Antw: WI advance with dialog

[Mark Pyc]

G'day John,

Nope it doesn't. The advance with dialog means that after executing
the first step the next step will execute immediately. There is no
dialog so there is nothing to see. Once that is complete the third
step will execute immediately which in your case will have a dialog
and so they see it.

The only way the user will be aware of the intermediate non-dialog
step is if they look in their outbox, or if they suffer authorization
issues or other errors during it's execution.

In allowing for the later case I always try to ensure that the
Workitem long text explains it. This way if there is some kind of
failure they can appreciate why they have a workitem they're not used
to in their inbox - the normal approach for background steps is too
have very little info as no one sees them. In this case making them
foreground non-dialog steps there is a chance they will see it in
exceptional situations (or if they look in their outbox).

Have fun,
Mark

On 9/16/05, John A Haworth <jhoworth at csc.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for the reply. But doesn't your solution mean that the user will see
> another WI appear which he/she will have to execute? instead of it
> occurring in the background,
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> Thanks
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> John
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> Hello John,
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> Your conclusion is correct. Because of the background task the advance with
> dialog will not work. There is however a solution.
> 
> You have to define the background task as a 'dialog' task. You can do that
> by removing the background flag in the task. The workflow executes the task
> in dialog. The user will not see that, instead of the wf-batch user, the
> current user will execute the task.
> 
> The user will get the next real dialog task in dialog.
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> Hope this helps...
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> Kind regards,
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> Hans van Ooijen.
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> > Van: John A Haworth <jhoworth at csc.com>
> > Aan: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Datum: vr 16 sep 05, 10:21
> > Onderwerp: WI advance with dialog
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> > Hi
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> > I have two tasks to the same agent, the second one I want the WI to
> execute
> > automatically. The problem is that I have a background task separating
> them
> > (executed by wf-batch)
> >
> > Even though I have the advance with dialog set on the 2nd task, but
> doesn't
> > open automatically, I am guessing its because of the background task, can
> > anyone offer a solution?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > John
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