Urgent;Transporting changes to productive system with Workite ms not finished yet

[Kjetil Kilhavn]

You are not on version 4.6 I assume, since you can make changes without a
new version being generated. In 4.6 a new version will be generated
automagically when you transport to a system where there are active WFs in
the existing version (if I have understood it right).
 
As long as you haven't made any significant changes everything should be
fine. Significant changes: flow changes (new steps, removed steps, modified
outcomes, new container elements used in the new steps etc). What you can
do is limited, but a change in binding, or even replacing a task should be
fine.
 
You can figure out what happens by answering the questions:
- have I made any changes which requires information not already present?
- could I trap/confuse running workflows because the flow has changed?
 
Another option is to write a (not so) small program which finds all running
instances and restarts them, performing automatically the already executed
steps with the correct outcomes. Good luck :-)
--
Kjetil Kilhavn
 
 
 
 
 
                    Jaime Felipe Uribe
                    Duque                       To:     SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
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                    <Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVM
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                    03.06.2002 04:47
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                    Group"
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hi Ji Hoon,
 
Our problem is that We need to make the changes and apply those in to
productive system and the active Workitems have work with this new
functionality, again, We just made the changes with no versions, just over
the active version.
 
Thanks.
 
 
>From: "Kim, Ji Hoon" <ji.hoon.kim at sap.com>
>Reply-To: SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: Urgent;Transporting changes to productive system with Workite
>             ms not finished yet
>Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 04:21:29 +0200
>
>SAP Biz. workflow has version management functionalities. So, there is no
>problem in running workflow processes.
>But, I guess the best way of this case is .. (to avoid problem that may
>occur)
>
>1. copy the current workflow template to new one.
>2. make the changes to new workflow template.
>3. turn off the triggering event of old workflow template.
>4. turn on the triggering event of new workflow template.
>5. transfer new workflow template and customizing stuff(triggering event)
>to
>production system.
>
>Workflow experts, what is your suggestion based on your experiences ?
>
>-----?? ???-----
>?? ??: Jaime Felipe Uribe Duque
>?? ??: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>?? ??: 02-06-03 ?? 9:03
>??: Urgent&#8230;Transporting changes to productive system with Workitems
>not finished yet
>
>Hello,
>
>We have a productive system working already and there is a Workflow with
>more than 40.000 Workitems running, some of them are waiting for events
>and
>other are waiting to be executed by agents.
>
>I had to make some changes to this Workflow in development system and
>I&#8217;ll have to transport them to a productive sytem
>&#8230;What happen with thos Workitems which are running.. we&#8217;re
>not
>using a new version to do it, We just modified the active version.
>
>
>Any ASAP help will be nice
>
>Thanks a lot
>
>
>
>
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