Create event via status management

[de Valensart Schoenmaeckers, Patrick]

Mike,
 
Probably my brain cells were too tired yesterday evening to think about
binding _EVT_NAME to a workflow container element... Thanks for the tip!
 
I also thought about adding an attribute to my ZBUS2032 subtype, but that
wouldn't have solved the issue because several statuses can co-exist
together in a sales order and there is no way to know which one relates to
the workflow instance calling the attribute.
 
Cheers,
Patrick
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Pokraka [mailto:workflow at quirky.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 7:13 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Create event via status management
 
Hi Patrick,
Bind _EVT_NAME into a WF element 'TriggeringEvent'.
A slight downside is for manually started flows (e.g. admin restart or
whatever).
Another option is to add an attribute for the status to a ZBUS2032 subtype
and check that in your flow.
Cheers
Mike
 
de Valensart Schoenmaeckers, Patrick wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I need to trigger a workflow every time a user status is set on a sales
> order. Until here, nothing difficult (I create my event via status
> management - transaction BSVZ - and restrict it to the relevant user
> statuses. Then I use that event as a triggering event of my workflow).
>
> The issue arises when at some stage of my workflow I need to know which
> status triggered it. The only solution I could find until now is to have
one
> event for each possible status. But that doesn't solve the problem because
> there is no possibility (that I am aware of) to know which one of the
> various triggering events actually started the workflow. Thus I also need
to
> have one workflow per event. This is definitely not nice as all workflows
> would be almost identical anyway and it increases the maintenance cost.
>
> Anybody has a better solution to offer? I also thought about defining each
> of my events with a parameter "Status", and then use a check function
module
> to fill-in the event container, but that seems tricky. Anyone already
tried
> to do that?
>
> Thank you all in advance for your replies.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>
>