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color:navy'>Sandy</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=2
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color:navy'>,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>What release of SAP are you using?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Is your workflow task in a branch of a Fork?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>When we upgraded from 4.7 to ECC 6.0,
workflow processing was changed. See SAP’s response below:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>An important feature of the workflow runtime system
are so-called <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> "synchronous
process chains" (advance with dialog), i.e. if there is a <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> sequence of dialog
steps to be processed by the same user, they are <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> executed as one chain
without going to the inbox in between.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> A pre-requisite for
this is the lock on the father workflow during the <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>> entire process chain.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We had forks in our workflows where different
users could be executing dialog processes (tasks) in parallel branches of the
fork at the same time. We had to move all but one of the dialog processes
into sub-workflows in order for the workflow to work without getting enqueue
errors.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Regards,</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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"Monotype Corsiva";color:green;font-weight:bold'>Sue</span></font></i></b></em></st1:PersonName><em><b><i><font
size=5 color=green face="Monotype Corsiva"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";color:green;font-weight:bold'> T. Doughty</span></font></i></b></em><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>SAP Workflow Specialist</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size=1
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>500 Old Dominion Way</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">NC</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">27360</st1:PostalCode></span></font></st1:place><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Phone: (336) 822-5189</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Toll Free (800 ) 432-6335, ext. 5189</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Email: <a
href="mailto:sue.doughty@odfl.com"><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman"'>sue.doughty@odfl.com</span></font></a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Tahoma><span 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><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Sandy</st1:place></st1:City><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, June 12, 2008 5:25
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> SAP Workflow - MIT<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Dequeue Work Item</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi All.<br>
<br>
I have workflow task that execute ABAP program via call transaction. So when
user receive work item they execute work item and bring ABAP program.<br>
Within this program user need to click certain button. When they execute
certain button, data base field get updated and need to update task container
element.<br>
<br>
The design is when work item executed, it send work item to ABAP program and do
SAP_WAPI_WRITE_CONTAINER to update container element depend on selected button.<br>
I got enqueue error message says that work item has been locked by the user it
self.<br>
It is obvious when user execute work item and transaction called, work item
still get locked.<br>
<br>
Is there any alternative to update container element of work item while work
item executed?<br>
Statement "LEAVE TO TRANSACTION" is not an option since I need to
pass parameters value when I call ABAP transaction<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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