FI-Closing Cockpit Workflow Issues

[Ali Husain]

Hey guys,



I need to create a WF for the closing cockpit process (T.code CLOCOC). I
 was searching around and I found that there were some standard WFs but 
i'm not sure if i can use them. For example, WS16600160 is using this 
business object SCMA_WLIST (Worklist of schedule manager) and it has 
some sub-workflows inside of it. I tried to test it out but it was 
short-dumping when pressing F4 to instantiate one of the business 
objects so obviously there is some problem with it. I thought of 
creating a custom business object for the sole reason of having an event
 because there isn't much attributes that i need to create now (maybe 
later). In the WF process, i'm just gonna send the CLOCOC to the users 
at the correct point in time with some deadline monitoring. I was facing
 a problem of the triggering event. The workflow should be triggered 
whenever the status is changed from not released to released (field 
ready from table TFC_INST_HDR). I checked around and there was no 
standard change document or status for this and i'm not familiar with 
BTEs (Business Transaction Events) so not sure if that option can be 
used here. Also, there is no user-exist or BAdi i can use to trigger the
 workflow once that status is changed. I also thought of creating a 
custom change document but i guess i can't change the standard data 
element of that field to be part of change document since i would 
require access key for that and it will be considered a modification.

So my question how would i monitor that field in that certain table to 
trigger an event that i will create in my custom business object which 
will be based on table TFC_INST_HDR  I'm not sure if anyone used a WF 
for the closing cockpit process and can verify if that's even a good 
approach or not or if there is other standard workflows or business 
objects that i'm missing. Now, i'm thinking of creating a transaction 
for the users to trigger the event once they change the status to 
released but i'm guessing there should be a better option.



I appreciate any help offered and thanks in advance.

Ali
 		 	   		  
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