Extending Workflow to large user group without SAPOffice inbo x.. ..?

[Van der Burg, Jeroen JA SITI-ITPSEE]

Inigo,
 
We are building an HR system for 80.000 end users; and have had the =
same
kind of decisions to take on email addressing.
 
What we do is to only use the email address of the employee in HR =
(IT0105
subty 0010) and, whenever we need to send out an email, we retrieve it =
and
put it as an container element in the workflow. You do not have to =
maintain
the user's email address, just the employee's; which we have automated
through an IDoc interface with our MS Exchange directory.
 
It is more efficient to create a virtual attribute for (one of the) =
employee
objects to do this, but in our situation we often need to send out an =
email
to the employee's supervisor or manager instead of the employee =
him/herself.
To do this I have written one method to retrieve the relevant address =
based
on employee number and a parameter which email address is required
(employee, manager, supervisor). The parameter is often retrieved from =
a
custom table which allows for country and company dependent =
customising.=20
 
 
Regards,
 
 
Jeroen
 
 
Jeroen van der Burg
Galaxy SAP workflow lead
 
Stichthage building, Koningin Julianaplein 15, 2595 AA, Den Haag, =
Postbus
336, 2501 CH, Den Haag, The Netherlands
 
Tel: +31 70 377  7836
Email:=20
Internet: http://www.shell.com
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Angelus, Inigo [mailto:inigo.angelus at rbc.com]
Sent: 21 June 2002 18:49
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Extending Workflow to large user group without SAPOffice
inbox.. ..?
 
 
Hi all,
 
We are in banking industry and our employee base is around 60,000 and =
its
growing constantly with mergers and acquisitions. We are big SAP shop =
for
awhile implemented FI/CO, MM and HR. (not a mySAP customer). We don't =
have
named user id  for all 60,000 employees there is no need for that.
 
We have implemented wokflow in a small scale in procurement. Now we are
looking to implement wokflow in HR and make it available to all =
employee
population over web.  We are planning to implement one step =
notification
workflows as well as multistep approval workflows. What we are trying =
to
figure out now is, How to extend the functionality of the workflow to =
use
external mail client without having a inbox in SAPoffice . Have anybody
tried to do something like this? I would be interested in knowing the
approach they have taken in achieving this. We have a LDAP server where =
we
have all the SMTP mail address. Are there a user exit using which we =
can
route the mail to go to external mail client instead of SAPOffice.
 
Any thoughts and help are much appreciated...
 
Thanks,
RBC.
 
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