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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hey George, Just raise a SAP message please. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It&#8217;s&nbsp; a weird one... they&#8217;ll probably want a detailed workflow trace. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If it&#8217;s intermittent there&#8217;s always the possibility of a deadlock race or competing locks of some kind.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>CHECK_WORKFLOW_INSTANCE is most likely just the name of the&nbsp; ABAP OO method being called ... shame the message didn&#8217;t get the class itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jocelyn <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>George Caramaliu<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 17 August 2011 8:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> sap-wug@mit.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Dump when restarting workflow<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Hello,<br><br>I have a problem with a&nbsp; workflow, sometimes it dumps in SWPR when restarting.<br><br>The error text is:<br><b>Error analysis<br></b><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An exception occurred that is explained in detail below.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The exception, which is assigned to class 'CX_SY_REF_IS_INITIAL', was not<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; caught in procedure &quot;IF_SWF_WFM_LEAF_EXECUTE~RESTART_SUSPEND&quot; &quot;(METHOD)&quot;, nor was it<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; propagated by a RAISING clause.<br></i><br>No workflow step is in error, somehow the workflow instance was set to error when generating the next step.<br>I have some warning messages like:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Message no. SWP030 Temporary error in result processing of work item 0000XXXX<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Message no. SWP027 Flow item Workflow text (Workflow 0000XXXXX- Top Wi id) for work item&nbsp;&nbsp;has the status &quot;Error&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CHECK_WORKFLOW_INSTANCE&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>I have several subworkflows called by the main workflow. There is no binding error or something like that, the workflow is productive for many years and this errors are not frequent.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Before creating a SAP call I would like to know if you have any idea what is the problem and what this CHECK_WORKFLOW_INSTANCE means.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt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