Dialog Workitem Created By the actual agent of previous dialo g wo rkitem

[Zmudzin,Tomasz,VEVEY,GL-IS/IT]

Jocelyn,
 
I think nobody argues the usefulness of "Advance with dialog" or keeping the
context within it. On the other hand IDEALLY the creation of the work item
could consistently be done by WF-BATCH, regardless of current task's
attributes. Only in this way the creation of a work item (a system service)
would not depend on current user's authorizations...
 
Kind regards,
Tomasz
(who's still happy to live in a less-than-ideal world)
 
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Dr. Tomasz Zmudzin
Senior Consultant
SAP (Schweiz) AG, Lausanne
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dart, Jocelyn [mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com]
Sent: Monday,10. March 2003 11:04
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Dialog Workitem Created By the actual agent of previous
dialo g wo rkitem
 
 
Hi Kim/Tomasz,
Yes if you have the advance with dialog flag on the workflow just tries to
keep
going in case the next dialog item is to be displayed to the same user.
That's
how advance with dialog works.
 
If you don't want that you can:
a) Turn off advance with dialog
b) Worst case, you can always slot in an empty background method to force a
switch to Wf-batch.
 
Both options work.
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: Zmudzin,Tomasz,VEVEY,GL-IS/IT [mailto:Tomasz.Zmudzin at nestle.com]
Sent: Monday, 10 March 2003 8:59 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Dialog Workitem Created By the actual agent of previous
dialo g wo rkitem
 
 
Kim,
 
> As of my memories, all workitem(both dialog and background)
> is created by WF-BATCH in 4.6C.
 
No. The next dialog item can be created with your current user ID as the
creator. I've encountered this troublesome behavior  many times on 4.6c and
4.7.
 
I've debugged the SBWP inbox and there's no context (USER) switch when
creating the next work item. I think it is because of the "Advance with
dialog" option (the next item needs to be executed in the same context) --
but this could have been done nicer, I guess... For now you will need the
workaround you've described already.
 
Kind regards,
Tomasz
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Kim, Ji Hoon [mailto:ji.hoon.kim at sap.com]
Sent: Monday,10. March 2003 10:37
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Dialog Workitem Created By the actual agent of previous dialog
wo rkitem
 
 
Hi,
 
We're using the R/3 enterprise version.(470 with basis 620)
 
I have found something strange in this version
as comparing the R/3 4.6C .
 
As of my memories, all workitem(both dialog and background)
is created by WF-BATCH in 4.6C.
 
But in our system, the dialog workitem is created by the actual
agent of the previous dialog workitem while the background workitem
is created by WF-BATCH.
And if the previous activity is background, the dialog workitem
is created by WF-BATCH.
 
See the attached technical log of the workflow by downloading
 
http://hoonkim.x-y.net/log.jpg
 
In this log, workitem 425316 has been created by WF-BATCH,
it's normal case.
But workitem 427136, 427167 and 427168 have benn created by
the previous actual agent (NOT WF-BATCH).
 
So, we have some authorization problem in PROD system,
because we didn't give the authorization for infotype 1000, 1001
and 0105 to all users.
 
Without authorization for infotype 1000, 1001 and 0105,
some workitem is not created correctly, when the responsible
agent is object type P(person), or Rule (AC), while the workitem
of which the responsible agent is US(user) is created correctly.
 
We solve this problem by giving the authorization for infotype
1000, 1001 and 0105 to all possible agents.
 
Any information will be very appreciated.
 
Thanks and regards
Jihoon kim