ECC 6 technical upgrade from 4.6c
Dart, Jocelyn
jocelyn.dart at sap.com
Fri Aug 17 02:10:05 EDT 2007
Hi Sherie,
You might want to look at this one again:
you can bind from a specified element to an unspecified element, but not the other way around
You actually can bind the other way around if you set the right flags on the bindings - note that the binding arrow now gets you access to lots of special settings here.
Regards,
Jocelyn
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu on behalf of Sue Doughty
Sent: Fri 17/08/2007 4:36 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: ECC 6 technical upgrade from 4.6c
Hi Sherie,
Below you said that you would get back to us with "gotchas". Have you done that yet and I've missed it?
We're in the middle of testing our upgraded Sandbox and the only real issue I have found is that I have one event - PREL ASSIGNED - that won't trigger....I can't find anything on it and have opened an OSS Note.
The notes below that you sent helped me quite a bit....thank you so much.
Sue Doughty.
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Munday,Sherie J.
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:29 PM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: ECC 6 technical upgrade from 4.6c
Sue & Rick,
Hope this isn't too much for a message, but I put together some of the info I had summarized/documented from the Delta class that I attended for in-house. (I hope it is OK for me to share this with the group.) I will also check with my colleague to see if she still has the list of "gotchas" that she compiled when we were going through our own upgrade (4.6C - NW 2004).
* New WF-XML based functionalities from SAP WAS 6.2 - you might want to search on this on SDN?
* Changes in container technology
o One of my personal favs... The "Properties" as well as "Initial Values" are on separate tabs from your basic definition (which I often overlooked in those early post-upgrade days)
o Check out the Header Basic data for the WS container (the hat icon within workflow builder)
§ Under Version Dependant Tab => Control Tab, there is a "Persistence Profile". In the Persistence Profile you can specify the normal tables or a new XML table
§ Our old flows were set with "Compatibility" (which uses the old tables), but new flows are set with "XML" as standard. (The "Structure" mode is outdated and not recommended.)
§ The new data types are allowed only with the new XML persistence
§ The XML persistence should save storage space and increase performance when running flows
* There is a new binding editor
o allows you to drag & drop (and it will remind you if you don't use it) :o)
o the import and export are separate and they are tested separately (this one caught me a few times)
o you can bind from a specified element to an unspecified element, but not the other way around
o lots of choices in the binding instructions, check out the icon between flow and step columns in the binding editor
* Step Type activities, user decisions, wait steps, and web activities have three possible conditions that can be bound.... check out the tab "conditions" after "requested end" and "methods" on the step.
* You'll have to ask the true programmers about this one, but I know there is a new interface for the new container called IF_SWF_IFS_PARAMETER_CONTAINER.
* Lots of info around the Universal Worklist which we were already using
* There are start options in SWUS
* Multiple conditions in workflows can now be CASE or SWITCH... the SWITCH functionality really adds some cool flexibility
* Lots of info around ABAP Objects and ABAP Classes that was too technical for me
* As we have heard from the Wuggers in previous messages... RSWUWFML2 is replaced with extended notifications
* Also noted in recent Wugger messages.... correlations is a new solution for when you might not have the object key at the time of the creation of a wait step.
Hope that might give you a little flavor of the new version. I'll get back to you on the "gotchas".
Cheers,
Sherie
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Sue Doughty
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:12 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: ECC 6 technical upgrade from 4.6c
Sherie,
I too have been very aggravated with opening a task in the WF and it flipping to Display. It is very aggravating to have to open another window for PFTC_CHG and changing the task that way.
We are on 4.7 getting ready for the technical upgrade to ECC 6. Is there any documentation anywhere detailing what has changed in WF for the upgrade?
Sue Doughty.
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Munday,Sherie J.
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:48 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: ECC 6 technical upgrade from 4.6c
Rick,
I agree with your frustration on the PFTC_CHG flipping to display.
Since our upgrade, we have had to get used to opening the TS in a separate window in the change mode and then return to the parent....
Pain in the ... I would be most interested to see if the other
wugger's are experiencing this same pain.
We did not experience any missing elements when we upgraded.
Best of Luck,
Sherie
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Sample, Rick
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:25 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: ECC 6 technical upgrade from 4.6c
No. I am referring to when the conversion finished the WF Templates are missing elements. And we are latest patch.
I have added them to WF to get them working but wanted to know what the reason is so we can fix it before we convert.
Also, for some reason when I add an element PA0001-ENAME for example, to the "ABAP Dict Reference" and save, it changes itself to "ABAP Dict.
Data Type".
And, when I am in PFTC_CHG and open a task of the WF it flips to Display.
No option to modify task in Change mode. Arrrggghhh!~ Very annoying!
Rick
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Munday,Sherie J.
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 3:50 PM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: ECC 6 technical upgrade from 4.6c
Rick,
Were the missing container elements initial values? If so, take a look at OSS note 969389.
Cheers,
Sherie
Sherie Munday
SAP Workflow Developer/ Analyst
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Sample, Rick
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:34 PM
To: sap-wug at mit.edu
Subject: ECC 6 technical upgrade from 4.6c
We have in our sandbox ECC 6. (A few of issues). Any pointers on any is appreciated!
1.
I am missing WF containers elements after conversion and can't find a pattern.
Is there any utilities to run to compare old / new?
2.
Deadline Monitor running but not picking up deadlines.
I had this up and running last month. Now, it is "running" but my deadlines are not triggering.
Rick
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