Maintenance program for work item and/or workflow cancellation?

[Jeffrey A. Rappaport]

Kjetil,
 
   Use Tranx: SWWL, be careful how you use it you can mistakenly wipe
out all WF's.
 
Jeffrey A. Rappaport
Business Workflow, LLC
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Quoting Kjetil Kilhavn <kjetilk at statoil.com>:
 
> Is there a maintenance program to logically delete a selected set
> of work
> items/workflows? (We are on version 4.6C, but if one exists in
> newer
> versions that is also relevant (see last paragraph).)
>
> I have created a new workflow (:-) to replace an old WF task which
> demands
> too much manual maintenance for my liking. In addition the users
> will
> benefit from improved performance - and that is something that has
> been
> requested for a while. The new solution includes a step which
> checks for
> already existing instances and kills any existing instances in
> status
> ERROR. If an existing instance is found an event is created which
> terminates the existing workflow. Thus the agents will be
> re-evaluated.
> Instead of making a fancy solution which checks for the existence
> of
> instances of both the new and old workflows I have decided to just
> kill all
> the old ones when going live with the new version.
>
> However, I will have probably between 3.000 and 5.000 workflows
> that needs
> to be cancelled since instances of the new workflow is meant to
> replace
> them. It is a real PITA having to do this manually even if we were
> only
> talking about hundreds of work items. It would be great if it was
> an option
> e.g. in SWI1 to cancel the workitems you have selected in the
> result set
> grid, but I have no such luck. Does anyone know if there exists a
> program
> to do this? I am aware of function module SWW_WI_ADMIN_CANCEL
> (that's how I
> kill instances in status ERROR) - but I need the wrapper program
> that
> performs a selection first and then runs this function for the
> selected set
> of work items. And no, I don't want to use SWUF.
>
> Creating an ad-hoc program for this is easy, but that is no fun...
> may as
> well create a slightly fancy one which can be reused - unless a
> standard
> solution exists in a newer version.
> --
> Kjetil Kilhavn
>
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