Application independant workflow ?

[Munday,Sherie J.]

Phil,
My understanding is that this is exactly where Guided Procedures would come to play.  I plan to check it out during Tech Ed.
Best Wishes,
Sherie

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Sent: Tue 9/5/2006 5:42 PM
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Subject: Re: Application independant workflow ?



Phil,

Nice question! I haven't done this myself, but can imagine how you might
approach it.

SAP workflow is designed to work with business objects. For your purpose, a
custom business object would have to be defined in SAP (as a BOR object or
a class), while the methods of that object would manipulate an external
entity via RFC calls.

You could think of this business object as a simple 'proxy' for the
external entity. You just need to define the object, its key, and any
methods that you need for the workflow (esp Constructor and Display).

For example, a 'Change' method might read the external object via an RFC
call, present a dialog screen for editing, and save  the results via a
second RFC call.

I was recently on a job where we built a workflow around a custom
application inside SAP (with its own Z tables, dialog screens etc), using
the same principles. It was surprisingly easy, and works a treat!

hope this helps
Paul



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Hi all,

Has anyone had any experience, ideas or knowledge of SAP Business
Workflow being used for generic workflow tasks that are not specific to
a data object in SAP?

I'm asking because I'm evaluating a successor to Domino, which serves as
the company standard workflow engine. In the frame is Microsoft Office
2007, which will have in the next year or so a reasonable workflow
engine, or so I'm told.

Personally, I'm very comfortable with the SAP workflow engine and
development environment, but in our company there are many business
functions that don't reside in SAP (the majority, in fact).  Can SAP's
workflow compete in this area? Obviously, we will install a fresh
installation of NetWeaver 04, but not configure any of the applications.

Any thoughts, pros and cons would be welcome.

Many thanks

Phil
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