missing text in work item?

Thu May 4 14:57:48 EDT 2006

Hi Vickie,

You actually gave me an idea in the future. This is how I would tackle
this situation (I can't find a standard transaction to do the job).
1 option (that would entail some abap codes) is to create a program that
 will update the workitem text in SBWP through BDC (Call Transaction).
You can go to SM35 and do a recording using transaction SBWP. Make the
recording synchronous, NO CATT and cont. after commit.
Once you hit the start recording, it will take you SBWP, you then pick a
workitem that you want to change, 
 click the "Other functions..." button in the toolbar, select the change
workitem, make a sample change in the WI text, click the Save,
  "X" out takes you back to SBWP, then "X" out again to take you back to
the recording. The Program, Screen, Start ID, Field Name,
 and Field Value will then be filled out. You can then use this in your
abap in creating a BDC session to update the workitems. You will
 have to put in some logic in your abap to look up the vendor and pass
this to the BDC. You can either use a Call Transaction to do the update.
 Or create a BDC session that you can verify and process in the
background through SM35.

Hope this helps. 
Bryan 

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Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 17:36:30 +0100
From: "Williams, Vikki" <vikki.williams at capgemini.com>
Subject: missing text in work item?
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Hi all, I'm hoping you'll be able to help a newbie!

We had a call logged today where the text on workitems was blank

The task was a user decision step

Post Document &1 from &2 ?

Parameter &1 is "&PARKED_INVOICE.INVOICEDOCNUMBER&"

Parameter &2 is "&PARKED_INVOICE.VENDORNAME&"

I tested object zbus2081 for the invoice instance and the vendorname
attribute was blank.  Looked at the programme behind this attribute,
it's
picking up the name2 field from table LFA1).  

Programme 

GET_PROPERTY VENDORNAME CHANGING CONTAINER.

 DATA : V_LIFNR LIKE LFA1-LIFNR,            

        V_NAME2 LIKE LFA1-NAME2.            

 SELECT SINGLE LIFNR INTO V_LIFNR           

 FROM RBKP CLIENT SPECIFIED                 

 WHERE MANDT = SY-MANDT                     

 AND BELNR = OBJECT-KEY-INVOICEDOCNUMBER    

 AND GJAHR = OBJECT-KEY-FISCALYEAR.         

 IF SY-SUBRC NE 0.                          

   CLEAR V_LIFNR.                           

   EXIT.                                    

 ENDIF.   

I checked SE16 on table LFA1, name2 field was blank, hence no data in
the
container element vendorname.  Discovered that the name2 fields on
vendor
master were deleted as per a user request.

We have repopulated the name2 field on the vendor master, so new
workitems
have text, but now have quite a lot of old work items with the missing
text.
Is there a way of either refreshing the text on an existing workitem (I
don't think so, but you are the experts!) or restarting the workflow
from
this user decision step only (it has already been through approvals etc.
so
they don't want to retrigger from the beginning.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

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Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 19:10:52 +0100
From: "Mike Pokraka (WUG)" <asap at workflowconnections.com>
Subject: RE: missing text in work item?
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Hi Vikki, 

Welcome to the wonderful world of workflow! First tip: always mention
the
version - fortunately not that relevant for this question.

'fraid to say though your suspicions are correct, the work item title is
static. Not sure, but if people were to log on in a different language
it
may still regenerate the text.

Depending on how big the need and how much time you have, there's a
workaround: using dynamic columns. This is customizing on a per-task
basis
(SWL1 I think), and needs to be transported. Further, the workplace
inbox
views need to be changed, and everyone has to access the posting task
using
the 'grouped by task' view. 

There's doco on how to do this on help.sap.com - just search for
'Business
Workplace Dynamic Columns' in your version's SAP Help.

You might even find this to be a nice long-term solution - as it would
enable users to sort by vendor and so forth. 

Shout back if you get stuck with it.

Cheers, 

Mike

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