Responsibility Role is working funny

[Zmudzin,Tomasz,VEVEY,GL-DS/DM]

This is just an educated guess and is not confirmed to be true, but IMHO may
be the reason for it:
 
For dialog tasks you can set the "advance with dialog" indicator that will
take the user directly into the next task if he's one of the agents. Thus,
the agents for the next task should be known already when the first one
finishes. Most probably the check for next task's agents is performed in the
context (i.e. with authorizations) of the agent of the first task.
 
In other words, we have task A followed by B. Both A and B should be
executed in John Doe's session -- and somehow the check for agents is
executed in between also with his authorizations. Again -- that's an
educated guess. I don't know whether this helps...
 
Kind regards,
Tomasz.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Belenky [mailto:danb at pcf.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 12:37 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Responsibility Role is working funny
 
 
Well, it took some time but I figured it out.
 
The Responsibility Role (Transaction PFAC) is triggered when the previous
work item is completed.   The  user who completes the previous work item is
the ID which is transferred to the security system..  If that user has
insufficient authorizations,  the responsibility role resolution function
will not complete and all possible agents will be selected.
 
 
The specific authorization object you need to have setup for the previous
user is PLOG (Human Resources/Personnel Planning).
 
 
Does anyone know why the system works this way? It seems counter intuitive.
 
 
 
 
"Krishna M.P." wrote:
 
 
I would check the Role container values during runtime by switching on the
container monitor and test the Role in PFAC using those values manually. I
also got a doubt that responsibility may not do a good job with the
alphabets verses number range.
 
Thanks,
Krishna Pottabatula
Tel: 713-353-0023;
Email: Krishna.Pottabatula at exxonmobil.com
ExxonMobil - GIS/GSA/GATS/SAP Programming Services
 
 
                    Dan Belenky
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Role is working funny
                    <Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVM
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                    04/30/02 04:54 PM
                    Please respond to
                    "SAP Workflow Users'
                    Group"
 
 
I have a responsibility role which selects the responsible agent based upon
the
material group that is passed through the business object.
 
 
Some responsibilities are simple one value matches  (Material Group of  NP
to
NP).
Other responsibilities are complex and are entered on the responsibility
change
screen with multiple lines:
       example    Material group of  NC to NC
                        Material group of NT to NT
                        Material group of SC to SC
 
 
When I test this function (Simulate role resolution) in PFAC it works
great.
However, when I use it in a workflow, the simple ones work fine, but the
complex
ones do not select (so I get all possible agents).
 
 
Does anyone know where I am going wrong?
 
 
--
Dan Belenky
Sr. Application Analyst
Pacific Coast Feather Company
danb at pcf.com
206-336-2260
 
--
Dan Belenky
Sr. Application Analyst
Pacific Coast Feather Company
danb at pcf.com
206-336-2260