SWWDHEX starts a French workflow

[Mike Pokraka]

Hi Paul,

I've had to deal with similar issues in the past. A couple of solutions:

- As Jocelyn suggested, bind a language. If your agents resolve to a
single user, you can get that from their USR01 or EMPLOYEET object.

- Enhance the deadline job to feed the new WF the language of the earlier WF.

- You should be able to change the WF's language somehow. Either by a
container operation or a WAPI.

- Create a ZSELFITEM (or better: copy the SENDTASKDESCRIPTION code into a
class), and manage your language in there.

Cheers,
Mike


On Tue, January 24, 2012 4:21 am, Paul.Bakker at osr.treasury.qld.gov.au wrote:
> 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
> Sent by:	sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu
>
>
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of
> Paul.Bakker at osr.treasury.qld.gov.au
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2012 2:18 PM
> To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
> 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
> Sent by:		 sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu
>
>
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of
> Paul.Bakker at osr.treasury.qld.gov.au
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2012 1:18 PM
> To: sap-wug at mit.edu
> 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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