sendtaskdescription sends same email twice - solved

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

Work flowers,

 It turns out the problem described below is NOT a bug in SAP, it is a bug
in my workflow skills.

It seems that I created an (unnecessary) SELFITEM object in the workflow
container and passed it in (and out) of the mail steps. It was instantiated
in the first mail step, and then reused in the second mail step - hence the
duplicate mails.

I've made mistakes like this before - I think it's a good principle to make
as few bindings as possible.

I hope this helps someone in the future!
Paul





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Hi Folks,

I'm at a 46C site where a custom workflow is sending different email
messages to different agents.

We have defined two tasks based on SELFITEM.SENDTASKDESCRIPTION; one that
sends a letter to an employee, and then a *different* letter to his boss.
They are executed in sequence.

When you look at the workflow log, everything looks fine.. and emails are
indeed sent to the employee and his boss.

The only problem is that the second letter is *identical* to the first one!
Both the subject line and the content are the same, despite the fact that
they are clearly different in the workflow log.

Is this a known bug? Do I have to refresh SELFITEM in some way?

I've checked the WUG archives and OSS, but no joy. Reversing the sequence
of the letters doesn't help.

Thanks for any tips or ideas

cheers
Paul







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