Help on:SAP Workflow mass or batch approval

Question

Dear Experts,
In my current project, I got a requirement that client want to approve training course registration requests in batch.
e.g. Person A created a request and one workitem created, person B created another request and another worktime created.
And two workitems are sent to one manager,and the manager wants to approve all the requests at one time.
I want to approve using Java WD from UWL. And I know a soultion: write program to collect all the workitems sent to this manager and complete all the items by program.
And belows are my questions:
1. The solution I mentioned above, is it possible? If someboby done it before, give me some hint please.
2. Is there any other better soultion or best solution for mass / batch workflow items approve? If If someboby done it before, also give me some hint please.
I appreciate any of your replys.
Thanks and regards,
Chen Jian
Edited by: Jian Chen on May 18, 2010 11:47 PM
Edited by: Jian Chen on May 18, 2010 11:48 PM

Answer 1

Hi,
I agree with Rick. Altought I am not sure where the workitems_to_object function is needed.
I would probably first get all the work items that the user has. So, when the WD application opens, you should get all the work items with the function X (X=probably the same function that the UWL itself uses to get the work items of the user (I don't remember it, but you can find it easily with RFC trace when openin UWL)). Then just filter all the course registration items. Get the course details based on the items, and then use the decision_complete function for the work items. And remember to take care of substitutes items too (if needed).
And if you still want to use the standard decision functionality (that you are probably curently using?), that is OK - you can add a new action (=button to the UWL) to the course registration task - for example "Mass approval" - and with this you can launch your new custom WD application.
In general you might want to check how the course registrations are approved currently and use the same function/method to do it from your application, but on the other hand if you are using the standard decision spep, you might not want to change anything.
Regards,
Karri