dummy background task?

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Brian,
Perhaps it was used as an old-fashioned approach to preventing subsequent
workitems
in a workflow for the same agent being processed immediately, i.e. the user
executes the
first workitem and on completion is immediately taken into execution of the
second item?
 
These days if you don't want immediate processing of the next workitem you
change
the "Advance in dialog" flag on the workflow step.  Can't remember if this
flag
is available in 4.5b so you might want to check. It's certainly neater and
less
processing overhead to use the flag rather than run a dummy background task.
 
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (BBP, Ecommerce, Internet Transaction Server, Workflow)
SAP Australia
Email jocelyn.dart at sap.com <mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
Tel: +61 412 390 267
Fax: +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Bennings [mailto:bennings.bj at pg.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 19 December 2000 8:53 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: dummy background task?
 
 
While reviewing a WS workflow that was setup for us in our 4.5b system, I
have
come across several occurances of a dummy background task.  This background
task
calls a method that consists of only a single comment line.
 
"Run background dummy to interrupt dialog processing"
 
What would be the purpose of something like this?  Is this a standard
practice?
 
Thanks,
Brian