Brain fart on background tasks

[Mike Pokraka]

Hi Claude, 

Does it also do this if you start it manually in the SAPGUI? The behaviour is by design, though my memory is a bit foggy on exactly where or how to control it. If you scroll to the right you will see it is running under WF-BATCH in column 'user context'.
Have a play with the advance in dialog settings. Failing that, last resort big hammer approach is to force an RFC call by putting a background task in between.

Regards, 
Mike

On 21 Feb 2014, at 12:22, "Claude Bourque" <claude.bourque at rcmp-grc.gc.ca> wrote:

Hello everyone,
 
I haven't posted anything in at least 2 years so here it goes.
 
I've been asked to support a new WebDynpro App that starts a workflow, the WDA app uses Function Module ARCHIV_PROCESS_FAXINPUT to start WF.
 
Only problem is that this FM uses sy-uname as the creator.
 
As seen in the attached document, if I go to the Portal and start the process, I'm listed as the WF Initiator but the strange thing is that I'm also the creator of ALL tasks including all background tasks.
 
Here's a text snapshot of part of the log to show that. Full screenshot is in the included attachment.
 
Claude Bourque            Execution started automatically          2014/02/21 07:05:45
Claude Bourque            Background work item created           2014/02/21 07:05:45
Claude Bourque            Work Item Processing Complete        2014/02/21 07:05:45
Claude Bourque            Result Processing                             2014/02/21 07:05:45
 
We didn't noticed this until this week when I was asked to add an email step and the email comes from the user that start the process NOT WF-BATCH.
 
All the steps after approval return to "normal" and WF-BATCH creates and completed the background work items again.
 
A solution would be to have the WDA application be launched with WF-BATCH as the user but security is NOT crazy about that idea.
 
Any ideas/suggestions?
 
Thanks.
 
Regards
 
Claude
<Background workitem dilemma.docx>
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