Ideas for simplification /was: RE: Single text for multiple tasks ?/

[Michael Pokraka]

I've been back and forth on the 20 tasks bit for some time (just counted, it's 34 to be exact); Investigated many alternatives from generic subflows to dynamic task assignments... but it all gets too muddled.
The crux of the whole flow is that many people contribute info to a custom transaction, or they add their approval. The dependencies are fairly intricate, thus requiring a flow with nearly every step in a particular place/sequence. Additionally, reports are required by step, thus I'm duplicating everything onto it's own task.
 
Cheers
Mike
 
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 01:33:47PM +0200, Zmudzin,Tomasz,VEVEY,GL-IS/IT wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> I have to admit I'm also surprised by the fix -- great thanks to Flavio.
> There's one thought still lingering in my head though -- if you have 20-30
> tasks rolled into 1 (or a couple), can you still reshape the workflow so as
> to avoid 20-30 different steps in the workflow (with separate bindings that
> need to be checked etc.)?
>
> Kind regards -- and thanks for another great idea
> Tomasz
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Pokraka [mailto:workflow at quirky.me.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday,8. April 2003 13:24
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: Single text for multiple tasks?
>
>
> 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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