Binding duplication on sendmail step?

[Hilsbos, Margaret A]

Mike,

Thanks for the input. I was going to ask whether there was any reason not to use a plain activity instead of sendmail, as you suggest. You have answered my question before I asked it! Of course when I tried that on the problem workflow, all sorts of other strangeness cropped up, so I just created a copy without the sendmails, then re-added them, and now it is working fine. If I have any new problems with the new workflow I'll definitely replace the sendmails with activity steps. 

I suspect that the sendmail issue arises from SAP trying to do too much of the developer's work for them. ;-)

Margaret

-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu]On Behalf
Of Mike Pokraka
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:28 PM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: Re: Binding duplication on sendmail step?


Hi Margaret,
Just between you ane me, I rarely use sendmail steps. Create a task with 
SELFITEM.SENDTASKDESCRIPTION instead, which is exactly the same thing - 
to me, having a nice little envelope icon in the builder is not worth 
the pain.

Though the same object and method, the sendmail regenerates your 
bindings for you. It also sometimes decides to wordwrap things in odd 
ways and cut text in mid-word. If I send to a distribution list I can 
only do it in the binding, if I tab back to the address details tab it 
complains and won't let me out of the tab until I change it back. OSS 
wouldn't change it as it isn't a bug - a missing feature perhaps, but 
that's not the same.

Just my (unofficial) opinion :-)

Cheers
Mike


Hilsbos, Margaret A wrote:
> Hello Workflowers,
> 
> Has anyone had the experience of trying to modify a binding, it looks like it works, you save and generate, and when you test it still doesn't work, you go back and look at the binding and the duplicate lines you deleted are still there? Which, by the way, I have no idea how or why the duplicate lines showed up in the binding in the first place. 
> 
> Now I just deleted the step and, after many SWU_OBUFs, recreated it, making sure the binding was correct. I ran a test, it errored, and when I went back to look at the binding, not only were the lines duplicated again, but another row that I had intentionally omitted entirely, had showed up again.
> 
> I searched OSS and came up empty. I would have searched the WUG on SDN but for some reason that page isn't working for me either. (is it still Monday? sure feels like it...)
> 
> Has anyone else seen this bizarre behavior, and if so how did you fix it?  
> 
> We are on 6.20 and this is happening with a sendmail step.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Margaret Hilsbos
> Day & Zimmermann
> 
> 
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