WS01000105 & WS01000108

[Thatte, Himanshu]

Hello Branco Marcina,
 
Thanks for your input.
 
Regards,
 
 
Himanshu Thatte
KPMG Consulting
CIM - Workforce
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 -----Original Message-----
From:   Branco Marcina [mailto:Branco_Marcina at national.com.au]
Sent:   Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:02 AM
To:     SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:        Re: WS01000105 & WS01000108
 
Himanshu,
I'm grappling with this workflow as we speak. I don't think it will win the
'SAP Workflow of the year award'.  I'm in 4.6C.
 
I cloned both the workflows to get around that problem.
 
The CAUSE
------------------
When the appraisee rejects the appraisal it gets sent back to the
appraiser. They ultimately would 'complete' the appraisal that in their
inbox. Because WS01000108 loops until the appraisal is 'A'  for Approved or
'C' for Cancel (See 'Check Parameters' step), the loop continues because
the Approval Parameter is set to 'R' for Reject which creates a workitem
again for the appraisee
 
Setting an appraisal to 'complete' status creates the event
'CompletedAppraisal' for object BUS7026 from within the transaction (See
the call to SWE_EVENT_CREATE in RHPA_APPRAISAL_HISTORICIZE). Therefore as
well as the above loop creating a workitem, so does setting the 'Complete'
status in the transaction itself.
 
SOLUTION
-----------------
I didn't wan't to repair the function module RHPA_APPRAISAL_HISTORICIZE, as
this would be tricky to do and repairs aren't a good idea.
Instead I cloned WS01000105 and WS01000108. I added a loop termination
condition into the cloned version of WS01000108 step 'Check Parameters'.
The loop now terminates for the additional condition of 'Approval
Parameters = 'R' '.
 
As a result only the transaction to 'Complete' the appraisal triggers the
event, and the loop no longer comes into play when an employee rejects the
appraisal.
 
 
I hop this helps.
 
Regards
Branco Marcina
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Thatte, Himanshu" <Himanshu.Thatte at KPMG.co.uk>@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> on
09/10/2001 22:28:30
 
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To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
cc:
Subject:  WS01000105 & WS01000108
 
 
I'm in the process of implementing the standard workflow WS010000105 and
WS01000108 for the Appraisal approval process. So far everything works
fine,
i.e., triggering the workflow, routing to the right person, approval
decision, follow-up activities if approved. However, in case the appraisal
is rejected by the appraisee, and when the appraiser makes the changes and
completes the appraisal again, this time via his inbox, where the workitem
was routed to on rejection, along with the original workflow, a new
workflow
is triggered, resulting in 2 workitems (one of the old WF and one of the
new
one) in the inbox of the appraisee.
 
I have not created any start condition for this workflow, and have not
tweaked it since it's the SAP standard workflow. Has anyone else come
across
this problem and what was the solution to this.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Himanshu Thatte
 
 
 
 
 
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