Deleting Workflow from Production (Rick Bakker)
Carolyn A Fuller
fuller at MIT.EDU
Thu May 23 09:15:02 EDT 2013
Hi all,
SWIA worked perfectly. It logically deleted close to 8,000 workflows and logically deleting was all we needed done.
I was able to select by creation date and time range along with workflow task.
Fortunately for us, the workitem text contained the underlying requisition number. So we were able to sort by workitem text and easily pick out the ones that needed to be removed from inboxes.
I had never used SWIA for anything other than moving one workflow. I really appreciate knowing that, in an emergency, it can be used to change many workflows at once.
Carolyn
On May 23, 2013, at 6:31 AM, "Dart, Jocelyn" <jocelyn.dart at sap.com<mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>> wrote:
Hi Carolyn
Just to reinforce what the others have suggested...
Under no circumstances run the physical deletion programs in production - please see my blog on scn titled "why you should never physically delete workflows" and the sort of dire consequences that have actually resulted on sites.
Logical deletion eg via SWIA is sufficient to clear workitems from inboxes. Or there is an equivalent WAPI but you can logically delete en masse in SWIA and even 1000s of workitems can be cleared quite quickly. I'd suggest selecting by workflow WS number, and dates
Good luck!
Jocelyn
Sent from my iPhone with many apologies for the spelling, grammar and any other deficiencies
On 23/05/2013, at 6:23 PM, "Andy Curtis" <abcurtis at gmail.com<mailto:abcurtis at gmail.com>> wrote:
I'll agree with that, do not run RSWWWIDE or RSWWHIDE in production. If for no other reason than, SAP say in their help, 'do not run these programs in production'. Basis decided it would clear space if they ran them here. And it did clear space. Also took out half the audit trail for currently active wf's as well. So, run SWW_SARA and archive the stuff properly.
Still wouldn't help delete the active wf's produced by accident. I would agree to use SWIA and logically delete, could use SWWL to delete them but maybe need to think carefully before running in production.
Andy
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Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:24 +0000
Subject: Deleting Workflow from Production
Hi,
Late this afternoon thousands of requisition workflows were accidentally triggered. We would like to get these items removed from people's inboxes before tomorrow morning.
I know there is a program that will delete work items, RSWWWIDE. But the only information we have on these workflows is that they were created between 16:16 and 18:00 today. We also know the dialog task that is involved.
Any helpful ideas?
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Carolyn Fuller
Senior Analyst/ Programmer
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room W92-215A
Cambridge, MA 02139
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Cc: Jacob Crane <jtcrane at mit.edu<mailto:jtcrane at mit.edu>>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 10:10:43 +1000
Subject: Re: Deleting Workflow from Production
Hi Carolyn,
- go to SWIA
- select a number of top-level workflow workitems using Ctrl or Shift
- Edit > Work Item > Logically Delete
- Refresh
Do not EVER use RSWWWIDE in a Production system.
regards
Rick Bakker / hanabi technology
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Carolyn A Fuller <fuller at mit.edu<mailto:fuller at mit.edu>> wrote:
Hi,
Late this afternoon thousands of requisition workflows were accidentally triggered. We would like to get these items removed from people's inboxes before tomorrow morning.
I know there is a program that will delete work items, RSWWWIDE. But the only information we have on these workflows is that they were created between 16:16 and 18:00 today. We also know the dialog task that is involved.
Any helpful ideas?
---
Carolyn Fuller
Senior Analyst/ Programmer
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room W92-215A
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-6213<tel:%28617%29%20253-6213>
http://fuller.mit.edu/
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Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 00:30:01 +0000
Subject: Re: Deleting Workflow from Production
Rick,
THANK YOU!!!!
That works perfectly!!!
Carolyn
On May 22, 2013, at 8:10 PM, Rick Bakker <rbakker at gmail.com<mailto:rbakker at gmail.com>>
wrote:
Hi Carolyn,
- go to SWIA
- select a number of top-level workflow workitems using Ctrl or Shift
- Edit > Work Item > Logically Delete
- Refresh
Do not EVER use RSWWWIDE in a Production system.
regards
Rick Bakker / hanabi technology
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Carolyn A Fuller <fuller at mit.edu<mailto:fuller at mit.edu>> wrote:
Hi,
Late this afternoon thousands of requisition workflows were accidentally triggered. We would like to get these items removed from people's inboxes before tomorrow morning.
I know there is a program that will delete work items, RSWWWIDE. But the only information we have on these workflows is that they were created between 16:16 and 18:00 today. We also know the dialog task that is involved.
Any helpful ideas?
---
Carolyn Fuller
Senior Analyst/ Programmer
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room W92-215A
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-6213<tel:%28617%29%20253-6213>
http://fuller.mit.edu/
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