Declaring a table as an event parameter

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

The "multiline" flag in the event definition says what you pass is a table
of instances typed like your reference field. If you want to pass a "real"
table (i.e. many rows of a certain structure), you need to model this
structure yourself. In other words, pass the whole record as one field, then
split it into the respective fields explicitly in your code.
 
Ugly, but will work. To lessen the pain you can use typecasting operations
("move field to my_structure").
 
Kind regards,
Tomasz
 
-----Original Message-----
From: phillips, tim [mailto:tim.phillips at SER.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 4:38 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Declaring a table as an event parameter
 
 
All,
 
Apologies if this is (probably) a simple question, but here goes:
 
I'm using 'SWE_EVENT_CREATE' to trigger my workflow based on my own
task/business object, and am setting a table parameter in the event
container with swc_set_table.
 
I realise I have to declare this table as an event parameter in the business
object builder in order for the data to be transferred into the method and
task containers via the bindings, but the system won't seem to let me do it.
 
I keep getting prompted for a DDIC reference field, when all I really want
to specify is just the DDIC table/structure.  I have checked the multiline
property, but to no avail.  The system documentation insinuates that this
shouldn't be happening.
 
Bizarrely, I didn't encounter this error when declaring table parameters for
the object method - just the DDIC reference table was enough!
 
Is there a way around this, or am I doing something wrong?
 
Up until now, I've been getting around this problem with a custom receiver
function module which, essentially, ignores the bindings between containers
(it just copies the extra elements in the event container straight into the
workflow container), but that seems unnecessarily elaborate.
 
Any ideas? - I'm on SAP 4.0b.
 
Tim
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