Triggering an event based on a custom HR infotype field

Thu Dec 31 04:18:27 EST 2009

Hello Joe,

Thanks for the reply. How would I monitor a specific change for a field in the HR infotype in "real-time?" I need to read a date for all the subtypes in that infotype and if that date is one month from system date for any of the subtypes, i need to keep sending reminders until that record is either changed or a new record is inserted in the infotype. Also, How would i specify the event that a specific change is done and not just any change to the record. For example is it possible to say that the date is changed and then do a check that the date is changed to specific value. 

I never linked HR Infotypes with events so i'm not sure how that can be done.

Thanks a lot.
Ali

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> Dear WF Experts,
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> I need to trigger an event based on a specific field in a
> custom HR infotype. I need to read a date field from there and do some calculations
> to it and if it passes a certain validation in the code I need to trigger a WF.
> I thought of scheduling an ABAP program to run in the background once a day to
> read the data ? do the calculation ? trigger the event to start the WF if
> needed. However, i?m thinking there might be a better solution which is by monitoring
> the infotype field itself from the WF side. The reason being is I want to send
> a notification when the event is triggered and then I need to wait for a week
> and see if there is action taken and if not I need to trigger another
> notification. So if I use the bg job option to trigger the WF I guess I have to
> use another background job to monitor what happens after a week. That?s why I?m
> thinking it might be better to do something in WF to solve this instead of scheduling
> two bg jobs one to trigger the event and one to monitor. Is there a better more
> efficient solution to do this? How would i link that check to a specific HR infotype field if that's the better option?
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> Thanks a lot in advance.
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> Ali
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> Hi there Ali,
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> A couple of thoughts.
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> Have you considered SWEHR3 to raise the event(s) "real-time?"     You 
> could have 2 events being triggered for the custom info type.
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> On the workflow that is triggered to send out the notification, create a 
> Wait for Event task that has a modeled deadline for "Latest End"  and have 
> that send out the 2nd notification if the 2nd event is not raised within 
> the required time frame.
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> Hope this helps.
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> Dear WF Experts,
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> I need to trigger an event based on a specific field in a custom HR 
> infotype. I need to read a date field from there and do some calculations 
> to it and if it passes a certain validation in the code I need to trigger 
> a WF. I thought of scheduling an ABAP program to run in the background 
> once a day to read the data ? do the calculation ? trigger the event to 
> start the WF if needed. However, i?m thinking there might be a better 
> solution which is by monitoring the infotype field itself from the WF 
> side. The reason being is I want to send a notification when the event is 
> triggered and then I need to wait for a week and see if there is action 
> taken and if not I need to trigger another notification. So if I use the 
> bg job option to trigger the WF I guess I have to use another background 
> job to monitor what happens after a week. That?s why I?m thinking it might 
> be better to do something in WF to solve this instead of scheduling two bg 
> jobs one to trigger the event and one to monitor. Is there a better more 
> efficient solution to do this? How would i link that check to a specific 
> HR infotype field if that's the better option?
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> Thanks a lot in advance.
> Ali
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