Workflow getting triggered via 'Workflow started' and not via

Mon Nov 24 17:42:43 EST 2008

 We are on ECC 6.0.

The first step in my WF is a background step where it checks if the user
has authorization for to approve this mount. A variable is set to '0'(if
the user has auth) and set to '1'(if user does not have auth). After
this is a condition step to check this variable. If this variable is
'0', WF takes a path where it gets released via a BAPI. If the variable
value is '1', it has to take another path where it finds the user's
supervisor.
My WF gets hung in the first background step. In the log, no work item
gets created. I get a 'System overloaded, repeat batch immediately' in
the 'Display event trace' screen and in the last tab. I went and
executed in SM58 but still it stays there.

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Today's Topics:

   1. Executing UWL Workitem from SAP R/3 as WF-ADMIN (shaurya jain)
   2. SAP_WAPI_EXECUTE_WORKITEM (Dave J Dartnell)
   3. RE: Executing UWL Workitem from SAP R/3 as WF-ADMIN
      (Munday,Sherie J.)
   4. Re: Empty workflow folder (Rick Bakker)
   5. Workflow getting triggered via 'Workflow started' and not via
      events (Prasad, Prashanthi)
   6. Re: Workflow getting triggered via 'Workflow started' and not
      via	events (Rick Bakker)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:21:09 +0530
From: "shaurya jain" <jain.shaurya at gmail.com>
Subject: Executing UWL Workitem from SAP R/3 as WF-ADMIN
To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
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Hi Experts,

I want to execute a workitem present in someone's UWL as a workflow
admin from SAP R/3. When I am trying to do so from SWI1 by going to
technical display of workitem & activating administration it is giving
me a message that "The request cannot be started from Business
Workplace".

Is there a way that being a WF-ADMIN I can execute this workitem from
SAP
R/3 or Business Workplace or it can be done only from UWL?

Please advice.

Regards,
Shaurya Jain
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:22:08 +0000
From: Dave J Dartnell <dave_dartnell at uk.ibm.com>
Subject: SAP_WAPI_EXECUTE_WORKITEM
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Hi all,

We're using SAP_WAPI_EXECUTE_WORKITEM to execute a multi-step workflow.
It has a dialog step which executes OK but the subsequent background
task hangs in status STARTED. I've made agent assignment at the workflow
level, even made the workflow a general task
without success.      Is anyone aware of any restrictions for using 
SAP_WAPI_EXECUTE_WORKITEM?

 All advice will be gratefully received:-). 

thanks,
Dave Dartnell

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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:58:06 -0500
From: "Munday,Sherie J." <MUNDAYSJ at airproducts.com>
Subject: RE: Executing UWL Workitem from SAP R/3 as WF-ADMIN
To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
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Shaurya Jain,

You should be able to process it with SWI5.  Just bring up the agents
workitems to be processed, double click on the workitem and execute on
the activities tab.

Regards,

Sherie 

Sherie Munday

Workflow Developer/ Analyst    

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

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Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:51 PM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: Executing UWL Workitem from SAP R/3 as WF-ADMIN

Hi Experts,

I want to execute a workitem present in someone's UWL as a workflow
admin from SAP R/3. When I am trying to do so from SWI1 by going to
technical display of workitem & activating administration it is giving
me a message that "The request cannot be started from Business
Workplace".

Is there a way that being a WF-ADMIN I can execute this workitem from
SAP R/3 or Business Workplace or it can be done only from UWL?

Please advice.

Regards,

Shaurya Jain

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:53:27 -1000
From: "Rick Bakker" <rbakker at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Empty workflow folder
To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
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Hello Thad,

What sort of filter is used to get workitems into the 'Enter Invoice'
folder?
Could it be a language issue?

Also, what version are you on?

regards,
Rick Bakker
Hanabi Technology

On 11/24/08, workflow at optonline.net <workflow at optonline.net> wrote:
>
>
> Dear All -
>
>
>
> I have a bizarre issue:
>
>
>
> 1) In SBWP when our European users drill down to a specific workflow
folder,
> ' Enter Invoice', the folder is there, but no workitems listed.
>
> 2) When a user double clicks on "workflow" folder (the one provided by
> workflow engine), without drilling down to that specific folder, the
> workitems are visible on that level.
>
>
>
> Our American users do not have this issue, just our small group of
users in
> Europe. The issue started for no apparent reason. Additional security
> profile was added for those users that day, but even when that profile
was
> taken away the issue persisted. No other changes to the system were
> determined.
>
>
>
> I have gone through OSS notes but have not found anything related
there.
>
>
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> Any hints/tips would be much appreciated.
>
>
>
> Best Regards.Thad Gorbal
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:00:33 -0600
From: "Prasad, Prashanthi" <pprasad at citgo.com>
Subject: Workflow getting triggered via 'Workflow started' and not via
	events
To: <sap-wug at mit.edu>
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Dear SAP Gurus,

   I have a workflow for the debit/credit memo create and approve.
Whenever I create a debit/credit memo within my limits(I have
authorization upto 500,000), it gets automatically released from a BAPI.
When I create a D/C memo above 500K, it has to go to my supervisor. This
WF is been working fine since years. Recently a user said whenever she
creates a memo above her limits, it is getting hung.
The event gets created but no workitem is created. I can see the log via
SWI2_FREQ and only there I see the workflow was started but not via the
events. When I go to the WF log and hit the grapic display, the WF has
started from the 'Workflow started' and not from the events.
The event is being raised from SWE_CREATE_EVENT. Please advise.

Prashanthi Prasad
Off: 832-486-4899

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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:26:14 -1000
From: "Rick Bakker" <rbakker at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Workflow getting triggered via 'Workflow started' and not
	via	events
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Hello,

You say it is getting hung, what is the exact status of the workitem?
Has it been routed to the user's supervisor? Perhaps you could check
if the rule which is looking for her supervisor supplies a result, by
running it separately.

What release are you on?

regards
Rick Bakker
Hanabi Technology

On 11/24/08, Prasad, Prashanthi <pprasad at citgo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dear SAP Gurus,
>
>    I have a workflow for the debit/credit memo create and approve.
Whenever
> I create a debit/credit memo within my limits(I have authorization
upto
> 500,000), it gets automatically released from a BAPI. When I create a
D/C
> memo above 500K, it has to go to my supervisor. This WF is been
working fine
> since years. Recently a user said whenever she creates a memo above
her
> limits, it is getting hung.
>
> The event gets created but no workitem is created. I can see the log
via
> SWI2_FREQ and only there I see the workflow was started but not via
the
> events. When I go to the WF log and hit the grapic display, the WF has
> started from the 'Workflow started' and not from the events.
>
> The event is being raised from SWE_CREATE_EVENT. Please advise.
>
> Prashanthi Prasad
> Off: 832-486-4899
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