Task to WF binding failing for reject execution RESOLVED

[Workflow Developer]

Greetings,
 
SAP has responded to my service message and confirmed that a change has been implemented, and no export bindings take place for rejected steps. I quote from their response:
 
"...please see note 711722."
 
"With the correction in this note the (new) functionality is as follows:
If the execution of a workitem is rejected, then there is NO
dataflow from this step to the workflow.  The same applies to a workitem which is set to obsolete."
 
"Before the correction, the functionality was unclear. The dataflow
frequently ran into errors. It has been decided, then, that the dataflow
only makes sense, if the workitem really has been executed. "
 
I have implemented a workaround by implementing a container operation in the reject outcome path:
 
LastAgent = &_WORKITEM.CREATEDBYUSER.NAMEWITHLEADINGUS&
 
Thank you Praveen for your help.
 
Robin Sahasranam
 
 
Praveen Johri <pjohri at csc.com> wrote:
G'Day Robin,
 
I also had a similar experience during our upgrade from 4.6C to 4.7 SR1, we
have a Custom Procurement worklow which undergone similar problem of an
attribute not getting populated at runtime and that workflow was running
fine for long in 4.6C. I spent lot of time in digging around and could not
see any possible cause why this is happening, up to the visibility provided
by diagnostic tools, everything seemed to be correct but some how value was
not getting transferred....i tried several ways like mapping the datatype
of attribute according to 4.7 datatypes thinking it might be a
problem....but to be true i never found the cause...i did a workaround..i
created a container step and populated that particular attribute like in ur
case LAST_AGENT = WI_ACTUAL_AGANT. just before the task which needed it to
run. and everything started running smoothly.
 
Maybe, if u donot find the root cause of the problem u might like to use
this workaround and if you do find the solution then do share it with me.
 
 
Cheers...
 
Praveen Johri
SAP Practice
Extn : 2597
Ph : 91-0120-2582323
Fax : 91-0120-2582322
Computer Science Corporation India Ltd.
No Worries.......
 
 
 
 
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Workflow
Developer To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
@yahoo.com> Subject: Task to WF binding failing for reject execution
Sent by: SAP
Workflow
 
 
08/20/2004 08:52
PM
Please respond
to "SAP Workflow
Users' Group"
 
 
 
 
 
 
Greetings,
We have upgraded our development system from 4.6c to 6.20 sp41. One of
our custom workflows goes into error status because a container element
is not set after reject execution of the dialog step (standard task)
TS...). The error is WL410 'Workitem could not be created'. We also get
the error 'Mandatory import element LASTAGENT has no value', which
causes the WL410 error.
 
The task has a binding from _WI_ACTUAL_AGENT of the task container to a
LASTAGENT element of the workflow container. The LASTAGENT element is
then used as actual agent for the next step, which is a subworkflow
that handles reject processing.
 
In examining the containers from the Workflow technical log, I can see
that the element _WI_ACTUAL_AGENT of the task has the correct value.
However the LASTAGENT element of the workflow container has initial
value, indicating that the runtime binding after task completion did
not take place.
 
This workflow has been productive in 4.6c for about two years, without
problems. Also checking the workflow and task shows no binding errors
or warnings.
 
Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.
 
Robin Sahasranam
Workflow Administrator/Developer
World Bank
 
 
 
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