Maintenance program for work item and/or workflow cancellation?

[Michael Pokraka]

Hi Kjetil,
SWPR is a quick and easy one to copy and hack to your requirements.
Cheers
Mike
 
Kjetil Kilhavn wrote:
> SWWL is what I don't want to use. I didn't know the direct transaction
> code, I go there via SWUF if I have to, I haven't used it the last thre=
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> years.
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> Kjetil Kilhavn
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> Kjetil,
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>    Use Tranx: SWWL, be careful how you use it you can mistakenly wipe
> out all WF's.
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> Jeffrey A. Rappaport
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> Quoting Kjetil Kilhavn <kjetilk at statoil.com>:
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>> 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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