Inbox messages sent by WF-BATCH with no Expiry Date.

Tue Jul 12 11:41:13 EDT 2005

Rick,

You're not alone. I'm currently in discussion with SAP to get this issue
addressed as well. Messages without expiration date are generated
throughout the system, which makes maintenance of SAP office a big
problem. For the moment you can use program RSSODLWF to clean up the
so-called dark folder, which contains the messages send by ao WF-BATCH.
The program only works by year and does not consider the expiration date
at all. See OSS note 131031 for some more info.

For users in general the expiration of messages only kicks in when the
office folder is accessed through SAP; not too many batch users visit
their outbox :-) and some/most online users do not feel that urge. You
can use program RSSOEXDA (see OSS note 431801) to address this issue.
The program has a 'workaround' for the missing expiration date; in case
the expiration date is missing the create/change date is used instead to
select/delete obsolete messages.

Etc, etc etc........   

Bruno Magnani  

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Subject: re: Inbox messages sent by WF-BATCH with no Expiry Date.

I just got an answer back from SAP. We appear to be the only 

customer that uses this functionality. I was wondering why I never 

got any replies!

So, if no other customers use this functionality, I guess the next
question 

would be how do customers manage these SAP Inbox messages? 

Do they just let users manages their own inbox messages, or are messages

sent to something other than SAP Inbox like MS Outlook, ?. 

At this point, I am just looking for some info so I can pass on to
management.

Thanks!

Rick Sample
SAP Workflow Analyst/Developer
Graybar, Inc.
11885 Lackland Rd.
63146-4208
314.573.5822
Rick.Sample at GBE.com

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I applied SAP Note 591430 to get the Expiry Date added to all 

messages sent in the system. 

If a dialog user creates a message it stamps Expiry with correct date. 

Problem:

Any messages from WF-BATCH are not being set with any Expiry Date so 

we have no way of auto-deleting these messages. ?

(Growing by the day and system performance issues!)

If anyone that can shed some light on this it would be greatly
appreciated.

4..6c

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