UWL Transition

[Griffiths, Mark]

I agree with Jocelyn - once you sort out the UWL refresh rate (some
iview parameters and the delta pull mechanism really work wonders) it is
brilliant.

I have just worked at a customer where, with some UWL customising to
create a new subview with attributes and approve/reject radio buttons,
and some minor changes to the workflow we have reduced the number of
clicks to approve a leave request from about 8 to 1.  For mortals the
XML customising is not quite in the 10-15 minutes league but can be
achieved in hours rather than days - and once you have done it once it
is much quicker for subsequent workflows (closer to Jocelyn's minutes).


There is extensive documentation on UWL customising in help.sap.com if
you search on 'UWL' and 'Handler' - this includes sample XML which can
be used as a start for your processes (it always needs some changes
though, and there are some little bugs to catch you out, like spaces in
the wrong place).

A good XML editor will really help you - there are lots of free ones out
there which will colour code your tags and help to auto-complete them.

The other area to speed up your development and make it look more
professional is using SWFVISU correctly - the object visualisation
section can really improve the user experience by allowing links to
iViews or by removing the links.

Good luck!


Mark

SAP UK


-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Dart, Jocelyn
Sent: 02 May 2008 06:20
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group; sap-wug at mit.edu
Subject: RE: UWL Transition

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 
 
 

________________________________

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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