Workflow condition step returns wrong value

[Rickayzen, Alan]

The bug I mentioned only occurs if you have several brackets in the
condition and was fixed with a hot-package as soon as a customer registered
it in the Online Service System.
Alan
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Rickayzen, Alan
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 9:38 AM
To: 'SAP Workflow Users' Group'
Subject: RE: Workflow condition step returns wrong value
 
 
Hi Sarah,
Are you aware that you can simulate the condition within the condition
editor? You can also perform this simulation referencing a work item ID so
that the test data is extracted automatically.
 
This should help you locate which part of the condition is being evaluated
incorrectly.
 
If this does not help you can run the workflow with the trace on and the
trace file will show you how the condition was evaluated at run time.
 
I assume you've checked the online service system for patches. I'm aware of
one bug (the developer no longer writes program code) where the condition is
evaluated incorrectly. The incorrect result is shown faithfully in the
simulation. There is a patch for this problem.
Shamefacedly,
Alan Rickayzen
BPT Product Management (ex-developer)
SAP AG
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jackson, Sarah A [mailto:Sarah.Jackson at let-it-be-thus.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 3:05 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: 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 employee
is available, a mail notification should be sent to that reference employee.
The object type 'applicant' did not contain the attributes reference
employee available or reference employee, therefore I have created a subtype
and assigned those attributes to it. This all seems to be working fine. In
the workflow, the first step is a condition step that says if applicant is
external and reference employee is available, send mail notification. (if
Applicant.Internal External = 'AP' and Applicant.Reference Available = '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 false
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 the
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