AW: Workflow condition step returns wrong value

[Dr. Thorsten Wewers]

Sarah,
 
there is one issue I'd like to address in this context (it doesn't help y=
ou
with your current problem, but it avoids your running into another one in
the future): If I understand your description correctly, your workflow
starts with a simple condition and immediately ends in one branch of that
condition. Doing so, you are creating a lot of flowitems and transactiona=
l
RFCs, i.e. you're bringing a lot of load onto your machine, load that is
really unnecessary (namely, for all those workflows that end immediately)=
. A
way to avoid this, is to work with check function modules in the event
coupling table: In the function module, you simply evaluate the condition=
 in
ABAP (reading e.g. your defined property with swc_get_property etc.) and
raise an exception if you don't want the workflow to be started. The big
advantage is that this check function module runs in the same context as =
the
event raiser, i.e. no tRFC involved. This costs way less performance on y=
our
machine. Please consider that every tRFC is a new logon - you know how lo=
ng
it takes to log on in SAP as a dialog user...
 
Best regards,
 
Thorsten Wewers
http://www.bmt-consulting.de
 
 
-----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
Von: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU]Im Auftrag von
Jackson, Sarah A
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. September 2000 15:05
An: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Betreff: Workflow condition step returns wrong value
 
 
Hi,
 
I am working with version 46b and am working on a workflow to do the
following - when an external applicant is created and a reference employe=
e
is available, a mail notification should be sent to that reference employ=
ee.
The object type 'applicant' did not contain the attributes reference
employee available or reference employee, therefore I have created a subt=
ype
and assigned those attributes to it. This all seems to be working fine. I=
n
the workflow, the first step is a condition step that says if applicant i=
s
external and reference employee is available, send mail notification. (if
Applicant.Internal External =3D 'AP' and Applicant.Reference Available =3D=
 'X',
send mail) If false, workflow ends. I have set up the condition, but when=
 I
try to test the workflow, the condition step always returns the value fal=
se
and terminates immediately. I have created a number of applicants who are
external and do have reference employees yet still get return value false=
. I
have tried testing the condition step with just the applicant number as t=
he
condition, and then using that applicant, yet still get the value false. =
Any
ideas on this would be greatly appreciated!
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Sarah Jackson