Single text for multiple tasks?

[Michael Pokraka]

Thanks all for the overwhelmingly fast response. I see that a crash intro to sapscript is approaching very fast.... This seems to make the most sense.
 
Cheers
Mike
 
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 08:14:00AM -0300, Flavio Oliveira wrote:
> What you can do is to create the description as an standard text and, on the
> task description, include this text (via command INCLUDE).
>
> The text can be fix, if you have only one text for all tasks or you can put
> a container element and pass it on the binding for each task. The task
> description would be like this:
>
> /:   INCLUDE &TEXTNAME& OBJECT TEXT ID ST LANGUAGE
> &_WORKITEM.WORKITEMLANGUAGE&
>
> Flavio.
>
>
>
> >From: "Zmudzin,Tomasz,VEVEY,GL-IS/IT" <Tomasz.Zmudzin at nestle.com>
> >Reply-To: SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> >To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> >Subject: Re: Single text for multiple tasks?
> >Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:47:45 +0200
> >
> >Michael,
> >
> >I think it's not possible -- at least I would not know how to do it...
> >
> >But you can still have multi-line object attributes evaluated within this
> >text. These can retrieve the individual text from whichever single source
> >you wish to have (e.g. SAP text elements, as maintained in SO10, accessible
> >via FM READ_TEXT).
> >
> >This is not always nice as it introduces a big modeling / programming
> >overhead just to have this single source. On the other hand if you need to
> >replicate the same text 20-30 times, then parametrizing the tasks somehow
> >can be a good thing to do anyway.
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >Tomasz
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Michael Pokraka [mailto:workflow at quirky.me.uk]
> >Sent: Tuesday,8. April 2003 12:43
> >To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> >Subject: Single text for multiple tasks?
> >
> >
> >Hi all,
> >Is it possible to maintain one text for multiple tasks? I have 20-30 tasks,
> >all of which should use the same text.
> >This is a large workflow development, and I'm cringing at the prospect of
> >client asking for umpteen little adjustments in each of the languages as we
> >go along - would need to change each task every time a comma is added :-(
> >
> >As usual, any input would be greatly appreciated...
> >Cheers
> >Mike
>
>
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