Portals and Workflow

[Mark Pyc]

G'day Workflowers (no floral reference intended),
 
A few general and a few specific...
 
Is anyone running a Portal productively and using it as the only interface
to Workflow?
 
It is not possible to maintain substitutes via the I-view universal
worklist as I understand it. I also believe this extension was due in the
next release of the i-view but this has been put on hold. What has anyone
put in place to cope with this? Access to SBWP via GUI for HTML does allow
it, however to me it seems that if users are to be trained on this then
the I-view is redundant. Positional substitutes through HR are possible if
a full Org struct is maintained. Alternatively develop a web transaction
to allow updates to HRUS_D2 (directly or via
RH_UPDATE_SUBST_LIST_SERVER)??.
 
The display of Workitem (selecting the spectacles) through the Portal is
the same as if you select 'User View without Active X' in personal
settings through the GUI. Is this always the case?? The major problem is
that the WI description is limited in size depending on your screen
resolution (between 9 and 12 lines) and if navigate at all (scroll the
text, view the Available Objects tab and return, etc) the size is reduced
to 1 or 2 lines!?!? This seems completely unusable.
 
OSS note 487649 indicates that Advance with Dialog is not possible via the
web. However I've found that Web Transaction steps do Advance with Dialog.
Are there any other treats that make Workflow on the web better?
 
User decisions appear as if 'No HTML in execution of decision tasks' has
been selected. I understand that i-view Universal Worklist task mapping
allows i-view display of decisions, but I believe this precludes the
ability to display any attachment objects (BUS2081 for example). What
solution have you found most effective.
 
Has anyone built custom i-views to cope with any of these issues? Has
anyone developed Business Server Pages? Can anyone give an indication of
development costs / required skill sets needed for success???
 
I apologise for raking over old issues if these have been covered but I've
had little luck with search sap-wug over the last few days, and OSS hasn't
returned any gems either.
 
If you're company has decided that Portals was an unusable solution than I
am equally interested in hearing about it.
 
Have fun,
Mark Pyc
Smoothflow Consulting