Workflow Text Editor

[Kimball, Schuyler]

Hi all,
Is the goal to send out one or another of several possible email messages, based on the values of various workflow container elements?  If so, one solution would be to insert a condition step in the workflow (IF &SORG& = 'US01' THEN True ELSE False), and branch to the required email step based on
the result.
 
Kind regards,
  Sky
 
Sky Kimball
Senior Technical Consultant
Professional Services Organization
SAP America, Inc.
 
E  schuyler.kimball at sap.com
http://www.sap.com
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Swam_in [mailto:swam_in at hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 05:55 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Workflow Text Editor
 
 
Thanks Tomasz. But I am still not clear about your third paragraph. Let me
explain about my situation.
 
I created a workflow template. In the template I used send email task
activity by email wizard( I am in 46c ). I have 2 formats to be sent out
based on 2 different sales org. Now in the body text of the task ( which is
also similar to sapscript editor ) I want to create a following condition
 
if  sorg eq 'US01'
 consider format 1
else.
consider format 2
endif.
 where 'sorg' is the container element and format1 and format2  will be the
format I need to type in. Now how do i accomadate the above condition as per
your explanations in the 2rd paragraph. I just wanted to put forward the
above scenario which will make me understand better..
 
Thanks again..
Swami
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zmudzin,Tomasz,VEVEY,GL-DS/DM" <Tomasz.Zmudzin at nestle.com>
To: <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 4:36 AM
Subject: Re: Workflow Text Editor
 
 
> No.
>
> Again, to summarize the discussion:
>
> - if we speak about the editor for task descriptions, you deal with the
> standard SAPscript formatting / functionality. The only limitation is that
> AFAIK it could be difficult (if possible at all) to specify your own ABAP
> program to drive the output. I think limited conditionals are provided by
> the standard (e.g. output variable if its value is not blank). As I
> understand this is the editor that you've been inquiring about.
>
> - if we speak about editing workflow process definitions (i.e. which tasks
> are in the process, what are the bindings etc.) -- there's the graphical
> Workflow Builder plus the obsoleted text editor that I've been referring
to.
> It also supports conditions, as any other control statements of a workflow
> definition. Still -- if you wish, you can forget about it because its
> obsolete and not in the context of your inquiry.
>
> Coming back to your question -- if the standard SAPscript capabilities
don't
> suit you, there's a workaround. Have a container element / object
attribute
> contain the text you want to output, and simply include this item in the
> (SAPscript) task description. That gives you full control of constructing
> the text. It requires a bit of programming, but I see you're not afraid of
> this.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tomasz
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Swam_in [mailto:swam_in at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday,27. September 2002 16:37
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: Workflow Text Editor
>
>
> Thanks Tomasz. Does that mean even conditional statements are not allowed
to
> be used ?
>
> Swami
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Zmudzin,Tomasz,VEVEY,GL-DS/DM" <Tomasz.Zmudzin at nestle.com>
> To: <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Workflow Text Editor
>
>
> > Swami,
> >
> > yes, you can use control structures in the text editor. But SAP's
workflow
> > does not use a "workflow programming language" as you might expect to
> define
> > the flow. It's thus not a editor like that for SAPscript, but rather
> > something like a tree editing program, allowing you to define the
> individual
> > tasks.
> >
> > But you are discouraged to use the editor in for managing the flows. It
> has
> > been really obsoleted by the graphical builder.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Tomasz
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Swam_in [mailto:swam_in at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday,27. September 2002 01:33
> > To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject: Workflow Text Editor
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Can I use programming expression like if statement in the workflow text
> > editor. Is that like sapscript editor ?. Of course nothing
> > happened when I tried a sample if condition. Is there any documentation
on
> > this ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Swami
> >
>