Triggering BUS2009 events (purchase requisitions)

[Carolyn Fuller]

Hi all,
 
I have 3 questions:
 
1- A month ago several people recommended that I look into using the
status management approach to raising a BUS2009 event (purchase
requisitions). At the time I had already solved our problem by
calling a workflow API from a custom program. Therefore, I put the
e-mail aside.
 
MIT now has need to raise yet another BUS2009 event. I'd like to
avoid the custom code route because this time we don't have a
reasonable place to put the code.
 
I took a look at status management and did not see any status events
or status object types for purchasing. Am I missing something?
 
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2- The book "Practical Workflow for SAP" mentions that I can learn
more about raising events upon status changes from the tutorial
available in the SAP library help documentation. I can not find this
tutorial. Does anyone know where it is? We are on version 4.6c.
 
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3- There are actually two events we'd like to raise. If a cost
collector (cost center, internal order, wbs) changes, we'd like
"significantlyChanged" and "releaseStepCreated" to be raised. All of
our approvals are done at cost collector level and we just discovered
(after how many years in production?) that our workflow completely
ignores any change to cost collector unless the release strategy
changes. This means that someone in the School of Engineering can
accidentally approve an expense for the School of Humanities without
even realizing it! Does anyone see any pitfalls involved with raising
these two events via a non-standard trigger?
 
Thanks,
 
Carolyn
 
 
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Carolyn Fuller                               M.I.T.
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