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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=#0000ff size=2>Gregory,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=#0000ff size=2> Could you
take the 2nd step Method & move it into the 1st Step as an
After execution Secondary Method?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Jeffrey A. Rappaport<BR>Business Workflow, LLC<BR>Voice: (732)
355-0123<BR>Fax: (509) 757-4144<BR>Email: <A
href="mailto:Jeff@Business-Workflow.com">Jeff@Business-Workflow.com</A><BR>Web:
<A href="http://www.Business-Workflow.com">www.Business-Workflow.com</A></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Gregory.Utley@citrix.com
href="mailto:Gregory.Utley@citrix.com">Gregory Utley</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=sap-wug@mit.edu
href="mailto:sap-wug@mit.edu">sap-wug@mit.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:49
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Synchronous Dialog Chains and
the UWL</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">All,</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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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