Passing the agent to the container element

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Carolyn,
Yes you are correct but of course the terminating event contains the event creator
- i.e. the actual agent.  So of course you can bind that information from
the terminating event back to the task and then to the workflow.
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (SRM, EBP, Workflow)
and co-author of the book
"Practical Workflow for SAP"
SAP Australia
email: jocelyn.dart at sap.com
phone: +61 412 390 267
fax:   +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Carolyn Fuller [mailto:fuller at MIT.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, 5 June 2003 2:35 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Passing the agent to the container element
 
 
Mike,
 
It is 4.6 but it does not involve deadlines. We've narrowed down the
problem a bit more. We've been able to reproduce it in our
development environment. It is an asynchronous method. If the task is
executed from the in-box it seems to populate the workflow container
correctly, otherwise it does not.
 
Am I correct that the only data an asynchronous task can pass to the
workflow container is data passed to the task from the terminating
event?
 
Carolyn
 
>What version, and do they involve deadlines?
>If the answers are 4.6 and yes, I've a similar problem which has
>been with OSS for over a month already: When a deadline expires, it
>sometimes (!) evaluates the return bindings - but since there was no
>execution this results in blank or incorrect values.
>I can give you more details if it applies to you.
>
>Cheers
>Mike
>
>On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:26:20PM -0400, Carolyn Fuller wrote:
>>  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.
>>
>>  ==========
>>
>>  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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