Deleting work items in production
Michael Pokraka
workflow at quirky.me.uk
Wed Mar 16 10:29:14 EST 2005
Hi Cindy,
You need to be in the technical workitem display to be able to edit and delete
it.
The FM you're after is SAP_WAPI_ADM_WORKFLOW_CANCEL (on 4.x you're probably
stuck with SWW_WI_STATUS_CHANGE_NEW).
Cheers
Mike
--- Qiru w <qiruw at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, Kesari,
>
> Is there a FM to do this? Can you tell what is it? The only place I know is
> from the menu, however, the option of 'delete logically' is greyed out from
> the menu.
>
> Thanks,
> Cindy
>
> Kesari Katakam <kesari.katakam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why dont you look at "logically deleting " the work items using the
> function module..? this would be better for audit /reporting
> purposes.!
>
>
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:36:04 -0500 (EST), Serge Boulay
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > You could try transaction SWPC - Continue Workflow After System Crash... I
> > never tried it but if you look at the program help that one of the reason
> it
> > was created for.
> >
> >
> >
> > Serge
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Mike,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank for your reply.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > We have a few probably around 10 or more work items sitting in user's
> > > inbox. These are work items left from the beginning of using this WF,
> > > caused by operation error.
> > >
> > > Also once in a while, even though the user has processed the workflow,
> > > the item still stays in the inbox. This WF is one-step task (30001128
> > > &30001117). User cannot set the WF to done. This option is greyed out.
> > > In other words, there is no way that we can change the WF status to be
> > > completed or cancelled. This item will not disappear from the work item
> > > list, as it should be.
> > >
> > > Besides the deletion option, is there any other way to clear up this?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Cindy
> > >
> > >
> > > Michael Pokraka wrote:Hi Cindy,
> >
> > >
> > > It is not only the risk that you need to consider, this may have serious
> > > audit
> > > implications.
> > >
> > > Perhaps you can tell us why this is an 'immediate requirement'?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Qiru w wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi, all,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> We have an issue regarding deletion of unwanted work items in production
>
> > >> system. According to SAP's recommendation, archive is the best approach.
>
> > >> However, the problem is that we are not planning to implement archiving
> > >> functionality in the near future, but production has this immediate
> > >> requirement.
> > >>
> > >> Alternatively, SAP provide two reports SWWWIDE and SWWHIDE to delete
> > >> work
> > >> item in development/testing environment, which will delete work items
> > >> permanently and directly. However, SAP emphasizes on the risk of using
> > >> these
> > >> reports and only suggests using it in non-production system.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Can these two reports act as practical solution to eliminate work items
> > >> in
> > >> production?
> > >>
> > >> Does anyone actually use this in production?
> > >>
> > >> How to use it up to make it secure and reduce the risk of mistakenly
> > >> using
> > >> the program? I am planning to use a dummy user who will get those work
> > >> items
> > >> need to be deleted and set the running variant and authorization to this
>
> > >> user
> > >> only.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Any suggestion is appreciated.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Thanks a lot,
> > >>
> > >> Cindy
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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