Sales Order Plant Determination

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Les,
Not sure why you are looking at ExistenceCheck?
You don't say if you have included Plant as a database attribute
or as an object reference to BUS0008?
Or how you are doing the check? Using the condition editor
in a start condition or a workflow step?  Or using a separate
method to check it in code?
 
Logically you should just be able to test
SalesOrder.Items.Plant.Plant = EPN
However the difficulty is in assessing all items
for any occurrence of the plant.  The condition editor
won't yet let you assess attributes of multiline object references
so it's either quite a few workflow steps or put your
test into some code.
 
E.g. you might make an attribute "EPNRelevant" on your
sales order level, and put the code to loop through all the
items and test the value of the plant attribute there.  It's still worthwhile
keeping your plant attribute on VBAP though because
you can use that in the code and its bound to come in useful
when troubleshooting.
 
You will need some code though - time to call in the programmers.
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: Stiles, Les [mailto:Les.Stiles at icn.siemens.com]
Sent: Friday, 11 October 2002 4:47 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Sales Order Plant Determination
 
 
I know that there has to be a relatively easy solution, but I have not found
it.
 
A work item must be sent when a certain plant appears in the Line Item of a
Sales Order. I need to scan all detail lines of a certain type of Sales
Order and if any line items are to be from the Emergency Parts Network (EPN)
plant, send a Work Item to the Org Unit assocoated with the EPN.
 
This is where I am having the problem - I have extended VBAP (Sales Order
Detail) to also include 'Plant' as an attribute. I then delegated
system-wide so I could use BUS2032 for header data as it already has the
atribute 'Items' (Object - VBAP).
 
It would also appear that I should use the Local Implementation of Method:
ExistenceCheck in my extended VBAP. However, since I am not a programmer and
have not messed with creating/changing methods, I am not quite sure how to
proceed. Is this the right approach? Can I find the Plant EPN in any of the
Sales Order lines with the ExistenceCheck Method? Or is there a better
methodology?
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Les Stiles
Systems Analyst, QM & WF
Siemens ICN
400 Rinehart Rd
Lake Mary FL 32746
(407) 942-6777
les.stiles at icn.siemens.com