How to access container element _EVT_CREATOR

[Ea, Ty]

Thomas,
I knew it was something obvious!  As it turns out - that was what I was
missing!  Thanks Thomas!
 
Regards,
Ty
> ----------
>> From:         Maue, Thomas X.[SMTP:Thomas.Maue at Lyondell.com]
> Reply To:     SAP Workflow Users' Group
> Sent:         Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:45 AM
> To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: How to access container element _EVT_CREATOR
>
> Ty,
>
> Have you set up the binding definition between the event container and the
> WF container?
> Should look like this:
> Task container          Event container
>
>   Element name        <==Expression
> Initiator of workflo    <==     &_EVT_CREATOR&
>
> Go to triggering events, click on the event, click on binding definition
> button.
> Once in the WF container you can pull into each task container as needed.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas Maue Jr.
> Workflow Consultant
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Ea, Ty" <TEa at citgo.com>@LYONDELL
> > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:22 AM
> > To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject:      How to access container element _EVT_CREATOR
> >
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > We are upgrading to 4.6C from 3.1H.  We are currently trying to
> determine
> > the creator of the triggering event for one of our workflow definitions.
> > I
> > know that there is a way to access this data via the workflow task
> > container, but we are having a difficult time locating the element
> > _EVT_CREATOR to be used in our binding.  By default, we only have access
> > to
> > the following container elements in the workflow task container:
> > _WF_Priority
> > _Attach_Objects
> > _Adhoc_Objects
> > _WI_Group_Id
> > _Workitem
> >
> > How can we get access to _EVT_CREATOR?  We have attempted to use
> > _WF_INITIATOR but this will return the user id "WFBATCH" every time -
> > which
> > is not what we want.  We are looking for the user id of the creator of
> the
> > event as seen in the event log (transaction SWEL).
> >
> > Probably something really simple that I have overlooked, but any help
> > would
> > be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ty Ea
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