Stop Light in WI text

[Rickayzen, Alan]

To be honest, I haven't used the Java Gui much but the process specific
screen should display in the Java Gui and in the mySAP Workplace (HTML GUI).
When you display the work item from Outlook or Lotus using the equivalent
form it will NOT display (but neither will the stop icon in earlier
releases). Thank you Kjetil for pointing this out. The preview function is
only intended for use with the SAP Business Workplace (the old inbox).
 
Whether or not to include the stop button, as opposed to text, depends on
your customer's situation. Are all sorts of inboxes used or is there one
inbox for everyone? Web? Outlook? Lotus whatever.
 
Site visits (after production start) showed us that if you can help the
users with a minimum of effort then this is well worth doing. Using graphics
to highlight exceptions could well pay off and improve the speed and quality
of the process. One customer had enormous success (and reduced support) by
including a big yellow question mark icon for their own contextual help. I
don't think text would have had the same impact.
 
As Kjetil said, if are developing templates to be used in a variety of sites
and platforms then you don't have this luxury.
 
Alan Rickayzen
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Kjetil Kilhavn [mailto:KJETILK at statoil.com]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 10:20 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Stop Light in WI text
 
 
I agree the new possibilities for preview and display are great. However,
they
only work if you use the 32-bit Windows SAP GUI to look at your work list
and
process work items. They don't work with mysap.com (at least if my memory
still
works), they don't work with a Java GUI as far as I know, and they do of
course
not work if you use Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook integration (or any
other
non-SAP GUI).
 
Lacking a stop light why not simply write STOP! or <STOP> instead? It is at
least cross-platform compatible, even if not cross-language :-)
Mind though that since we have Lotus Notes integration and the user's start
workflows via a button in the Notes message I have never seen a stop light
used
and don't know if it serves as more than just an icon.
--
KjetilK
 
 
 
 
From:  "Rickayzen, Alan" <alan.rickayzen at sap.com>@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> on
20.10.2000
       07:52
 
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Subject:  Re: Stop Light in WI text
 
Sure Jeff,
There's a great alternative. Create a process-specific work item screen  in
the workflow step. This functionality is available in release 4.5.
In 4.6c you can use user exits to add your own gifs (and so on) to the
standard work item display in the new inbox. These are also displayed in
preview mode. The workflow demo show-case transaction will show you examples
of what can be done.
Let your imagination run riot. Think about adding hyperlinks to  intranet
web content relevant to the process or buttons that launch other
transactions.
Alan
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Rappaport [mailto:jeffrey.rappaport at mail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 9:48 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Stop Light in WI text
 
 
All,
 
    I have a client that is using the stop light in their WI text and it
works fine 3.1H, but they are upgrading to 4.6C and are being told by SAP
techs that it is no longer going to be available. Any ideas on SAP
alternatives.
 
Thanx,
 
Jeff Rappaport
 
 
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