About process instance administration

Hi, everyone.
We are trying to figure out to what extent can an administrator control a running process instance, either in workspace or by PAPI.
Here is some questions:
1) Can I send an instance to any activity even if there is not a Grab Activity defined in the process? If I can't do it in workspace, can I do it by PAPI?
2) Can I edit instance variable whenever I want? If I place an interrupt Messege Wait Activity in every process, can I achieve this?
3) Is it a good practice to set instance variable as a SqlObject so that I can edit it whenever I want?
4) Can I end an instance if I did not set the Activity which the instance is current in as abortable?
5) I am trying to achieve some of the above by the "action" predifined variable. But it seems that "action" can only be used in interrupt or exception?
Any idea is welcome.
Thank you~

Hi Matt,
1. AFAIK - we cannot do it in workspace.
2. Yes, u can edit instance variable.
3.No
4. I am not aware
5. I am not aware
Have a nice time..

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1. the user fills an online request form (providing item, quantity, price, etc.) and the request is saved in the db;
2. from within the application the user starts an approval process for his request.
Still using this application, the user can later on look again at his request. Now I would like to show him the state of the process instance associated to it. The best for me would be to link, from my application, the same diagram shown by the Process List Viewer, with a green square on the activity in process.
Is it possible? If yes, how?
Thank you in advance.
Livio

Hi Harsha,
the url you provided returns the following exception:
The requested deployable object 'sap.com/tcbpemwdui~procvis' is not deployed on the server.
I don't know if it's a matter of sw level. I am using NWCE EHP1 7.11 SP04. Do I need to upgrade to 7.2?
Besides, I discovered that this url is working fine:
http://server:port/bpem/pv/index.jsp?processInstanceId=<32_char_processinstanceID>
Anyway, to have one of those url working I need to get the <32_char_processinstanceID> programmatically, but I don't know how. I searched through the documentation, but I didn't find anything.
Can you, please, help me?
I think that the functionality I am trying to privide to the end user is quite common.
After filling an online form and after submitting it for approval, the user is extremely interested in the progress and in the final outcome of the process. Such information is provided by the Process List Viewer, where he can find, for example, the process instances he has started, but it's hard to correlate one instance with the request submitted. Searching through the requests is easier and is done with relational queries; from here it would be extremely useful to link any information about the state of the process instance.
Can you please comment on this?
Thank you.
Livio

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