Role resolution for "monetary approver": help needed...

[Stephan Becker]

Hi Hassine,
 
you need to take a slightly different approach because you cannot, as you
have quite rightly stated, combine two roles. If you were to stick one role
in the default roles of the single step task, it would be overridden at
runtime by the role in the workflow definition.
 
What you need to do is create a new method that does the job of your first
role (deliver a list of agents in the same or superordinate organisational
units). Use any object you're working with in the workflow and create a
delegated child object. Then, create a new method where you essentially cut
and paste the code of your first role. Hand over the input and result of the
role using the normal containers. The second role can stay as is, you just
need to ensure the result of the first role (the agent table) is properly
handed over to in the role parameter container to the second role.
 
Let me know if you need more help. Paste the code into a message and give a
little more detail about how you've designed the second role, then we can
have a look at it in a bit more detail.
 
Enjoy,
Stephan Becker
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of
Hassine, Felix
Sent: 30 March 2000 09:58
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Role resolution for "monetary approver": help needed...
 
 
Hi all,
 
I have a (complex ?) role to build, and I have much difficulty. I would
appreciate if you have any idea to help me out from this problem.
 
I am trying to buid a role for a monetary approver. This is defined as this:
 
        - Input: an agent , who has already done something in the WF.
        - An invoice document amount
 
        - Output: a list of agents who :
                1- belong to the same org. unit as the input agent or in
higher org units
                2- who are able to approve the given amount.
 
I have tried the following: create an evaluation path to get all the orgs
where the input user belongs and higher. It worked, and I have incorporated
this in a FM role, which returns all the organization units the input user
is in and higher. Create a second role based on a responsibility with the
amount as container, and make responsibilities for each amount range. Then I
have tried to combine both by putting the first role as "possible users" in
the task, and the second one in the step definition.
It does not work, because... I cannot put a role in the "possible agents".
In fact, I would like to make an "intersection" of the 2 roles.
 
I cannot hard code the amounts in a FM and combine it with the previous FM,
because the amounts ranges may change every day, and they must be maintained
by non worklfow experts.
 
If any one has had to "intersect" 2 or more roles, I would really appreciate
to understand how. I thank you in advance for any help.
 
Best regards,
 
Felix Hassine