help related to workitem

[Mike Pokraka]

Note that Michael's response will only work as long as the work item is
not completed. You cannot roll back a completed or cancelled item.


On Tue, February 8, 2011 3:04 pm, Keohan, Susan - 1140 - MITLL wrote:
> Nice response Michael.
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> Babita, rolling back the status of the workitem can be accomplished by
> using
> the WAPIs but this will not affect the data - if your workflows are
> changing
> transaction/master data, you can't roll back the changes.
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> Perhaps I am not understanding the requirement correctly - but traditional
> testing does involve creating the object (invoice, PO, whatever) and
> triggering the workflows so that you do get the complete log.
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> Good luck,
> Sue
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> Babita,
>
> Sounds complicated.  I have no direct experience with any such requirement
> myself, but in the absence of any other advice here are a few function
> modules:
>
> SAP_WAPI_PUT_BACK_WORKITEM (which oddly enough sounds like it does what
> you
> require ;-)
> SAP_WAPI_SET_WORKITEM_STATUS
> SAP_WAPI_RESUBMIT_WORKITEM
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> If you don't ABAP, discuss with your ABAPer.
>
> You may consider looking through the SAP_WAPI* function modules.  Many are
> documented with at least a description of the parameters.  In terms of how
> to use this, I don't really have a concept of your "framework".
>
> As an alternative suggestion, it is really easy to test workflows using
> (what I would call) a more standard approach of developing test cases and
> starting a new workflow for each test case.  This will give you a log for
> each case that you can refer back to.
>
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> HI Experts,
> i have a requirement where we are creating a test frame work and in that
> we
> will get the work item created based on different scenarios and after the
> test cases are executed we need to revert back or roll back the work item
> how it was initially in the inbox.i.e in simple words i will execute the
> work item and i need to rollback the execution.how this can be done.please
> suggest.
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> babita
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