Email WI Notification Hyperlink

[John A Haworth]

Hi Sergey
 
We will have an ITS available, so it looks as though Webforms is the way
forward. Couple of things, is there any documentation (SAP or otherwise) re
how to set this up, and for my approval step, i want the approve / reject /
view decisions being available to the approver i.e. a standard decision
task, but I also want the approver to be able to create a comment (i.e.
reject reason), what would be the best approach?
 
Many thanks
JOhn
 
 
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John, you can use SapForms or WebForms to achieve this.
 
With SAPForms they would be able to approve it right from MS Outlook or
simialr. SAPForms client software will need to be installed on each
approvers' desktop - you might also need to do some modifications to your
workflow.
 
WebForms require an ITS server, work similarly to SAPForms, but through a
web interface. In your workflow you will have to create a Web transaction
for your approval tasks. Approvers will receive their workitems in SAP
Portal inbox, execute them and process subsequent html page to
approve/reject it.
 
Default Webforms will take all non-object type variables from the task
container and create a generic screen with those elements and buttons
"submit" and "cancel". You can then use HTML editor to make it look better
:))
For advanced stuff, you can just develop your own approval program (i did
it for Performace Appraisals), and then, with a little tweaking, link it to
your workflow task as a web transaction, so that your custom webform will
be executed when they double click on the workitem in SAP Portal inbox.
 
Hope this help,
 
Sergey
 
 
 
             -----Original Message-----
             From: John A Haworth [mailto:jhoworth at csc.com]
             Sent: Mon 1/19/2004 6:28 AM
             To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
             Cc:
             Subject: Email WI Notification Hyperlink
 
 
 
             Hi all
 
             On a similar vein to the current questions on email
attachments etc. I have
             an approval workflow that I initially thought of using SAP
MAPI to let the
             Approver have access to his Approval Workitem, but reading the
OSS notes
             and some of the threads in here, it seems as SAP MAPI isn't
the way
             forward.
             So I thought using the RSWUWFML report (existing one or the
new one as per
             note 627397, not sure) with hyperlink. My question is that the
Customer
             really wants to approve without going into SAP, so the
hyperlink would need
             to present the Approver with a HTML type page of the details
and
             approve/reject and comments facility.
 
             Im sure this is a popular dilemma, any advice/help would be
very useful
             i.e. how to achieve it, do i need Business Connector, do I
need to create a
             new HTML screen, do I need an ITS,are there
authorisation/security issues??
 
 
 
             Many Thanks in advance.
 
             John
 
 
 
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