defining a fork step in workflow

[William RS]

Dear Sushil
Like you say, you have 3 branches, 1st branch has step A, 2nd has step
B, and 3rd has step C like this (hope you can see):
------------
I     I     I
A   B   C
I     I     I
------------

Number of branches required = 2, means that this fork step (with total
3 branches) will be completed if 2 steps are completed (example Step A
and step C). Then the workflow with continue to the next step.
Hope you understand.

Best regards,

William R. SUmargo
SAP Consultant

On 8/17/05, Sushil Guragain <sguragain at interpublic.com> wrote:
> Sorry - I forgot to include the SAP documentation for the first question
> (which confused me) earlier:  
> 
> To define a fork, you specify the number of parallel branches required with
> the step name. The fork, consisting of the start operator, the branches each
> with an         undefined step and the join operator, is inserted into the
> workflow definition.
> 
> To define the termination of the fork, you enter the number of branches
> required and the condition. For more information about conditions, see the
> Condition Editor.
> 
> If you make no entry for the number of branches required, the system takes
> the number of branches.
> I have underlined the part that confused me - does this
> mean I enter the number of branches
> required to end the workflow 
> (i.e., if I want workflow to end as soon as I receive one
> of the two events what do I put on number
> of branches required? 01 or 02 or 03)
> ________________________________
> From: Sushil Guragain [mailto:sguragain at interpublic.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:30 AM
> To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> Subject: defining a fork step in workflow
> 
> 
> Hi All,
>  
> Could someone please explain what the necessary branches (on the control
> pane of fork definition - end condition) means? I have 3 branches and need
> to make sure the WF listens for two events while it is doing normal WF steps
> on the third parallel branch. I need the workflow to go to those branches
> when it hears those events. Currently, I am noticing it listens to one event
> in some cases and both events in most cases. 
>  
> Also, is there a way I can go back and read the workflow log for an instance
> to see if certain event raised? 
>  
> Issue at hand: I have a PO that is released and the terminating event for
> the step is RELEASED but the step is still in 'started' status and I see the
> PO is already released. Even when it is released directly in ME29N, it
> should receive the event and that branch should start. I looked at the
> technical details of WF log but don't see anything regarding which event was
> raised (which I see when I look at another instance that worked as
> expected). How would I check if an event (that was supposed to trigger) did
> or did not trigger? Is there some report that will help me analyze this?
>  
> For future events I could turn the event trace on but I did not have it on
> when this happened. I don't know if it is recommended to turn on event trace
> in production either.
>  
> I appreciate your help.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
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