Help with workflow deadlines

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Sherman,
As a variation on David and Peter's suggestions how about:
 
1) Using a modeled deadline on REQUESTED END after workitem + 3 days to loop
through
   the send mail notification with requested start of workitem + 3 days.
You could perhaps loop until a valid
   approve/reject value has been returned to the workflow container.
 
2) Using a modeled deadline on LATEST END after workitem + 45 days to kill
the original workitem (thereby triggering
   the processing obsolete event) and set the status to rejected after
processing obsolete. Setting the status to
   rejected would then terminated the requested end loop.
 
This is similar to Peter's approach but has the advantage of not starting
the loop at all
unless the agent fails the first deadline, resulting in less workitems being
created if the
agent reacts in a timely manner in the first place.
 
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (BBP, Ecommerce, Internet Transaction Server, Workflow)
SAP Australia
Email jocelyn.dart at sap.com <mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
Tel: +61 412 390 267
Fax: +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Roehlen, Peter [mailto:PRoehlen at powercor.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2001 3:39 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Help with workflow deadlines
 
 
Hi Sherman,
 
You could create a fork with two parrallel branches (with one branch
required to finish.)  In one branch you put your approval step with the
deadline monitoring set to the 45 days maximum after which the workitem is
cancelled.  In the other branch, you have a send mail step in a loop.  You
need to create a date and time container that you initialise before and
inside the loop to the current system date/time.  Then in your send mail
step you have the requested start set to your container values + 3 days.
 
Every three days the send mail step will be processed until the workitem in
the other branch is completed (which will terminate the fork).
 
Hope this is of value.
 
Cheers
 
Peter Roehlen
Team Lead - SAP Technical & Development
Powercor Australia Ltd
(03) 5430 4704 / 0409 950 263
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Sherman S. Wright [mailto:swright at lsil.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2001 7:59
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Help with workflow deadlines
 
 
Hi -
 
We have a workflow for approval of Purchase Requisition lines, that
currently is set to send a deadline notification after 72 hours.  What
we'd like to do is have it send a notification every 3 days (3, 6, 9,
12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36, 39, and 42 days) to someone who is
not processing a work item.  Then we'd like the item automatically
rejected if there is no activity (work item not completed) at 45 days.
Anyone have any idea how we could accomplish both of these?  Any help
would be greatly appreciated, since I'm trying to get this done in
development by April 20...
 
Regards,
Sherman
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