AW: Portals and Workflow

[M Doe]

Hi Alan,
 
Since I am having a problem right now displaying the objects on the portal,
I am very interested in finding out when we can access the object in the
universal worklist.  You mentioned that it is about to reach your doorstep-
is it out already in a new release.
 
Can you please give us time guidelines and release info.
 
Thanks.
Monica
 
 
>From: "Rickayzen, Alan" <alan.rickayzen at sap.com>
>Reply-To: SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: AW: Portals and Workflow
>Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:44:07 +0200
>
>Bijay,
>Please take a minute to read my blog on http://sdn.sap.com (anyone can
>register). The object links in the universal worklist are just about to
>reach your doorstep (thanks to the feedback from our last ASUG meeting in
>May),
>Alan
>
>-----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Bijay Shrestha [mailto:Bijay.Shrestha at genmills.com]
>Gesendet: Montag, 13. Oktober 2003 21:05
>An: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Betreff: Re: Portals and Workflow
>
>
>Thank you for clarification.
>
>Bijay Shrestha
>Ph: (763) 764-2201
>Pager: (612) 661-2772
>Email: Bijay.Shrestha at genmills.com
>"WebFlow gets the right information to the right people at the right time!"
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dart, Jocelyn [mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com]
>Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 8:12 PM
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: Portals and Workflow
>
>
>Hi Bijay,
>The display of objects is not available in ITS either, similarly secondary
>methods are not available in the web inboxes.  This is due to issues around
>controlling multiple web sessions.
>As the UWL has some sort of hyperlink for objects, suggest you query OSS as
>to how to use these hyperlinks or build your own.
>Jocelyn
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bijay Shrestha [mailto:Bijay.Shrestha at genmills.com]
>Sent: Saturday,11 October 2003 4:24 AM
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: Portals and Workflow
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm currently exploring and testing to implement workflow long term
>solution via Portal or short term solution using ITS. I'm saying short term
>because we are already running ITS for other purpose.
>
>>From reading your posts, I learned that the display of object can not be
>done in Portal. Is that correct?
>
>We are using Object Image Display 30001128 to display our archived document
>in iXos. So if it can not be used it's kinda useless for us.
>
>Mark, what do you mean by "t's also obviously meant to be possible as the
>object are listed with hyperlinks."? Can we have hyperlink instead?
>
>Bijay Shrestha
>Ph: (763) 764-2201
>Pager: (612) 661-2772
>Email: Bijay.Shrestha at genmills.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Pyc [mailto:Mark.Pyc at boots.co.uk]
>Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 6:41 AM
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: Portals and Workflow
>
>
>Excellent tips Joc!
>
>However, in the new sexy format all text formatting is out the window. Is
>it possible to control line breaks in the long text desciption?? Also the
>fear of the object links not working is true. It is possible to go the GUI
>for HTML view, but it's not pretty. It's also obviously meant to be
>possible as the object are listed with hyperlinks.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>"Dart, Jocelyn" <jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
>Sent by: SAP Workflow <Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>10/10/2003 08:36
>Please respond to SAP Workflow Users' Group
>
>
>         To:     SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: Portals and Workflow
>
>
>Hi Mark,
>Long time no see.
>Yes I have customers using the Universal Worklist iview in the portal and
>I'm working at one right now.
>
>Substitutes - easiest approach to create your own iview/transaction to
>support it - either just update HRUS_D2 transaction directly or use the
>RH_SUBSTIT* function modules.  You can then distribute the subsitution to
>the relevant systems.
>
>Work item display/User decisions - Make sure you have VERSION 2 of the UWL
>(released May) and that you set the paramters ITS Mode and User Decision
>(something like that) to FALSE rather than true in the UWL configuration.
>This gives you the new sexy look and feel for the work item display and
>for user decisions which is a huge improvement. For reasons of - keep it
>the same as the last version - they default to TRUE which give you the old
>less attractive display.
>
>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: Mark Pyc [mailto:Mark.Pyc at boots.co.uk]
>Sent: Friday,10 October 2003 4:31 AM
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Portals and Workflow
>
>
>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
 
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