ABAPer Role in workflow

Hi Friends,
I am a pure abap guy. I like to learn ABAP Workflow. I have created some simple workflow using SWDD.
My questions are, What are the roles and responsibilites of abaper in workflow?.
When & Why we nedd to create abap program to intiate workflow?.
Kindly give me real time scenario with simple example program.
( Befor posting , I had searched SDN but i can only able to find some general introduction materail
and solutions to the particular problem).
Thanks in advance,
s.senthil kumar

Hi,
You can Enhance workflow and also build your own workflow.
Refer the below links you will get an Idea.
[Link1|https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/aYDUAw] [Link2|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e0bbdb3c-d640-2a10-d3b2-e4d9b90536a6] [Link3|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f0cef150-e18d-2a10-e998-f16f7ec1cd9f] [Link4|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/30488d68-8451-2a10-d993-bb36e56a1dc8].
Regards,
Surjith

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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bw33/helpdata/en/92/bc26a6ec2b11d2b4b5006094b9ea0d/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_bw31/helpdata/en/8d/25f94b454311d189430000e829fbbd/content.htm
http://www.sap-press.com/product.cfm?account=&product=H950
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PSWFL/PSWFL.pdf
http://www.workflowing.com/id18.htm
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/4a/dac507002f11d295340000e82dec10/frameset.htm
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http://www.e-workflow.org/
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http://www.sap-img.com/workflow/sap-workflow.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/a5/172437130e0d09e10000009b38f839/frameset.htm
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/3d/6a9b3c874da309e10000000a114027/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PSWFL/PSWFL.pdf
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/4a/dac507002f11d295340000e82dec10/frameset.htm
http://www.workflowing.com/id18.htm
http://www.e-workflow.org/
http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/dev/newdevstand.html
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/42/c14a9b55103116e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/c5/e4a930453d11d189430000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
http://www.sapgenie.com/workflow/
http://www.sap-img.com/workflow/sap-workflow.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/3d/6a9b3c874da309e10000000a114027/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PSWFL/PSWFL.pdf
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http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/wf/sap-business-workflow.htm
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/4a/dac507002f11d295340000e82dec10/frameset.htm
http://www.workflowing.com/id18.htm
http://www.e-workflow.org/
http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/dev/newdevstand.html
http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/wf/sap-business-workflow.htm
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=791580&messageID=2857887
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=791580&messageID=2855919
https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=791580&messageID=2735228
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/c5/e4a930453d11d189430000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
Workflow
http://www.sap-img.com/workflow/sap-workflow.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/a5/172437130e0d09e10000009b38f839/frameset.htm
For examples on WorkFlow...check the below link..
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/3d/6a9b3c874da309e10000000a114027/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PSWFL/PSWFL.pdf
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/4a/dac507002f11d295340000e82dec10/frameset.htm
http://www.workflowing.com/id18.htm
http://www.e-workflow.org/
http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/dev/newdevstand.html
http://www.erpgenie.com/workflow/index.htm
http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/wf/sap-business-workflow.htm
http://www.insightcp.com/res_23.htm
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http://www.thespot4sap.com/articles/Invoice_Verification_Automation_Using_SAP_Workflow.asp
http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/wf/sap-business-workflow.htm
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/people/jocelyn.dart/blog/2006/06/19/why-use-abap-oo-with-workflow
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http://www.sap-press.com/product.cfm?account=&product=H950
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PSWFL/PSWFL.pdf
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/4a/dac507002f11d295340000e82dec10/frameset.htm
http://www.sap-press.com/downloads/h950_preview.pdf
Check the following PDF
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http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCBMTWFMDEMO/BCBMTWFMDEMO.pdf
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http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PSWFL/PSWFL.pdf
also seach the workflow forum: SAP Business Workflow
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Role Mapping For Portal Role Assignment and ABAP Role Assignment

Summary:
- Under the GRC configuration of Roles> Role Mapping we are trying to utilize the role mapping feature in GRC for associating a dependent role to a main role.
- We want to use this role mapping feature for the purposes of adding an Enterprise Portal role for every ABAP role that gets approved for the user in an ABAP component system (i.e. ECC, BW, CRM etc). We will have a 1:1 mapping of Enterprise Portal role to ABAP role defined in the role mapping section in GRC.
- We want to set up the workflow in such a way that the main role (ABAP role) is the only role that needs to be approved. The dependent role (Enterprise Portal role) should be added or not added based on the approval or denial of the main role (ABAP role). In other words if the role owner for the abap role approves the abap role, then both the abap and EP role will be provisioned by GRC and if the role owner rejects/denies the role, then neither the abap or EP role will be provisioned by GRC.
Problem Description:
Our Scenarios we tested:
Scenario 1:
Main Role: Attached to Initiator A & workflow A (routes to single approver based on role)
Dependent Role: Attached to Initiator B & workflow B (routes to auto approval or no approval)
*Problem with the Scenario 1setup above, the dependent role will always get approved & provisioned regardless of the approval or denial of the main role.
Scenario 2:
Main Role: Attached to Initiator A & workflow A (routes to single approver based on role)
Dependent Role: Attached to Initiator A & workflow A(routes to single approver (same as main approver) based on role)
*Problem with the Scenario 2 setup above, the dependent role will always also need to get approved by the same approver as main role and it opens the possibility that the approver may accidently approve the main role and deny the dependent role, which is not the ideal setup as we inherit the risk of human error.
Questions:
1. Does the dependent role need to be defined in an initiator at all since it will never directly be requested directly?
2. If the dependent role does need to be in the initiator file, please describe how to properly setup the initiator and workflow stage & path so that we can maintain the desired relationship with the main role approval dependency? (if the role owner for the main role approves the main role, then both the main role and dependent role will be provisioned by GRC and if the role owner rejects/denies the main role, then neither the main role or depedent role will be provisioned by GRC
Edited by: Rene Griffith on Feb 26, 2010 10:22 PM

I tested this set up.
1. Defined ABAP role as Manin role
2. Defined Non-ABAP role as dependednt role
3. ABAP role is set up in initiator requiring business approval.
4. Non-ABAP role is set up in initiator with no approval required.
Results Where Business Approver approves the ABAP Role
1. Only the ABAP role is displayed in approver view which is desirable.
2. ABAP role is approved and Non-ABAP role and ABAP role is provisioned.
Results Where Business Approver rejects the ABAP Role
1. Only the ABAP role is displayed in approver view which is desirable.
2. ABAP role is rejected but Non-ABAP role is provisioned which is not what we want. We want the Non-ABAP role not to provision if the ABAP role is rejected by the business approval.
Thanks again for your help.

Abap role in the enterprise portal?

Can anyone give me a clear picture abt the enterprise protal and abap role in that?

Hi when there is an integration between EP and R/3 and you click on the User Adinistration of the Portal you will find two types od users available there.
1. UME Database - this is nothing but the Portal Roles here you will find all the roles related to portal administration, such as eu_role, eu_corerole etc etc .
We assign portal developer roles to the user form here like Content Admin, System Admin, etc etc.
2. ABAP Role : whatever role are defined for the user in the backened will appear here ...
for instance if you implement ESS, hence the user must be able to apply for Travel so a backend r/3 travel role will be attached in SU01 for that user. This is visible on portal.
Hope this clarifies!
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J2EE roles vs Portal roles vs ABAP roles

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Dear all,
I have a question about the information on the following link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/4c/6c0f40763f1e07e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
It says the following:
"These functions are intended to assign users and their assigned portal roles a corresponding role in the SAP System. This corresponding role (authorization role) contains the authorizations needed to execute certain functions from the portal."
1. These "...certain functions..." they talk about, can someome give an example of these functions?
2. Is it possible for example to create a role in the portal that gives a user authorisation for starting transaction SE80 in the backend system? Without making the role in the backend first and uploading it to the portal.
3. It's also possible to upload ABAP roles to the portal. Is the main reason for this that users can see their SAP menu (or part of it) in the portal? Or does this have other advantages too?
4. I'm very confused about the relation between J2EE roles, portal roles and ABAP roles. Is it possible to manage the roles for a user in one place, without having to do certain actions in the portal AND the backend system?
From what I've read on help.sap.com, you always need to do certain actions in both places.
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Re: point 3. I don't build portal roles through this mechanism as I don't believe in replicating the SAP easy access menu inside the portal. If there are some specific functions (transactions) that I want to run inside the portal, then I might use this mechanism to build the iViews once. I would rather start an iView that runs transaction SMEN and let the user see their regular easy access menu.
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ABAP Role Assignments stored in MSAD

Hi all,
unfortunately I have only found contradicting information in relation to the possibility to manage ABAP role assignments using a MS Active Directory.
We plan to implement a WAS (ABAP) 6.40 SP14, synchronise data between the WAS and the corporate MSAD. While WAS (ABAP) is not capable of MSAD based authentication I suspect it is possible to manage the user/role assignments in MSAD. Am I right in my assumptions (see list below) that the following data entities can/cannot be managed and synchronised/stored with the WAS (ABAP) out of the box?
WAS ABAP
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2. possible - user/role assignments
3. not possible - user passwords (however, can be bypassed through SSO based on NTLM)
Portal UME
1. possible - user master data
2. possible - user password
3. possible - role/group assignments
4. possible - group/user assignments
5. possible - user/group assignments
6. possible - user/role assignments
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Cheers Stefan

Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion. But ours was a different problem.
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During the reconciliation job (to update changed and add new backend roles in IDM) various task trigger attributes get disabled and then re-enabled after the import. These disabled triggers did not get re-enabled for the privileges on some systems. And the reconciliation job was also delta enabled, so only new privileges, after the initial load, should have been impacted. But impact to many privileges -- all privileges of some target systems -- misled our investigation. The timing of the reconciliation job executions kind of added to the confusion and inconsistencies during the initial setup. But we finally tracked this down and wrote a custom job to fix the triggers for only the affected privileges. Assignments to all systems started to function successfully as expected.
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Hello.
I have set up my EP7 UME to upload ABAP roles as Portal Groups . Im expecting the ABAP role to user assignment to also reflect as EP Group to User assignment.
All my roles that 'exist' in the ABAP source system are created in EP7 correctly as expected. However, only "direct" user to role assignments are uploaded. NONE of my "indirect" user to role assignments (ie: Via HR Org in ABAP system) are reflected in EP.
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Have you tested the connection of your R3 system?
Do you want to connect to the ABAP UME? If so do the following:
1. Logon to the portal as administrator
2. Go to:
1. System Administrator
2. System Configuration
3. UME Configuration
4. Click Modify Configuration
5. From the drop down select ABAP system
Fill in the details for your system.
Click on the User Mapping tab
Click on the reference system combo box and select the relevant system
(in this case R3)
Click on the Test Connection button. If the test has been successful you should get a Connection test successful. ~It is important to test the connection before saving otherwise this could cause you lots of problems!
Thanks,
Nick

How to upload ABAP roles in Portal 6.0 N/W ABAP + Java

Hi ,
I have portal 6.0. How can i see the ABAP roles in portal. I know there is some backend system need to configured. please write step by step. I can create users in portal which is replicated in ABAP.
i have gone thru some forums but did not get the answer.
Regards
Atul-

Thanks for your reply... I am new to Portal. the document you sent me I did not understand where to configured backend system. please let me know where do I configured below information in portal
When you create a system with a connection to an ABAP-based backend system, you must maintain at least the following property categories and properties:
Property Category
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Connector
Group;
Logical System Name, e.g. QWACLNT100;
Message Server;
SAP Client;
Message Server;
SAP System ID
User Management
Logon method
User mapping type (if you want to take advantage of user mapping)
Internet Transaction Server (ITS)
ITS Description, e.g. qwa_its
ITS Host Name
ITS Path
ITS Protocol
Appreciate for your reply...
Regards
Atul

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Hi experts,
I'm trying to understand what's needed to remove user roles using workflow. My understanding was that I needed to use the same workflow for user provisioning and just treat the removal as a user change (SAP_GRAC_ACCESS_REQUEST) but when executing the workflow I get the word "ERROR" under "Stage Status" (even thought nothing is showing up on SLG1 or ST22). Is there something that needs to be added to the workflow to allow the removal of roles? We are on GRC 10.1

This is what I see on GRFNMW_DBGMONITOR_WD. The detour condition is coming with an Error but when I simulate the conditions for that request I get expected results. After the error message the request staus goes to "Decision Pending" but it doesnt show any approver.

SOD Detour in Role Approval Workflow possible?

Hello GRC Experts,
we have implemented an Access Request Approval Workflow with a Detour Rule (GRAC_MSMP_DETOUR_SODVIOL).
The second workflow we are working at is the Role Approval Workflow. Is it possible to use the SOD Detour Rule also in Role Approval Workflow? I didnt find the SOD Detour Rule in the MSMP Role Approval Workflow.
We would like to implement a following Scenario:
if the role contains an SOD the request should take Path 1 and if not Path 2.
Is it in MSMP Standard possible or should we use BRF+ for creating a Detour Rule?
Thanks,
Best Regards
Sabrina

Hi Sabrina,
For Access Request workflow, we generally use GRAC_MSMP_DETOUR_SODVIOL to implement routing rule(based on detour condition - risk found). Purpose of same (if I am not mistaken) is to through the request to another level of approver wherein mitigation monitor agent reviews the mitigation performed by role owner stage and approve/reject the request.
But, when we create a role same is not the condition as we do not mitigate role level risk thus no need to go for mitigation monitor stage. May be you have some business scenario, if you can let us know will be gr8.
For the rule ID, did you try adding the rule ID ?(you may already know, still would like to cross check with you).
GRAC_MSMP_DETOUR_SODVIOL under list of rules for "
Role Approval Workflow" In the screenshot you have shown, just click on ADD feed -
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I'm having a problem where the ABAP roles (UME groups) for my PI system are not showing up as assigned to a user in the UME. The roles assigned to the user are not reflecting the roles (UME groups) that are in the ABAP side. But, other users are showing up fine. The user is shown to have only the standard basic roles.
This works fine on my development and AS system. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi George,
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See the [documentation|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/helpdata/en/45/af3ac012d32e78e10000000a155369/frameset.htm].
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Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use objects created in ABAP within a workflow without creating an object in the BOR ?

It's surely not possible in 4.6C .
Regarding 4.7 also , I am not sure if it is possible using Object Category....
It does not seem to possible on miniSAP..
Ok i think it's supported in 4.7.
You can check the object category field ( e.g in transaction PFTC ), you can specify the category of the object type used. Currently only object types from the Business Object Repository and from ABAP classes are supported.
Cheers,
Ram
Message was edited by: Ram Manohar Tiwari

Include in ABAP class for Workflow

Hi,
In order to use BOR macros inside ABAP class, (From SAP help) came to know that we need to use include <cntn02> .
How to add this include to ABAP class for workflow?
Regds,
Akshay

Hi Akshay,
Slight difference, I said "keeping the class clean of BOR code". By all means use BO's in the class: basically create a ZCL_MATERIAL, and use BUS1001 as an attribute (I use a naming convention BO_* for these). As long as it's the right type (SIBFLPORB I think - no system handy right now), and the key values are populated correctly the system will instantiate it as necessary. So in WF I can refer to ZCL_MATERIAL.BO_MATERIAL whenever I need any of the BO's functionality.
You are correct though, creating a proper business class which you can instantiate such as material does involve a fair bit of effort and coding to set up. e.g. my last project I ended up creating one ZBOR subtype because all I needed was one new attribute - definitely not worthwhile creating a new class for. (USR01.zEmailAddress for what it's worth).
I've said before somewhere, it's not without pain, so if you're under time pressure etc, then it may be better to do whatever's quickest. There's nothing wrong with using BOR macros, it will still work for quite a few versions. I just meant to say that pure class(y) code is a preferred way to go if it makes sense to do so. This is not always the case.
Hope that helps,
Mike

ABAP Classes in Workflow

I am planning to use ABAP classes instead of BOR Objects in Workflow and would appreciate
1) any elaborate documentation on the use of ABAP classes in workflow (SAP help has very limited documentation)
2) comparision of using either approach with advantages of using ABAP classes over the use of BOR Objects and limitations of using ABAP classes,if any.
3) any examples of ABAP classes used in Projects
Thanks for your help.
Saurabh

Hi,
check the wiki, in the design and development part are listed all of Jocelyn darts blogs about OO in workflow:
<a href="https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/home/2.DesignandDevelopment&">https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/home/2.DesignandDevelopment&</a>
regards, Rob Dielemans

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