TMS Workflow

[Becker Stephan (extern)]

Hi Chris,
 
I would insert a background method step between approval and import (before
step 172 in WS30000524, if that's the one you're using), which would check
the sequence based on the release date/time, comparing to other TMS workflow
instances running (with SAP_WAPI_WORKITEMS_TO_OBJECT). Put this check into a
subworkflow and call that recursively if the time has not come to import,
with a requested start deadline on the recursive call..
If you want to avoid delays on imports through a fixed wait between two
checks, you can (still in that one step you're adding) take a note of the
transport before the one you're working on, add a few minutes or so for its
import, and use that as a delay until you try again..
 
I hope this helps, let me know if you have problems.
 
Cheerio,
Stephan
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Yarbrough, Chris [mailto:chris.yarbrough at gwl.com]
Sent: Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2002 18:43
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: TMS Workflow
 
 
Hello everyone,
 
I have a question regarding the TMS workflow. Our BASIS consultants would
like assurance that when transport proposals are released, that they will go
into the import system in the order they were released and not the order
they are approved. That is to say that, if 5 proposals are released and
approved in a different order than released, that they will be imported in
the release order and not approval order.
 
RELEASED            APPROVED               IMPORTED?
 
A,B,C,D,E              B,E,D,A,C                  A,B,C,D,E  or B,E,D,A,C
 
Perhaps there is a way to queue up the releases or park them somehow. Your
help would be greatly appreciated, as I have been asked to create an
alternated notification workflow that seems less than desirealbe. We would
like documentation on this if anyone knows of some and possibley to set up a
conference call to test it or determine in the config that it works
properly. Many thanks in advance.
 
Chris Yarbrough
SAP Workflow Consultant
Great West Life - Denver
chris.yarbrough at gwl.com
303-737-2101