WorkFlow

[Dart, Jocelyn]

1) Can WF's be initiated from Portal or are mainly in R/3?
Yes of course.  You just need an application that fires a workflow
event. 
Most ESS/MSS applications work this way for instance. 

2) Do you use any kind of form based tool like adobe document services,
infopath etc. to trigger WF? If yes, what kind of transactions / ESS /
MSS requests are these?
If you want to do this then use the ISR approach with Adobe - as that
gives
 you pre-built WebDynpro apps that have the event handling and user
exits available. 

3) Anybody aware of ISR's/Guided procedures? Advantage of one over
other? In which scenario would you use one over the other?
Guided Procedures are very very new... be prepared for the usual hassles
of being on the 
bleeding edge... however by all means give them a go. 
Note: They don't cater as yet for aysnchronous scenarios such as when
you need to listen to terminating events. 
And by definition they have a limited complexity as they are intended to
be put together
by non-technical people. 
Use GP for simple scenarios with no or light integration with the
backend. 
For anything complex or with heavy integration use WF. 


Regards,
Jocelyn Dart
Senior Consultant
SAP Australia Pty Ltd.
Level 1/168 Walker St.
North Sydney 
NSW, 2060
Australia
T   +61 412 390 267
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E   jocelyn.dart at sap.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Vikas Mahajan
Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2006 9:25 AM
To: sap-wug at mit.edu
Subject: WorkFlow

Hi,

I would like to know following: 

1) Can WF's be initiated from Portal or are mainly in R/3?

2) Do you use any kind of form based tool like adobe document services,
infopath etc. to trigger WF? If yes, what kind of transactions / ESS /
MSS requests are these?

3) Anybody aware of ISR's/Guided procedures? Advantage of one over
other? In which scenario would you use one over the other?

Thanks,
Vikas


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