Manual Transaction instead of Workflow

[Mark Pyc]

G'day Maorriyan,
 
The normal approach is to have some kind of "wait for event" in place with
in the process. For example it is very normal to have a 'Wait for Deleted'
or 'Wait for Approved' built in so that if the object is changed inside or
outside Workflow, the process can react to it.
 
There are two basic approaches:
1. Have a fork at the top of your flow and then a subfork for each event
you wish to wait for using a 'Wait for Event' step type. The first fork
should be 1 of 2 (only 1 branch needs to comlete), and the subfork should
be 1 of n. This way it is a race. If the process completes normally the
wait steps will be logically deleted, if the event is raised first then
that particular branch will complete and all other steps will be logically
deleted.
2. Use header level events to listed for the events. Somewhat of a heavier
hammer as you can't react with further process flow.
 
Remember that either way you have to allow for the fact that an event like
Appoved can be raised inside your process and that you may want to perform
steps afterwards such as mail the initiator to let them know.
 
If you have a look around the standard templates you should find plenty of
examples. I can't remember if the tutorial covers this aspect.
 
Anyway, it's a start.
 
Have fun,
Mark
 
 
 
 
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Hi all,
For example I have workflow for approval PO. But then
our agent not executing the workitem from their inbox
but their approve the PO within SAP transaction.
My question is, what happen to this workitem? What is
the status of workitem? In my case the status of
workitem is not complete. Is it the right status?
What's I have todo? How to handle this situation. I
believe this very common question and hopefully many
expert out there can give me the good idea.
 
Regards,
 
Maorriyan
 
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Maorriyan
 
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