What are Work Queues?

[Michael Pokraka]

Thanks Phil and Patrick,
That was pretty much the starting point we needed! The menu path is a
little obscure, but now I've at least found the object type behind it - i=
t
is mass retirement. Now to find who set this up and why it's gone wrong o=
n
one item <grumble>...
Though one small question: Phil, you say "...can be accessed.. but not
from the workplace, or from a coupled workitem type "W" that behaves like
any other workflow.". So how exactly is this accessed?
Cheers
Mike
 
Oh, P.S. Apologies to the list for any duplicate posts, some tweaking on
my mail server went a little bit pear-shaped, causing a To: address to
duplicate into the CC. field as well as a few other oopses. I blame
spammers who made me do it in the first place.
 
Patrick D Green wrote:
> Mike,
>
> If you need to have a look at individual worklists / queues to see why
> they
> failed, transaction AR30 may be of some use to you.   As Phil suggests,
> AM_AI is the object type for an asset list associated with the Asset ma=
ss
> change/retirement/transfer workflow.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Patrick.
>
>
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> Hi Mike,
>
> Work queues are used to bundle up tasks into one workitem type "A". Thi=
s
> workitem can be accessed independently but not from the workplace, or f=
rom
> a
> coupled workitem type "W" that behaves like any other workflow. The
> workqueue is useful for when you want to mass process exactly the same
> object the same way in a workflow, but each object has a unique instanc=
e.
> Mass retirements of assets is one example.
>
> To display the workqueue, from the technical display, use menu path Got=
o >
> Type specific data.
>
> Regards
>
> Phil
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Pokraka [mailto:workflow at quirky.me.uk]
> Sent: 28 January 2004 11:48
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: What are Work Queues?
>
> Greetings,
> Could someone be so kind as to enlighten me what a work queue is and wh=
ere
> it may be used?
>
> The SAP docs mention:
> "List of objects that are to be processed once and together within a
> specified period." - which is a bit generic.
>
> They also state:
> "Work queue work items are not displayed in the Business Workplace."
> as well as
> "Work queue work items are displayed in the Business Workplace."
> ....which now has me thoroughly confused.
>
> A wee bit of background: Something has been configured in the past 6
> months that activated some work queues today which have started to erro=
r
> with no useful message and no object key. On a long shot, is anyone
> familiar with Object Type AM_AI? This is the one that's failing, seems =
to
> be part of Asset Management (4.7 IS Retail system).
>
> Cheers
> Mike
>
>