Workflow WAIT FOR EVENTstep

[Dale Davis]

step.
  2. Verify that your wait step creation time stamp is earlier than your
event creation start time. If the event is raised before the wait step is
created, the wait step will start after the event has already been
published which is too late.
 As a good long term design point you should create a requested end
deadline on your wait step so that after some specified period of time, the
wait step ends and some follow up action is initiated. That will prevent
indefinite suspension of your workflow.
 3.Finally cross check your object type references between your wait step
and your event and ensure that they are compatible especially if you are
using delegation.
 
Regards,
Dale Davis Jones
IBM / SAP Certified
Senior SAP Workflow/Webflow  PP Consultant - SAP Practice
 
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Hans Brilleman <Hans.Brilleman at capetown.gov.za>@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> on
01/21/2003 09:18:00 AM
 
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Hi Mark,
 
- The event is raised, I checked it in the event trace.'
- I have no container binding in the Wait step, as all I do when the
WAIT FOR EVENT step is true, to set a flag in the next step.
- There was no entry in the event instance linkage table (and this was
while the event was raised) I did try to add an entry in there, but if I
try and add all the parameters as it shows in the event trace, it
complains that RECEIVER FM is invalid with an value of
SWW_EI_EVENT_RECEIVE as it can only be used for event instance
linkages?? If I enter a value of SWW_WI_CREATE_VIA_EVENT, it accepts it,
but as soon as the event is raised, it tries to start the workflow and
goes in error. If a value has to exist in this table, I am uncertain
what the parameter values should be.
 
many thanks,
 
Hans.
 
>>> Mark.Pyc at amersham.com 01/21/03 03:20pm >>>
G'day Hans,
 
A couple of questions:
Have you ensured the Event is actually being raised?
And that the binding on the Wait step is correct?
Can you see an entry in the event instance linkage table (Tcode
SWEINST)?
 
Have fun,
Mark
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Brilleman [mailto:Hans.Brilleman at capetown.gov.za]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:33
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Workflow WAIT FOR EVENTstep
 
 
Hi,
 
my workflow has a delay state of say 3 minutes. At the same time I
have
a branch with a WAIT FOR EVENT step. Within the 3 minute wait period
stage, I manually execute a transaction that triggers the event being
listened for in the WAIT FOR EVENT. This should then trigger the next
step after the WAIT FOR EVENT step. for some or other reason it does
not
happen.
 
Does anybody have any idea why the WAIT FOR EVENT step does not
register the event being triggered?
 
Many thanks,
 
 Hans Brilleman.