Binding interfeer between two different workflows

[de Valensart Schoenmaeckers, Patrick]

Dear Jocelyn and workflowers,
 
The problem of interfeerence between two workflow has disappeared.
 
The function module that is called by our object methods was not
 
refreshing the screens correctly.
 
However, one issue is still there :
 
When we launch several workflow (more or less 5 workflows in an interval
 
of two minutes) some of them have the following error :
 
When we transfer texts from workflow to a multiline element in a task
 
(text hardcoded in the binding definition workflow to task),
 
only the last line is transferred. I have checked that by displaying
 
workitems created by the task where the texts are transferred and
 
following the menu path : extra > container.
 
 
 
Example :
 
Task container <== Workflow container
 
Multilineelement <== text1
 
Multilineelement <== text2
 
Multilineelement <== text3
 
 
 
Only text 3 appears in the container of the workitem.
 
Thanks in advance for any help.
 
Best regards,
 
Patrick de Valensart
Associate IS Analyst
Philip Morris Benelux M&S
 
 
PS : I am on release 40B and I already opened a note in OSS for this. I am
now waiting for an answer.
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dart, Jocelyn [mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:58 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Binding interfeer between two different workflows
 
 
Hi Patrick,
Suggest you report the second problem via OSS.
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (EBP, BBP, Ecommerce, Internet Transaction Server, Workflow)
SAP Australia
Email jocelyn.dart at sap.com <mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
Tel: +61 412 390 267
Fax: +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: de Valensart Schoenmaeckers, Patrick
[mailto:deValensartSchoenmaeckers.Patrick at pmintl.ch]
Sent: Saturday, 26 January 2002 1:36 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Binding interfeer between two different workflows
 
 
Hi workflowers,
 
Here is a never-seen problem :
 
I have two "homemade" workflow templates running in the same system : one
for approval of PR and one for FI invoices. In the first one, at some stage
an online synchronous task using a homemade method is called. In the second
one also, but with a different task and a different method (different object
type).
 
Here is where it goes wrong :
 
- Binding Workflow-task of workflow A is called in workflow B (e.g. I have a
multiline container element INV_DECISION in task for Workflow A, in which I
send the text 'Approve' and the text 'Litigation' via binding workflow to
task, and a multiline element PR_DECISION in the task used for workflow B,
in which I send the text 'Approve' and the text 'Refuse' via binding
workflow to task. When executing the workitem created by the synchronous
task in workflow A, I see the texts that are normally sent by workflow B!!!)
This happens only sometimes (randomly?), and I do not find why.
 
- When I execute a workitem (from Outlook SAP MAPI), the first one goes OK.
But when I execute another one just after with the same user, the user is
still logged in the system (dialog-RFC connection) altough the previous
workitem is completed, which is normal. The workitem I execute at that time
then completes automatically (without stopping into the screens where it
should stop normally), and the task returns the same results (export
parameters from task to workflow) than the first workitem. This happens even
if the first workitem is created by workflow A, and the second is created by
workflow B, and vice-versa.
 
It looks like there is a big mess in the runtime containers. How can that
come?
 
Has anybody had the same kind of weird problem?
 
I am on release 40B.
 
Thanks in advance for your responses.
 
Patrick de Valensart
Associate IS Analyst
Philip Morris Benelux M&S