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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Yes, I have. The underlying problem
is that the last step of the workflow is in COMPLETED status and the next step
was never triggered. I tried the RESUME wapi, restarting in the last step
without success. Until I saw your note, I had not tried executing RESUME
against the workitem id of the workflow itself. (I assumed RESUME applied
to the step to be restarted.) Anyway, I tried it against the top workflow
workitem id, and it appears to work fine – some of the time. (Some
wf’s go to completion; stop stop with unusual errors.)</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I haven’t had the time to analyze the
errors completely, but you put me on the right track. RESUME should be
executed against the workflow, not the individual task step.</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>Dart, Jocelyn<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 08, 2005
3:04 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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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>SAP_WAPI_ADM_WORKFLOW_RESUME should
do a step restart by default ... - i.e. it should find the
step to restart in your WF instance on its own - have you tried it?</span></font></p>
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[mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of
</span></b>Stephens, Monique S L<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 08 December 2005
7:18 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
after System Problem</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We had a somewhat similar
problem when WF-BATCH was accidentally deleted in our SRM system. All
carts could not continue the workflow process. We actually ran SWU2 for
that specific date and executed the LUWs. Don’t know if this will
help your situation.</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>Gregory Utley<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 07, 2005
1:53 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> RE: Workflow Restart
after System Problem</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sorry for the response
delay. I’ve been out of the office.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size: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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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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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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:1.0in'><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:1.0in'><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:1.0in'><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:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>It’s a dilemma.</span></font></p>
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color:navy'>Greg Utley</span></font></b></strong></p>
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