General Forwarding not allowed

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Rick,
As of 4.6D you can opt for "No forwarding allowed" in the task attributes.
Prior to that there is no standard way to do it.
 
It might be better to handle this procedurally if you are on an earlier release.
E.g. make it part of the business process that manager's are responsible for sending
it to an appropriate alternate.
 
Setting up excluded agents could be problematic if you have a large number of managers
or are using substitutions.
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: Rick Sample [mailto:Rick.Sample at gbe.com]
Sent: Monday, 10 March 2003 7:28 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: General Forwarding not allowed
 
 
I searched the archives concerning this functionality but I am still a bit confused.
What this option implies and what it actually doing seem ambiguous at best.
 
I have a form that has transaction security applied. It is restricted to authorization group
with only managers. Only users that wear the hat (Managers) can execute that trans. Work as expected.
 
Next, I am attempting to restrict the WF Tasks to just managers of the authorization role stated above
and NOT to allow forwarding of these Tasks to anyone. Role 168 guarantees the first part of the problem.
'Manager of' only routes to the manager of the user approving a task. Not a problem. Works as expected.
 
Now, with 'General Forwarding not allowed' option on the task is selected, the user can still forward
to all users in the Manager role as described above.
 
What I want is to not allow forwarding of the Task to any user. The only thing I can think of at the moment
is to write some method to get all Managers and exclude everyone except the user it is to route to. And of
course, I still want the WF Admin to be able to manage the Tasks.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks
Rick Sample
Graybar, Inc.
rick.sample at gbe.com