Material Master Workflow

[Hill, Anna]

Hi Timo

Probably the most efficient way of doing this would be to use dynamic parallel processing, but it depends on whether the steps needs to be performed sequentially or in parallel. For parallel processing, you will need a multiline container element with a list of all the views you want to create. You then enter this on the 'Other' tab in the activity step in the workflow. If you then bind the container element into the task with index, it will read each value of the multiline view container one at a time and generate a work item for each of the views. The task in the activity step must have the view as an import parameter. This will only work if you want all the work items generated at the same time. You will probably also need a rule which uses the view as the container and has each department/position maintained against the responsibility for each value the view container can take. You will also need to bind into this rule with index.

If you want to generate the work items sequentially, you could build the functionality into a loop and with each iteration, increment a counter and read each line from your multiline container element containing the list of views into a single container element and pass this into the task.

You may be able to combine each technique so that those views which can be created independently from each other are done using dynamic parallel processing, and those which are sequential are done within the loop. 

Hope this helps
Good luck
Anna
SAP UK

-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Timo Robens
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:41 AM
To: sap-wug at mit.edu
Subject: Material Master Workflow

Hi everybody,

I´m very new to the topic workflow but i think i´ve got a old problem with
creating a workflow. Here is my problem. I want to create a workflow which
is able to control the creation of a new material. After creating a new
material a workitem is sent to somebody. While executing this workitem i´m
able to go directly to the view i want to. (see the dataflow in the
attachment). But to do so, I have uncomment the parameters in the method
creatviews.(see attachment) So, is anybody there, which can solve this
problem? I want to create a workitem - executing this workitem will show the
special view i want - after maintaining the view a new workitem should be
created to the following views an departments. Please help.

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