Passing objects to SWW_WI_START_SIMPLE

[Soady, Phil]

Hi John,
try
 
SWC_CONTAINER_TO_PERSISTENT <Container>.
 
Check the macros out behind the scene to understand why.
Once you see what it is doing, all will become clearer!
 
Remember the pointer nature of Objects.
This isnt an issue with normal fields.
Once you leave your program, the object pointers are not known....
 
 
Cheers
 
 
Phil Soady
Senior Consultant
Business Technologies
SAP Australia
* : 0412 213 079
* : phil.soady at sap.com
 
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Soden, John [mailto:John.Soden at newmont.com.au]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 1:52 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Passing objects to SWW_WI_START_SIMPLE
 
 
Hi all
 
Are there any tricks to passing an object to the FM SWW_WI_START_SIMPLE  in the container table when starting a workflow template (not standard task), when I attempt to do it I get error OL 364 'element is not an object' (issued from FM SWC_CONT_CHECK). I am calling the workflow from a report using SWC_CREATE_OBJECT to create the object and SWC_ELEMENT_SET to insert it into the container table passed to SWW_WI_START_SIMPLE, this works fine when starting a standard task and passing the object to container element _WI_Object_Id, but not when passing to a manually defined container element in a workflow template ?
 
I have actually overcome the problem by passing the key and object type to the workflow template and using system.genericinstantiate in a task to fill the container element but am interested to know why I cannot pass it to the container in the input table of SWW_WI_START_SIMPLE. The SWC_CONT_CHECK function fails because the manually defined element has a type 'O' whereas the system defined element (_WI_Object_Id) has type 'o'
 
Has anyone come across this before ?
 
Thanks...
 
 
John Soden
Senior Analyst/Programmer
CIS (Commercial Information Systems)
Newmont Australia
 
 
 
 
 
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