Compensation approval web woes

[Michael Pokraka]

Good &TIMEOFDAY& all,
 
Running MSS on a 4.7/620 system here, using the Web Approval Compensation
adjustment workflow. We have copied the standard compensation approval ta=
sk
TS21300111 to our own.
 
The portal folks have updated the iview so everything is liked correctly =
(?)
to our new task. Here's where the fun begins: we have not been able to ma=
ke
this work, we get an error "No employees found".
 
The task is based on EXTSRV.PROCESS, and as far as we have been able to
establish it calls the correct web service, but it appears the container
data is not passed through. The prime suspect here is something in the ta=
sk
setup on the portal side, however we have a seperate portal team who hand=
le=20
that end of things and don't really have in-depth experience with UWL and
SAP workflow in general.
 
We've gone through note 646601 (MSS: Workflow Execution Handler no longer
supported) and a few related ones... so far no joy.
 
Just wondering if anyone knows of any simple things we may have missed ou=
t?
 
Cheers
Mike
 
PS: bonus points for answering another really weird one: We plugged the S=
AP
task into our WF to make sure it works.... it didn't, until we put it in =
a
subworkflow - WS21300038 calls WS21300039. We first put the task in our W=
F
directly and it didn't work, then we called WS21300039 from our flow and =
it
did work... very confused!