Dialogue step after 'wait for event'

[Bill Holbrook]

I thought that might be the case, but I just wanted to check to see if there was a possible work around. Thank you for the input.

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu]On Behalf Of Mark Pyc
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:48 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: Re: Dialogue step after 'wait for event'


G'day Bill,
 
Just to clarify...
 
You have n foreground steps. A wait for event. Subsequent foreground step with same agent as the step before the wait?
 
If this is your chain then yes you are right the wait for event will break the advance with dialog sequence. This is the way it is meant to be. Because you need to wait for an ansyncronous update (presumably) to occur. The nature of asynchronous updates is that the dialog users context is free from having to wait for the update to occur. 
 
Even though it may only take a fraction of a second in practice normally, there can be delays during which the user could navigate entirely away from the SAP Inbox. 
 
SAP is a client server set-up. Once the dialog chain is broken, it can't be re-established by the server.
 
The same would be true if your previous step was declared as an async method and your wait step was replaced by the terminating event. The chain would still be broken.
 
It's just a case of training your user to refresh their inbox and execute the next item. Might even be worth including a reminder to do so in the long text of the step prior to the wait.
 
Good luck,
Mark

 
On 3/14/06, Bill Holbrook < BHolbro at smud.org> wrote: 


       Hello.

       I am currently on SAP release 4.7, Basis patch level SAPKB62050.
       I have written a workflow that has a 'Wait for event' step. Before the step executes there are steps that are executed in dialog mode. When the 'Wait for event' step is executed, it sends an item for the next step to be executed into my inbox rather than just continuing with the rest of the workflow. The 'Wait for event' step seems to go into background mode (WF-BATCH) and that is why the item is going into my inbox instead of executing automatically. Is there a way to make the workflow continue after the  'Wait for event' step has executed and not create an inbox item ? 

Bill Holbrook
Technical Developer
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Mail Stop A306   (916) 732-6759



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