Fwd: Re: Antwort: SAP Workflow and Lotus Notes

[Susan R. Keohan]

On behalf of Markus Brahm (mbrahm at csc.com)...
>Hello Kim,
>
>there are at least three ways to have real workitems of SAP in the
>Notes-Inbox. And I really prefer to keep the logic within SAP and not to
>code in Lotus Notes as well because of many reasons).
>
>- Have a look at Lotus Enterprise Integration Zone. There is a workflow
>integration tool that bases on client pull principle. You have buttons in
>your "mail" that allow you to execute the workitem. Pushing this button
>means calling the workitem execution in SAP. This is the one I have good
>experiences with. You can install it within some 10 minutes on your client
>to test it. (LSX, administrator base and pilot mail inbox)
>     - Within this site you will find many whitepapers etc. as well
>- A newer tool directly provided by SAP on the GUI CD, better functionality
>t(e.g. you can see attachments directly) han the one above but a bit
>fresher (could mean instable), it makes some trouble with Notes R5 by now
>- Push principle from SAP via job realized by Chorus on project basis.
>Makes some sense if you have some > 300-400 users
>
>There are some individual solutions presented by and then. They create some
>R3F attachments to mails and have them managed via the Lotus MTA. I
>personally don=B4t like that stuff because it=B4s highly release-dependent.
>
>Does that help?
>
>Kind regards,
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>Markus
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>Kim Schell <Kim.Schell at tmca.com.au>@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> on 14.03.2001 00:15:21
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>Please respond to SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
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>Sent by:  SAP Workflow <Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
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>To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>cc:
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>Subject:  Re: Antwort: SAP Workflow and Lotus Notes
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>At the client site I'm at they have been considering integrating Lotus
>notes
>with SAP Inbox.
>however the guy who will be setting up this integration believes the
>Integration
>will only go as far as receiving notifications.
>He is saying (who has been talking to Lotus notes developers) the
>integration
>will not handle workflow messages requiring either an Accept/Reject
>decision or
>workflows that will call SAPGui reports/transactions (Workplace (SAPGui for
>HTML) not SAP Gui for Windows).
>
>Can anybody help me out here?
>are we missing something?
>or is everyone only using Lotus notes integration for notification
>workflows
>only?
>
>Thanks
>Kim
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>"<Thiemo> <Geisberger>" <tgeisberger at bmw.co.at> on 14/03/2001 01:31:59 AM
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>Please respond to SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
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>To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>cc:    (bcc: Kim Schell/CONTRACTOR/TMCA)
>Subject:  Antwort: SAP Workflow and Lotus Notes
>
>
>
>Hello!
>
>We use SAP Workflow (46B) and Lotus Notes (4.6.2a). We have integrated the
>LSX
>software but we have very bad performance problems with the automatic
>refresh
>function every night! (about 600 hundred users will get workitems)
>
>Our solution is following:
>Every user get an e-mail from the the workflow to click the refresh button
>in
>the folder "SAP Workflow" manuelly. After this the user have there new
>workitems
>in the folder and they can execute them.
>The advantage is that lotus notes isn't locked one time for a longer
>period.
>
>Maybe you can also use this solution.
>
>Best regards
>Thiemo Geisberger
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>Pedro Bezerra <pedrobezerra at yahoo.com> am 13.03.2001 15:34:47
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>Bitte antworten an "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
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> An:    SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
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> Kopie: (Blindkopie: Thiemo Geisberger/STEYR/BMW/AT)
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> Thema: SAP Workflow and Lotus Notes
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>Hi all Sap-WF Gurus,
>
>My company use SAP Workflow (40b) and Lotus Notes
>(r5).
>I want integrated the two software.
>I read the lotus documentation about this and i think
>that implamentation is very simple.
>
>But i have one doubt. The Performance.
>
>Anyone use this solution ? The performace is good ?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Pedro Bezerra
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