FI Parked Doc workflows in 4.6c

[Susan R. Keohan]

Greetings Workflow-ers,
 
Before you stop reading, this is not my typical plea for speakers or
presentation ideas for our next ASUG conference... but IF you are
interested, please send me e-mail at skeohan at mit.edu !!  Time is running
out for planning this conference, and there are some sessions that need
speakers at this time.
 
We are upgrading from 4.5 to 4.6c.  We have workflows which should kick off
when an FI Parked document is created.  There are 3 entries in the event
linkage tables for this event (FIPP CREATED).  For each entry, there is a
Check Function Module, which will determine what the document type is, and
based on that value, the correct workflow will be started. (Only one of
three should start for any given doc type).
 
So, the documents are created, sometimes manually, sometimes via a feed.
The event FIPP Created is raised.  The check function modules are executed,
but all three fail when they attempt to access the document.
 
And, to make it more interesting, this problem does not occur in all of our
4.6c environments, but most noticeably, in the integration system.
 
These events, function modules, workflows, etc., all work fine in our 4.5
environment, and in our 4.6c development environment.
 
Personally, I suspect that the FI documents (table VBKPF) are not actually
in the database at the time the check FMs run.  I know that the workflow
engine has had some performance improvements made.  But I am having a hard
time convincing my basis friends to take a closer look.
 
What fun!
 
Sue