Wait Step for Unknown Object

Wed Apr 7 04:39:41 EDT 2010

Agree with Paul, that's exactly what correlations are designed for. What
may throw a spanner in the works is that the materials are at item level,
so you may need to work with a Scheduling Agreemeent item object. A less
elegant alternative is raise an event for each material when a scheduling
agreement is created.

On Tue, April 6, 2010 10:42 pm, Paul.Bakker at osr.treasury.qld.gov.au wrote:
> Michael,
>
> Yep, this sounds like a good opportunity to use correlations. It's a bit
> hard to get them to work the first time, but they are magic.
>
> It will only work in your case if the 'scheduling agreement' (that you are
> waiting for), can be identified by some (combination of) field values
> inside it
> (in your case, the material number(s)).
>
> I would suggest you read the related SAP Help and  blogs in SDN (if you
> haven't done so already):
>
> http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/8d/25f07b454311d189430000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
> http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/6976
> http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/14136
>
> You may also need to implement OSS note 1335009.
>
> Give that a go, and if you have any specific issues getting it off the
> ground, please post them here.
>
> cheers
> Paul Bakker
>
>
>
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> Hey All,
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> I have tried posting to this user group 1 time before with this question,
> but but I wasn't a member at the time and I get a "bad confirmation
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> Anyhoo...
> I am working on a "new materials" workflow that has several (let's call
> them) processes.
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> The first process is that a new material master record is created and some
> work items go out to various users to adjust the material with some
> specific information.  No problem here.
>
> As a second process, I would like to wait for a scheduling agreement
> (purchase order) for this new material to be created and some more work
> items sent out to adjust the scheduling agreement and a few other things
> associated with the material.  This is where I have my problem.  At the
> time the wait step is created, I do not have an object in the container to
> represent the scheduling agreement (because it isn't created yet).
> Further, I believe the key for any scheduling agreement event uses the
> document number and does not include the material.  So how would I create
> some kind of wait step for something like this?
>
> The scheduling agreement references material numbers in each line item,
> but
> a wait step seems to need the key of a scheduling agreement in order to
> know that a specific event is meant for a specific workflow instance.
>
> The users are definitely not looking for a general scheduling agreement
> workflow (that would affect all new scheduling agreements) - only
> scheduling agreements for new materials.
>
> I have looked into something called a "correlation", but so far I have not
> gotten it to work, and I'm not sure if it even will.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> ... or maybe this doesn't make sense to anyone...
>
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