Deadline Monitoring for Parallel Processes

[Schroeter, Brad]

Andre,
Here was our scenario/solution:
 
We had a Engineering Change Request (ECR) workflow using parallel processing
which had deadline monitoring tied to a dialog step.  It had a requested end
of 7 days and then a 7 day deadline would be raised.  This 7 day deadline
would send a notification message to the ECR creator; however, the ECR
creator would get the message x times, where x is the number of outstanding
work items.
 
So what I did was create a workflow container element called
SENT_7_DAY_NOTIF which was just a sent notification flag (I set it up as
import/export and referenced ABAP dictionary table-field SWWWIHEAD-NOTIFY).
 
Then for the 7 day deadline path I put a condition step which determines if
the 7 day notification has already been set by checking if SENT_7_DAY_NOTIF
= 'X'.  If it is true, then I don't do anything.  If it isn't true, then I
do my 7 day notification followed by a container operation step which sets
SENT_7_DAY_NOTIF = 'X' which will ensure that the ECR creator only gets one
7 day notification message.
 
-Brad
 
-----Original Message-----
From: andre hilden [mailto:ahilden at gmx.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 5:33 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Deadline Monitoring for Parallel Processes
 
 
All
 
I created a parallel process, which is using deadline monitoring. I send a
task to a dynamic amount of people parallel. I enabled deadline monitoring
for
this step. Everything works well. If one person is missing his or her
deadline the notification is send to the right person.The problems is when
for
example 3 people out of 5 miss the deadline the deadline notification is
send out
3 times. I only need 1 notification to be send out.
Did anybody face that problem of using deadline monitoring with parallel
processes before?
 
I am on 4.6C
Thanks
 
Andre Hilden
 
 
 
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