Solution Manager - Workflow for Document Management

Mon Feb 11 08:28:21 EST 2008

Hi Cristiana,

I was talking about the document approvals process that come as standard
with Sol Man, and is internally called a "workflow" (although it's not
really). I'm not sure about the events - I think you might have to use the
enhancement spot as Flávio suggested.

All the transactions for the approvals are in the SPRO paths I sent, and the
documentation there should be helpful, although if your Sol Man consultant
says she's configured the strategies then maybe this part is done. Certain
document status changes require a digital signature - the user has to enter
their password. This is configurable and your consultant should know about
it (for example a document could go from Preliminary to In Process without a
digital signature, but to move it to Approved status you might want to
require the user to enter a password.) The event you mention is probably
raised when a user tries to move a document to one of the statuses that
require this digital signature.

Regards,
Gavin

2008/2/11, Cristiana D'Agosto <cristiana.dagosto at au1.ibm.com>:
>
>
> Hi Gavin,
>
> can you explain in more detail what has to be done?
>
> The Solution Manager consultant said she has done the configuration for
> multiple strategies to a status schema.
>
> What we thought it was going to happen was that once the status changed,
> the same event would be published. That didn't happen - the event was only
> published once.
>
> In your reply you mentioned a 'standard' workflow - can you tell me which
> one you were referring to? Any helpful transaction codes I should know
> about?
>
> I need to find out how the event SOLMANDOC.SIGNATURE_PROCESS_START is
> published? It is hard coded somewhere? Is it based on Solution Manager
> configuration?
>
> I am really struggling with this one...
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
>
> Cheers
>
> Cristiana
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> Cristiana,
>
> For approvals and authorisations in Solution Manager you should use
> the status of the document and digital signatures. There is a standard
> "workflow" in which you can configure the sequence of statuses and the
> profiles of which users can put the document in each status. This
> isn't a workflow like we all know and love, it's more of a status
> schema, but that's what the Solution Manager folks call it anyway.
>
> The SPRO path to configure the document statuses is:
> SAP Solution Manager > Configuration > Scenario-specific
> configurations > Scenario independent configuration > Document
> management > Document status
>
> and
>
> Scenario independent configuration > Digital signature > Signature
> strategy.
>
> You should be able to work things out from the SPRO documentation.
>
> I know you can customise the system to send emails automatically when
> service calls are attributed to users, but I don't know if this is
> possible for document status changes.
>
> Regards,
> Gavin
>
> 2008/2/7, Flavio Oliveira <oliveiraflavio at hotmail.com>:
> >
> >  Hi Cristiana:
> >
> >  You will probably have to work with BADI's.
> >
> >  Check the Enhancement Spot "SOLAR_DOCUMENT_EXITS". You get there every
> time
> > you save a document.
> >
> >  There you have some interesting atributes:
> >
> >  I_LOIO - Logical document
> >  I_PHIO - Phisical document
> >  That are the SOLMANDOC object key and you can raise the event yourself.
> >
> >  This can solve the problem of start workflow, but you still have the
> > problem of control the user authorization. I could not find any object
> to
> > check if the user can change the atribute for some specific value. This
> can
> > be a problem, I think.
> >
> >  Regards,
> >  Flávio.
> >
> >  ________________________________
> >  To: sap-wug at mit.edu
> > Subject: Solution Manager - Workflow for Document Management
> > From: cristiana.dagosto at au1.ibm.com
> > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 11:03:31 +1100
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Solution Manager is new territory for me, and I am wondering if there is
> > anyone in the SAP-WUG that can give some insight as to where to start on
> > this one.
> >
> > I need to build a very simple workflow for Document Management in
> Solution
> > Manager.
> >
> > Basically there is a user that is responsible for Creating the document
> and
> > another user responsible for 'approving' the document. When the creator
> of a
> > new document in the Proj. Documentation Tab creates a document and
> changes
> > the status, the workflow is to be triggered and send an email to the
> person
> > responsible for approving the document.
> >
> > I don't know how to trigger an event under this scenario. I checked SWEL
> and
> > nothing is published.
> >
> > I noticed that there is an object type called SOLMANDOC - I have no idea
> if
> > this is the one i need to use and i have no idea as to how to trigger a
> > workflow in Solution Manager...
> >
> > I have posted a question in the SDN Solution Manager Forum as well.
> Perhaps
> > there is some SolMan configuration that can be done so emails are sent
> when
> > the status of a document changes?
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> >
> > Cristiana
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