/lawson/xhrnet
          TBonney
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          7/22/2009 3:40 PM
            Thanks for the assistance Gary! I've changed it so it simply displays their name now. Thanks again.