Statistics on wait times? - Loops and New Tasks

[Rickayzen, Alan]

Defected - Ouch!! And coming from another Rick - how could you? :-)

A better way to deal with such tasks is 
> Asynchronous tasks as Yulianto described or
> an end-condition in the step definition  or
> the confirm button (such as in a pls-read-this type of task).

Hope that helps,
Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Sample, Rick
Sent: Mittwoch, 1. August 2007 17:31
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: Statistics on wait times?



Alan,

We had basically same request. A sort of Manager's report on their
subordinates work.
One issues that will effect WF duration reports:

Duration. Duration of what? 
Some of my older WFs (when I was a newbie) have loops that create a
"new" task every loop. 
I clean up as needed when I revisit these older WFs, but none the less,
they could skew your reports.
i.e. user opens a task, closes, and the loop creates a new task. So,
duration of this task would be meaningless.
I know no one has never done this before. Right? 

Our solution was to add a struct to all WFs with the tasks we want to
report on. Pull that info into BW 
and slice and dice any way business wants. 

Worked for us. 
But I would be really interested in your findings since you have
defected to Duet group vs. WF world!  :-)

Rick Sample
SAP Business Workflow Developer
Graybar, Inc.


 

-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Rickayzen, Alan
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:19 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: Statistics on wait times?

Dear workflow experts,
 
I'm hoping to gather some statistics on workflow performance - in
particular wait times (i.e. wasted time - time a work item spends before
someone works on it).
In particular - I'm looking to see how e-mail notifications affect
things.

Why? Duet supports SAP Business Workflow and I'm confident we'll
eventually be able to show how much advantage there is in, say, doing
offline approvals compared with simple notifications compared with no
e-mail support at all.
 
Here's the request to workflow administrators - if you're not one,
sorry, you won't have the authorization or expertise and can stop
reading here :-)


IMPORTANT: Don't do this today. Wait until next week to give anyone a
chance to raises concerns about risks involved just in case there are
any that my colleagues and I have overlooked.

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To create the statistics, you simply call transaction SWI2_DURA in a
production system and select the last-365-days interval.
The task ID is TS00008267 (or equivalent) and press F8. This does not
make changes in the system - it simply reads the data.

Irrespective of what mail system you use, I'm hoping to receive
 
1. Threshold values shown by the report (10%, 50%, 90%) and the average
values (wait, process, total). Just cut and paste these from the report
results.
 
2. Whether or not you send e-mail notifications, or even e-mail-based
approvals as in SRM.
 
3. What mail client you use.
 
4. Whether you have enhanced the standard SAP notification capabilities
(Kjetil did with great success). 
 
5. Process name  if possible (e.g. shopping cart approval). I guess this
is only possible if you copied TS8267 to your own custom task for one
particular process to configure a useful task description and do proper
reporting (Massive kudos for doing this - triple-kudos for anyone doing
this sort of reporting in BI).
 
Address to return results to: 
       alan.rickayzen at sap.com

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I'll circulate the statistical results (without the company or personal
names) to Sue (our workflow Goddess) and those of you generous enough
with your time to participate. Maybe we can improve the questions later
for a proper web survey for ASUG or some other event.
 
Best regards,

Alan  Rickayzen
SAP AG 
 

 

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