Maximum number of multiline element (99) (new)

Mon Dec 16 13:39:58 EST 2002

Create a subflow for your decision step and outcomes, then you can add the
multiline element as a table in the other tab.

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IBM Business Consulting Services
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Namit Bhargava/Philadelphia/IBM at IBMUS@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> on 12/16/2002
01:04:01 PM

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Subject:    Re: Maximum number of multiline element (99) (new)

Hello Folks:

I have to sent a decision step to multiple agents - the other tab in the
decision step does not allow me to put the agent table as mentioned in the
mail below - how do I achieve this? Any help will be greatly appreciated -
all agents have to complete the task independent of each other - I want
something like parallel processing but am unble to do so in a decision step
- this will be the first step in the workflow.

Thanks
Namit Bhargava
Principal Consultant
IBM Business Consulting Services

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                      12/11/2002 03:06 AM
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Hi Tomasz,

This is exactly what I need! Tested it and it works fine!

Thanks a lot for your answer.

Robert Verlaat

Robert,

The general settings are:

- in the "Agents" section you can specify the container table as the
"expression". Then each of the users provided in the table will receive
a
notification, but these all messages refer to the same work item. When
one
of the many agents completes the work item, it disappears from all the
other
inboxes.

- in the "Other" tab you can also specify a table for the "multiple
parallel
processing". For each of the entries (usually the list of agents...)
there
will be a separate work item created by the system, and the agents for
each
of the work items will be determined as you've specified in the "Agents"
tab.

So if you have your AGENTTABLE in the "Other" AND in the "Agents"
section,
there will be several work items created, but each of them will send a
notification to ALL of the users in the AGENTTABLE (each of them will
receive as many work items, as there were entries in the AGENTTABLE).
(This
discussion of course assumes there was >1 entry in the table)

What you're probably trying to accomplish is having the AGENTTABLE
contain
the list of agents, and having A SEPARATE work item issued to each of
the
agents -- but only one of them. Then each agent needs to complete his
work
item independently from the others, but he's only asked to complete one
item. To do this you need to use a small but very useful trick:
- Provide AGENTTABLE in the "Other" section. This will make sure that
many
work items will be created, but also:
- In the input help for the "Agent" you'll see two entries for the
AGENTTABLE: one "plain" entry and one with the comment "with index".
Please
select the "with index" entry, which will insert the "&AGENTTABLE()&"
expression as agent specfication.

The "with index" entry simply takes the current entry from AGENTTABLE
for
this specific work item, not the whole contents of the table.

Kind regards,
Tomasz

-----Original Message-----
From: Breslavets, Sergey [mailto:Sergey.Breslavets at anheuser-busch.com]
Sent: Tuesday,10. December 2002 19:19
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Maximum number of multiline element (99) (new)

Hi Robert,

Are all three agents required to complete the task in order for the
process
to
move on, or only any one of them (though all should be ABLE to do it)?
If all three are required to complete the task, are there any
dependencies
or
they must be able to do this independently?

Thanks,
Sergey

-----Original Message-----
From: Verlaat, Robert [mailto:Robert.Verlaat at PWN.NL]
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:43 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Maximum number of multiline element (99) (new)

Hello,

I want a (1) Task to be executed by several users. So I did the
following: The multiline element which contains all the users, I used as
the agent assignment(expression).
I also used this Multiline element on the "Other" Tab.

Now all the users (in the Multiline element) receive the WI * the number
of agents!? So if the element contains 3 users, all 3 users receive 3 WI
in their inboxes!?
When 1 user executes the WI, it also disappears from the other Inboxes.

When I the ML-element(contains 3 users)as agent assignment, and define
on the Other TAB an element which contains 1 entry, all 3 users receive
1 WI but only 1 can execute it.

Obviously I am missing something but I don't see what it might be...

Hopefully anyone can help me on this?

Thank,

Robert Verlaat

Hi Andreas,
Yes the multiline element maximum is 99 and cannot be changed. There are
obviously
performance and resource impacts when creating a large number of work
items at once
hence the restriction.
To really want to create > 99 work items for the same task is
a little unusual to say the least.
Perhaps you could explain your scenario a little
more - there may be a better approach.

Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (SRM, EBP, Workflow)
and co-author of the book
"Practical Workflow for SAP"
SAP Australia
email: jocelyn.dart at sap.com
phone: +61 412 390 267
fax:   +61 2 9935 4880

-----Original Message-----
From: Klein, Andreas
Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2002 10:53 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Maximum number of multiline element (99)

Hello together,

I have a question concerning the maximum number of the multiline element
which can be found in a workflow task under 'other'. With this multiline
element one defines the dynamic parallel processing of work items. As
far as I know, the maximum number of work items created at run time is
99 and there
is no possibility to change this number towards higher values. Does
anyone know about a solution or workaround to bypass this 99 number? I
am not thinking about sending a workitem to 99+ people and only one of
them choosing it, but to really create 99+ different workitems at the
same time.

Any help is welcome!

Thanks + Best regards,

Andreas

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