UWL Transition

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Seth, 
 
Definitely use UWL.  
 
UWL is easy to use and VERY configurable - up to the point where you can configure your wait out of the "Advance with Dialog" situation.  
 
Even without sorting out Advance with Dialog the UWL is a exceedingly better inbox for users as it supports:
* Workitems from multiple systems including non-SAP systems
* Workitems from non  ABAP SAP systems - e.g. notifications, alerts, guided procedures
* Substitution synchronized across all systems (user to user) 
* Flexible task launching - everything from simple URLs to transactions to WebDynpro, even WinGui if you need it
* Custom subviews (filters), columns (attributes), sorting
* Highlighted due dates (yellow as it gets close, red as it hits the deadline)
 
Task launch by SAPGUI for HTML is simply the default - in most cases we override this e.g. with WebDynpro. 
 
But DO NOT settle for UWL out of the box - do the configuration .  There were sessions at TechEd and SAP Insider PLM on how to do this, and there's a very good book by Darren Hague out as well.  Most changes take 10-15 minutes.  As a minimum you should look to create subviews for each Business Process area. 
 
Regards,
Jocelyn 
 
 

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu on behalf of Stevens, Seth
Sent: Fri 2/05/2008 8:22 AM
To: sap-wug at mit.edu
Subject: UWL Transition



Experts, 

I wanted to gather some thoughts on UWL vs. Business Workplace.  We are currently upgrading to ECC 6 and management is pushing to implement UWL and get away from the "ugly" business workplace.

Does the group have any feedback, recommendations, or lessons learned for this transition?  I know this is SAP's direction but I have heard mixed reviews and wanted to get some educated opinions about whether or not we should do this.

We do not (and are not interested in) use SAP GUI for HTML, have high workflow volumes, and utilize advance with dialog extensively.  Are there any good work arounds for advance with dialog?  I know there is an OSS note that says it works if you launch tasks via SAP GUI for Windows.  Any opinions, thoughts, lessons, etc would be much appreciated.

Thanks, 
Seth 


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