Integration of SAP's Content Management Service with SAP Work flow

[Chatterjee, Partha (US - San Ramon)]

Hi Jocelyn,
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Thanks for your response.  I was not expecting a definitive answer =
really--just general guidance.  I have been implementing Workflow for =
the last 7 years and the NetWeaver (BPM) and Portals functionality seems =
intriguing.
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I have researched this more today and found out the following:
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1) Content Manager seems to have workflow functionality via the Recent =
Notifications iView
2) that is publishing a document for an approval process sends =
Notifications to your iView
3) Since this is an iView this should be implementable in Universal =
Worklist
4) This functionality in CMS allows you to use 'channels' to determine =
where notifications go including email (by this I email outside of the =
Recent Notifications iView).
5) By allowing external email, we can send http:/ links that should =
allow us to access whichever inbox we are intersted in implementing.
6) Anything in the Recent Notifications inbox is stored as XML data in =
the appropriate repositories--this should theoretically XML forms based =
workflows to start from CMS.
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Let me knw your thoughts on these points.  This is based on what I can =
put together from SAP's help documentation.
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Best regards,
Partha Chatterjee
 
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        Subject: Re: Integration of SAP's Content Management Service with SAP =
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        Hi Partha,
        That's really a question for the Portals team so you might like to put =
a query into OSS.
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        Last (somewhat unofficial) advice I had was that at the moment the CMS =
stuff is quite separate for now but those were
        the first questions I was thinking of too. Haven't had a chance to =
unravel this as yet but
        if you get an answer please let all of us know.
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        The Notifications stuff in the Portal is quite nifty!
        Jocelyn
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        -----Original Message-----
        From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of =
Chatterjee, Partha (US - San Ramon)
        Sent: Wednesday,19 May 2004 4:06 AM
        To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
        Subject: Integration of SAP's Content Management Service with SAP =
Workflow
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        My questions are somewhat general so please bear with me:
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        SAP's Content Management Service (CMS) appears to integrate with SAP
        Portals/Workflow via the 'Recent Notifications' iView.  Are their other
        Inboxes that this can integrate such as standard Outlook or Outlook via
        SAP MAPI or Universal Inbox (I assume this is possible via the =
existence
        of the iView)?  I assume so but it is not clear from SAP's
        documentation.
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        Secondly, CMS appears to be able to work with XML documents for its
        publishing pipeline.  Can CMS use XML documents to enable/trigger
        standard SAP Workflows?
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        Thirdly, since it appears that CMS uses some pre-delivered workflow
        functionality, are there specific business objects SAP has intended for
        its use in either the backend SAP or in its SAP Portals architecture?
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        Thanks for your consideration,
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        Partha Chatterjee
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