Business Workplace / WebFlow Inbox on Web

[SAP Dev WB]

Jocelyn Dart,
 
Thank you!  I'll explore several of your suggestions to see what will
work best for us.
 
Regards,
 
Kenn
 
 
At 12:00 AM 11/11/02 +0100, you wrote:
>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)