Accessing a container value in EBP 3.5

[Susan R. Keohan]

Hello all,

Keeping in mind Jocelyn's advice to use SAP_WAPIs to access data from workflow containers, and also, 
that I am new to the Basis 620/EBP 3.5 world, I have a need to do a one-time report in production of 
all instances of a certain container element (which would indicate to me whether a Shopping Cart was 
changed or rejected, as our custom-built workflow treats both cases the same way).  In the R/3 days, 
for this type of one-off analyis, I would, pardon me Jocelyn, just run TX SE16 against SWW_CONT and 
pull all occurrences of this container element.

Obviously, in the brave new world, I can't do that.  I've looked at SAP_WAPI_READ_CONTAINER, and it 
passes back the container elements I am interested in, but I am reluctant to a) run it 60000 times, 
or b) code a wrapper and go through the whole 'move to prod' business if there is a simple elegant 
solution for such a simple query.

If there is no simple elegant way, then I'll just write a wrapper, because probably these one-off 
things turn into regular reports anyway.  But I'd appreciate any feedback from you EBP/SRM/WF gurus!

Thanks
Sue
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Susan R. Keohan
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