Terminating events

[Elijah Watkins]

bill,
 
does this mean that asynchronous task are not working the way they are
documented they are suppose to. the reason that i am asking is because i
experienced problems with asynchronous task also.
 
thanks
 
 
elijah
 
 
>From: "Cunningham, Bill" <bill.cunningham at syskoplan.com>
>Reply-To: SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: Terminating events
>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 22:57:56 -0500
>
>Rob,
>Thanks for your suggestion, it seems this is the only way around the
>situation, we had thought that a terminating event meant the workitem /
>task
>
>would terminate, - no matter what, but this does not seem to be the case.
>Seems like a bug?
>However, if we use the wait for event  / parallel fork approach for each
>terminating event  (we now have three for the single step task)  it will
>kinda complicate the workflow, which is not a big deal,  - just seems
>rather unnecessary.
>Regards,
>Bill Cunningham
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Lake [SMTP:Robert.Lake at nestlegb.nestle.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 4:06 AM
> > To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject:      Re: Terminating events
> >
> > Bill,
> >
> > You could place a 'Wait for event' step in parallel with the task in
> > question (using a fork).  Then the workflow would proceed to the next
>part
> > upon receipt of the event, even if the requested start time had not been
> > reached yet.
> >
> > Rob Lake
> > Development Support, Nestli UK Ltd
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cunningham, Bill [mailto:bill.cunningham at syskoplan.com]
> > Sent: 09 February 2000 20:39
> > To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject: Terminating events
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> > We have an asynchronous task in a workflow
> > which has two terminating events and either
> > event will terminate the corresponding workitems.
> >
> > We then activated (Requested Start) deadline monitoring.
> >
> > The problem is that when the workitem is in a status
> > of waiting, for the requested start, and one of the
> > terminating event is raised,- the workitem continues to wait.
> > When the requested start time is satisfied, the workitem
> > changes to a ready state and is sent to the agent completely
> > ignoring the fact that there has been a terminating event.
> >
> > We can see in the workflow log that the terminating event
> > has been received, but then upon requested start time,
> > the workitem is submitted for execution???
> >
> > We could not find anything in OSS,
> > Has anybody come across this before?  or any ideas of
> > ways around this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance ,
> >
> > Bill Cunningham
 
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