Problem while calling a standard SAP transaction inside workflow

Fri May 25 13:56:21 EDT 2012

Srini,

I haven't seen any responses, so I'll take a stab at it...

Regarding your first issue, I would think that depends on how the 
transaction is being called.  Are you using one of the standard methods 
from BUS2028?  Have you created a custom method with a bAPI or BDC call 
transaction?  Is this a decision dialog that branches to a post method? It 
isn't clear from your description of the problem.

Regarding issue 2, we had a similar workflow with a similar requirement 
(except involving invoices instead of inventory documents) and I used 2 
tricks to fufill the requirement.
1. In the workflow I made a loop that checked a container variable 
(BUS2081-STATUS) after the posting transaction was called.  This status 
variable holds the actual status of the invoice (parked, saved, posted, 
etc....).  based on this check, if the invoice doesn't have a status 
posted, I loop back and recreat the work item.  Otherwise I fall through 
and exit the loop.  I don't know what attributes or key fields BUS2028 
has, you may need to create a custom background method that checks the 
status of the document and sets the flag.
2. As parallel branches to the main workflow, I have created wait steps 
that wait for events to be generated from outside the workflow.  In my 
case I wait for the BUS2081.DELETED and POSTED events.  If these wait 
steps are triggered, the workflow is bypassed and ended.  This way if a 
user posts a document from outside the workflow, another user will not 
have a work item in their inbox telling them to post this document.

I hope at least the answers are relevant to your questions ;-) 

Have a good day!!!!

Michael McLey 
MBUSI - IT Parts & Administration 
Mercedes-Benz US International, Inc. 
1 Mercedes Drive 
Vance, AL 35490 
PHONE:  (205) 462 - 5239 
EMAIL:   michael.mcley at daimler.com   

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Problem while calling a standard SAP transaction inside workflow

Hello Experts,

I am facing a strange issue in my workflow development. The workflow will 
be started after clicking on POST button in the standard transaction MI04. 
I have used the standard  event created from the business object BUS2028 
for starting the workflow. After starting the workflow I am calling the 
standard transaction MI07 in the very first step which will be sent to the 
approver. Once the approver clicks on POST an email will be sent and the 
document will be posted.

Issue 1) When the user manually goes into the SAP transaction MI07 , opens 
a document and clicks on back, cancel or exit buttons. The transaction is 
working as desired but the same thing  when the same user does from 
executing the work item the transaction is not working as desired. A 
pop-up screen with YES, NO and CANCEL buttons and also a message  whether 
to SAVE before exit is displayed. Even though if the user clicks on NO 
button the document is getting posted. No idea what is going wrong with 
the method calling the transaction MI07.
Issue 2) Once the users does this process. The work item is getting 
completed. But the requirement is, work item should be available as the 
POSTING is not completed. Here how can I put the work item in ready status 
after completeion. Once the users executes the work item the work item is 
getting disappeared.

Where am I doing wrong?

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Thanks and Regards
Srini..
SAP Technical Consultant
+919963307464
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