WF for Accounting Document line entry

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Govind,
Ulrich's correct - the Open FI interface is your best bet.
Change documents are usually not suitable for BSEG/BKPF.
 
The option of just sending a mail instead of creating a workflow is
fine - but remember a workflow will give you greater control. You should
also look at the "subscribe" option in generic object services as  a
way of doing this - there's some info on this on the website
http://service.sap.com/webflow
 
However the root of your problem is that the business application
itself needs to trigger the event.  The business object event definition
is just that - a formal definition of the event name and parameters.
It must exist before the business application can trigger it, but it's
really the business application that does the work.
 
So it comes back to choosing the correct event creation technique
for your situation.  For FI documents your options are:
1. Open FI interface
2. Configuration based on the standard FI workflow templates such as
parked document processing
3. Raising the event in a user-exit or BADI.
 
Option 1 is your best bet.  I'm not sure if there are any suitable
events available from option 2 - you need to read the standard workflow
template scenarios to understand what events they trigger and when.
Option 3 is the last resort situation.  All of the options have
documentation
in the SAP Library.
 
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: Ulrich Mende [mailto:wug at mende-edv-beratung.de]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 March 2002 4:54 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: WF for Accounting Document line entry
 
 
Hi Govind-
are you interested in a SAP office message only? Then may be you could
use the Open-FI-Interface and from there directly send your message via
FM SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_SEND_API1.
If you want to trigger an event of a BOR-objecttype, you can do this in
that interface too.
Another good idea is to create an event together with a change document
(TA SCTO)
On the other hand an event can not only trigger a workflow. It can
directly call a function module. Therefore you have to write a special
FM with an interface like SWW_WI_CREATE_VIA_EVENT and put it into the
type linkage of that event (TA SWETYPV). The event manager will call
this FM every time an event is created.
 
Best regards Uli
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Govindarajan R, Consultant/PWC" <pwcgovind at bheltry.co.in> schrieb am
19.03.2002, 12:50:20:
> We are in 4.6B.
> I have developed workflow for sending mails when a sales order is
> changed.
> Now I am trying to develop a workflow for sending mail when an
> accounting document (Vendor Payment or Customer Receipt) beyond a
> certain value is created.
> Accounting value is stored in BSEG table and Header table is BKPF.
> The steps that I am planning are :
> 1. Create a subtype for BSEG say ZBSEG.
> 2. Create an event for ZBSEG say ZCREATE.
> 3. Create this Event ZCREATE with condition BSEG Document type = X and
> BSEG Value = Z.
> 4. Build desired attributes in the subtype.
> 5. Build a workflow based on this newly created Business Object.
>
> I am stuck at step 3.
> Can somebody help me in
> a. is this approach right?
> b. should i work in bseg or bkpf?
> c. how do i create the event in the above approach.
> thanks in anticipation
> rgds
> govind