Background Workflow task hanging
Sue Doughty
Sue.Doughty at odfl.com
Mon Aug 16 14:41:39 EDT 2010
Thank you for responding Ravi.
I don't see anything in SM58.
I have tried to recreate the issue in DEV and cannot. It looked like it might be a locking issue, but I have recreated the exact steps in the same order in the workflow in DEV and do not get a locking error.
It seems to only happen to the one user and happens once or twice a month.
I can find no errors in any log. I've looked at SM12 and SM58 and see nothing. The tRFC entry in the log says tRFC already executed and shows no error.
The log in SWWERRE says that it edited the Workflow entry, but that is all the information that I see. There are no temporary error messages anywhere.
I did go to SWUD and did the Workflow hanging option. It showed that the workflow having the problem had a block structure error. I've fixed that in DEV and will transport it up to see if that makes a difference.
Regards,
Sue Doughty
SAP Workflow Specialist
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
Thomasville, NC 27360
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Ravi Dixit
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 9:36 PM
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Subject: Re: Background Workflow task hanging
Hi Sue
This may be an SM58 thing, can you see what that says when this task is "hanging"?
Also, you may have to ensure you read PA00041 efficiently?
Cheers
Ravi
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In case you were not aware, a team of SAP Mentors has been working to help
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This can be a critical career development item for many of us. Some folks
(OK, me) did not *need* certification when it was available in our area of
expertise - and now it's not. Others have had Certification - and now want
more?
At any rate, you should visit the blog by the 'Certification 5' (Dennis
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filling out the survey. I just took the survey, and it was pretty quick and
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Hi Sue,
Have a look at ST22 & SM13, maybe you'll find a clue.
?
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Hi Sue,
If it's just selecting then it shouldn't be locking anything.
Have a look at the Exceptions of the method, are there any marked as
temporary?
It's also strange that no warnings or errors are showing in the workflow log
- can you double check?
Temporary errors show up as warnings (yellow triangles).
regards
Rick Bakker
Hanabi Technology
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Sue Doughty <Sue.Doughty at odfl.com<mailto:Sue.Doughty at odfl.com>> wrote:
>? Thanks Rick for your response.
>
>
>
> The method is sending in the Drug EXAM_DATE (which is an attribute of our
> BO ZAPPLICANT ? APPLICANT.EXAMINATIONDATE).? It figures out the number of
> days since the drug test (DAYS = SY-DATUM - EXAM_DATE.).? If the difference
> is less than 30 days, it sets the DATE_FLAG = T, otherwise the DATE_FLAG =
> F.
>
>
>
> If someone had the Applicant record open in update mode when this
> background task is running, the method should be able to determine the BO
> attributes anyway, shouldn?t it?
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>
>
> Regards,
>
> Sue
>
>
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> *From:* sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu<mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu> [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu<mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu>] *On
> Behalf Of *Rick Bakker
> *Sent:* Friday, August 13, 2010 12:59 PM
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> *To:* SAP Workflow Users' Group
> *Subject:* Re: Background Workflow task hanging
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>
> Hello Sue,
>
>
>
> That is exactly the expected behaviour if the method was throwing a
> temporary error. What does the method do - does it try to lock anything?
>
> If a temporary error occurs then it tries again upon the next run of
> RSWWERRE, usually 20 mins later.
>
>
>
> regards
>
> Rick Bakker
>
> Hanabi Technology
>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Sue Doughty <Sue.Doughty at odfl.com<mailto:Sue.Doughty at odfl.com>>
> wrote:
>
> We have a workflow that gets executed probably 100 times a day.
>
>
>
> There is a background task in that workflow that gets executed that reads
> the PA0041 table looking for the Drug Exam date for an Applicant.? This task
> also executes numerous times a day.
>
>
>
> Sometimes the task executes fine ? within a second:
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> But sometimes it takes 20 ? 30 minutes to execute and it looks like it only
> finishes because RSWWERRE has run.
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>
>
> This happens with this task about once a week.? It only seems to happen
> with this task?.not with any other background task.? Does anyone know what
> is happening or where I can go to see why this task is hanging?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Sue
>
>
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> Hi Srini,
>
>
>
> For dynamic multi line text in Task description, you will have to definie a
> multiline container element both in workflow and task.
>
> And feed the element with the required multi line texts in a back-ground
> method.
>
>
>
> When you are inserting the container element in Task description use the
> expression &ELEMENT##&
>
>
>
> - Mehar
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> From: Kjetil Kilhavn <kjetil.kilhavn at bluec.no<mailto:kjetil.kilhavn at bluec.no>>
> Subject: Re: Display multiple lines in work item description
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> Mandag 2. august 2010 15.14.36 skrev srinivas:
> > I have a requirement wherein I need to display multiple lines in the
> > workitem description. The workitem description is dynamic and brought
> from a
> > custom method it varies from customer to customer. I have a created
> multiner
> > container element &long_text& and I am directly calling &long_text&? in
> the
> > workitem description
> The container element needs to be inserted in the work item description as
> a
> table instead of a single-line element. Use the assistant (toolbar button
> "Expression") to insert it, and you'll be asked if you want to insert only
> the
> first line - as you have done, all lines as continous text or all lines
> with
> line breaks. You will then see that the expression to use when you want to
> insert all lines from multiline container element TABLE is either &TABLE[]&
> or
> &TABLE##&.
> --
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> Blue Consulting AS (http://www.bluec.no)
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> From: srinivas <ootasrinivasreddy at gmail.com<mailto:ootasrinivasreddy at gmail.com>>
> Subject: error while calling text element in workk item text
> To: "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu<mailto:sap-wug at mit.edu>>
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> Hi Experts,
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> I am calling a text element in workitem text using the following syntax.
>
> *INCLUDE &TEXT_NAME& OBJECT &OBJECT& ID &TEXT_ID& LANGUAGE
> &LANGUAGE&.*Selecting command line option.i.e.
> * /:*
>
> All the elements in between & & are binded from a class method. When I do
> the syntax check I am getting the following error.
>
>
> *Variable &_????????.??????????.????& exists in description text Completion
> text, but
> not in the container*
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> I am unable to understand where I am doing wrong.Kindly help me in fixing
> this error.
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