SWWDHEX starts a French workflow

Dart, Jocelyn jocelyn.dart at sap.com
Tue Jan 24 01:11:57 EST 2012 

Hi Paul, 
Merci is what you need alright :)

>From what I know the language comes from the userid that creates the workflow. 
You may not be able to intervene in that. 

The simplest might be to set up a container element that holds the language that you want (maybe derive it from the purchase req creator) and pass it in the binding to the "Language" element of the mail (Selfitem.sendtaskdescription) task.  At least that way the mail itself will be in the correct language. 

Hope that helps, 
Jocelyn 


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Subject: RE: SWWDHEX starts a French workflow

Jocelyn,

The French users might storm the Bastille if I did that! :-)

I don't want any language to be hardcoded, if it controls the translation
of the emails.

Our idea is to have sy-langu transferred from the original
(deadline-terminated) workflow to the new one.
I have all the bindings in place to do that, but SY-LANGU just doesn't want
to be changed..

merci
Paul



From:	"Dart, Jocelyn" <jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
To:	"SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
Date:	24/01/2012 01:37 PM
Subject:	RE: SWWDHEX starts a French workflow
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Hi Paul,
Is there some reason why you can't just fix the job in SM37 in Prod? Yes
its scheduled by SWU3 but that's a matter of convenience ... the job is
just a job.
Cheers,
Jocelyn

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Paul.Bakker at osr.treasury.qld.gov.au
Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2012 2:18 PM
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Subject: RE: SWWDHEX starts a French workflow


Thanks for that. Unfortunately, Inbox settings won't help.

The problem is that the workflow is using 'SendTaskDescriptio'n to send
emails containing the workitem text.
Because WorkitemLanguage = 'FR', it is always choosing to send the
translated French text in the email.

(I know - it should have been built to use Extended Notifications
instead.... I'm just the maintenance guy)

Also, it's not so easy to change the WI language - once the WI Language of
the toplevel workflow is set, it flows through to every subsequent
workitem.

+++

This is a bit of a worrying 'feature' of deadlines - any new workflows
kicked off by deadline handling will inherit a hardcoded language..... the
logon language of the guy who happened to run SWU3 in Production!

cheers
Paul Bakker



From:		 "Dart, Jocelyn" <jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
To:		 "SAP Workflow Users' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
Date:		 24/01/2012 01:00 PM
Subject:		 RE: SWWDHEX starts a French workflow
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Hi Paul,
Maybe you should just get them to set on the inbox Personal Workflow
Settings to translate work items to your own language (English)
temporarily?
Or is the problem that French isn't giving you any text at all?

You could also try just updating WI_LANG on table SWWWIHEAD which should do
the same thing.
Regards,
Jocelyn

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Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2012 1:18 PM
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Subject: SWWDHEX starts a French workflow


Regular readers of the WUG group might remember my question from a few
weeks ago:

        How is the WorkItemLanguage of a workflow set?

I had an urgent problem: mining engineers in the outback were receiving
workflow emails in French, and they weren't happy about it.

Using advice from Florin W. I tracked down the culprit: the deadline job
SWWDHEX (!). This job had been set up from SWU3 with a language of 'FR' (in
the 'step' tab).

When a workitem deadline expires, SWWDHEX (under user WF-BATCH) terminates
the current workitem. The workflow continues on and approves the
procurement  document (at the current release level), and this triggers a
new approval workflow for the next level.

This new workflow is started with the WorkItemLanguage copied from the
SWWDHEX job. Presumably the language id 'FR' is stored in SY-LANGU  at the
time that the workflow is triggered.

My question is now: how can I change SY-LANGU in the ABAP code, before the
next workflow is triggered?

In the code just before BAPI_REQUISITION_RELEASE_GEN I have tried:
- sy-langu = 'EN'.
- 'SET LOCALE LANGUAGE 'E'.

But neither have had any effect.

Is there a better approach? Or is there another way to stop the evil
influence of the SWWDHEX job?

thanks
Paul Bakker


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