Help with workflow deadlines

[Sherman S. Wright]

Hi again -
 
So what suggestions do you have for making the loop work for the requested end?
If we just put a requested end on the Release Requisition for WI created + 3
days, and then have a "Send Internet Mail" step, with a requested start of WI
created + 3 days, that will just send the notice out 6 days after the original
work item is created.  If we put in a "loop until" where do we loop back to?
The Release Requisition step?
 
Thanks for all your suggestions!  Please keep them coming!
 
Regards,
Sherman
 
 
"Dart, Jocelyn" wrote:
 
> 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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