Automatic Forwarding: What is a functional document?

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi David,
"Functional" document = work item.
Otherwise they are just mails.  (Email notifications from RSWUWFML are just mails too of course.)
Jocelyn
 
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From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Trant, David
Sent: Saturday,21 February 2004 3:51 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Automatic Forwarding: What is a functional document?
 
 
When you enable automatic forwarding in office settings in the business workplace, there is a checkbox to also place in inbox and radio buttons to forward all documents or forward functional documents only.  The "also place in inbox" checkbox does not appear to affect workflow items, as they will continue to show up in the R/3 workplace regardless, which makes sense to me given that SAP needs to retain ownership of the fact that work remains to be done whereas with a simple document, once it is sent, SAP does not care anymore.  Where it gets confusing is toggling between forwarding all documents and functional documents only.  During tests using one of our more complex workflows, we saw a mixture of documents showing up in R/3 when the "forward functional documents" button was chosen in conjunction with "also place in inbox" unchecked.  We even saw a workflow item message (the kind generated by RSWUWFML that says you have work to do ... login to SAP and do it....) show up in t!
he R/3 document section.  Of course, from there, trying to double-click on the attachment that normally launches a SAPGui session to take you to the work fails.  The SAP help, of course, basically says a functional document is a document that is functional.  Can anyone give me a more useful definition?  Right now, we're just telling people to always choose "forward all documents," but it would be nice to understand the difference.
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