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<div>Hi Claude </div>
<div>I'd second Ed & also point out that we have a chapter on BRFplus & related DSM (rule governance & hot deployment to any SAP system in the landscape) in the recently released edition 3 of Practical Workflow for SAP book. </div>
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<div>One option for instance would be to use a decision table (aka a spreadsheet like rule) to hold the position id per system/client. </div>
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<div>Btw - to both of you - it's quite likely that you already have BRFplus available in your system as it's part of the NetWeaver platform. A quick test is to try going to transaction BRFplus - its webdynpro so will fire up a web browser. There's also a
bunch of tutorials blogs & avid fans/practicioners in the Business Rules Management space on SCN</div>
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<div>Also in my very personal opinion the true business value of escalation should be challenged in any workflow design. Too often I see it placed on almost by default & the net result is too often to add stress without any improvement in productivity or efficiency.
But like I said that's my personal view #justsayin</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Jocelyn<br>
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On 30 Oct 2014, at 6:38 am, "Edward Diehl" <<a href="mailto:edwarddiehl@hotmail.com">edwarddiehl@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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This, ultimately, might not be much different than the z-table approach, but I just finished ( a while ago) reading through the SAP-PRESS publication for BRF+. It is different from BRF as the + version is in the ABAP stack.
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If you're not looking for a quick solution, you might want to take a look at it. I don't know what release you're on, but I think it is generally available by now.
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It supports several different rule structures and the resulting tables are available to the business process owners. The tables are read by function calls.<br>
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:44:32 -0400<br>
From: <a href="mailto:claude.bourque@rcmp-grc.gc.ca">claude.bourque@rcmp-grc.gc.ca</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:sap-wug@mit.edu">sap-wug@mit.edu</a><br>
Subject: Stopping Escalation<br>
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<div>Greetings WUGgers</div>
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<div>The following is more to start a discussion that to get an answer to a specific technical problem. So, here it goes.</div>
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<div>I've been dealing with this for about 10 years and I'm wondering if there's a better way.</div>
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<div>In a lot of workflows that I've built, the business wants escalation to stop once it reaches a certain position in the hierarchy. For example, don't go higher than the CFAO or the Director of HR. Or, if the user requestion leave, travel, training, etc
is the CFO/CFAO then the approval is different than for other users.</div>
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<div>I've used a variety of ways to do this including the following</div>
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<div>1. Hard-code the position(s) within the workflow (bad, very bad)</div>
<div>2. Hard-code the position(s) within an ABAP method (still very bad)</div>
<div>2. Use a Z-table to store the position(s) in question and read that table from WF</div>
<div>3. Use table TVARVC (or TVARV)</div>
<div>4. I saw a customer once use table T77S0 to save the position(s).</div>
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<div>Are there other significantly different options out there?</div>
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<div>The main dilemma is that the CFO/CFAO position is most likely NOT the same in DEV, QA and Prod.</div>
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<div>Thanks.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div>Claude</div>
<div>Workflow Consultant RCMP</div>
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