User decisions in ESS - Advance with Dialog or Force WEBGUI

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Mark,
I have been down this path before where you want to be able to see
details but also just get them to answer a question.
 
Funnily enough that's pretty much what SAPForms for HTML does
- i.e. allows you to display limited data (note you are not getting
the original transaction, so you need to think about how much
and what data they need to see) plus capture a response.
That's essentially wat ESS is doing a lot of the time so you
should have plenty of examples to choose from.
 
This is a development job that requires some programming of course
- so you want to keep it simple if you can. If you are not able
to do this yourself then you can always ask SAP for a consultant
to help but I'm confident you can figure it out on your own. There is
a reasonable section in the SAP Library help that explains how it
works and the rest is just looking at how it is done in ESS.
 
 
Regards,
Jocelyn Dart
SAP Australia (SRM, EBP, Workflow)
Ph: +61 412 390 267
e-mail: jocelyn.dart at sap.com
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Shane Burns [mailto:Shane.Burns at boimail.com]
Sent: Friday, 28 June 2002 1:24 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: User decisions in ESS - Advance with Dialog or Force WEBGUI
 
 
G'day Gurus,
 
Firstly thanks to Neeraja, Joc and Patrick for the assistance on the last
one.
 
This time I'm having trouble with the display of a User Decision via ESS.
By default the Decision step is displayed in a reduced format with only the
buttons and text (no object link). In this approval process the customer
would like to see the object in question before making a decision.
 
To begin with I tried adding a display step before the user decision,
hoping to rely on "Advance with Dialog" to smooth over having two
workitems. The User Decision pops up immediately as hoped but displayed via
the WEBGUI appearing much as it would through the GUI Workplace (with the
object link available to allow display). The problem is that when the
decision is made the next screen shows what I believe to be a dead link.
According to note 487649 "Advance with Dialog" does not work via the web
especially with mixed interface techniques (i.e. the WEBGUI display of the
object, and the presumably service driven Decision).
 
Having seen that the decision could be displayed "normally" with the object
link via the WEBGUI, I really don't need the predisplay step. I guess this
is more an ITS question, but how can I make the user decision use the
WEBGUI so that I can have the full functionality of the WI.
 
Hopefully there is a simple answer to this long winded question.
 
Have fun!
Mark Pyc
(via Shane Burns)
 
 
 
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