EBP 3.5 AdHoc agent

Thu Jun 9 01:01:11 EDT 2005

Hi Tom, 
If you are in EBP you use the BADIs 90% of the time (well it certainly
feels like it).  Fortunately there are dozens of BADIs - I'm at one site
where we are up to using about 40 odd BADIs.  

There's a BADI BBP_DOC_CHECK_BADI - I'm 99.9999% certain that there will
already be an implementation of this BADI for the shopping cart object
BUS2121 unless this is day 1 of your project.  Do your check there.  

All the good workflow routines for EBP are function modules BBP_PDH_WFL*
you need something like an approval simulate function to find the same
details that you see in the approval preview.  You can then check
whether a inserted task (use the task id) has been added and who has
been assigned. 

Be aware that EBP has its own routines to evaluate event linkage, agent
assignment, approval preview etc. If you don't follow the workflow
patterns you are in serious trouble because all sorts of functions won't
work the way you expect.  If you can stick with one of the standard
scenarios count yourself fortunate. Otherwise be extra careful to keep
it as close to the standard workflow as possible, up to and most
especially including using ad hoc agent assignment objects. 

Have fun!

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
http://www.sap.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of faq at saportal.net
Sent: Thursday, 09 June 2005 12:26 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: EBP 3.5 AdHoc agent

Jocelyn,

I'm looking forward to the revolution:)
The developer is on vacation this week, so I guess the execution needs
to wait a little.
However, I'm a Old school workflow dude and therefore didn't use Badis a
lot. 
I looked in the badi bbp-doc-check, but nothing looked unusual. Could
you please give me some advise how to get a handle on it!

I guess the moment where I have to master badis arrived:)

Cheers,
Tom

-----Original Message-----

From:  "Dart, Jocelyn" <jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
Subj:  RE: EBP 3.5 AdHoc agent
Date:  Tue Jun 7, 2005 8:21 pm
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To:  "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>

Hi Tom, 
Usually standard SRM gives you an error if you hit "Order" when no
approver has been assigned.   Check your mods - in case your
first-to-be-shot-when-the-revolution-comes developer has interefered
with this check as well.  You can also check that the approver has been
filled in by using the doc check BADI.  If you are talking about the
"add approver" step, then make sure you run the appropriate BBP_PDH_WFL*
function module with the "use buffer" option on. 

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
http://www.sap.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Raju Omkaram
Sent: Wednesday, 08 June 2005 6:09 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: Re: EBP 3.5 AdHoc agent

You may want change your start conditions and insert a decision task
in the WF to bypass any approval. I am doing the exactly the same.

Raju

On 6/7/05, faq at saportal.net <faq at saportal.net> wrote:
> HelloAll,
> 
> can anyone advise me how to make sure that we shopping cart approval
workflow doesn't get triggered if no approver was assigned by the
requestor?
> At the moment the workflow starts, but no approver is found and
therefore unable to complete.
> 
> Also: thanks David and Jocleyn for your help. I couldn't find the add
approver button because some developer was hiding the button.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
> 
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