Workflow Configuration - no custom expressions as recipients fordeadlines?

[Hill, Anna]

Hi Kjetil 

I haven't used the configuration functionality on a project yet, but I
have used the deadline functionality in extended notifications. This
would only be helpful to you if you want the reminder to go to the
original agent of the step, as it simply re-sends the email notification
to the original recipient. Something I thought worth highlighting if you
weren't already aware. 

Regards
Anna

Anna Hill
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-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Kjetil Kilhavn
Sent: 24 January 2008 11:56
To: SAP Workflow User Group
Subject: Workflow Configuration - no custom expressions as recipients
fordeadlines?

Hi, long time no see for those of you who have been around for a while.

I am not sure whether it is a good idea to cross-post to SDN or not...
but I 
am trying in this case - so we can get some more money for food out of
SAP if 
anyone has something to contribute.
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=715814&tstart=0

The system I work in is an ECC 6.0 system (support package SAPKB70012).

I would like to use SAP's standard workflow for purchase order approval,

WS20000075, but a reminder must be sent after 7 days if the release has
not 
taken place yet.

That should not be a problem I thought, because according to SAP's 
documentation available at help.sap.com 
(http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/92/bc26a6ec2b11d2b4b5006
094b9ea0d/frameset.htm), 
one can activate latest start (and other deadlines) with the reaction
Send 
mail (equivalent to "Display text" in the workflow step definition).

However, no matter what tricks I try, I am not able to configure my
recipient. 
I want to send the message to
PurchaseOrder.Responsible.NameWithLeadingUS, 
but the only expression the configuration will accept is
WorkflowInitiator.
It is very frustrating to be this close to using SAP standard and ending
up 
creating a workflow template copy.

Has anyone successfully used Workflow Configuration to enable a deadline
with 
some other expression, not WorkflowInitiator, in a SAP standard workflow

which does not have deadline monitoring?

Another thing that surprised me a bit was that I couldn't create a 
configuration without transport. Not that that's a problem, but I
thought one 
major idea for the configuration was to give me the possibility to have
one 
deadline limit during testing and another in production. The
documentation 
also says the configuration is client-dependent. I suppose I will have
to 
request that the systems are opened for modification for this too (that
is, 
in addition to opening them for definition of release strategies).
-- 
Kjetil Kilhavn (+47 40220607)
Blue Consulting AS (http://www.bluec.no/)
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