Background task does not complete

[Cristy Calhoun]

Hi Robin,
 
I used to have this problem all the time when I would
use a background step of a workflow to run a BDC.
Although the BDC would preform perfectly in the
background, the task would never complete.
 
To get around the problem, I would make the background
task asynchronous and use a terminating event.  Then
in the Function Module called by the object method
(not in the object method because it never goes back
there) I would evaluated the BDC run, If it ran
properly I would use swe_event_create to trigger a
success terminating event, otherwise I would trigger a
failure terminating event.
 
Hope this helps,
Cristy Calhoun
 
--- Robin Sahasranam <Rsahasranam at worldbank.org>
wrote:
> I have developed a workflow in 4.0B where the first
> step is a background task
> which executes a synchronous object method which
> calls a function. The function
> basically sets up some container elements. The
> problem that I am having is that
> the background step never completes. It remains in
> STARTED status. The workflow
> logs do not display any error. After a few hours I
> get the workflow error
> notification sent to WF Administrator.
>
> Everything is fine with the workflow, task, business
> object, method and
> function. None of them show any error and everything
> is generated properly. I
> can test the function outside workflow and it works
> fine.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help you can in
> diagnosing and fixing this
> problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Robin Sahasranam
 
 
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