Attachments to Activities

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Simon,
If you expand the workflow step binding for your
SELFITEM.SENDTASKDESCRIPTION task fully
you'll find a container element _ATTACH_OBJECTS.  This container element
is actually common to all tasks and also exists at the workflow level.
 
All you have to do is to go to the step where the approver creates the
attachment,
include in the binding for that step passing of the _ATTACH_OBJECTS from the
 
task to the workflow.   As _ATTACH_OBJECTS is multiline and you might have
several
steps where an attachment might be created, use the option to append to the
table
rather than overwrite (both options are shown when you use the drop down to
select
the matching container element for binding).
 
Then in the step for your SELFITEM.SENDTASKDESCRIPTION task, include the
binding
of _ATTACH_OBJECTS from the workflow to the task.
 
And that's it.
Very easy and works well.
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: SIMON ORCHARD [mailto:ORCHARDS at gkn-whl.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 February 2001 12:01 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Attachments to Activities
 
 
Hi Workflowers,
 
In one of our authorisation workflows we had a step to advise requesters of
a rejection, after this step was executed the workflow was terminated.
Originally we were using step type "User Decision", however not all of the
business users were trained in workflow, therefore the mail was either not
being read or not being executed or having processing canceled meaning the
step remained in progress.
 
Rather than train the 3500 business users, it was decided to change the step
to an activity using the method SELFITEM, SENDTASKDESCRIPTION. This would
then mean that, as long as the rejection notification reaches the requester,
the workflow would be complete whether the mail was read or not. Our
statistics and reporting would then be improved.
 
My problem is that using this step type does not seem to let me read / send
the attachments and we use the attachments to explain why the request was
rejected.
 
We are using Version 3.1I
 
Can anyone help?
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Simon
Westland Helicopters Ltd.
+44 796 801 5657