workflow maintenance and enhancements

[Sue Doughty]

Hi Sue,

I can understand Gayathri's issue.

I'm currently working on a six month project that involves changes to the system done by another group, plus workflow changes to an existing workflow.  While this six month project is going on we need to have a path to production to be able to send fixes (if they occur) for the existing workflow while we are in development on the project.

The only way I knew to do that was to make a copy of the existing workflow in which I am making the project changes.  If any fixes need to be done before the project goes to PRD, I'll have to make changes in both workflows to keep everything in sync.  It is challenging.

There is no other way to do that, is there?

Regards,
Sue

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Keohan, Susan - 1140 - MITLL
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 10:18 AM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: workflow maintenance and enhancements

Hi Gayathri,
I would not try to simultaneously fix productive workflows and also do enhancements - unless you are planning on all of these corrections/enhancements going to the same place at the same time.  Personally, I would fix the issue with production, transport up, and then generate a new version of the workflow in your Dev environment and begin the enhancements.

Having said that, you could, of course, copy the productive workflow to another workflow template, allowing you to do the fixes in the original template, and the enhancements in the copied template.  I would hate to have to coordinate that development effort though.

Just my 2p,
Sue

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Susan R. Keohan
SAP Workflow Specialist
Enterprise Applications
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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keohan at LL.MIT.EDU

From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Gayathri Shivakumar
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 8:25 AM
To: sap-wug at mit.edu
Subject: workflow maintenance and enhancements

HI experts,

What is the best way to handle simultaneously fixes to a production workflow and also work on enhancements to the same workflow ?

Regards,
Gayathri

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