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<p>Hi,<br>
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>From what I have seen once a business object (E.g. BUS2009) is instantiated we can call other business objects (e.g. in my case Z_STD_ROLE) and it methods (ROLE90000005) without any problem but if the business in not instantiated. This is within a workflow itself.<br>
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My problem is that I just want to call method ROLE9000005 of business object Z_STD_ROLE on it own and it does not work. This is want to do via a function module.<br>
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<font color="#0000FF" face="Arial">Nat,</font><br>
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<font color="#0000FF" face="Arial">Not sure I'm 100% following what you are saying. If you call a method from within the object itself you do not need to instantiate the object because it is already instantiated, you use the reserved word SELF. If you are calling a method from a different business object OR from an independent ABAP program you must first instantiate the object.</font><br>
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<font color="#0000FF" face="Arial">The exception to both these statements is if you are calling an instance independent (static) method. In this case you never need to instantiate the object as this is the purpose of a static method.</font><br>
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<p><font size="4">Hi ,<br>
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When we call the method of a business object within any business object it works but this is done without instanciating a BO at all.<br>
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Does this make any difference?<br>
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>From a quick glance everything looks okay generically. I'd recommend some good old debugging. Hit F5 to step into the method calls. Just make sure the containers are getting passed properly and see if you are hitting any exceptions. Your technique for calling the method is correct, just do some debugging to figure out why your not getting results back in the container.</font><font size="4"><br>
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<p><font size="5">Hi Seth,<br>
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This is our code but we are not getting any results.<br>
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INCLUDE</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> <cntn01> .</font><font size="5" color="#0000FF" face="Courier New"><br>
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DATA</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> : o_role </font><font size="5" color="#0000FF" face="Courier New">TYPE</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> swc_object.</font><font size="5" color="#0000FF" face="Courier New"><br>
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DATA</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> : rule_agents </font><font size="5" color="#0000FF" face="Courier New">TYPE</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> wfsyst-agent </font><font size="5" color="#0000FF" face="Courier New">OCCURS</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> </font><font size="5" color="#4181FF" face="Courier New">0</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> </font><font size="5" color="#0000FF" face="Courier New">WITH</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> </font><font size="5" color="#0000FF" face="Courier New">HEADER</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> </font><font size="5" color="#0000FF" face="Courier New">LINE</font><font size="5" face="Courier New">.<br>
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swc_container b_container.<br>
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swc_create_object o_role </font><font size="5" color="#3F803F" face="Courier New">'Z_STD_ROLE'</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> </font><font size="5" color="#3F803F" face="Courier New">'AC90000005'</font><font size="5" face="Courier New">.<br>
swc_set_element b_container </font><font size="5" color="#3F803F" face="Courier New">'Plant'</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> ip_plant.<br>
swc_set_element b_container </font><font size="5" color="#3F803F" face="Courier New">'MaterialGroup'</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> ip_mat_grp.<br>
swc_call_method o_role </font><font size="5" color="#3F803F" face="Courier New">'Role90000005'</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> b_container.<br>
swc_get_table b_container </font><font size="5" color="#3F803F" face="Courier New">'ActorTab'</font><font size="5" face="Courier New"> rule_agents.</font><font size="5"><br>
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The key for BOR Z_STD_ROLE is HRS1203-OTYPE and HRS1203-OBJID.</font><font size="5"><br>
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This is the input paramters for the method of BOR S_STD_ROLE.</font><font size="5"><br>
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This is the code for the method role90000005<br>
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begin_method role90000005 changing container. <br>
swc_set_objectkey 'AC90000005'. <br>
swc_call_method self 'ResolveRole' container. <br>
CASE sy-subrc. <br>
WHEN 1001. <br>
exit_return 9001 sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4. <br>
WHEN 1002. <br>
exit_return 9002 sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4. <br>
WHEN 1003. <br>
exit_return 9003 sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4. <br>
WHEN 1004. <br>
exit_return 9004 sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4. <br>
ENDCASE. <br>
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Nat,<br>
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This is very simple to do. Create your RFC, then inside the RFC use the BOR macros to instantiate the business object and call your method. Something like below.<br>
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data lv_obj type swc_object.<br>
data: begin of lt_container occurs 0,<br>
include structure swcont.<br>
data: end of lt_container.<br>
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swc_create_object lv_obj 'your_obj_name' objkey.<br>
swc_call_method lv_obj 'your_method_name' lt_container.<br>
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You can use swc_set_element to set any import parameters in lt_container before calling the method then use swc_get_element to read any export parameters after calling the method. Syntax is swc_get_element lt_container 'your_param_name' lv_variable.<br>
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Hope this helps.<br>
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<p><font size="6">Hi All,<br>
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I would like to know if it is possible to create a function module (remote) that can access one of our methods of the business object.<br>
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If so can you please advise how to go about to do that. I am not a ABAPer.<br>
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