Portal - UWL vs. SAP Business Workplace

[Athur Krishna]

Hi Greg,
  One small question, EBP Approvals have the "Substitution" option, How did 
you achive that in UWL since UWL by default does not come with "Substitute" 
option.
 Thanks,
-Krishna

 On 9/1/05, Gregory Utley <Gregory.Utley at citrix.com> wrote: 
> 
>  All,
> 
> We just converted from the SAP Office inbox to the UWL with the 
> implementation of the SAP Portal. The big plus for users here is one stop 
> shopping, i.e., all SAP Office inboxes (R/3, EBP, ESS) are now available 
> in one place. Before, users had to enter via SBWP to approve separately in 
> each system. The biggest negative with the UWL is the loss of the "advance 
> with dialog" feature. We've had to write custom code to compensate for this. 
> I think this is a major loss, although I haven't seen any other complaints 
> on WUG on the topic.
>  
> *Greg Utley*
>  ------------------------------
>  
> *From:* sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] *On 
> Behalf Of *Sherman Wright
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:52 PM
> *To:* UserGroup, Workflow
> *Subject:* Portal - UWL vs. SAP Business Workplace
> 
>  Hi – 
> 
> We are using Portal 6.0, and because of unfamiliarity, etc., etc., we had 
> replaced the Universal Work List (UWL) with the SAP Business Workplace 
> (transaction SBWP) using Windows HTML GUI. We have a handful of workflow 
> approval tasks (PR approvals, Fixed Asset retirement approvals, Absence 
> Request approvals, etc.) that we route to people in their Workflow Inboxes, 
> which should be available with either "tool".
> 
> We are in the process of moving from SAP R/3 4.6B to MySAP ERP (ECC 5.0). 
> In light of this, I have been asked to provide pros and cons regarding 
> replacing the Business Workplace with the UWL, since the UWL is the default 
> tool in Portal. Do any of you have any strong arguments either for or 
> against the use of UWL as opposed to the Business Workplace? Some of our 
> users really like the ability to do their automatic forwarding, substitution 
> maintenance, outbox maintenance, etc., from Portal. Most of these things 
> especially don't seem to be available in the UWL.
> 
> Any information would be appreciated…
> 
> Regards,
> Sherman
> 
> 
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