New to workflow

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Those PM/QM/General notifications are seriously cool... especially if
you want to play around with Adobe Interactive forms. 
 
Ron - there are some standard workflows for business object type BUS7051
and BUS7028 - if you call up the where-used list from transaction SWO1
and have a look at those workflows you will see some background tasks
that show you how to update the notification's system status.  The
workflows themselves are slightly scary because they are so generic -
but just check out the tasks within them, that's what you need.  It's a
different but similar method for updating the  user status.
 
 
And yes as Sue says - please never suggest marking a work item for
deletion again (that's "wash your mouth out" territory).  The correct
approach is to have your workflow listen for e.g. a "manual approval"
event and cancel the work item in response.  You could still update the
status if you need to after receiving the workflow event. 

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Jocelyn Dart 
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Kisloff, Philip B
Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2007 11:26 PM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: New to workflow


Hi Ron,
 
I recognize this as user status management for either quality
notifications or one of the other modules using notifications (which
borrow a lot from plant maintenance -PM). This are is not necessarily
anything to do with SAP Business Workflow, unless you plan to control
your notifications with status change events. The challenge here is not
so much the workflow side, which can be reduced to delivery of the
messages or additional background actions based on status events, but on
the relevant application module knowledge and your specific scenario.
 
I'll have a go at answering, nevertheless:
 
1. Marking for deletion allows the notification to be archived, as if it
was completed ? Also, surely you would want to log and restrict access
to approve/reject, while mark for deletion should only be accessible to
administrators.
 
2. Try SAP_WAPI_WRITE_CONTAINER
 
By the way, it's a area of interest of mine to see how notifications can
be used more widely to solve BPM-type problems, so good luck !
 
Phil
 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu]On
Behalf Of Keohan, Susan
	Sent: 11 September 2007 13:40
	To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
	Subject: RE: New to workflow
	
	

	Hi Ron,

	
	I don't know what release or application you are using - we
don't have transaction PMM8 on our 4.6c system, so I am not sure what it
does.  What I do know is that 'mark workitem for deletion' will likely
cause a lot of WFers out there to run for the hills.  

	Please include release and/or application in order to generate a
more fruitful discussion...

	Cheers,
	Sue

	From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu]
On Behalf Of Ron Adkins
	Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:45 PM
	To: sap-wug at mit.edu
	Subject: New to workflow

	 

	Hello everyone,

	 

	I am new to workflow and have a couple of questions.  Thanks in
advance for your time.

	 

	1.	Mark for Deletion (PMM8)  vs Refuse Approval of  a
Notification.   What are the downfall to letting our workflow processors
Mark a workitem for deletion versus a Refusal Approval? 

	 

	 

	2.	If we have removed a step of approval from a new
workflow, how can I manually change the status to NOPR APOK in the
container? 

	 

	 

	Thanks,

	Ron Adkins

	 

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