Sending deadline items to Microsoft Outlook

[tom.olaf]

Hi.
 
Also check out standard report RSWUWFML and possibly RSWUWFML2 (depending on
release). The first will send eMail if forwarding address is set up. From a
certain support package in 4.6C it will also handle deadline messages. The
report is documented in SAP and in several OSS notes.
 
Regards
Tom
 
>===== Original Message From "SAP Workflow Users' Group"
<SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU> =====
>If you use the standard deadline, SAP creates a deadline workitem. That will
>not be auto-forwarded since it's a workitem. If you go to your deadline tab
>on the task, you see the option to switch to modeled deadline. If you choose
>this option, workflow builder will create an outcome for the deadline being
>reached. In this branch, you can insert a sendmail step to notify somebody
>that the deadline has been met. (All explained within the SAP Help) The
>sendmail creates an email that will get forwarded to the users outlook (or
>where ever). Aside from having to add the sendmail step, the modeled
>deadline works pretty much the same as the standard. The original workitem
>will remain intact. (Don't confuse the modeled deadline I described with the
>model deadline you can generate via the wizard that allows you to cancel the
>workitem and proceed down a different processing path.)
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Correia [mailto:Marc.Correia at fonterra.com]
>Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:24 PM
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: Sending deadline items to Microsoft Outlook
>
>Hi Bradley
>
>We have a requirement to do this too. I have changed the configuration as
>explained, set the user's communication method to E-Mail and there is a
>valid user name there. Yet it still does not work I only receive the
>deadline item in SAP. I checked to see if an entry was in TXN SCOT but there
>was nothing there. Any idea what else could be the problem ? We are using
>version 4.7.
>
>Regards
>Marc.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tisch, Bradley [mailto:Bradley.Tisch at kraft.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, 13 April 2004 3:13 a.m.
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: Sending deadline items to Microsoft Outlook
>
>
>Hi Kathleen,
>
>My suggestion would be a more strategic approach. Have all SAP mail
>redirected to a user's Outlook or enterprise mail system. This can be done
>by changing a system setting within SAP and by assigning each user id an
>e-mail address within SAP (Trans SU01). Change the setting in transaction
>SO16 - (Tab - Mail sy.grp) Send to home addresses of users. With this
>setting, SAP will automatically attempt to redirect all SAP Mail for a user
>(not workitems) from the SAP Inbox to their (in your case) Outlook mail.
>This will only happen for a user if that user has an email address set up
>for their user-id (SU01) and their communication method is set to E-Mail
>(Comm.Meth = E-Mail). For users without those settings, it continues to
>distribute messages via SAP Inbox. So this function can be switch on for
>some users and not for others or more importantly, you can phase in this
>approach as e-mail addresses are added.
>
>
>Bradley Tisch
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of
>Bradshaw-Long, Kathleen
>Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 9:41 AM
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Sending deadline items to Microsoft Outlook
>
>
>Hello all,
>
>In our workflow development for approving purchase requisitions, we been
>able to send e-mail notifications to Outlook when an approver receives a
>workflow in their business workplace in-box, by using program RSWUWFML.
>
>We are currently in the process of setting up deadline monitoring to
>remind users to approve requisitions.
>
>When using 'Simple' deadline monitoring, we have learned that workflow
>sends overdue messages to the users Inbox/Deadline_Messages folder.
>However, we would  like to forward these deadline messages to Outlook.
>We do not want to use SAP MAPI. Is there a program that would do this
>without using SAP MAPI?
>
>
>        Kathleen Bradshaw-Long
>        IPS
>
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