Simulating a role resolution within a workflow step

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Frank,
Function module RH_GET_ACTORS can be used to execute role resolution and
return a list of agents.  You need to pass in your role id (in HR format
i.e.
AC99999999 where 99999999 is the role number) and the role container.
 
There are a number of ways of including this in your workflow but a couple
of suggestions for you:
 
1) If the role resolution is based on the attributes of objects and doesn't
need any dynamic parameter input, then create a virtual attribute of type
WFSYST-AGENT
(mulitline if you need to) against the most appropriate
object to determine the agents.  E.g. if the role is "Vendor master owner"
based on
vendor city/country/etc. then you could create an attribute "vendor master
owner" against
the vendor object LFA1.  To include it in your workflow you then just
reference
the attribute of the object i.e. LFA1.vendormasterowner
 
2) If you need to pass in additional parameters that won't be known until
runtime,
create a method against the most appropriate object to determine the agents.
 
e.g "authorised cost centre delegate" where parameters are cost centre, and
authority level (which won't be known until runtime).  The method should
return
the list of agents - you could either use the standard "result" parameter or
 
add your own output parameter to the method.   Make sure your method
has the dialog flag off, then create a background task for it, and include
it as an activity step in your workflow (prior to where you want to use the
agents)
binding the agent list to your workflow container element.
 
Note that function module RH_GET_ACTORS only resolves the role - it doesn't
check
whether all the agents found are possible agents.  So if that is likely to
be an
issue you might also want to call WF_TASK.AllAgentsOfTaskGet and compare the
 
possible agents to the list of agents found by the role in your method or
attribute.
 
Hope that helps.
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (EBP, 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: Frank Reichenbach [mailto:frankreichenbach at dontgotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 27 October 2001 2:39 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Simulating a role resolution within a workflow step
 
 
Hi guys,
being on a 46b system I am trying to somehow manage the following task:
The basic aim is to get the result of a role resolution and to store it in a
workflow
container-element in order to use it later on in another step within this
workflow.
This of course should be achieved without any user interaction. (e.g. its
not possible to create a dummy method that is used by a dummy task that is
used by a step that is then being executed by a user storing
_WI_actual_agent).
Is anyone aware of the function that is executed when the wfms does the role
resolution and could thus be called by a background task.
Any other suggestions are also very welcome!
 
Thanks in advance!
 
Best regards,
 
Frank
 
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