Big problem with the Document Relationship Browser!

Michael Pokraka workflow at quirky.me.uk
Mon Feb 14 10:08:42 EST 2005


Nice try - approaching the problem from the other side. I've scanned through
the code again and unfortunately GOS doesn't even feature. 
Status so far - I did find some related personalization objects which are
quietly ignored and reported it to OSS. 

Thanks
Mike

--- "Dart, Jocelyn" <jocelyn.dart at sap.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike, 
> I'm on 6.40 and notice there are some new BADIs for GOS available that
> look promising. 
> Go to transaction SE18 and look for badis with the pattern *GOS*.
> If you haven't used BADIs before - you have to create an implementation
> of the BADI and activate it. 
> Worth a look.
> 
> Let me know if they help. 
> Regards,
> Jocelyn  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of Michael Pokraka
> Sent: Thursday,10 February 2005 5:02 AM
> To: SAP Workflow User Group
> Subject: Big problem with the Document Relationship Browser! 
> 
> Hi all, 
> We've just discovered what (for us at least) is a really nasty feature
> in the
> document relationship browser on 4.7/620: If a user looks at e.g. a
> delivery,
> they can see all it's associated workflows. 
> 
> This is good. 
> 
> BUT.... (I wouldn't be writing this if there weren't a 'but'), the DRB
> looks at
> the workflows and their objects and finds THEIR workflows. So, the
> delivery has
> an associated WF, which contains an EMPLOYEET object. Hey, all the HR
> workflows
> for this instance are visible, we can see this chap had a bonus payment
> last
> month! 
> 
> It gets worse: We use the tried and tested (trusted?) technique of a
> deadline
> object based on 'The Book' in all our workflows. Jolly good, so now all
> WF's
> that use the same deadline as our starting flow are also included in the
> example above (this is a loooong list). From here there are other
> deadlines,
> and plenty of other objects (USR01, Cost centres etc... ). Basically one
> can in
> theory start at almost any random workflow instance and work one's way
> to any
> and all flows in the system. 
> 
> This is bad, very bad. 
> 
> Does anyonw have any wild theories on getting around this without
> modifying
> 60-odd workflows which are already completed and released for QA? Of
> course I
> thought I was doing a good deed by using lots of objects all over my
> workflows..... 
> 
> Any ideas desperately appreciated, (Have already trawled OSS....)
> TIA, 
> Mike
> 
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