EBP 2 stage approval WF WS 10000276

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Nicholas,
Hopefully a little more info will help you sort it out.
 
All EBP workflows use ad hoc agent assignment.  For ad hoc
agent assignment to work, you must have the following:
 
* Workflow has the basic data property to allow ad hoc agent assignment
 
* Workflow has the basic data constructor class - there is a special
one for EBP - in 2.0c it's called program exit instead of constructor class
I think
It's the constructor class that starts the evaluation of the ad hoc agents
 
* Ad hoc agent object - in your case ASBMANOFSL is the ad hoc agent object
The Create method of the ad hoc agent object is the one that determines the
initial
agents for a step.  It is VITAL in 2.0C and above that the Create method
works
for both saved shopping carts and new shopping carts (i.e. it must work
during
approval preview even though the shopping cart has not yet been saved).
 
* The ad hoc agent object attribute "Agents" assigned to the relevant step
 
 
For the spending limit approver determination to work you must have:
* Spending limit/approval limit defined for the user and approver
* Spending limit approver defined in the organisation plan attribute for
the user (i.e. the shopping cart creator)
 
So yes it sound like you have done everything ok.
 
If you look in the create method of asbmanofsl you will find that all it
does is use the shopping cart to retrieve the spending limit manager as an
attribute of the shopping cart.  So your best bet to debug is to use the
business object builder (transaction SWO1) test options against an existing
shopping cart
created by the relevant shopping cart creator to see if the attribute
returns
the spending limit manager userid in the correct format.  It may just be
that
the spending limit manager attribute has not been entered in the correct
format
- in any case doing some attribute tests should clarify the problem.
 
Regards,
Jocelyn Dart
SAP Australia
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Bertrand, Scott
Sent: Monday, 29 April 2002 4:10 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: EBP 2 stage approval WF WS 10000276
 
 
Hi Nicholas,
 
MAke sure check function module SWB_CHECK_FB_START_COND_EVAL is in the event
linkage entry for your flow (TX SWE2 will take you there).
 
Hope this helps,
 
Scott Bertrand
Technical Consultant
SAP America, Inc.
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Brand [mailto:nicholas.n.brand at uk.pwcglobal.com]
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 6:29 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: EBP 2 stage approval WF WS 10000276
 
 
Memo from Nicholas N Brand of PricewaterhouseCoopers
 
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Hi,
 
I am working on an EBP implemntation.
I've got the single level shopping cart approval workflow (WS 10000129)
working beautifully!
 
I'm now trying to configure the 2 stage approval workflow in EBP - WS
10000276.
I have maintained the attribute SLAPPROVER in the org structure at position
level for the relevant users.
I have also set the spending limit and the approval limt in the relevant
roles for the users (in the personalisation tab)
I have maintained the starting conditions so that the spending limit
workflow is started:
ReqtCovRequest.TotalValue > ReqtCovRequest.RequestedUser.ValueLimit ==>
start WS10000276
 
This is all exactly as per OSS note 397345 (Example for how to customise
spending limit approval).
 
When I save a shopping basket the WF is started correctly but no agents are
found for the approval step (the first dialogue task in the WF).
If, before I order the basket, I add an approver to the workflow via the
adhoc function then the approval step is sent to this adhoc approver.
 
Is there something else that needs configuring so that the workflow finds
the rights user to send whom to send the approval workitem?
 
The responsible agents for the approval task is set via an expression '
&Agents_001.agents&'. The container element 'Agents_001' is based on the
object 'ASBMANOFSL'. In the triggering event to workflow binding there is
no value assigned to the 'Agents_001' workflow container element in the SAP
standard workflow. If this is correct, I am unsure how the expression '
&Agents_001.agents&' get populated.
I tried testing and debugging the object 'ASBMANOFSL' but when I tried to
instantiate the object it prompted me for the key of the object which is of
type 'guid in 'CHAR' format in uppercase'. I haven't determined which guid
is required.
 
We are using EBP 2.0c against a SAP 4.6c backend.
Oh yes, and of course I have refreshed the run-time buffer!
 
Thank you all - any pearls of wisdom much appreciated
 
 
Best wishes,
Nicholas
 
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