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<DIV><SPAN class=019521208-06122001><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In
addition to Bruce's contribution, make sure you create a new archive file for
the run, and then you can just delete the archive file from the server and the
information is gone for good.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=019521208-06122001><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Stephan</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Pollard, Bruce
[mailto:bruce.pollard@sap.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 05, 2001
11:44 PM<BR><B>To:</B> SAP-WUG@MITVMA.MIT.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Delete
all Workflow Information for Object<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=312523522-05122001>Brad,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=312523522-05122001>SAP
Best practices is to ARCHIVE workitems instead of a DELETION.
Archiving Workitems does actually delete them from all applicable tables
(header, item, agents, etc) but it is a safe and efficient way
of managing workitems in your system. If you delete them
direct with Trans SWWL or with the Function Modules that gets called, you may
end up with a situation like your current one, where part of the
information is still around.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
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Transaction "SARA" - Data Archiving can be found under the menu path Tools /
Business Workflow / Administration / Workflow Runtime / Re-organization /
SARA. The Archiving object is "WORKITEM" (F4 search shows the entire
list). If you are not comfortable with archiving, you may find some
documentation in SAP's Web repository or a number of formal archive training
avenues are available.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=312523522-05122001>Bruce Pollard,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=312523522-05122001>SAP Business Integration Technology
Instructor</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=312523522-05122001>ALE, EDI, Workflow, Data
Archiving</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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class=312523522-05122001></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=312523522-05122001> </SPAN>-----Original
Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Schroeter, Brad
[mailto:BSchroeter@ti.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:20
PM<BR><B>To:</B> SAP-WUG@MITVMA.MIT.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Delete all Workflow
Information for Object<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've got an object which has 3 workflows associated
with it: the first 2 have completed and the last one is in process. What
is the easiest way to delete all workflow information associated with this
object (i.e. work items, etc.) so that nobody would be able to tell the object
was ever processed by Workflow in the first place. After the workflow
information is deleted, the actual object is going to be deleted. I
tried function module SWP_WORKFLOW_INSTANCE_DELETE - this deleted all of the
work items under the 3 higher level work items, but the 3 higher level work
items actually still exist in the system (they're in SWWWIHEAD while the
others aren't). We're on 4.0B.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Brad</FONT> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>