How to create a background step?

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Gordon,
Your situation is a little unclear.
Do you mean the following:
 
* You have a first step that results in a change to the database
- perhaps by calling a transaction?
* After that you have a condition step that checks the value of the
change made by looking at an object attribute - and that isn't working?
 
In this case the best solution is probably to make the first step
asynchronous with a terminating event, i.e. turn the "synchronous" flag
on the method OFF and add a terminating event to the matching task to check
that the database has been updated.  Of course you will need to make
sure the event is raised, so you may have to add configuration to add the new
event.
 
If it's a database change then putting a requested start on the second step
would catch most situations but could not be guaranteed (e.g. a more serious
system problem or the user changing the wrong data would not be caught).
 
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (SRM, EBP, Workflow)
and co-author of the book
"Practical Workflow for SAP"
SAP Australia
* jocelyn.dart at sap.com
* +61 412 390 267
7 +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Pokraka, Michael [mailto:michael.pokraka at kcc.com]
Sent: Friday, 9 August 2002 2:01 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: How to create a background step?
 
 
You could of course use deadline monitoring on the second step (in the tab
'Requested start' in the condition step) and tell it to start 1 minute later
(that's the smallest incr. you can use.
Cheers
Mike
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Blackmore [mailto:gordon.blackmore at sasktel.sk.ca]
Sent: 08 August 2002 15:54
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: How to create a background step?
 
 
OSS has recommend I create a background step to solve problem of condition
step not testing a change correctly.
 
The background step should read:
 
BEGIN_METHOD WASTETIME CHANGING CONTAINER.
WAIT UP TO 5 SECONDS.
END_METHOD.
 
I am still working in my first workflow, so I need a "cook book" method.
 
Thank-you in advance.
 
_____________________________
Gordon Blackmore
SAP Analyst
SaskTel
 
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