Background tasks and deadlines

[Sue Doughty]

We have a background process that looks at the images for an employee to see if there is any missing.  What I did was create a sub-workflow with that background task in it - in a loop; it checks for the document, if it is missing it sends a workflow to the manager.  When the manager executes the workflow and clicks Try Again, it checks for the document and if not there he gets another workflow

I have the Latest End set on the task in the main workflow that calls the Sub-workflow set to four days.  So if the manager does not have the form(s) imaged within four days, the sub-workflow hits the Latest End which I have setting the sub-workflow to obsolete.  In the obsolete outcome, the workflow executes the background step again to see if the documents are still missing.  If the documents are still missing, it sends the manager an email and then starts over again at calling that sub-workflow again.  It keeps doing it every four days until the form(s) are in the employee's SAP record.

Regards,
Sue Doughty
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
Thomasville, NC

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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Sample, Rick
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 12:52 PM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: Background tasks and deadlines

Hey Wug'ers

I have someone trying to use a deadline on a background task.
Just complete the task if it takes too long.

Been a while, so don't recall if this is possible.
I thought of using CALL FUNCTION 'C160_HOLD_FOR_DEBUG'.
but that won't work in WF-BATCH. (Unless someone knows how to take over a WF-BATCH via SM50?)

Any way to set the task to complete in background task would be appreciated.

Rick
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