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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
16.0pt'>I wrote yesterday of a problem we are having concerning the launching
of secondary methods on a task. Since I did have some feedback from the group,
and since we have further isolated the issue, I thought I would share here what
we believe is a more specific description. We have submitted the following as a
problem report to SAP – when it is resolved, I’ll share the
solution as well…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
16.0pt'>…Mike<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
16.0pt'>We have a workflow exhibiting a problem that, after much unlayering,
can be distilled as follows.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=5 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>A variable of type string exists in the <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>work flow container</span></b>, and its parameters are
set for import/export.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=5 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>A variable of type string exists in the
task <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>container</span></b>, and its parameters
are set for import/export.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=5 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>An ABAP Object method is called by the
task and it manipulates the string.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=5 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>The task can be called repetitively.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=5 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>The string is always bound from the
workflow container, to the task container, to the method, manipulated, and
passed back to the task container and the workflow container as would be
expected.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>This all works fine.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Additionally, we have implemented a
secondary method on the task which displays an image.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
16.0pt'>While the string processing continues to work well, we have found that
our secondary method does not execute if our character string is more than 255
characters in length. If the string is less than 255, the image launch works
fine.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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