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

[Michael Pokraka]

Hmmm, is the reason not a more technical one? - it has to stay in the
user context to be able to 'advance with dialog'. By switching users
that context is lost... As I see it, creating a WI is a fairly 'general'
authorization without much security risk associated.
Cheers
Mike
 
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:15:01AM +0100, Dart, Jocelyn wrote:
> Sounds like a development request to me....
> Jocelyn
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Zmudzin,Tomasz,VEVEY,GL-IS/IT [mailto:Tomasz.Zmudzin at nestle.com]
> Sent: Monday, 10 March 2003 9:10 PM
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: Dialog Workitem Created By the actual agent of previous
> dialo g wo rkitem
>
>
> 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)
>
> --------------------------
> 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