Portal Integration with WF

[Lalitha Sankaran]

Hi Jocelyn,

Thank you for your guidance, this makes a lot of sense now, Will talk and
explain about the functionality of UWL,
Based on your response seems like we can accomplish a lot with UWL config.

They just wanted to see more custom screen with key info about the request
when they go in as the Approver/Reviewer into portal,
and not the UWL, but if we can modify the columns and the restrict the type
of request, shd be able to convince them.

Appreciate your Input.

Thank you
Lalitha


On 1/8/08, Dart, Jocelyn <jocelyn.dart at sap.com> wrote:
>
>  Sorry Lalitha - But WHY are you reinventing the wheel here?
>
> If it's a question of separating out a particular group of requests you
> can do that with the UWL configuration - e.g. have a "request type A"  UWL
> page and put that wherever you want in the portal.
>
> If it's a question of showing sufficient information you can use the UWL
> configuration to tailor the columns you want to show.
>
> If it's a question of mass approval - you can use the UWL configuration to
> do that as well.
>
> Even if it's a question of hiding unwanted tabs / buttons you can do that
> with the config also.
>
> If there's some other issue they have raised let us know and we'll let you
> know if there's a way around it.
>
> Based on your description you are literally reinventing the UWL here - you
> might want to seriously consider talking your customer out of this.
> One of the most important responsiblities of any consultant is to provide
> good guidance to their customers - which includes talking them out of dumb
> ideas.
>
> You could spend weeks developing this, instead of a day's worth of UWL
> config - what a tragic, tragic waste!   And that's before we even start on
> Total Cost of Ownership issues.
>
> Please, please, reconsider.
>
> Regards,
> *Jocelyn Dart*
> Senior Consultant
> *SAP Australia Pty Ltd.*
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> *From:* sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Lalitha Sankaran
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 09 January 2008 8:05 AM
> *To:* SAP Workflow Users' Group
> *Subject:* Portal Integration with WF
>
>
>  Hi All,
>
> We are trying to develop a custom tool for portal,
> and are planning to use WF for the Approval process,
>
> They want the ability for the Approver to approve the Request without
> going into
> the UWL .
> The approver screen basically contains a list of all the pending requests,
> by clicking on which
> he will see more details of the individual request, which he can then
> decide to approve or reject.
>
> So now when he clicks on Approve button(custom screen) , am not sure how
> to link it to the Workitem or
> WF .So how would he be able to execute the WI ?
>
> Is there a way to execute a WI from the portal.
> will it need any config ?
>
> Appreciate any input, am not a portal person, so any input to understand
> the process is appreciated.
>
> Thank you
> Lalitha
>
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