Business Workplace / WebFlow Inbox on Web

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Kenneth,
There are a number of options for web based inboxes, which are
of course discussed in the book in the chapter on work item delivery.
 
However briefly your options are as follows:
1. If you are using Enterprise Portals, there is a universal worklist iview,
or you can use the ITS to call BWSP (web inbox) directly or SBWP via SAPGUI for HTML,
or you can also use the WinGUI option to call SBWP itself.
2. If you are using SAP Workplace, there is a workflow miniapp, BCBMTWFM0001.
Actually you should also be able to use this option in your release provided you have an ITS.
3. Some solutions have their own inboxes, e.g. EBP and ESS have special inboxes
that you can use.
4. If you have an ITS you can use BWSP - the web inbox.
5. If you have an ITS you can use SBWP itself via SAPGUI for HTML.
6. You can write your own using SAP_WAPI* function modules. There are some
good function modules for this purpose as they are used to build some of the other
inboxes.
 
So far as I am aware there isn't a web-based inbox built specifically using
the new WAS tools such as BSP yet.  It's still common to run an ITS alongside
a WAS system at this point due to the large amount of content already written for the ITS.
 
Don't forget that you also need to provide a way to execute work items called
by your inbox.  It's usual to use SAPGUI for HTML via an ITS for this purpose.
I would imagine you already have an ITS with your BW system anyway?
 
A large part of the inbox decision process depends on what features you need
your agents to use.  The iviews/miniapps provide the simplest and most user-friendly
interface, the web inbox provides a little more functionality, SBWP provides the
highest level of functionality.
 
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (SRM, EBP, Workflow)
and co-author of the book
"Practical Workflow for SAP"
SAP Australia
email: jocelyn.dart at sap.com
phone: +61 412 390 267
fax:   +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Hill [mailto:SAP_DEV_WB at Yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, 9 November 2002 3:16 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Business Workplace / WebFlow Inbox on Web
 
 
Hello Susan, Alan and all,
 
We are looking for documentation or a tutorial on how to surface
the Business Workplace (transaction SWBP) to the Web.  And
in specific, we would like to expose the list of WorkFlow items in
our users inbox on the Web.  We have brought up WAS 6.20 as
included in the BW 3 as a means to kick start a prototype project
absent the availability of SAP R3 WAS 6.20 full release which we
plan to install when it arrives, reportedly in late November.
 
Having the WF items appear on a frame or corner of a custom,
non-SAP Web page will drive many of our new projects.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks and regards,
 
Kenneth Hill
WF Admin. and Linux Pioneer
The World Bank
(KennHill at WorldBank.org)