AW: WebFlow service user

Mon May 12 13:20:42 EDT 2014

Hi Volker, 

Agree with Andy and Jocelyn, have built a similar solution in the past and it works well. I would encapsulate the event/wait bit in its own subwf and call that in parallel. Then you could use the subwf ID as key to match your 'return events', makes it a bit more generic and simpler to manage.
Also, if your WF admin is configured correctly in all systems then the administrator should receive an email whenever a WF goes into error - but I would still schedule a regular task to log on and check all systems every so often.

Regards, 
Mike

On 9 May 2014, at 07:46, "Wegert, Volker" <volker.wegert at helios-kliniken.de> wrote:

Andy,

Thanks for that hint, I’ll give this a try. The only thing I’m concerned about is what will happen if the sub-workflow aborts with some obscure error and no event will be transmitted back, but I think I can handle this. I will need to start the sub-workflow in multiple systems and await all of the results, which sounds like a use case for the table driven dynamic parallel processing described in the PW book. I’m unsure on how to match the request and response events, but that may simply be a case of “haven’t tried it yet”…

Best regards
  Volker Wegert

Von: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] Im Auftrag von Andy Curtis
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2014 10:34
An: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Betreff: RE: WebFlow service user

I am doing something like this between SRM and ECC.  I found that the SAP_WAPI_CREATE_EVENT & SAP_WAPI_CREATE_EVENT_EXTENDED FM's are RFC enabled, so my SRM Wf has a task to call SAP_WAPI_CREATE_EVENT_EXTENDED in ECC to raise an Event in ECC and start a Wf there.  The next step in my SRM flow is a Wait for an Event which is triggered in a similar manner from ECC, and the SRM process continues

Andy Curtis

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   1. WebFlow service user (Wegert, Volker)
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From: "Wegert, Volker" <volker.wegert at helios-kliniken.de>
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Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 07:51:13 +0000
Subject: WebFlow service user
Hello,

I’m trying to configure a set of ABAP systems so that I can let a “master workflow” in one system start a “sub-workflow” in another system and wait for its completion. As far as I can see, http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/9b/9f9138d380f50fe10000009b38f8cf/content.htm (section “Sending a Wf-XML document to another SAP system and starting a workflow with feedback”) is the function I’m looking for. I’m trying to follow the steps outlined in http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/EN/cc/9f9138d380f50fe10000009b38f8cf/content.htm to configure the web server, and I’m unsure about two issues:
·         Is there a pre-defined role or profile that can be assigned to the service user? If not, is there a recommendation about the permissions required for the service user? Somehow I don’t think that opening an anonymous service with SAP_ALL is a good idea…

·         Since both user/password and client have to be entered in the service data – am I correct in assuming that if I need to connect to multiple clients in one system, I will have to create several copies of the SICF service that each point to a different client?

Thanks a lot
  Volker

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From: "Dart, Jocelyn" <jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
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Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 08:05:48 +0000
Subject: RE: WebFlow service user
Hi Volker,
Just querying whether you wouldn’t rather try that in SAP NetWeaver BPM? Sounds like a better fit.
Rgds,
Jocelyn

From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Wegert, Volker
Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2014 5:51 PM
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Subject: WebFlow service user

Hello,

I’m trying to configure a set of ABAP systems so that I can let a “master workflow” in one system start a “sub-workflow” in another system and wait for its completion. As far as I can see, http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/9b/9f9138d380f50fe10000009b38f8cf/content.htm (section “Sending a Wf-XML document to another SAP system and starting a workflow with feedback”) is the function I’m looking for. I’m trying to follow the steps outlined in http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/EN/cc/9f9138d380f50fe10000009b38f8cf/content.htm to configure the web server, and I’m unsure about two issues:
·         Is there a pre-defined role or profile that can be assigned to the service user? If not, is there a recommendation about the permissions required for the service user? Somehow I don’t think that opening an anonymous service with SAP_ALL is a good idea…

·         Since both user/password and client have to be entered in the service data – am I correct in assuming that if I need to connect to multiple clients in one system, I will have to create several copies of the SICF service that each point to a different client?

Thanks a lot
  Volker

________________________________________________
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IT

Volker Wegert
Teamleiter SAP i.s.h.med - Entwicklung Konzern

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