deadline monitoring loop

[Jeff Rappaport]

Sushil,

  Sorry, I read your question real quick in the middle of 
a meeting. In order for the way below to work, yes the 
Obsolete step would have to be the step above the 
Approval. In your instance I would yes, use a loop. What 
you would check for is the "_WI_Result" container element 
from the Decision Step to see if it has a value, such as a 
0001 or 0002, if not then the Approver has not chosen a 
decision.

Jeff

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:15:36 -0500
>From: "Sushil Guragain" <sguragain at interpublic.com>
>Subject: RE: deadline monitoring loop
>To: Jeff Rappaport <Jeff at Business-Workflow.com>
>
> 
>Thanks Jeff for your suggestion! I need to keep the 
workflow active and continue to progress the workflow 
through final approval, when we set the work item to 
obsolete, wouldn't that disallow the work item from 
execution? Or could you please elaborate on this a little 
bit?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sushil
>-----Original Message-----
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bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff Rappaport
>Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:02 PM
>To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
>Subject: Re: deadline monitoring loop
>
>Sushil,
>
>   You could use the Modeled option on your 'Latest End'
>DM & enable 'Processing obsolete' for an outcome. Then 
place the mail step after the DM leg & then a 'Process 
Control' Step that 'Sets the work item to Obsolete' using 
that original DM Step as the 'WF Step' entry. Let me know 
if you have any problems & I can show you some screen 
shots.
>
>Jeff Rappaport
>www.Business-Workflow.com
>
>
>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:25:35 -0500
>>From: "Sushil Guragain" <sguragain at interpublic.com>
>>Subject: deadline monitoring loop
>>To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
>>
>>   Hello WF Gurus,
>>
>>   I am trying to create a loop on deadline monitoring
>>   so that it will keep sending email until the user
>>   takes an action. I am planning to send email every
>>   24 hours until it is approved or declined. Is there
>>   a standard way to get this activated? I tried using
>>   deadline monitoring with 24 hours and found that it
>>   sends the notification once and that is it. Would it
>>   work if I put that in a loop? If so what do I check
>>   against to see if the work item is complete?
>>
>>   Thank you for your suggestions in advance!
>>
>>   Sushil
>>
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