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<div>Hi Loren </div>
<div>Ok so this is why that method was originally asynchronous as with a transaction the std way to find out if the work was done is to listen for a terminating event. </div>
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<div>So Catch-22. </div>
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<div>Maybe see if there is a BAPI that lets you do a synchronous call. </div>
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<div>Is creating your own alternative UI in SAPUI5 or WDA to control the edit a possible option?</div>
<div>Rgds</div>
<div>Jocelyn</div>
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On 30 Jun 2015, at 5:28 am, Bratzler, Loren <<a href="mailto:Loren.Bratzler@nscorp.com">Loren.Bratzler@nscorp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m not sure how I am going to be able to tell from within the EDIT method if the document is “COMPLETE” or not. The method code is executing transaction MIR4 directly like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
<a href="mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu">sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu">mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ramki Maley<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 25, 2015 6:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> SAP Workflow Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: Advance With Dialog on Asynchronous Task<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Loren,<br>
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Instead of a terminating event for your custom EDIT method, Try issuing an EXIT_CANCELLED if the document is not 'COMPLETE'. This will keep the workitem from completing.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Ramki.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 6/25/15, 1:58 PM, Bratzler, Loren wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Wuggers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hope someone can help me here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a requirement in a workflow to have a two-part approval process for the Incoming Invoice (BUS2081) business object. The first part of the approval process is to have the approver open the document in Edit mode and review and make
revisions to a restricted number of fields. Once their review is done, we want them to click “Save as Complete” and then automatically advance to the second part of the approval process where the user decision (approve or reject buttons) appear.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For the first step of the process, I am using the standard EDIT method of the object and when I define my task for using this method, I assign the terminating event “COMPLETED” so that the task will only complete when the user clicks “Save
as Complete”.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The problem is that the EDIT method for this object is asynchronous:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So the “advance with dialog” option does not work to automatically advance to the user decision step where the approve/reject buttons will appear.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I tried to create my own custom synchronous method in the object that was a copy of the standard method. I then created a new task to execute this new method and defined the same terminating event. However, the problem with that is when
I insert the task into the workflow, there are two outcome paths. One path is for the terminating event I assigned but the other path is the normal “advance” path. This causes the workflow to advance to the user decision step when we don’t want it to. We
only want it to advance when they click “save as complete” and raise the COMPLETED event. With this configuration, the step advances when they click other options on the screen like “back”, “exit” or “cancel”.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The workflow builder will not allow me to deactivate the “Step executed” outcome for the step:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Error message that occurs when you try to deactivate this outcome:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So I’m trying to figure out is there some way for me to get around these limitations?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS ;color:blue","serif"">Loren Bratzler</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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