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font-family:Arial'>All,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>A question to all: We are soon implementing the SAP
Portal. For the most part, we’ve had no problems with workflow
applications in the portal environment, and the consolidation of agent approval
notifications in the UWL is an improvement over using system dependent SBWP
inboxes.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The one major downside for workflow in the portal (specifically
the UWL) is the loss of “synchronous dialog chain” processing (OSS
Notes 794439 and 487649). The standard SAP travel expense workflow
depends upon a two-step approval process (approve, then update the employee
master) via workflow. With the loss of synchronous dialog processing, the
“update” step goes into READY status in the UWL instead of just
executing automatically as it did before. The bottom line: the approver
must approve twice.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I wrote a program that will run periodically in background
to identify these READY update tasks and trigger them. This solves the
problem (the approver only approves once), but it’s not an optimum
solution since it leaves the update task in the approver’s UWL inbox
until the background program runs.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If anyone else has run into this problem and solved it in a
more efficient way, I’d love to hear from you.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Greg Utley</span></font></b></strong></p>
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style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>SAP Development Team</span></font></b></strong></p>
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