workflow maintenance and enhancements

Fri Apr 30 10:56:57 EDT 2010

Hi Sue, Gayathri,

I do understand this dilemma - we go thru it every time we upgrade or apply
major support packs.  We get a 'prime' Dev environment in which we do
production support, and then we get the upgrade environment in which we do
enhancements.  It's a beast.  

I was not taking that - the 'upgrade factor' - into consideration.  Call it
selective amnesia.

As far as I know copying the WFs and trying to keep both versions in sync is
the only way to do this.  Of course, in my own perfect little world
(imaginary) we would not have to do this kind of thing J

Thanks for bringing me back to reality on a Friday, 

Sue

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Susan R. Keohan

SAP Workflow Specialist

Enterprise Applications

Information Services Department

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

244 Wood Street, LI-200

Lexington, MA. 02420

781-981-3561

keohan at LL.MIT.EDU

From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Sue Doughty
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 10:47 AM
To: 'SAP Workflow Users' Group'
Subject: RE: workflow maintenance and enhancements

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

244 Wood Street, LI-200

Lexington, MA. 02420

781-981-3561

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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