Portal - UWL vs. SAP Business Workplace

[Gregory Utley]

Krishna,

 

Since SarbOx, we require management approval prior to assigning a
substitute.  The substitute is then assigned centrally using an SM30
parameter transaction against a maintenance view of the substitution
table (HRUS_D2).  That way we can insure that the substitute has the
same authority as the original approver, that the substitution is not
open-ended, etc. (not guaranteed if approvers do their own
substitutions).  Once implemented, the process is not as cumbersome as
it sounds; it's folded in with other security processes.  So, the lack
of the substitution button isn't a problem for us.

 

Greg Utley

CiTR!X Systems, Inc.

SAP Development Team

 

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Athur Krishna
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:19 PM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: Re: Portal - UWL vs. SAP Business Workplace

 

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

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto: 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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