BB/EBP-Workflow - Change accounting data as a workflow step

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Markus,
It's not going to be pretty either way but I had a similar request from
another
customer (who decided against it for now) so have done a little thinking
about this already.
Don't use the "jump to maintain shopping basket" approach - that's there for
 
all sorts of reasons but it's not suitable for what you want to do.
 
Strongly suggest you avoid any variant on BBPPU99 or BBPPU02 as these have
a heavy dependence on the requestor's attribute settings, and trying to run
them with another user's settings a little tricky to say the least...
 
Suggest if you really want to go ahead with this (and I'm not recommending
it),
you do it by using webflow transaction TS_TS10008069H (i.e. program
SAPMTS10008069H) as a model.
You really want the EBP 2.0 version of this if you can get a hold
of it - as this allows you to see all the data including account assignment.
 
 
Start by creating a standard task similar to any of the approve shopping
basket
workitems, make sure you include all the container elements you need.
Generate a web transaction.  Change your generated program by cutting and
pasting
as appropriate from SAPMTS10008069H.   Don't forget to create the
appropriate web
service and templates similar to Internet service TS_TS10008069H.
 
You should then be able to add functionality to this to allow them to change
the account assignment on the items.  Make sure that's the ONLY thing that
changes.
 
Start by just opening up the fields and letting them enter values, that are
then
copied to the shopping basket table REQACCT.
 
Getting validation working is a little harder as you need to feed in the
company code, controlling area, etc. of the requestor not the "account
assignment
changer", but should be possible with a little trial and error.  The
meta-BAPI
"META_ACCSERV_CHECKASSIGNMT" (you might need to check the spelling) is the
one to
use for this.
 
If you don't want them to "approve" you can always preset the approval flag
so that
it's always approved at that point.
 
Include your task as a new step in your approve shopping basket workflow.
 
Finally check the end result in the approval status display applet - you
might have
to adjust it, but I'm afraid you're on your own there.
 
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: Markus Brahm [mailto:mbrahm at cscploenzke.de]
Sent: Saturday, 5 May 2001 6:05 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: BB/EBP-Workflow - Change accounting data as a workflow step
 
 
Hello virtual colleagues,
 
I am at a project where we need a so called "accounting step" in BBP
workflows besides the pure approval steps. This requires that the shopping
basket can be edited (at least in part) by a person being responsible for
accounting. Unfortunately this feature obviously is not part of BBP or EBP
(2.0c). Other alternatives like refusing the basket with a note how to do
the accounting would ruin huge parts of the process accelerating and easing
aspects. As the technique for the requisitioner to change his basket is
some what strange too (not a real workflow step but a link to standard
functionality) I expect some ugly problems when trying to create a web form
step which allows the accounting data to be changed during the process.
 
Does anyone of you have any experiences/advice in this area?
 
Thanks a lot in advance,
 
Markus