Anyone using the new 610/620 terminating events?

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Michael,
I've used the term event for reassessing agent rules - which works a treat!
But haven't tried the others yet. I have had some issues in SRM on 6.20 with
workflows not completing correctly however so it may be related.
Try a "block correction" in your workflow and see if that improves the situation.
If not, suggest you check what basis/WAS patch level you are on and then report it in to OSS.
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
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-----Original Message-----
From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Pokraka
Sent: Wednesday,31 December 2003 12:54 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Anyone using the new 610/620 terminating events?
 
 
Hi all,
Hope this doesn't get completely drowned in all the list traffic...
Is anyone out there actually using the new version (4.7/620/610)
header-level events for terminatig/restarting workflows etc?
 
We're trying to make use of this nifty new feature but all is not as it
should be: For starters, cancelling a workflow doesn't delete the instance
linkage. This has the following interesting result when using the 'Cancel
and restart workflow' function:
 
Flow 1 receives a CHANGED event.
It gets cancelled and Flow 2 is started.
2 instance linkages still remain active.
Another CHANGED event 'cancels' both flows and starts 2 more.
Another one 'cancels' these 4 flows and starts another 4. (by now we have
4 CANCELLED and 4 STARTED flows).
...and so on, resulting in 8, 16, 32, 64... workflows. Management
sometimes like approving things - gives them a sense of power, but
methinks this might be overdoing things a bit.
 
Cancelling the flow manually has the same result - the linkage remains.
Haven't found anything on OSS, but thought I'd post here before raising a
note.
 
Anyone seen this? There are a few other oddities by the looks of things,
but at this stage I still need to investigate some more...
 
Cheers & hope you had a happy Christmas/Holiday/Mr.Hankey celebration and
have an excellent New Year.
Mike