"Choose Agent" wizard in ECC 5.0

Tue Dec 20 01:36:37 EST 2005

Ramki, 

Sorry for the delay - this one has been on the backburner for a while as
intriguingly the NW04s still mentions this
wizard but its definitely not there.

Basically ad hoc agent assignment gives you everything even the people
picker but you need to have the relevant
authorities and view - i.e. only the user who started the workflow can
change the agent and they do that from the 
Started Workflows list in the SBWP Outbox using a special "Choose Agent"
icon (two people overlaid and a cross). 

We do let other users change it in SRM but SRM has special coding/java
applets to handle this. 

Ad hoc agent assignment gives you (among others) the methods on business
object AAGENT and its subtypes...

Create - where you default the agents
Append - allows you to add a new agent to the agent list

and the attribute
Agents - with the list of currently assigned agents

The business object WF_TASK.AllAgentsofTask gives you the list of all
possible agents

So all the building blocks are there - just not the little dialog box to
display and select the agents

But you can still continue on the old way if you want to - just use task
TS30200146 as your people picker
or else create your own people picker. 

You could always use the WF_TASK method as your people picker and then
feed the chosen people into your more 
flexible ad hoc agent object using the Append method.

Regards, 
Jocelyn Dart 
Senior Consultant 
SAP Australia Pty Ltd. 
Level 1/168 Walker St. 
North Sydney 
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Workflow99 at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2005 7:38 AM
To: sap-wug at mit.edu
Subject: Re: "Choose Agent" wizard in ECC 5.0

Jocelyn,

The doco on ad hoc agent assignment says only the WF initiators can
choose the ad hoc agent while starting a workflow or during the flow for
the WFs started by them from their outbox (for those steps that have
been identified for ad hoc assignment). On the other hand the Choose
Agent wizard inserts a dialog step which allows its agent (not
necessarily the initiator) to choose agents for a subsequent step from
the task's possible agents. Is it possible to achieve the later with ad
hoc agent assignment? 

Best Regards,
Ramki Maley,
WF Developer - USCBP.

In a message dated 11/22/2005 8:26:46 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jocelyn.dart at sap.com writes:

________________________________

	From: Dart, Jocelyn 
	Sent: Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:18 AM
	To: 'SAP Workflow Users' Group'
	Subject: RE: "Choose Agent" wizard in ECC 5.0

	Can't confirm it but could give you a possible reason why.... ad
hoc agent assignment basically makes the Choose Agent scenario obsolete.

	Regards, 
	Jocelyn Dart 
	Senior Consultant 
	SAP Australia Pty Ltd. 
	Level 1/168 Walker St. 
	North Sydney 
	NSW, 2060 
	Australia 
	T   +61 412 390 267 
	M   + 61 412 390 267 
	E   jocelyn.dart at sap.com 
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	Sent: Wednesday, 23 November 2005 2:57 AM
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	Subject: "Choose Agent" wizard in ECC 5.0

	 Hi All,

	Can anybody confirm that the Include "Choose Agent" wizard is
not available in the Workflow Builder in the ECC 5.0 release? I was
trying to walk someone through on the phone and was told that it was not
available. Ended up manually inserting the task and bindings.

	Best Regards,
	Ramki Maley,
	WF Developer - USCBP.

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