Authorizations for Role Resolution

[Griffiths, Mark]

Sue,
 
You have found a little known workflow 'feature' I discovered last year:
 
Role resolution for the subsequent step (and interestingly any conditions in the workflow) are all carried out using the userid of the previous user.  So, user 1 must have all the authorisations required to find user2.
 
SU53 should tell you which authorisations have failed.
 
If you can't add the authorisations to your users then the only way around this is to insert a background step which does nothing in between your two dialog steps to switch the user evaluating the role to WF-BATCH.
 
Cheers,
 
Mark
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Susan R. Keohan
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Sent: 02/07/2003 21:58
Subject: Authorizations for Role Resolution
 
Hello all,
 
I have a workflow that has two dialog tasks with no intervening
background tasks.  When User1
executes the first task, the workflow fails on the role resolution of
the second task ('5W 170 -
structure 1 S 600028118 WF_ORGUS. No Agent Found.'). This role
resolution uses some standard SAP
functions to climb up and down the org structure.
 
The role resolution works fine when I test the role.  The workflow can
process if I am the user
executing the first task.  The workflow can also proceed if I execute
SWPR to restart the workflow
in error.
 
I had the Basis folks give User1 SAP_All and SAP_New (for a limited
time!) and found that the error
went away. That is, User1 executed his dialog task, and the role
resolution for the second task was
fine, the task was delivered to the appropriate user.  So we know that
this is an authorization issue.
 
However, the question in my mind is, why would the authorizations of
User1 have an impact on the
role resolution of the subsequent dialog task ?  Shouldn't that role
resolution be carried out under
the auspices of WF-Batch ?
 
Thanks in advance,
Sue
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Susan R. Keohan
SAP Workflow Developer
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
LI-200
Lexington, MA. 02420
781-981-3561
skeohan at mit.edu