web flow

Thu Nov 7 03:59:37 EST 2002

Hi*,

included you will find a short excerpt of our WF-XML study and here is a
cool link to the SAP-NET ;-) (link only in German).
http://www.sap.info/de/news.php4?OID=Article-178383dc6631b538a1

Kind Regards
Christian Nicklas

-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Nicklas [mailto:christian.nicklas at IXOS.DE]
Sent: Montag, 4. November 2002 08:08
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: web flow

Hi Susie,

we have created a scenario with parts of a supplay chain management process.
Two SAP-systems are linked with the WF-XML protocoll to send and receive XML
documents and interact via a cooperative workflow-scenario. Different SAP
Objects are involved in this process. Let me know how you get on. Are you
using the ITS as web-server and is the process between different companies
or within one company? (Out of the firewall)

Kind Regards
Christian Nicklas

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Brand [mailto:nicholas.n.brand at uk.pwcglobal.com]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:33 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: web flow

Susie,

Sorry for slight delay. As Jocelyn said, the answer is 'yes'.
You'll need to liaise with the supplier to get them to build the
corresponding target workflow.
It's important that in both the sending and target workflows, the workflow
container elements being sent and received via Wf-XML have identical names.

When  the workflow reaches the Web activity step, it extracts from the Task
      Container all elements that are either:
   ABAP Dictionary types or
   XML_DOC object types

It places these values in the generated Wf-XML document.
Task container elements from the calling workflow must be populated, if
only with an initial value, if they are to be included in the Wf-XML
document passed to the remote workflow system.
The Workflow Container Elements in the remote workflow must be named
identically to their respective Task Container Elements in the calling
workflow - i.e. the Container Element name is the matching key used.
When the remote workflow has completed, the values of those Workflow
Container Elements set as 'Export' parameters are sent back to the calling
workflow in a Wf-XML document.
Once the Wf-XML document reaches the calling workflow system, the values
are put into the like-named Task Container Elements, overwriting any value
stored there.

Hope that helps.
Do let us know how it goes.

Kind regards,
Nicholas Brand

"Norris, Susie" <Susie.Norris at sabre.com>@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> on 23/10/2002
15:54:09

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Nicholas,
We have a need to do something like this to communicate to our supplier's
R/3 system.  Both systems are 4.6C; would this be possible?

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Brand [mailto:nicholas.n.brand at uk.pwcglobal.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 4:31 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: web flow

Sekar,

It's exciting to hear of people using the Wf-XML feature at last. It's been
around for a while now but rarely gets a mention on the WUG.
Have many other people in the group used this technique? It would be
interesting to see how many other collaborative workflow are being built
out there.

Anyway, back to your question:

You're right, with the wait for feedback flag set on your webflow task, the
associated work item is not completed during execution until a reply is
received in the form of a Wf-XML document. If you choose transfer format 01
(Wf-XML), the system's required reply URL is included in the XML document
sent to your target system. The XML reply document must contain the
operation ProcessInstanceStateChanged and set the process status to
closed.completed or closed.abnormalCompleted before the workflow can
continue.

Of course, you must complete the workflow in the target system before the
necessary Wf-XML document is sent back to the calling system; it may be
that you simply have to execute the workitem.

This was on a 4.6c system.

Please let us know how you get on.

Kind regards,
Nicholas

"Sekar, A" <a.sekar at intel.com>@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> on 23/10/2002 08:07:24

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Subject:    web flow

Any help in this is greatly appreciated.

   I am using SAP 6.1.
We are trying to call a workflow in a system from another system's workflow
.Both the systems are in 6.1.
I used the web activity to make this call.If I check the wait for feedback
in the calling system then the source system is not able to complete the
workflow.That is, it is waiting in the web activity step.
In the target system it creates two xml document one is request and the
other one is response document.Both got the operation
>CreateProcessInstance</Operation.
How to generate a document with processInstancestateChanged .I think this
document will complete the workflow in the source system.

Thanks
Sekar

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