Portal Inbox BWSP

[Bradshaw-Long, Kathleen]

Jocelyn,
 
Thank you very much. =20
 
Kathleen
-----Original Message-----
From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of
Dart, Jocelyn
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 10:58 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Portal Inbox BWSP
 
 
Hi Kathleen,
UWL supports display of attachments quite nicely - particularly in
EP6.0. UWL does support attachment creation via the "View detail in
SAPGUI" function - although the creation of attachments is not elegant.
However using ITS 6.20 as the SAPGUI for HTML does make things slightly
easier.
 
Agent is shown in the workflow log - however as potentially there could
be multiple agents this is always a "More information..." or similar
link to a pop-up window where current receipients are displayed.
Problem is in the portal the pop-up box won't work in the way you
require. Again ITS 6.20 may be of some help here as that should handle
the popup adequately .
 
There shouldn't be any problem running an ITS 6.20 against a 4.6C system
and the SAPGUI for HTML display is certainly far nicer in ITS 6.20.
 
You need to do some coding in a delegated subtype of your purchase
requisition business object, i.e. you need a workflow programmer.
Whether a BAPI or whatever is used is a matter for the programmer.
 
Regards,
Jocelyn
 
-----Original Message-----
From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of
Bradshaw-Long, Kathleen
Sent: Friday,21 May 2004 10:11 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Portal Inbox BWSP
 
 
Hi Jocelyn,
 
We are using the old ITS web inbox because the UWL does not have the
functionality for attachments. Attachments are critical to our business
process because we require our requisitioners to attach quotes,
Statements of work, or cost justifications to their purchase reqs.
 
Our users access the worklow log because the workflow first comes to the
initiator---which allows the requisitioner to create the attachment to
the req. and to select an approver.  Then, that approver can select
another approver, and so on, until the purchase req. is fully approved.
The requisitioner can check the workflow log in their portal inbox
understarted workflows to see the agent ID---except this field is blank
until the agent executes the work item.
 
Can you tell me more about calculating the total purchase requisition
value in a virtual attribute and putting that into the work item long
text?  Would that require a BAPI?
 
Kathleen
 
-----Original Message-----
From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of
Dart, Jocelyn
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:52 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Portal Inbox BWSP
 
 
Hi Kathleen,
Why are you using the very old ITS web inbox BWSP from the portal
instead of using the UWL (Universal Work List) iview?
 
How are your users accessing the workflow log to see who has the
workflow item???
 
Why aren't you calculating the total purchase requisition value in a
virtual attribute and putting that into the work item long text?
 
Jocelyn
 
-----Original Message-----
From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of
Bradshaw-Long, Kathleen
Sent: Friday,21 May 2004 12:34 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Portal Inbox BWSP
 
 
Hello all,
 
We have two issues with our  users regarding our implementation of
workflow for purchase requisitions. We are using SAP release 4.6C and
Enterprise Portal 5.0.  Because many of our users don't have access to
SAP, we are using the portal inbox for workflow items. This is
transaction BWSP. There are two things the  users do not like.
 
One is that the portal does not show the identity of the agent (who has
the workflow item) until the agent opens the workitem. Therefore, our
portal inbox users can not go into the log at any time to see who has
the workflow item.  (This information is available in the SAP Business
workplace inbox.)  We have looked all of the standard workflow reports,
but we haven't found any that can be run by the requisition number.  We
have been thinking about creating some kind of a query to obtain this
information from the portal?
 
 
The other problem concerns the purchase requisiton value.  Our finance
approvers can not tell the overall value of the purchase requisition
without adding up all of the line items (and multiplying by the
quantity).  This is an issue whether they are looking at the purchase
requisition via workflow in the SAP inbox or in the portal inbox.
 
Has anyone had experience with either of these situations? If so, any
advice would be welcome.
 
 
        Kathleen Bradshaw-Long
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