AW: Accessing a container value in EBP 3.5

[Workflow]

Hello Sue
If all you are doing is reading the data for a one-time query and you know
precisely what table is involved, why write a report, use the data browser.
If you want to manipulate the container data and/or workitem status then it
is highly recommended to use the new SAP_WAPI functions.  Updating via
SAP_WAPI is the application equivalent of calling a BAPI with everything
implied, data consistency, rollback, authorisations, etc.

Yours truly
Nate


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Von: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu]Im Auftrag
von Susan R. Keohan
Gesendet: Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 20:28
An: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Betreff: Accessing a container value in EBP 3.5


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
--
Susan R. Keohan
SAP Workflow Developer
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
LI-200
Lexington, MA. 02420
781-981-3561
keohan at ll.mit.edu

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