Defining Business Objects in ES-Builder

Hi,
I tried to create a business object definition with the Enterprise Service Builder (CE 7.1 with local SLD; Selected ES-Builder Profile: "unrestricted").
I selected "create object" -> "Interface Objects" -> "Business Object". But the "Business Object"-Option is deactivated and I get the followoing warning:
Software component version does not support this object type
"Agent" and "Process-Component" are not selectable too.
I configured the Software Component in SLD and imported it to the ES-Builder. How do I have to configure my software component (version) to create a business object-definition?
Regards

Hello Rathish,
thanks for your reply.
At the moment I am evaluating the usage of the ESR. There are 3 Steps I want to perform:
First I want to model my environment. That step I have done by modelling my process-components with service-interfaces, operations, and a business-object for each process-component.
Secondly I created specifications in ESR for my service-interfaces and operations and connected them to the corresponding model objects.
Thirdly I imported the specifications from ESR into my NWDS to implement them.
Since I can connect my service-interface-specification in ESR to the corresponding service-interface in my model, I question myself why can't I do the same thing with business-objects (specify them and connect them to the model object)? Doesn't it make any sense? You wrote that specifying business-objects is not available for external use. Is there a specific reason? Also, it would be nice to import a business object-specification from ESR into NWDS. Unlike "service-interface model"->"service-interface specification"->"service-interface implementation" are connected together from model to implementation, there is a gap between "business-object model" and "business object implementation".
regards,
Christian

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http://www.****************
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http://esnips.com/doc/ef04c89f-f3a2-473c-beee-6db5bb3dbb0e/LSMW-with-BAPI
For document on using BAPI with LSMW, I suggest you to visit:
http://www.****************/Tutorials/LSMW/BAPIinLSMW/BL1.htm
http://myweb.dal.ca/hchinni/sap/lsmw_home.htm
http://sapabap.iespana.es/sapabap/manuales/pdf/lsmw.pdf
bapi-idoc:
http://www.scmexpertonline.com/downloads/SCM_LSMW_StepsOnWeb.doc
Thanks
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We need to build a leave approval workflow in ESS. Can you please guide us about the business object to be used in this workflow.
Thanks in anticipation!!!

That's for the generic one. For ESS, It is not based on BO rather it is Object. However this is not a event based workflow but gets triggered from Portal using SPRO Configuration. Make a copy of it and can be customized as per requirement.
You can do the requied configurations like below:
1. Though we can access config through SPRO, you can also use this transaction PTARQ and there we have an option for 'Customizing'. Click on that
2. Go to ESS -> Service Specific Settings -> Working Time -> Leave Request ->
Here you have all the required settings to be done for Leave Request and more specifically if you want to use Workflow for leave request approval , go to "processing process for leave types" -> Define abscenese/processing processes -> select any type of leave, there you have option 'Process Request using Workflow' enable this , then you can mention your workflow number to be processed here.
3. In ECC 6.0, WS12300111 is given as a template for Leave Request workflow ( or general workflow for documents). So may be you can copy this workflow and change as per your requirement.
Regards,IA

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