Maintaining prefix numbers

[Balasubramaniam, Swaminathan]

Dale,
What I understand from your mail is, it is okay if the Workflow Development
Environment Customizing is incomplete in
QA and Production system since, the prefix number for standard objects will
have our development system as the SAP system when we transport the Workflow
Customizing.
 
When we initially implemented workflow 4 years back, I do not know how they
did it. But we had respective SAP system name. But every time we copy our
Production to QA ( once in 3 months ), our Basis team goes back to our QA
system and corrects the system name here.
 
Are you suggesting that it is no big deal since we are not doing any
development in QA?
 
Thanks
 
Swami
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Davis [mailto:dkdavis at us.ibm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 2:45 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Maintaining prefix numbers
 
 
Abby:
 
It is critical to set up prefixes in the clients/systems where you will be
creating workflow templates, tasks and roles.
If you are not performing those activities in a given client then a prefix
is not necessary.
The prefix determines the first 3 characters of  the number range for your
workflow templates, tasks and roles. So in a system where your prefix is
set to 940, the first workflow template you create will be created with the
id 94000001, increasing sequentially by 1. The same applies to standard
tasks and templates
 
The target QA system does not require the prefix to exist in that
system/client before you transport your objects. The relationship between
WF repository objects and the source system is maintained in the TADIR
table.
 
A unique prefix is required in each client where you create workflow
standard tasks, templates and roles  toensure that each of these objects
has a unique id. If you omit this in a given system/client where you are
doing development, then you run the risk of overriding  one these objects
when transported to downstream systems or even  when transported between
the two development systems.
 
The first scenario you described for 040  is sufficient.
 
Regards
Dale Davis Jones
IBM / SAP Certified
Senior SAP Workflow & PP Consultant - SAP Practice
 
IBM Global Services
Phone: 919-543-7678
               T/L 8-441-7678
  Internet Address: DKDAVIS at US.IBM.COM
 
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lose sight of the shore..........
 
 
Abby Dywan <abby.dywan at us.pwcglobal.com>@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> on 08/20/2002
11:23:08 AM
 
Please respond to "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
 
Sent by:    SAP Workflow <Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
 
 
To:    SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
cc:
Subject:    Maintaining prefix numbers
 
 
 
Hi all -
 
I've been asked this question by my team lead, and as I am new to wflow I'm
not as certain of the answer... if anyone knows, would you please let me
know?  I would appreciate it so much!
 
It's regarding setting up the workflow customizing in SWU3.
 
When you are maintaining prefix numbers is OOW4, I know you're supposed to
set  a prefix  up for each client and each system.
 
First off:  is there any danger in not setting prefix numbers for a client
in which you are not going to create tasks?
 
#2  What are these prefix numbers used for, other than as a sign of where
the task was created?  (Since it's cross-client).  The concern is, if I
develop a client in 040 and transport it to QA - will this prefix number
change as it is transported?  Will the maintaining prefix number table in
QA have to have the line for that particular prefix?
 
Example:  You create a task in Dev 040 with - let's call it number
940000001.
 
Prefix number table is set up in dev to read:
Prefix    940
SAP System   R3D
Client   040
Dev Class   ZCA
 
When you transport this task into QA, does the prefix table info have to be
there before the task is transported for the task to work in QA? Or should
you be setting up the table in QA with
Prefix    940
SAP System   R3Q
Client   120
Dev Class   ZCA
 
for it to work?  I think it's the first but would like confirmation.
 
 
Thank you so much!
 
Abby Dywan
PwC Consulting
404 808 3974
 
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