AW: Deadline Monitoring - Replace step information

[Alon Raskin]

Hi Stephan,
 
Your email prompted me to do a quick test and it seems that I am right.
 
This is what I did
 
1. I sent a task to my inbox.
2. I changed the text of the task in the Workflow Builder
3. I saved and activated the Workflow
4. I refreshed the inbox
5. The item now displayed the NEW text
 
This actually makes sense as SAP probably stores the text for the work item in
some central place. So if that text is updated old workflow will 'get' the new
text.
 
By the way I am on R/3 release 4.6C
 
Kindest Regards,
Alon Raskin
3i Consulting Group
http://www.3i-consulting.com
 
 
Quoting "Becker Stephan (extern)" <Stephan.Becker.ext at mchw.siemens.de>:
 
> I could be wrong here, but as far as I know workitem texts are handled
> as
> pretty much the rest of the workflow definition: A runtime version will
> be
> created when the workflow is started to ensure integrity of the
> workflow
> instance. The workitem text with replaced variables will be stored
> when
> created and not changed for the lifetime of the workflow instance.
>
> Hth,
> Stephan
>
> -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Alon Raskin [mailto:araskin at 3i-consulting.com]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2002 23:01
> An: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Betreff: Re: Deadline Monitoring - Replace step information
>
>
> I could be way out here but I though that If you changed the text of
> the
> task (I hope you didn't create a new task) and transported it, when it
> arrives in the users inbox it will display the updated text. I haven't
> read
> this anywhere but I am pretty sure that I remember seeing this. I guess
> the
> only thing to do is to go into your QA environment and test this.
>
> If I am wrong then I guess you could write some sort of program that
> reads
> all the current items and kicks off a new workflow for each one.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alon Raskin
> 3i Consulting Group
> e: araskin at 3i-consulting.com
> w: http://www.3i-consulting.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of
> Snyder,
> Brian
> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 6:36 PM
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Deadline Monitoring - Replace step information
>
> Hi, we are working with release 4.6C.
>
> I have a WF that sends an email to employees at a certain date in
> time.
> This is controlled by a email step with deadline monitoring activated.
> There was a problem with the email text that was originally created and
> this
> has been fixed now.  BUT the current work items that are waiting with
> their
> deadline monitoring still contain the old email message.  How do I
> replace
> the email text with the new text on these work items.  Can I recreate
> these
> work items somehow without restarting the WF?  Also, this may have
> affected
> many emails tasks(1000+).
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
>
> Brian Snyder
> Business Information Systems
> WaferTech
> TEL: 360-817-3141
> bsnyder at wafertech.com
>