User Container input after execution of work item

[Mike Pokraka]

"Now I just need to find a simple way of putting a "US" in front of the
user ID ;-)"
Functional method in a binding:
&AGENT&   <==  %ZCL_WF_UTIL=>GET_AGENT_FROM_USER( &USERID& )%
You don't even need to implement IF_WORKFLOW if your class isn't going to
be stored in the container.

Have fun,
Mike


On Thu, November 11, 2010 1:52 pm, michael.mcley at daimler.com wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Thanks for the input.  I am currently experimenting with something like
> that now - using a "forms" step.  Since a form can do a direct workflow
> container modification as default behavior - this seems to be close to
> what I was looking for.  I found a structure that has the F4 user search
> help which is what they need in order to find the correct user ID based on
> first name / last name.
>
> Now I just need to find a simple way of putting a "US" in front of the
> user ID ;-)
>
> Michael McLey
> MBUSI - IT Parts & Administration
> Mercedes-Benz US International, Inc.
> 1 Mercedes Drive
> Vance, AL 35490
> PHONE:  (205) 462 - 5239
> EMAIL:   michael.mcley at daimler.com
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> Hi Michael,
>
> Not sure if you're still on a mission with this one, but my solution in
> these scenarios is to have a user decision following the step, and both of
> these in a loop.
> Advance in dialog switched on means the decision pops up after user exits
> transaction. Choices: Continue editing, Finished, Select new agent. On the
> select agent outcome, you can use the "Select agent" wizard to generate an
> appropriate task that will popup an agent list (you can
> copy/modify/butcher this if you need a different list).
> Obviously you will also need flags/conditions/agent lists etc., but I
> trust you get the idea.
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> Cheers,
> Mike
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> On Wed, October 27, 2010 3:31 pm, michael.mcley at daimler.com wrote:
>> Hello Wuggers,
>>
>> I have a small issue that has probably been addressed many times before,
>> but if you have some information or maybe a link to a similar topic ...
>>
>> We have an invoice verification workflow where accounts payable parks an
>> incoming invoice and the PARKED event triggers a workflow for the
> approval
>> of the invoice.  If approved, AP will post the invoice.  If rejected, AP
>> will follow up with an additional work item (which just calls tcode MIR4
>> in change mode) to modify the invoice and park again (so the approval
>> process will loop thereafter until the invoice is finally approved and
>> then deleted or posted).
>>
>> The problem is that occasionally a reason for rejection is that the
>> workflow selected the wrong approver as the agent for the approval task.
>> This is due mostly to the less-than-accurate state of our org charts. So
>> yes, the right answer is to fix our org charts, but let's assume for a
>> variety of lame reasons this cannot be done.  AP has the request that
> they
>> would like to be able to assign an agent when the invoice is parked
> again,
>> which for me means like a dialog box pops up, giving the current agent,
>> and allowing AP to change the agent.  The selection would then be
> written
>> to a container element and that container element used in the agent
>> determination of the subsequent approval step.
>>
>> So now, how to implement?
>>
>> I currently have the checkbox "Confirm end of processing" checked in the
>> AP rejected invoice task, which allows AP to decide when they are done
>> editing the invoice (they may want to keep the item and edit it multiple
>> times as more information comes to them).  This dialog box would be a
>> great mechanism to allow them to modify the container.  However I would
>> either have to change the dialog box, or create my own (with input
> fields
>> and functionality to write to the container) and use my Zdialog box
>> instead of the SAP standard.  I don't know how to do this.
>>
>> I have also thought of creating a mini-loop in the rejected invoice step
>> which will keep a work item in the inbox of AP until they are finally
>> ready to park again.  This loop would have as a subsequent step some
> kind
>> of dialog which would allow input into the container.  I am worried
>> however that this would clutter the logs with a new step every time the
>> work item is opened but not processed.
>>
>> Any recommendations here?  I guess this falls under the category of
> ad-hoc
>> or on-the-fly agent determination techniques.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Michael McLey
>> MBUSI - IT Parts & Administration
>> Mercedes-Benz US International, Inc.
>> 1 Mercedes Drive
>> Vance, AL 35490
>> PHONE:  (205) 462 - 5239
>> EMAIL:   michael.mcley at daimler.com
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