Passing the agent to the container element

[Carolyn Fuller]

Hi all,
 
A year ago, Jocelyn Dart recommended the following steps for passing
the actual agent from a task to the workflow container, so that a
subsequent step can pick it up:
 
1. Create a workflow container element, e.g. LASTAGENT, based on
database field WFSYST-AGENT.
2. In the first step, in the Task -> Workflow section of the binding, use
the SHOW LINES button to see all possible elements of the task.  Bind
the "Actual Agent" (also appears as "Actually Processed by" depending on
version) to your workflow container element LASTAGENT.
3. In the following step, in the agent assignment use the EXPRESSION option
to assign LASTAGENT as the agent for the second step.
 
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We are doing this in one of our workflow templates and it was working
well until recently, when the template was modified and transported
to production. The modification to the template did not involve
either of the two steps that are passing/receiving the agent. These
steps are working in our development environment.
 
When I look at the contents of SWIWIOBJCT-WI_AAGENT for the step that
should be passing the agent, it is empty for the problem workflows.
This field was consistently filled in properly before and it is still
filled in properly in our development environment.
 
What could be wrong?
 
Thanks,
 
Carolyn
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Carolyn Fuller                               M.I.T.
fuller at mit.edu                       Financial Systems Services
Senior Analyst/ Programmer Peer Leader      W92-210
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