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<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are many small
problems with workflows, but I have never before had the workflow builder
outright sabotage me.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial size=2>In one of our
workflow we have a step where the method has the "Result parameter" flag set.
All fine so far. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006></SPAN><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT
face=Arial size=2>I added another value to the domain of the result parameter
data type. Another outcome became available. Excellent.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial size=2>I removed a value
from the domain of the result parameter data type. The workflow builder was not
impressed, so I added that value to the domain again to try and disable the
outcomes before I removed the value from the outcome. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I removed the outcome from
the step I got a question about reconnecting the outcomes to the subsequent
steps. Fine, I set it up as it should be. Don't know why it bothered to ask,
because it certainly didn't pay any attention to my input. Instead it deleted
several steps that should not have been deleted, and - and this is what is
really causing problems - disconnected one outcome so that only two of the
three branches meet. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial size=2>See the
attached image.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006></SPAN> </DIV></FONT></SPAN>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial size=2>The disconnected
outcome didn't have any subsequent steps in its branch, but there are
subsequent steps that are common. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial size=2>The workflow builder set up
the disconnected outcome with same step symbol as for "Workflow complete"
so at the time I thought it was pretty clever. Obviously my brain was on
holiday, how could the software know that an outcome named "SKIP" meant that no
further action was necessary? If this was Microsoft software I would understand,
because those boys always know better than the users, but this is
SAP.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial size=2>When the step result
is "SKIP" the workflow goes into error with messages </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial size=2>WL 406 - ROLLBACK
WORK executed (SWP_CONTINUE_WITH_NEXT_NODES item 1)<BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial size=2>WL 416 - Workflow
'34711092': No successor exists for CASE node 268 with value
''</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006></SPAN> </DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial size=2>The problem is that
there is no step 268 in the workflow definition. Since the node that is in the
disconnected branch is not listed I assume it is node 268.</DIV></FONT></SPAN>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=967365710-18012006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Needless to say I
haven't found any way of reconnecting the disconnected step, and I didn't
find any OSS Notes that seemed relevant at all, nor anything in the archive for
this group. So there's nothing else to do than rebuild the workflows I suppose.
Just wondering if anyone else have had the same problem.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kjetil Kilhavn, Statoil ØFT
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