Problem with Send Mail Task

[Marnie Newmark]

You also need to be sure that your WF_BATCH id has a valid email address.
 
 
Marnie Newmark
Bristol-Myers Squibb
 
Kjetil Kilhavn wrote:
 
> You don't mention if you have upgraded or otherwise changed anything since you
> say it used to work, nor if there is any kind of message available in the log.
>
> I therefore only have a couple of "shot in the dark" suggestions.
> 1) the user must have a sender address, otherwise the message will not be sent
> 2) the ever popular check of whether SAP Connect works OK (e.g. can you send a
> message from your SAP Office)
> 3) enable the workflow trace and test it (and remember to disable the trace
> unless you want to annoy everyone)
>
> PS: I thought there were no simple solutions, and that that's why we pay
> expensive consultant fees. I could be wrong though ;-)
> --
> KjetilK
>
>> From:  Jim Sauceman <sauceman at utk.edu>@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> on 24.01.2001 21:58
>
> Please respond to "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>
> Sent by:  SAP Workflow <Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>
> To:    SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> cc:     (bcc: Kjetil Kilhavn)
> Subject:  Problem with Send Mail Task
>
> Workflowers,
>
> I have a problem that seems so incredibly simple (yet frustrating) I know it
> must have an equally simple solution. I would appreciate any guidance you can
> offer.
>
> I have a workflow (46B) in which I used the Send Mail Wizard to create a
> SELFITEM SENDTASKDESCRIPTION activity task. Everything in the workflow works
> fine except it skips the execution of this background task! If I look at the
> Graphical Log representation, the workflow executes the steps before and
> after, but not the step to send the simple message. I *know* this used to
> work, and have successfully created these types of tasks before. Other
> background tasks seem to execute just fine, so I don't see how it could be a
> problem with the wf-batch user. Also, I tried a similar SAP-supplied Standard
> Task (TS30000127) and it does not work either.
>
> The binding is:
>
> Express = X
> AddressStrings = &_WF_INITIATOR&
> TypeId = B
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Jim Sauceman.............................sauceman at tennessee.edu
> University of Tennessee..................Voice: (865) 974-2448
> Manager, Database and Technical Support..Fax:   (865) 974-4810
> Project IRIS Workflow Team Leader
>
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