Custom HR Event - Key not filled in certain circumstances

[Keohan, Susan - 1140 - MITLL]

Thank you Rick, Jocelyn, and Eddie.

 

I had stared at the OSS note Eddie mentioned and was trying to weigh which
was more painful.

getting a note applied, filling out a message, or debugging thru the
function modules (when this particular action seems to pass thru that
function at least 4 times, and performing HR actions makes me lose
consciousness).

 

In the end, getting a note applied - especially since I had Eddie's
recommendation J - seemed like the best approach, and it did work! 

I would recommend that the note be more easily found, perhaps this case
could also be added to it? 

But I am moving this up to QA, so now it's up to the users to break it.

 

Thank you all so much!

Sue

 

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Susan R. Keohan

SAP Workflow Specialist

Enterprise Applications

Information Services Department

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

244 Wood Street, LI-200

Lexington, MA. 02420

781-981-3561

keohan at LL.MIT.EDU

 

From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Morris, Eddie
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 7:57 PM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: Custom HR Event - Key not filled in certain circumstances

 

Hi Sue,

 

Is note 1696315 in your system? If not please apply and test again.

 

Regards,

Eddie

 

From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Keohan, Susan - 1140 - MITLL
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 5:26 PM
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: Custom HR Event - Key not filled in certain circumstances

 

Hello all,

We have a custom workflow to notify when a retiree is rehired.  It's been
running quite happily for 10 years.

The workflow is triggered by the event ZREHIRED, which is configured in
ZWEHR3 with a nice Z_HR_EVENT_RULES_PA0001 which determines if the correct
action has occurred, we want to raise the ZREHIRED event.

 

And then the Enhancement Packs happened.  We are on SAP ECC 6.0 - and
recently upgraded to EHP5 SPS11.

Since then this event is not always being raised with a Key filled in.
Sometimes it is!  But sometimes it is NOT.

I have determined that a series of events, REHIRED and POSITIONCHANGED
precede the custom event when it has blank/zilch/nichts for a pernr.

 

I have debugged and debugged, searched and searched.  

 

The nearest thing to an explanation I can come up with is that, during the
course of saving the rehired person to their organization, the function

HR_ASSEMBLE_OBJECTKEY is called, and comes back with an empty
BUSINESSOBJECTKEY.  Please notice in the debugger screen shot below that the
field is empty.

 

I could show you screen shots of the event log and the events that had a
key, and those that did not.  I could show a lot of junk. 

But I think the key is right here (so to speak).

Has anyone else encountered a problem like this?  
And who can I beat up for the way HR events are piggy-backed?

 



 

 

Kind regards,
Sue

 

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Susan R. Keohan

SAP Workflow Specialist

Enterprise Applications

Information Services Department

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

244 Wood Street, LI-200

Lexington, MA. 02420

781-981-3561

keohan at LL.MIT.EDU

 

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