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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks Alon, but that won’t work. I
can force the workflow into ERROR status, but I can’t change the status
of the last step that executed because it has already completed. The SWPR
restart results in a runtime error while trying to find the individual workitem
in ERROR status; there is none. Again, in earlier versions, modification
of the callback flag would allow a restart in a step that has already
completed. Anyone know how to do it in SRM 4.0?</span></font></p>
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sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Alon Raskin<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 29, 2005
6:16 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'SAP Workflow Users' Group'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: Workflow Restart
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Why not
just force the status of the WF into ERROR (WORKITEM.SetStatus) and then
go to SWPR and restart them?</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Alon Raskin</span></font></b></strong></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>e: </span></font></b></strong><a
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>p: +1 207 409 4983
(please note new number)</span></font></b></strong></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>f: +61 3 8610 1239 </span></font></b></strong></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu
[mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of
</span></b>Gregory Utley<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 28, 2005
5:51 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> SAP Workflow Users' Group<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Workflow Restart after
System Problem</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>All,</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Over the weekend, we experienced
tablespace errors during which several workflows stopped running. These
workflows are not in error status – they simply stopped with the last
executed step in COMPLETED status without triggering a subsequent step.
All lights are green – no messages. The tablespace problems were
resolved; workflows in process before and after the problem occurred are
running normally or have completed successfully.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I’ve done as complete a search
of the WUG archives as I can and have unearthed one message that seems to
precisely mimic the problem described above (although it was posted a few years
back). After several responses from different participants, Jocelyn
finally recommended contacting OSS, so I’m not optimistic that there is a
quick solution to this one. But again, the message is dated, and
we’re now running the current version of SRM in the portal. There
may now be more options.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I’ve tested all SAP_WAPI
funmods that look appropriate (workitem execute, resume, restart, etc.) but
none will restart the workflows. The common complaint from the programs
is that the last step that executed is COMPLETED and not in ERROR status.
I’ve also tried transactions SWIA and SWPC to no avail.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Back in the old days, we could
execute SWP_WORKITEM_CALLBACK_REPEAT, reset the callback flag, and the workflow
would restart. I have a note that SAP_WAPI_ADM_WORKFLOW_RESUME replaces
SWP_WORKITEM_CALLBACK_REPEAT in SRM, but it doesn’t appear to be as flexible
in terms of resetting completion status or in which step to affect the
restart. (Bear in mind that I need a step-restart. If I do a
workflow restart, I lose all interim approvals.)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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