Cancel subflow leaves main workflow open....

[Raskin Alon x8008]

I am glad it worked.
 
I guess what happens is that when you call the status_change method it runs
through all the work items which are 'owned' by that work item and then also
deletes them (this would include the work item which is created for Workflow
B) . In regards to the 'notify agent upon completion', I would assume that
the reason that is not being executed is because the ITEM is not being
completed, it is being LOGICALLY DELETED.
 
Regards,
Alon Raskin
+61 3 411 691 396
 
                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Michael Pokraka [mailto:MPokraka at samsungsemi.co.uk]
                Sent:   Thursday, 7 December 2000 03:57 AM
                To:     SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
                Subject:        Re: Cancel subflow leaves main workflow
open....
 
                Alon,
                That's gotta be one of the neatest workarounds I've seen in
a while. Yep, it
                works 100% as intended - even better:
 
                The STATUS_CHANGE method of the 'calling' WF object cancels
BOTH workflows
                IMMEDIATELY. Even a 'notify agent upon completion' within
the same task
                doesn't get executed, which I found particularly
interesting.
 
                Thanks.
                Michael
 
                -----Original Message-----
                From: Raskin Alon x8008 [mailto:ARaskin at Citipower.com.au]
                Sent: 05 December 2000 23:03
                To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
                Subject: Re: Cancel subflow leave main workflow open....
 
 
                I am not sure if this would work (you would have to try it).
Why don't you
                pass in the top level workitem from flow A into flow B?
 
                Then you have a reference to flow A inside of flow B. If
flow B ever
                cancels, you can then cancel flow A (by calling method
                WORKITEM.STATUS_CHANGE passing in 'CANCELLED' as the new
status). Hint : Do
                not call WORKITEM.DELETE as this will actually remove all
the table entries
                relating to that work item.
 
                Let me know if this works.
 
                Regards,
                Alon Raskin
                +61 3 411 691 396
 
 
                                -----Original Message-----
                                From:   Michael Pokraka
[mailto:MPokraka at samsungsemi.co.uk]
                                Sent:   Wednesday, 6 December 2000 12:32 AM
                                To:     SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
                                Subject:        Cancel subflow leave main
workflow open....
 
                                Hi,
                                OK, 'scuse me asking more questions than
posting useful
                stuff -
                                nevertheless, good bunch of folks on this
list (& thanks to
                all who have
                                responded so far).
 
                                I have another question: If I have a
subworkflow, which gets
                cancelled via
                                flow control (04 - cancel workflow), the
calling w/flow is
                still active
                                whereas the subflow has the status
'Logically deleted'.
                                Adding something to the event  'Processing
obsolete' in the
                calling W/F has
                                no effect either, nor can I find any way to
add events or
                terminating events
                                etc....
                                Is there another 'standard' way for handling
this?
 
                                In more detail:
                                Flow A calls flow B which executes in a
loop. User can opt
                out at one point
                                by cancelling the w/flow. This sets flow B
to 'log.
                deleted', and flow A to
                                'in process' with no further steps....
ideally I'd want to
                set flow A to
                                'logically deleted' as well as it would be
useful to
                distinguish between
                                them on a workflow statistic level.
                                Adding a cancellation flag into the loop
condition is a bit
                messy for my
                                liking as it's a relatively long subflow -
I'd would have to
                add conditions
                                all over the show.
 
                                TIA,
                                Michael Pokraka
                                SAP EDI Analyst
                                Samsung Semiconductor Europe Ltd
                                Tel: +44 (0)20 8380-7050
                                Fax: +44 (0)20 8380-7218
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