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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi Sue, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Moving to HEC shouldn’t change anything… unless there were transports involved and some macro definitions were lost? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Did you also change NetWeaver releases at the same time? I recall some mention of HANA.. ?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Rgds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jocelyn <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu> on behalf of Susan Keohan <keohan@ll.mit.edu><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>SAP Group <sap-wug@mit.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, 10 May 2018 at 3:38 am<br>
<b>To: </b>SAP Group <sap-wug@mit.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Old one (BUS2081/cross fiscal years)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hi Wuggers,</span><o:p></o:p></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I have two custom workflows that send invoices out for approvals. When these workflows are started, they update a text field
on the invoice using BAPI_INCOMINGINVOICE_GETDETAIL and BAPI_INCOMINGINVOICE_CHANGE. The same calls are done to update the invoice again after approval (updating only the text field).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">These two workflows, BTW, have been running for 14 years. The method to update the invoice was updated in 2008 when the above
BAPIs were released for customer use.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">At some point, we recognized that we needed to handle invoices that are in process by workflow when the FY changed. No problem!
The BAPI_INCOMINGINVOICE_CHANGE nicely returns <b>invoicedocnumber_new</b> and <b>
fiscalyear_new</b> if the old invoice was deleted and a new one created in the background. I capture those new values and pass them back into the object method, where I check for a new invoice/fiscal year and execute some macros (remember them???)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">IF NOT new_invoice IS INITIAL. "We have a new invoice doc</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> CONCATENATE new_invoice new_year INTO new_key.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> swc_free_object self.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> swc_set_objectkey new_key.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue">* new object reference</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> swc_create_object self 'BUS2081' new_key.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"> swc_refresh_object self.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This methodology worked ~most~ of the time. Once in a while, one of the workflows would fail on subsequent steps
because the new invoice doc number and fiscal year somehow were not returned in the container.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Since it didn’t cause anyone except the lowly WF Admin any pain, nobody saw the need to change it! (I can hear
Jocelyn talking to me about this…)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Now we’ve completed an upgrade to HEC, and noticed some quirks… BAPI_INCOMINGINVOICE_GETDETAIL doesn’t always return
the accountingdata sorted by serial number, which makes the BAPI_INCOMINGINVOICE_CHANGE throw up (error M8 367). I’ve added a sort on accountingdata between them, and that problem goes away…</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">But now the WFs are all erroring out on Fiscal Year changes – in QA, and only because I made people test ‘pre-HANA’
invoices (smiley face). When I debug the method in the BOR, the BAPI still returns the
<b>invoicedocnumber_new</b> and <b>fiscalyear_new</b>, but my trusty macros are not updating the main object of the WF.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sure would appreciate any insights you can share. And bear in mind, this stuff is O-L-D…</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thanks,<br>
Sue</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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