User Status Update Fails?

[Van der Burg, Jeroen JA SI-PSTP-L]

Marlin,
 
If you access PD related information in your background and you have
activated the structural authorisations within the PD module, apparently you
need to include the WF-Batch user in the user assignment for PD profiles as
well. This was not required in 40b, and there might be an option around it,
but it is functioning at the moment and that is enough for me (I should have
gone live this morning and my system is still down due to problems in
setting up the transport system!).
 
BTW I also experienced a workflow transport problem in 46c, the only way
around that I could find was activate the automatic inclusion in transport
requests of PD objects. Has anyone found a better solution to overcome the
'Error in transport system' message when trying to include a workflow in a
transport request?
 
 
 
 
Regards,
 
 
 
Jeroen
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Grinnell, Marlin [mailto:Marlin.Grinnell at us.origin-it.com]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 1:21 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: User Status Update Fails?
 
 
 
Hi Jeroen,
 
Does WF-BATCH need other authorizations in addition to SAP_ALL and SAP_NEW?
 
Thanks,
Marlin
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Van der Burg, Jeroen JA SI-PSTP-L
[ mailto:Jeroen.A.vanderBurg at IS.shell.com
<mailto:Jeroen.A.vanderBurg at IS.shell.com> ]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 12:23 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: User Status Update Fails?
 
 
Marlin,
 
Sounds like an WF-Batch user authorisation problem. You can check by copying
 
to a dialog user and then try to execute the method with this dialog user.
 
I had some problems after my upgrade to 46c with the PD structural
authorisation changes in combination with the rfc user, which resulted in
the same problems you are describing.
 
 
Hope this helps,
 
 
Jeroen
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Grinnell, Marlin [ mailto:Marlin.Grinnell at us.origin-it.com
<mailto:Marlin.Grinnell at us.origin-it.com> ]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 12:02 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: User Status Update Fails?
 
 
 
Hi,
 
I have created a workflow which is supposed to approve and release a
project.  (PS module)
 
The workflow initiator gets to choose among different approval chains.  Each
 
approval chain has up to five levels of approval.  Each approval level is
set by updating the project's user status field.
 
I have created a sub-object type ZBUS2001 and a new method ApprovalProcess.
This method calls a function module which is simply a BDC program using call
 
transaction (transaction CJ20N) to update the user status field.  The
function module has been tested successfully.  It also works fine when I
test the method and the sub-object type.  However,  when I test the task
(User Status Update Task) individually using SWUS, which uses the new
method, the task fails (WF-BATCH executes SWW_BI_EXECUTE_S).
 
This is on R/3 4.6B.  Any ideas?
 
Thanks,
Marlin