AW: Approval procedures with workflow

[Schmidinger, Heinz (Unaxis IT BZ)]

Hi Dror,
 
some time ago I had a similar situation.
I solved the problem for myself by a check-f.m. at the event where I =
read
SWWWIHEAD and sww_contob if a WF to the Object-Key already exists.=20
 
regards
Heinz
 
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Von: Dror Weiss [mailto:drorw at hotmail.com]
Gesendet am: Dienstag, 20. Mai 2003 12:17
An: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Betreff: Approval procedures with workflow
 
Hello everybody,
 
I have a general question regarding approval procedures with workflow.
In the example I'm dealing with the case is approval of an employee =
trip by
several functions in the company management.
The general scheme of the workflow I created is a loop that occurs =
until the
trip is finally approved or the initiator chooses to withdraw his =
approval
request. Every time a rejection occurs the trip request is sent back to =
the
initiator for repairs and the approval procedure starts over.
I implemented this process using the 'loop-until' step in the workflow
template.
The triggering event for the workflow is EmployeeTrip.Requested =
(business
object BUS2089).
 
The big problem is that when the initiator changes the trip request =
after a
rejection occurs the triggering event is raised and another instance of =
the
workflow is created - in parallel to the original workflow which is =
still in
progress. Of course this situation is very undesirable.
 
Another possibility I considered is to stop the workflow and send the =
trip
request back to the initiator. When the initiator repairs the request a =
new
workflow for the repaired request will start. This method is very
problematic since the history and attached documents will not be =
preserved
from the original workflow.
 
If any of you have experience with similar cases or have any idea =
please
respond.
 
Thanks in advance,
Dror Weiss
 
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