Workflow in Multiple Languages

Kjetil Kilhavn (KJETILK) KJETILK at statoil.com
Wed Mar 15 04:13:43 EST 2006


As I mentioned in the first message the problem can of course be the mail gateway. Since you say everything looks fine in SCOT the input *should* be OK, but have you checked the input to and output from sendmail (or equivalent)? 
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Kjetil Kilhavn, Statoil ØFT KTJ BAS DEV SAP
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu 
> [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Antonio, Bryan
> Sent: 14. mars 2006 15:32
> To: sap-wug at mit.edu
> Subject: RE: Workflow in Multiple Languages
> 
> Thanks for the reply. But all the chinese characters in the 
> outlook email (sent by the Workflow) were all replaced by 
> pound signs "#". Even if you change the encoding to the 
> correct language, the characters in "#" will remain "#". I 
> just tried it.
> 
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:42:26 -0800 (PST)
> From: Noriko Abe Chandler <n_abe at yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: Workflow in Multiple Languages
> To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
> Message-ID: <20060313184227.85553.qmail at web32407.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> Did you encode the message in Outlook? View->Encoding-> 
> <choose language
> here>
>    
>   Correctly sent message in double bites languages do not 
> always display correctly at first. The reader has to encode 
> each message, I think.
> That's the way I read Asian languages in Outlook/Yahoo inbox. 
>    
>   Noriko
> 
> "Antonio, Bryan" <bryan.antonio at tycoelectronics.com> wrote:
>   SCOT also looks correct. The email subject is in English 
> (which is correct). The translated texts are in the email 
> body. I also checked SOST and it has the correct language. I 
> have to log on to the box in the same language as the 
> workitem. If I log on to the same box in English, SOST has 
> the corrupted text.
> 
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:16:11 +0100
> From: "Kjetil Kilhavn \(KJETILK\)" 
> Subject: RE: Workflow in Multiple Languages
> To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" 
> Message-ID:
> <273AA3C12CC7C54DA3C0C33F3857FE5CC3CD8F at ST-EXCL03.statoil.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> Interesting problem. We also use multiple codepages in our 
> 4.6C system - but we haven't done much translation yet. If I 
> remember correct Chinese and Japanese are double-byte 
> codepages. If you have everything correct in SAP (including 
> SCOT log of transmitted messages), could it be the mail 
> gateway that causes problems?
> 
> Are the message headers correct in Outlook, i.e. indicating 
> the correct encoding?
> --
> Kjetil Kilhavn, Statoil ?FT KTJ BAS DEV SAP
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu 
> > [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Antonio, Bryan
> > Sent: 10. mars 2006 22:53
> > To: sap-wug at mit.edu
> > Subject: Workflow in Multiple Languages
> > 
> > 
> > Hello All Workflow Gurus,
> > 
> > Has anyone implemented a Workflow for multiple languages? If 
> > yes, have you guys encountered getting corrupted output in MS 
> > Outlook that was sent by your Workflow? I'm currently 
> > struggling on our asian-language translated text. We're in 
> > 4.7 using multicode page. I store translated text in 
> > different Standard Texts. This is then called in the custom 
> > attribute of the BOR. The custom attribute from the BOR is 
> > inserted in my standard task (using the SENDTASKDESCRIPTION 
> > to send the email). In the BOR, I validate the language key 
> > of purchase requisition (created or updated). I've coded the 
> > custom attribute to call the LOAD_TEXT function module to get 
> > standard text matching the language key of the requisition. 
> > All is well in R/3 until I get the email in outlook and text 
> > is corrupted. I've traced the Workflow, debugged the BOR, 
> > debug the function modules LOAD_TEXT and other function 
> > modules relating to sending emails, reading standard texts 
> > and reading workitems. No luck. I asked our basis team to 
> > change the language key, communication language, etc. of 
> > WF-BATCH. Still no luck. I found OSS note 891526 (it was 
> > specific to deadlines, but I gave it a shot). Still no luck. 
> > The standard texts in tradition chinese, simplified chinese 
> > and japanese all get corrupted in outlook. I've also looked 
> > into our outlook settings.
> > Yes, we can send and receive emails in those languages.
> > 
> > Any help, suggestion/s, comment/s are very much appreciated.
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan
> > 
> > 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:20:59 +0100
> From: "Kjetil Kilhavn \(KJETILK\)" 
> Subject: RE: Creating a Shortcut
> To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" 
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> I think you precede the command with a * - at least I seem to remember
> that that is what is done in RSWUWFML2. It's the same as "AND 
> SKIP FIRST
> SCREEN", which may or may not work depending on the transaction you
> call.
> -- 
> Kjetil Kilhavn, Statoil ?FT KTJ BAS DEV SAP
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> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu]
> On Behalf Of Richard Marut
> Sent: 11. mars 2006 06:26
> To: 'SAP Workflow Users' Group'
> Subject: RE: Creating a Shortcut
> 
> 
> 
> Kjetil,
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the info. I didn't debug the code but I took a look
> at it and saw that the parameter is the field name plus the command.
> When using VA02, I ended up setting i_parameter to
> 'VBAK-VBELN=0000001714' to get the value to populate into the document
> number field which was exactly what I needed. I didn't use the command
> because I was receiving the command dialog. I know there's a 
> way to shut
> that off but letting the user hit the enter is good enough.
> 
> 
> 
> Richard...
> 
> 
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> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu]
> On Behalf Of Kjetil Kilhavn (KJETILK)
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 1:29 AM
> To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> Subject: RE: Creating a Shortcut
> 
> 
> 
> Can't recall exactly how it is set up, but put a breakpoint in
> there and run RSWUWFML2 with the options for individual messages and
> execution attachment. Then there will be a shortcut 
> attachment with work
> item ID as parameter.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Kjetil Kilhavn, Statoil ?FT KTJ BAS DEV SAP
> 
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> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu
> [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Marut
> Sent: 6. mars 2006 22:25
> To: 'SAP Workflow Users' Group'
> Subject: Creating a Shortcut
> 
> The create shortcut function module SWN_CREATE_SHORTCUT
> has an import parameter call i_parameter that gets 
> concatenated with the
> either the transaction report or system command.
> 
> 
> 
> Does anyone know how to use this? What I'm looking to
> find out is, can it be used to to fill a parameter id? I want see if I
> can eliminate the user from having to type in an order number 
> when they
> get to VA02.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> Richard.
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:26:38 +0700
> From: Rita_Tan at app.co.id
> Subject: New step - condition type in existing wf
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> Hi all,
> I need to add a new step in existing workflow with Condition 
> step type,
> I've got difficulties when arrange one of the branches, which 
> should be
> go
> through many steps below,
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> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:59:51 -0800
> From: Sandip Jana <sandip.jana at in.ibm.com>
> Subject: Function module to get user name of certain role
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> Hi,
> 
> I need a function module that will give me the userid of 
> person who has
> a 
> particular security role. The security role will be a import parameter
> for 
> the function module. Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sandip
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> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:12:50 -0600
> From: "Richard Marut" <rvmarut at earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: Function module to get user name of certain role
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> Sandip,
> 
>  
> 
> RH_STRUCT_GET will work for you.
> 
>  
> 
> Richard.
> 
>  
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> Of
> Sandip Jana
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:00 PM
> To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> Subject: Function module to get user name of certain role
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I need a function module that will give me the userid of 
> person who has
> a
> particular security role. The security role will be a import parameter
> for
> the function module. Any help will be appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Sandip
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