UWL Transition

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Seth, 
 
Re Advance with Dialog - you can add extra customized actions. 
 
This lets you for instance combine a "Reject" - and just move on to next step - with an "Approve" and immediately fire next step.  i.e. you are launching the application used by the next step directly.  
 
Of course, your workflow needs to listen for an event or similar at the end of the launched application to understand that you have moved on.
 
Regards,
Jocelyn 

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu on behalf of Stevens, Seth
Sent: Wed 7/05/2008 12:07 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: UWL Transition



Thanks for the feedback!  We are going to get UWL running in our Sandbox
and do some testing/demoing. 

You mentioned configuring your way out of the "Advance with Dialog"
issue...any further information on that?

Thanks!
Seth

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Dart, Jocelyn
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 12:20 AM
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



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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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