Send a message within workflow with no user action!

[de Valensart Schoenmaeckers, Patrick]

Kevin,
 
In the task that does the release, you can specify a "notification agent"
who will receive the email.
Go then to the task definition of the release task, and change the
notification long text (in 40B : TA PFTC, choose change mode, menu path :
goto - long text - notification.)
 
If for any reason you can't use this, you can also create a task using
method 'SENDTASKDESCRIPTION' from object 'SELFITEM'.
 
Hope this helps,
 
Patrick de Valensart
Associate IS Analyst
NV Philip Morris Belgium SA
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Yu [mailto:Kevin.Yu at its.monash.edu.au]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:48 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Send a message within workflow with no user action!
 
 
Hi,
 
I have been trying to create a step after a document was released to
send an message to notify the creator that the document was released.
The step should not required any user action to complete the workitem.
All I want is to send a message and keep going to next step.
 
I have tried to create a customised method to use function
'SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_SEND_API1' to send an express mail.  The Method worked
fine if test by its own.  However, if use the method to create a task as
the step (a background process) in the workflow, it seems the workflow
will stuck at this workitem and going nowhere.
 
I am just wondering is there any better way to achieve what I intend to
do?
 
Thanks,
 
Kevin.