web flow

[Rickayzen, Alan]

Jocelyn is right, but you do need to talk to your security folk early on in the project to  determine whether or not you will really be able to send and receive messages from a remote system.
 
Alan
 
Sorry, about the not answering the MAPI post, I only just spotted it.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dart, Jocelyn
Sent: Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2002 01:55
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: web flow
 
 
Hi Susie,
Wf-XML can be done from 4.6C onwards - so yes it is possible to do
this in your environment.
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: Norris, Susie [mailto:Susie.Norris at sabre.com]
Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2002 12:54 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: web flow
 
 
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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To:    SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
cc:
 
 
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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