URL in Decision Tasks & Work Item descriptions

Tue Oct 9 13:20:52 EDT 2001

Dear Hein,
This has been keenly discussed by Walldorf development over the last year.
The underlying problem is that the work item text uses SAPSCRIPT to handle
the task description. SAPSCRIPT offers many advantages over the simple table
list that we used to use (such as formatting) but unfortunately it does not
support URLs or HTML tags.

Rather than end the story here, development has gone to great lengths to try
to circumnavigate this problem. Please bear in mind that any solution that
we offer will not work in all GUIs and all Releases of the different mySAP
components, not to mention all Releases of R/3 because we cannot take into
account this is a huge combination of possibilites. However it will work in
by far the majority of system/GUI combinations. In other words treat this as
an undocumented feature.

Note 375669 has to be implemented in order to use what is described below.
This Note may well disappear for a day or two because it has to be updated
in German.

Once you have implemented this note you can switch to the simple sapscript
line editor to enter your html tags in the task description. Format the line
so that it is a comment and add your html tag.
Any tags in the comment line will be protected from the sapscript processor
so that they are not distorted. I've added links and logos using this
method.

If your tag contains an ampersand ("&") sign then you have to embed the url
in a variable, otherwise it is assumed to be the delimiter for a variable
itself.
E.g. <img src="http:www.sap.com/&alanscandal&.jpg"></a>
where the container element alansscandal is a container element containing
the missing part of the url "....." - well that would be telling too much
;-)

You can concatenate several container elements or attributes together for
even more dynamic stuff.
E.g. www.sap.com/&element1&&element2&

The line is limited to 120 characters (sapscript limitation) but you can
have different parts of the tag on different lines. For urls that are longer
than 120 characters I suggest the system administrator creates a redirect
alias which is shorter than the original body of the URL.

I know that this is not perfect, but I hope it will help some of you who are
grappling with the problem.

One question: Has anyone used comments in task descriptions? Please let me
know if you have because a side effect of implementing this note would make
your comments visible to your workflow users.

Regards,

Alan Rickayzen

WebFlow Product Manager
http://service.sap.com/webflow

-----Original Message-----
From: Heinrich Bence [mailto:sirheinbence at yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Dienstag, Oktober 09, 2001 4:15 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: URL in Decision Tasks & Work Item descriptions

Hi Palavika

The number of characters is less than 75.
The URL i used to test is
<A HREF="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo </A>

Regards
Hein
 --- Pallavika Patel
<PATEL_PALLAVIKA_P_NONLILLY at LILLY.COM> wrote: > Next
thing I would check is number of characters in
> URL. I think standard
> is 75 but then there is one oss NOTE which increase
> the length up to 132
> characters.
>
> Regards,
> Pallavika Patel
> 433-3157
>
>
>
>
> Heinrich Bence <sirheinbence at yahoo.co.uk>
> Sent by: SAP Workflow <Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> 10/09/2001 01:47 AM
> Please respond to SAP Workflow Users' Group
>
>
>         To:     SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: URL in Decision Tasks &
> Work Item descriptions
>
>
>
> Hello Pallavika
>
> Thank you for the reply.
> All these settings are correct, but still no URL.
> Any other suggestions ?
>
> Thanks
> Hein
>
>  --- Pallavika Patel
> <PATEL_PALLAVIKA_P_NONLILLY at LILLY.COM> wrote: > Make
> sure that you do not have technical view in
> > personal settings Under
> > work item display.
> >
> >
> > Also,  in Further settings make sure you do not
> have
> > No html for ..... is
> > not checked
> >
> >
> > Pallavika Patel
> > 433-3157
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Heinrich Bence <sirheinbence at yahoo.co.uk>
> > Sent by: SAP Workflow
> <Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> > 10/08/2001 12:06 PM
> > Please respond to SAP Workflow Users' Group
> >
> >
> >         To:     SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> >         cc:
> >         Subject:        URL in Decision Tasks &
> Work
> > Item descriptions
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello Richard, Pallavika, Jocelyn, Michel, Alon
> and
> > everyone else who has had experience with this
> > problem.
> >
> > I have a new twist in the tale.
> > I have NO problem in having a URL display in the
> > text
> > for a mail notification.
> >
> > However, when I try to do this for normal Workitem
> > texts and custom(copied) decision tasks, I get all
> > the
> > URL detail displayed without the link being active
> -
> > text only.
> >
> > The text I used to test were:
> > <A HREF="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo </A>
> >
> > Any suggestions ?
> > Does anyone have a checklist handy ?
> >
> > Thanking you in advance.
> >
> > Hein Bence
> >
> >
>
____________________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at
> > http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
> > or your free @yahoo.ie address at
> > http://mail.yahoo.ie
> >
> >
> >
>
>
____________________________________________________________
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> Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at
> http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
> or your free @yahoo.ie address at
> http://mail.yahoo.ie
>
>
>

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