<div>Hi Jocelyn, </div>
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<div>Thank you for your guidance, this makes a lot of sense now, Will talk and explain about the functionality of UWL,</div>
<div>Based on your response seems like we can accomplish a lot with UWL config.</div>
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<div>They just wanted to see more custom screen with key info about the request when they go in as the Approver/Reviewer into portal,</div>
<div>and not the UWL, but if we can modify the columns and the restrict the type of request, shd be able to convince them.</div>
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<div>Appreciate your Input.</div>
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<div>Thank you</div>
<div>Lalitha</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/8/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dart, Jocelyn</b> <<a href="mailto:jocelyn.dart@sap.com">jocelyn.dart@sap.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Sorry Lalitha - But WHY are you reinventing the wheel here? </font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">If it's a question of separating out a particular group of requests you can do that with the UWL configuration - e.g. have a "request type A" UWL page and put that wherever you want in the portal.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">If it's a question of showing sufficient information you can use the UWL configuration to tailor the columns you want to show. </font></span>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">If it's a question of mass approval - you can use the UWL configuration to do that as well. </font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Even if it's a question of hiding unwanted tabs / buttons you can do that with the config also. </font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">If there's some other issue they have raised let us know and we'll let you know if there's a way around it. </font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Based on your description you are literally reinventing the UWL here - you might want to seriously consider talking your customer out of this.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">One of the most important responsiblities of any consultant is to provide good guidance to their customers - which includes talking them out of dumb ideas.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">You could spend weeks developing this, instead of a day's worth of UWL config - what a tragic, tragic waste! And that's before we even start on Total Cost of Ownership issues.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Please, please, reconsider. </font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Arial" size="1">Regards,</font></span> <br><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000080" size="1">Jocelyn Dart</font></b></span> <br><span lang="en-us">
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sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lalitha Sankaran<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 09 January 2008 8:05 AM<br><b>To:</b> SAP Workflow Users' Group<br><b>Subject:</b> Portal Integration with WF<br></font><br>
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<div>Hi All,</div>
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<div>We are trying to develop a custom tool for portal,</div>
<div>and are planning to use WF for the Approval process,</div>
<div> </div>
<div>They want the ability for the Approver to approve the Request without going into</div>
<div>the UWL .</div>
<div>The approver screen basically contains a list of all the pending requests, by clicking on which</div>
<div>he will see more details of the individual request, which he can then decide to approve or reject.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>So now when he clicks on Approve button(custom screen) , am not sure how to link it to the Workitem or</div>
<div>WF .So how would he be able to execute the WI ?</div>
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<div>Is there a way to execute a WI from the portal.</div>
<div>will it need any config ?</div>
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<div>Appreciate any input, am not a portal person, so any input to understand the process is appreciated.</div>
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<div>Thank you</div>
<div>Lalitha</div>
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