Workflow start conditions with custom attributes

[Swami Bala]

Sorry for the long delay in reply since I was in Teched. But as you noted,
my issue I believe is in your first point. (ie) the attribute value is not
recognized at the time of event raise.So I am working on other solutions to
get rid of this issue.
Thanks for your reply Jocelyn.
 
Swami Bala
 
 
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>Swami,
>I've used custom attributes, both database and virtual, in delegated
>objects many many many times in start conditions without any problem.
>
>Check your logic - e.g. is the attribute value known at the time the event
>is raised, is it dependent on any other attributes (in which case have you
>made sure that other attribute has already been calculated at the time your
>attribute is calculated).
>
>Check you have put your object/attributes in "released" status.
>
>Check you have refreshed buffers.
>
>Check your start condition is correct - e.g. if you are comparing to
>alphanumeric constants check the characters are correct in upper/lower
>case.
>
>Check your start condition/event linkage is correctly active (remembering
>that depending on how you did it, maintaining the start condition can
>deactivate the event linkage so that you need to reactivate it).
>
>Rgds,
>Jocelyn
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SAP Workflow [mailto:Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Swami
>Bala
>Sent: Tuesday,5 October 2004 5:16 AM
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>Subject: Workflow start conditions with custom attributes
>
>Hello,
>
>I have the custom bus object delegated to BUS2081 and defined a custom
>attribute for PO order type ( DB attribute). In the start condition I am
>trying to check for specific order types before triggering the workflow.
>But
>it looks to me that when the start conditions are evaluated this attribute
>value is still not available. To validate this point I tested the start
>condition with PO Order type eq space. It works, meaning the value is not
>available when the start condition is being evaluated. When the Bus object
>is executed as a standalone everything works perfectly.
>I would like to make sure  if this is true. Do i have a better solution in
>this situations ?
>
>Thanks
>
>Swami Bala