LSO event creation when creating a course booking (Kjetil Kilhavn)

[Mike Pokraka]

Hi Kjetil,

I can agree with the sentiment already expressed: the standard LSO is a
bit restrictive. If you want to do anything it doesn't cater for you're
better off building it yourself. Be aware that the SWEHR* FMs may behave
differently according to scenario e.g. planned vs confirmed courses.

Mikko's idea of creating a custom OO layer would be my choice -
unfortunately when I was at an LSO project I didn't have that luxury and
had to battle with those ghastly LSO BOR objects. How those got past SAP's
QA is beyond me, I thought we banished GET_SOMEDATA *methods* from BOR
back in the stone-age.

Cheers,
Mike


On Tue, January 11, 2011 8:44 pm, mikkomr at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Kjetil,
> We've had two workflow projects around course and event management in 2007
> and 2008, both of them involved the course booking / attendance approval
> process.
>
> The latter one was using LSO (SAP ERP 6.0), in which the standard bsp app
> raises the BO LSO_PARTIC event according to the wf config settings
> maintained as per your findings.
>
> The project in 2007 (SAP ERP 5.0) was however more similar to your case
> since it didn't involve LSO (standard TEM only).  Our scope was to web
> enable the course booking functionality and to couple it with travel
> requests to create training trip requests :) I remember that during the
> solution build we very closely examined various alternatives but couldn't
> make the system raise any events (e.g. bapi_book_attendance or similar
> didn't raise a thing) upon attendance creation.
>
> What we did is that we went the abap oo wf way to have some fun at the
> same time (abap oo wf wasn't that new to us back then) :) So we created a
> custom booking request/class which included custom abap oo event raise
> logic upon attendance creation.
>
> We didn't check for user exits since there were bapi's available for our
> wdj app. But maybe there are some available you could use to go with the
> custom event raise logic? And if not, I guess enhancements are the only
> option...
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mikko
>
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> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:03:18 +0100
> From: Kjetil Kilhavn <kjetil.kilhavn at bluec.no>
> Subject: LSO event creation when creating a course booking
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> The LSO (Learning Solution) has many good features, but I have run into an
> annoying problem.
>
> When a booking is created in the SAP GUI using transaction LSO_PSV1
> (Dynamic
> Participation Menu) no event is created to which I can respond. I have
> customized the workflow settings (table LSOWF_CUSTOMIZE). However, it
> seems
> this only works for booking "requests" created in the portal application.
> Here
> they are currently not using the portal for booking courses, and the
> current
> plan is to use it only for electronic courses (e-learning, web based
> training), not for classrom-based training.
> Entries in LSOWF_CUSTOMIZE have been created for each delivery type, for
> booking and cancellarions, for event type P with WF_ACTION = "E" so the
> event
> should always be created
>
> In desperation I also tried to add entries in transaction SWEHR3 for
> object
> type E, infotype 1001 and relationship A 025, just in case the "old"
> events
> where generated. No such luck!
>
> Does anyone have experience with creating events in LSO for course
> bookings?
>
>
> [ This question has also been posted on SAP Developer Network in the ERP ]
> [ HCM forum: http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1867960      ]
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