Web-forms to trigger a workflow

[Nicholas Brand]

Jocelyn,

Thanks very much for the info.


Kind regards,
Nicholas Brand




                                                                           
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Definitely best option currently is the SAP/Adobe Interactive forms as
these give you
online and offline capability, i.e. you can save the data with the form,
email to someone else
who adds more data and loads it up.

My second best choice currently would be a WebDynpro or iview (if
existing) UI.
Definitely not IAC.

Internet Service Requests can be used as the form handling mechanism
regardless
of what UI you are using, and in fact if you look at what is happening
in ECC systems
they are using ISR configuration with SAP/Adobe Interactive forms.

There are some licensing costs if you are creating custom forms but that
can be discussed
with your sales guy.  It can vary a lot depending on whether you are
currently using Adobe,
number of forms, etc.  SAP provided forms are free, certain custom
changes to SAP provided forms
are free.  As usual its complicated, but definitely worth pursuing.  The
Adobe stuff looks great,
works great, terrific features (e.g. digital signatures), and is
definitely part of SAP future direction.
(Word is all SAP provided forms input and output are expected to be in
Adobe format by around 2007).


Regards,
Jocelyn Dart
Senior Consultant
SAP Australia Pty Ltd.
Level 1/168 Walker St.
North Sydney
NSW, 2060
Australia
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Subject: Web-forms to trigger a workflow





At my current client we've got a lot of workflow requirements for users
to
enter creation/change request data onto a web-form that is then used to
trigger an R/3 workflow for approval and creation/change of the relevant
business object.
An example is for a business user to enter basic data onto a web-form
(accessible from the SAP Portal) about a Sales Order he wants creating .
The business user (who will have an R/3 userid) won't know all of the
Sales
Order data so can't post something in SAP. A workflow is triggered that
will firstly route the request for approval and then on to a Shared
Service
Centre. The workflow will then facilitate the SSC to create the Sales
Order
in R/3.

So, my question is what are the possible approaches to support this?

I'm currently investigating SAP Interactive Forms, WebDynPro forms, IACs
and Internet Service Requests.

Just wondering what others have used to support similar requirements.

Thank you.


Kind regards,
Nicholas Brand

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