Using BDC in a FuncLoc workflow

[Paul.Bakker@osr.treasury.qld.gov.au]

G'day,

 I'm investigating how to create a functional location via a workflow. The
idea is to present the user with a form (roughly based on table IFLOT), and
then pass their input data to the BUS0010.CREATE method.

Fine so far. My problem is that the client has extended table IFLOT with Z*
fields (in a custom include). As far as I can see, there is no way to adapt
the CREATE method (which calls BAPI_FUNCLOC_CREATE) so that it will handle
the new Z* fields.

So what are my options? The only one I can think of, is to call the CREATE
method, and then execute a subsequent step to update the custom fields via
a BDC session on transaction IL02!

This is a yuk solution, because it is brittle, it splits the creation into
two steps, and I would have to introduce BDC error handling into the
workflow.

Do you have a better idea? Has anyone else had to execute BDCs via workflow
to make up for inflexible BAPis? I wonder what 'best practice' is.

thanx
Paul


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