'Detached' task processing

[Mark Pyc]

Is it really necessary that the main WF complete ASAP? If you only need to 
have the flow continue then obviously the notification items can be hanging 
off in a parallel branch and the main WF logic will continue. The only issue 
is that the whole WF won't complete until all notification items have been 
opened and completed.

If you really need them as mini-WFs so the main flow can complete, I would 
have thought a method that programmatically starts the task rather than 
event based linkage would be easier. Less to define and largely you could 
just pass the inbound method container straight to the FM triggering the new 
task. May just need to fudge the move of the main object (self) into 
_WI_Object_ID.

Even with multiple tasks the creation of a little config Z-table and 
suitabley dynamic code should mean you only need the one method to handle 
any and all of the tasks.

Any more info to indicate the trickeries of the problem?

From: Michael Pokraka <workflow at quirky.me.uk>
Reply-To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
To: SAP Workflow User Group <sap-wug at mit.edu>
Subject: 'Detached' task processing
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:03:58 -0800 (PST)

Hi all,
I think the answer is a 'no go' but... I would like to execute a task and 
have
the workflow continue before the task is complete.

The simple answer - raise a custom event & trigger the task seperately. Can 
be
done, except there are a few different tasks with lots of container info 
(HR)
and it's going to get a bit messy. Just wondering if there is another way or
interesting design ideas to kick off a bunch of flows/task and pass over 
lots
of container stuff and have the calling flow continue. (In other words an
asynchronous start).

For what it's worth - these are a bunch of notifications that should by all
rights be sent as emails (which means the flow would resume/complete once
sent), but have to be workitems instead.

Cheers
Mike

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