Using workflow in BW

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

Abby, Heinz,
 
if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.=20
 
Although you can implement this via WF (as you can use your hammer to =
water
the flowers), the Reporting Agent is definitely the better way.
 
1. It already uses the tools for report & exception definitions that =
the
users are already familiar with=20
 
2. Checking for exceptions needs to be done periodically (e.g. once a =
day).
Again, that's a given with the Reporting Agent scheduling its jobs =
(perhaps
depending on whether the new loads were successful...). That's one of =
the
things you can build with WF -- but why bother if it's already there?
 
3. When sending the notifications, you still need to send a link to a
PARTICULAR exception report. There's a number of data =
warehousing-specific
issues here (report build time etc, URI persistence etc). These are =
again
handled automatically by the Reporting Agent -- so why reinvent it?
 
4. It is standard, used and tested on many installations. Bet you'd =
have to
test a LOT to achieve the same degree of reliability. And you have OSS
support if something goes wrong.
 
Sorry to be such a pain in the neck, but I hope the circumstances =
justify
it.
 
Kind regards,
 
Tomasz
(who is a certified BW consultant as well...)
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Schmidinger, Heinz (Unaxis IT BZ)
[mailto:heinz.schmidinger at unaxis.com]
Sent: Wednesday,7. May 2003 08:25
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: AW: Using workflow in BW
 
 
Hello Abby,
 
It is possible to use WF in BW.
 
A similar scenario you described I have implemented in our BW some =
weeks ago
(control data-load).
 
BADi's are only an other way of User-Exits based on ABAP-Objects.
 
Regards=20
 
Heinz
 
-----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Dywan, Abby [mailto:adywan at clarkstonconsulting.com]
Gesendet am: Dienstag, 6. Mai 2003 20:02
An: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Betreff: Using workflow in BW
 
Hi all -=20
 
My client is asking about the possibility of running workflow in BW.  =
One of
the ways we're interested in using this is triggering a workflow to =
route
the report to a user when an exception occurs in BW.
 
While I've been looking at BW, it appears that you can use the data =
from the
alert raised from an exception in a report by exporting the data using =
a
BAdI.  However, I'm not sure what this BAdI is supposed to do - raise =
an
event to trigger the workflow? I know very little about BAdIs, so this =
has
been very confusing to me.
 
Any help/advice would be appreciated!
 
Thanks!
Abby  :)
 
Abby Dywan
 
Clarkston Consulting
adywan at clarkstonconsulting.com
cell:  (404) 808-3974